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Hodad

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  1. Lol. You clearly have no idea what the word "consensus" means, and you clearly have no idea just how radically fringe your views are. You've fine-tuned your information bubble so that all you get is nonsense. To everyone outside of the conspiracy kook sphere you are just a raving loon. I don't know how to coax someone back to reality, but instead of searching FOR other crazy people who agree with you, you might try just searching for answers. The world is full of experts, and there actually IS a consensus. You're just on the wrong side of it because you think anyone with a YouTube channel is equally credible. Really, I think age is a huge part of the problem. Some people are blessed with strong logical abilities and can effectively evaluate information sources. Others must be taught. And you pre-digital humans grew up with far fewer competing inputs. Broadcasting information was costly and had a high barrier to entry, so the market held them accountable. Not so in the internet age. Anybody can broadcast anything, and nobody taught you how to vet information. You have no natural immunity. So the market for misinformation and disinformation can make a fortune selling you bullshit with no accountability. But whatever the cause, take a look around and realize just how insanely far outside of the scientific consensus you are.
  2. Sorry, dummy. I simply can't explain efficacy any more clearly, slowly and carefully. It's at an elementary level. If you can't understand it, that's on you. 100% of auto accident fatalities occur in vehicles with seat belts. According to your stupid "logic," that means seat belts are ineffective.🙄
  3. I love that it's written down too. You've been consistently wrong in embarrassing ways for years, and clearly haven't managed to learn anything. True to character.
  4. You are just abysmally hopeless at logic. Your fake quote is not what I said, nor an implication of what I said. Just nonsense you made up.
  5. That's exactly the cycle we keep repeating. Clinton, Obama and Biden have all overseen recovery of the economy from the sad --sometimes historically sad states of their Republican predecessors. The historical "tale of the tape" isn't even close. Why do people keep trusting Republicans? None of them have left the country better than they found it since Reagan--and we're still servicing the record debt he piled on to achieve that feat.
  6. He was a "reality show" heel, and that's just entertainment. But it's not so funny when the reality show heel crosses over into reality--and suddenly actual Americans think it's a good idea to make this amoral caricature of a human being into the most powerful person on the planet. Very un-funny.
  7. The truth about Truth social is that it's a short-term scam to suck money out of stupid people and launder "donations" for foreign interests.
  8. Yes, all the world's doctors, scientists and health officials are involved in a conspiracy to kill people with a vaccine and then pretend that it saves lives. And the only people who will dare tell the truth are random jackasses in the Internet. 🙄 It's time for you to turn in all your internet-connected devices, because you're clearly so gullible that you're one email away from sending your life savings to a "Nigerian prince."
  9. I know you are hopeless with logic, but as you've been told many, many times. Efficacy--whether an intervention works or doesn't--is not measured in the number or percentage of a certain outcome overall. It's measured on a case basis. When situation A occurs, does intervention B increase, decrease or not affect the likelihood of outcome C. Again, basic, basic logic. Since seat belts became mandatory, it's a fact that the number of automobile deaths has climbed every year. 20% more deaths every year! (Or whatever percentage.) Now, a statistically illiterate person might conclude from that simple observation that seat belts don't reduce the likelihood of death. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. That's stupid though. To actually investigate that question you'd (at a minimum, in the simplest form) need to look at the number of deaths per accident with a seatbelt compared to the number of deaths per accident without a seatbelt. Which, of course, reveals that using a seat belt dramatically reduces the likelihood that one will die if they have a collision. You could measure a efficacy of the vaccine in terms of preventing (symptomatic) infection. It helps, but that's not the primary benefit. You could measure the efficacy of a vaccine by the change in negative outcomes in cases of infection. And there we see over and over again, from populations around the world, that these vaccines made a dramatic difference--particularly against early variants--saving many lives. Even if the number of deaths goes up, one can still vastly improve one's chances to avoid severe outcomes by protecting oneself, whether through seat belts or vaccines. If that's still too hard to understand, here's a visual aid. Sometimes deaths go up. Sometimes deaths go down. But regardless of trend, which line would any smart person choose to be on?
  10. What "we" know is that you should be on a watch list for your own safety and the safety of others, because this crazy little dystopian fantasy you have running on a loop in your twisted mind is exactly the same kind of crazy nonsense that motivates a guy to invade a pizza parlor or storm the capitol. If the government were censoring misinformation, disinformation or general dipshittery, you'd be high on the list. If you ever STOP posting this bullshit it will be the first piece of evidence that you are actually onto something. 🙄
  11. Nah, I've explained efficacy to you many, many times. You can't seem to catch on. And it's not a difficult concept. I can't fix stupid. You're either as thick as a brick or comfortable pretending to be. Frankly not sure it matters. A person who won't think is just as useless as a person who can't think.
  12. RFK went around with Jenny McCarthy parroting disgraced researcher Andrew Wakefield, telling people that vaccines cause autism and there's a government conspiracy to cover it up. So the gullible--the same damn people who fall for every conspiracy huckster--stopped vaccinating their children. Polio was eradicated in the US 1979. An unvaccinated child was paralyzed by polio a couple of years ago because there is no test of intellect to license people for the(dis) information superhighway. We have kids with other eradicated diseases. We have deaths from measles, from whooping cough. It's goddamn absurd. He's into other conspiracy crap as well, but that anti-vax crap is lethal stupidity. Anyone that susceptible to extreme nonsense has no business thinking he belongs in the oval office.
  13. I've spent far more energy than any reasonable person would trying to explain basic concepts to you. It's time I take Jeff Foxworthty's advice.
  14. Yes. That's not really a question. He's an anti-vax conspiracy kook, well known for his deadly activism long before he decided he should be president.
  15. Nutball poster promotes statement by nutball political candidate. What's to opine on?
  16. My understanding is that the board can grant him permission to sell earlier. Most companies have a board that's focused on serving shareholders. Any guess at who *this* board is interested in serving? Unless enough foreign "investor" money flows in to keep prices elevated, I'm betting he cashes out early. This is not a real business, and there's no point in a pump-and-dump unless you dump.
  17. Still wildly overpriced. There are three sad components to this story. 1. Literally everyone involved in that business knows that there is no future there, but still decided to take it public (backdoor) knowing full well that the low-IQ cultists would funnel money in and they (Trump) would cash out and take that money as soon as the board allows. 2. Everyone is telling the cultists this truth, and even after it all comes to pass they will not have the awareness or self respect to be pissed about having been taken advantage of. 3. Even after the autopsy is completed and we can see how foreign interests were funneling money directly into the pockets of a corrupt Trump, the cultists will cry out that Trump is being persecuted by the media--and the SEC--instead of acknowledging that, as always, it's trouble that's entirely earned.
  18. It's great that you found something that you can believe in, but it not at all appropriate to use taxpayer money to promote religion. Many people don' If you want to proselytize, do it on your own dime. Or to put it in a different context: do unto others as you'd have them do unto you. Would you like it if the government took your tax dollars and used them to promote some alternative religion that you don't believe in? The separation of church and state is vital to maintaining freedom of religion.
  19. "Innocent until proven guilty! But if you try to establish guilt or innocent through the courts it's election interference!" Make up your damn mind.
  20. Jeebus, man, you don't understand that that's what Fox is as well? That has been the intention since it was founded. They don't hire journalists. Never have. Not a single award for journalism, ever. That's why you people show up here with nonsense like "the open border" the "terrible Biden economy" the "stolen election" and other batshit crazy flat-Earth nonsense.
  21. Well, can't say I'm surprised that you prefer "journalists" who can be controlled by corporate interests. That's what you're used to.
  22. You should be praising those anchors for NOT being controlled. That's how journalists with integrity behave. Contrast that with the lack of integrity at FOX, where the biggest names on the network simply email and text each other about how awful it is that they have to lie to their stupid audience every day.
  23. Turn off Fox. It's been on March 31 since 2009. Biden just made it official. They're not going to change the date after 15 years.
  24. Did something dire befall Biden 2 weeks ago?
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