“I haven’t read that tweet.”
Man FlyWF was an asshole but that dude was ahead of his time.
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It absolutely is though. We tried to explain why in the “Speculating about the origins of the coronavirus” thread. The people on Team Plausible thought there was a 5%-10% chance the virus escaped from the lab. It’s not 5% or 0.5% or even 0.000005%.
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I learned a lot from Fly tbh. Like I was definitely naive and did not realize how much of right wing nonsense was couched in racism or just bad faith before reading his posts on 22.
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Right. I just mean they had some moment where they were like, ok it’s time to leave the cult. The pressure to rejoin their friends and families is the real driving force. But a moment of clarity never hurts.
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Sure for 99% of them. But if we can chip away a few at a time, every little bit helps.
Some of you seem to have the hypothesis that no one ever leaves a cult, which just isn’t true.
Some people leave cults for sure, but all evidence I have seen points toward the MAGA cult getting bigger and not smaller. Hopefully that’ll change soon though!
Now that he’s deplatformed and out of power it will for sure shrink, but it’ll be a pain in our side for a long time.
The problem isn’t just Trump, he’s a symptom. The right wing extremism is online now, with conspiracy theories, and it’ll continue to grow until peoples lives get better.
I mean, I don’t even know if that will fix it at this point. People are dumb, and believing in this shit is fun for a LOT of bored people stuck at home.
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The QAnon shit is basically 4chan meme culture out in the wild and it will continue to grow until meme culture dies.
Well if they’re going to leave the time is now while they’re somewhat demoralized.
Basically my point is we have to believe there’s a chance to whittle away at this cult or this country is completely utterly fucked. They aren’t going to just live peacefully and they have ALL the guns.
So, assuming premise that we can chip away at this, what’s the best way to proceed - is what I’m interested in.
Looks like the GOP thinks being Muslim is the same thing as advocating for the murder of your co-workers, so yeah.
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OMG I think I’m a Muslim!
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What is “meme culture” and it dying out won’t affect JohnnyTruant’s poasting I hope?
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I guess meme culture is community built around what are effectively inside jokes writ large. There seems to be some sense of belonging that people get in participating in the sharing and propagation of internet memes that can be opaque to those not in on the joke. The ability to share and understand memes is a way of signifying membership in a decentralized in- group.
https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1357077420604547072
Remember when anti-vaxx was a loony thing on the left? Like Berkeley was a hot spot and right-wingers would actually make fun of lefties for being anti-vaxx. Not any more.
Just shows how easy Trumpkins are to manipulate and how tribal people are. Either they were already MAGA and got sucked into anti-vaxx, or they were anti-vaxx and got sucked in Trumpism.
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So it turns out my parents’ doctor is pro-Trump anti-vaxx.
The antivaxx part would have me looking for a new doctor immediately. The Trump part sucks, but I would imagine that’s harder to avoid in a profession where so many of them are all about those sweet, sweet tax cuts.
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Sure fucking glad we don’t have that here.
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No shit. Being an anti-vax doctor is like being an anti-exercise personal trainer.