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@I_AmTheKnight @mutageno

Yeah, they were hiding it.

I watched "Bear Grylls The Island" season 2 recently, the one where 14 British men are sent to one island and 14 British women to another.

Did not disappoint. I didn't watch all the women's episodes because it got way too annoying watching the obvious setups and the women's constant meltdowns over bullshit.

The dudes island was way more interesting. Watching them go through shit and ending up establishing civilization in 6 weeks is something every guy can feel proud of.

@I_AmTheKnight @mutageno

Yes, that could be part of it. The article comes across to me as deliberately misleading because they are careful to never distinguish between single women and mothers. That's a huge distinction to omit.

I suspect if they did it would ruin their fake framing.

@houseoftolstoy

Laughable how everyone calls this highly visible thing a spy balloon when spy-satellites already have advanced resolution.

Nor is it a weather balloon. The Chinese don't need to fly a balloon over mainland America to tell the weather, let alone that even being a thing.

Some speculate it's more likely an EMP. Whatever it was, an unknown UAV belonging to a foreign power carrying an unknown payload was ALLOWED to fly over Montana.

@h4890

In that case, seek out paternalism and negativity since my facts align with reality.

Blind spots kill people.

@h4890

It's a very small number of people who even bother to look at their own country's primary data.

The number of people who look at other country's data is a fraction of that tiny number, especially if they live in non-English speaking countries.

Your solution is no solution at all since it only applies to an insignificant number of people.

@h4890

I did not say "every source of data and every medical professional". That's a straw man.

The cost of the FDA/CDC's deception can be measured in the 100,000's by now, if not millions.

Public trust in these institutions was a normal bell curve and the average normie had no prior reason to presume distrust.

But that kind of fuck-up can only happen once before the trust bell curve is permanently re-written.

The world does not live by Swedish standards of governance.

@dander

Nice. I did exactly the same when I was hiring.

@dander

These young'uns haven't been scarred by the true horror of OG memes like Goatse.

Time to rip the band-aid off.

@h4890

That's actually a handy shortcut that could potentially be of practical use to lots of people.

It can be gamed however.

Point number 1 assumes you have trustworthy institutions that are not captured by political/financial interests in the way the FDA/CDC have since proved to be.

It assumes easy access to trustworthy, accurate and timely data. Many countries fail these criteria.

Point 2 assumes the same, i.e. that medical professionals have not been compromised.

@FinalDresdonation @basedbagel

> See I disagree.

Not really. Your 1st paragraph is a restatement of my last 2.

What you've added is the opinion that distrust is at the root of it, and that's probably right. If so, it's a reflexive distrust that requires contrary proof to begin opening up untrusted defaults.

Sounds right.

@MelGibsonafter4Beers @Bertpro2000

Makes sense. His apparent non-sequitur about elephants was actually a good analogy.

I wish he could have met Ted Kaczynski.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @sluggets

It's even better than that. Through the combination of compliance test + IQ test, you can be a double Phd but have all of that capacity overridden by also being a totally compliant pussy.

Likewise, you could be a literal Down's retard who has no ability to reason like the double Phd can, but through some combination of intuition and an inner Chad that can say Fuck You, our lovable retard lives while the double Phd does the Pfizer dance.

@[email protected] @sluggets @[email protected]

Here's my conclusion.

Vaccination was both a compliance test AND an IQ test.

Some failed both, some passed both, but you only had to pass the compliance test to win since failing the IQ test would have no bearing on the outcome if you didn't comply.

Therefore it paid better odds to be disagreeable and opinionated than it did to be intelligent.

I like this conclusion since it accounts for reason/intuition but puts the onus on how much of a pussy someone is.

@basedbagel

Great way to frame it: it was both tests, a compliance AND an IQ test.

Some failed both, some passed both, but you only had to pass the compliance test to win since failing the IQ test would have no bearing on the outcome if you didn't comply.

Therefore it pays better odds to be disagreeable and opinionated than it does to be intelligent.

I like this conclusion.

@basedbagel

I know some very high IQ people with excellent abstract thinking abilities that fell for it. It's not stupidity.

It's more like a combination of habitual ignorance through blind trust, coupled with a higher tendency to comply, either through threat or bribery.

And an inability to believe in the possibility of the Big Lie.

@sluggets @[email protected] @[email protected]

It sucks learning that no family escapes getting beaten with the retard stick.