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I don’t know anything about The Daily Sceptic. what makes it such a piece?
by permo-w 4y ago
I don’t know anything about The Daily Sceptic. what makes it such a piece?
- Udo 4y agoI hadn't heard about it before either, but you can get a good overview by following the link and having a look at the sidebar where their typical content seems to be featured.
- permo-w 4y agowho is Spee Chunion and why does he need to be freed?
- mynameisvlad 4y agoOr just reading the article, which features some things the author feels caused them to be “cancelled”. They’re a right wing “bastion of free speech” and proud of it.
- peteradio 4y agoIs there something intrinsically bad about "right wing" now?
- mynameisvlad 4y agoYes. See literally the world around you.
- peteradio 4y agoSeems like a very balanced perspective.
- mynameisvlad 4y agoDo you have a counter-argument? Anything at all to show how right wing ideology is not literally and figuratively destroying the world?
- ben_w 4y agoCareful now. "Right" and "left" are over-simplified labels covering a very broad range of preferences, and sometimes used as badges of self-identity in order to make arbitrary ideologies more palatable to the general public. For example, the actual literal Nazi party's name translates as "nationalist socialist", even though they hated communism so much that communists were one of the groups sent to the death camps, and they chose this name because socialism was a vote-winner in Weimar-era Germany.
- peteradio 4y agoAnd the cure for this is driving it underground via censorship?
- mynameisvlad 4y agoYou asked if there is something bad about “right wing”, I explained there is, you disagreed and have no counter-arguments to hold up. Stick to the topic you yourself established, don’t move the goal posts. If you have nothing more to contribute, then don’t.
- permo-w 4y agowhere did you hear such a good idea?
- caeril 4y ago> literally [...] destroying the world Left-wing ideology is trying to drive five billion people, as fast as possible, to first-world living standards (via either open borders fanaticism, direct aid, or economic globalization), with the accompanying carbon footprint implied by a first-world lifestyle. All whilst bemoaning carbon emissions. Yawn. Wake me when your own ideological compatriots demonstrate your concern for the climate with policies that won't absolutely destroy it. As it currently stands, you're actively trying for 500ppm.
- henearkr 4y agoProbably the same kind of people who replied to me "and so what is bad about nationalism?" a few weeks ago on HN...
- ndsipa_pomu 4y agoI believe there was a worldwide war specifically to stop some right wing extremists from taking over and killing anyone they didn't like
- berry_sortoro 4y ago[dead]
- henearkr 4y agoJust look at their front page: it's full of AGW denialism and anti-ecologism, conspiracy theories (e.g. Bill Gates and global health...), use of terms like "covid propaganda", ...
- pigeonhole123 4y agoWhat makes Bill Gates' well timed and well documented investments in vaccine companies and donations to public health organizations a conspiracy theory? https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandemic-response-bill-gates-partners-00053969 https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandem...
- henearkr 4y ago"Oh look!! He knew there would be a pandemic!!" So you see where is the conspiracy theory in that, now?
- fsociety999 4y agoI assume you are referring to this article: https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/20/the-growing-menace-of-bill-gates-global-health/ https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/20/the-growing-menace-of-bi... Can you point out where it says he knew there would be a pandemic? Do you think the public deserves to know that Bill Gates and his foundation contributed $789 million to the World Health Organization in 2021 (more than the U.S. Government)?
- henearkr 4y agoThe tone of the article is "ohlolo Bill Gates is evil, look at how he is the one who finances thus controls the WHO", which is false, as this financial contribution gives him ZERO control on it. Yet it is implied in the tone of the article. The part "he knew there was a pandemic" is actually a reply to the previous commentator speaking about "well timed and well documented investments" from Bill Gates related to the pandemic, which is a way to present it as "he knew what was coming, how weird". Now I hope you see why, at least in that commentator post, that sounded extremely conspiracy theoretical.
- SilverBirch 4y agoIt's just your run of the mill far right misinformation laundered into a slightly more respectable look by pretending to be "sceptics" - but their scepticism is only ever applied to positions they already disagreed with and entirely absent when the view is politically expedient.
- accnumnplus1 4y agoThey're associated with the Free Speech Union which is happy to fight for the left. Please restrain your misinformation. You agree you should now have your bank accounts closed?
- nottorp 4y agoThey mentioned that their covid denialist partners got banned before them :)