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So tired of right wingers trying to rewrite history. Shouting "it's a China lab leak", "masks don't work", "masks make it so you can't breathe", "muzzle muzzle

by 303uru 3y ago

So tired of right wingers trying to rewrite history. Shouting "it's a China lab leak", "masks don't work", "masks make it so you can't breathe", "muzzle muzzle muzzle", "the mRNA vaccine is activated by 5G to kill you!!!", etc... is disinformation. Some of it may even in retrospect be true or partially true, but it was being disseminated as fact with zero evidence to back it. Right wingers love shouting FIRE FIRE FIRE to incite fear.

PKop 3y ago
>Some of it may even in retrospect be true or partially true Insanity lol. A person that thinks like this is exactly the type of political danger it is prudent to fear and oppose. Again, "disinformation" is nearly meaningless. That you oppose or disagree with one's opinions or political views is not grounds for that person to be OK with you censoring them. In fact they should view you as a political enemy. It is the fundamental rationale for the 1st amendment. The China lab-leak is likely true. Masks don't work. What a weird position to hold whereby completely rational views are legitimate grounds for complete subversion of the 1st amendment. This is Dunning–Kruger-like in it's complete inversion of who should be deemed crazy, stupid, or politically dangerous.
- 303uru 3y ago
  >Masks Don't Work Right, disinformation then. >High-quality studies have shown that use of face masks in the community is associated with reduced transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and is likely to be an important component of an effective response to a future respiratory threat. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2811136 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... Again, feel free to make claims with evidence. I'll even congratulate you for getting it. >The China lab-leak is likely true. Maybe, maybe not, we may never know. Funny how you threw in "likely", when every MAGA hat wearing idiot was shouting it with certainty two years ago with spittle flying out of their mouth at me and every other healthcare worker. Dunning-Kruger don't mean what you think it means either.
  - thunky 3y ago
    > > The China lab-leak is likely true. > Maybe, maybe not, we may never know Do you consider those that discredited or supressed the lab leak theory to be spreaders of "disinformation" and worthy of censorship as well?
jtbayly 3y ago
Have you already forgotten that saying masks worked was once banned as misinformation? The point PKop is making is that "disinformation" is a terrible basis on which to censor people... unless you are content just getting rid of free speech and saying, "Whoever is in power determines what people are allowed to say and think."

by 303uru 3y ago

PKop 3y ago

>Some of it may even in retrospect be true or partially true Insanity lol. A person that thinks like this is exactly the type of political danger it is prudent to fear and oppose. Again, "disinformation" is nearly meaningless. That you oppose or disagree with one's opinions or political views is not grounds for that person to be OK with you censoring them. In fact they should view you as a political enemy. It is the fundamental rationale for the 1st amendment. The China lab-leak is likely true. Masks don't work. What a weird position to hold whereby completely rational views are legitimate grounds for complete subversion of the 1st amendment. This is Dunning–Kruger-like in it's complete inversion of who should be deemed crazy, stupid, or politically dangerous.

303uru 3y ago
>Masks Don't Work Right, disinformation then. >High-quality studies have shown that use of face masks in the community is associated with reduced transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and is likely to be an important component of an effective response to a future respiratory threat. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2811136 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... Again, feel free to make claims with evidence. I'll even congratulate you for getting it. >The China lab-leak is likely true. Maybe, maybe not, we may never know. Funny how you threw in "likely", when every MAGA hat wearing idiot was shouting it with certainty two years ago with spittle flying out of their mouth at me and every other healthcare worker. Dunning-Kruger don't mean what you think it means either.
- thunky 3y ago
  > > The China lab-leak is likely true. > Maybe, maybe not, we may never know Do you consider those that discredited or supressed the lab leak theory to be spreaders of "disinformation" and worthy of censorship as well?

jtbayly 3y ago

Have you already forgotten that saying masks worked was once banned as misinformation? The point PKop is making is that "disinformation" is a terrible basis on which to censor people... unless you are content just getting rid of free speech and saying, "Whoever is in power determines what people are allowed to say and think."