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MLSM
Apr 3, 2021

by Azathoth

Lol go gently caress yourselves bellingcaught

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Greg Legg
Oct 6, 2004

Jose posted:

isn't max's family loaded and can comfortably pay for all of this

His dad is close to Hillary Clinton. I don't know if he's loaded but I imagine he isn't poor. Blumenthal and the grayzone do good work but this has always seemed a little suspicious.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy
Remember. Engels was also loaded.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 18 days!)

https://twitter.com/BrownNaila/status/1483804664370024456?s=20

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

They've also had two whole years to develop a capacity for producing PPE and instead have done nothing. They left everything up to market demand and the market is still underproducing.

Well how are you going to stimulate production if you haven't told people they need the product? They were so afraid of stoking demand for fear of a shortage, which meant there wasn't any unfulfilled demand to meet.

Not even under Free Market Principles does this make any sense.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
I wonder if Ben and Max get into arguments about their respective Covid takes

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
so this is grayzone adjacent in that Carole Cadwalladr is currently being sued by Arron Banks who was the major funder of UKIP for libel claims in her reporting of him. Integrity Initiative has close links to bellingcat and just lol they've ruined her life. If she loses this case as looks fairly likely she'll be bankrupted. The guardian have hung her out to dry too despite almost all of her reporting appearing in that because she's a freelancer lol

https://twitter.com/kennardmatt/status/1484103609738530817?s=20

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
wasn't Cadwalladr one of the big names behind the Cambridge Analytica story, as a sub-branch of Russiagate? [fake edit: yes]

if I understand your post correctly, Jose:

Cadwalladr published a story about Arron Banks, who was a funder of UKIP
Cadwalladr got her information about Banks from Integrity Initiative, which has links to bellingcat and the UK intelligence community
Banks is now suing her for libel
She's probably going to lose the case, and The Guardian isn't doing much to help her

https://thegrayzone.com/2018/12/17/inside-the-temple-of-covert-propaganda-the-integrity-initiative-and-the-uks-scandalous-information-war/

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/11/02/huckster-hack-uk-govt-report-undermines-stars-of-cambridge-analytica-russiagate/

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1075128366938886154

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Ah it was a comment when she was giving a TED talk followed up with a tweet which might be why the guardian aren't paying her fees. This guardian article, lol, has the full facts of the case.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/08/guardians-carole-cadwalladr-in-court-to-fight-defamation-claim-by-brexit-backer-arron-banks

Greg Legg
Oct 6, 2004

When you show this to people who are "vaccine hesitant" they get really mad.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1483948648773865474?s=20
https://twitter.com/consent_factory/status/1483950517684518915?s=20

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
UK government is just straight up telling anyone who's vulnerable to covid that they're going to die. its bleak

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

I don't understand what the reply tweet is trying to say.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
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https://twitter.com/consent_factory/status/1483866647685386240?cxt=HHwWgMCy1dW24JcpAAAA

lmfao

Greg Legg
Oct 6, 2004

whoa holy poo poo this guy is something else

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
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Greg Legg posted:

whoa holy poo poo this guy is something else

It's incredible

https://twitter.com/CJHopkins_Z23/status/1483464848147111936?cxt=HHwWgICz6e3aqZYpAAAA

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:


big brain on this guy

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

They're closing down the consent factory
Across the railroad tracks
Foreman says, "these jobs are going, boys
And they ain't coming back
To your hometown"

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
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Pepe Escobar is such a fun guest to have.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

gradenko_2000 posted:

I wonder if Ben and Max get into arguments about their respective Covid takes

https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1485111750030770176?t=3wgceaIDdhGeT9de77j4fQ&s=19
https://twitter.com/cadonovan32/status/1485121827718504450?t=4IaBVOOv0cU8fWlPLakAAA&s=19

mcmagic
Jul 1, 2004

If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!
https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1485834323009978369

Greg Legg
Oct 6, 2004

Our poo poo system responded to covid by handing a poo poo zillion dollars to big pharma. Same thing it always did. But the virus is still real and might really gently caress you up if you get it. This comes across as whining to me.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Pepe Escobar is such a fun guest to have.

Yeah that guy is having a blast

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
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lmfao

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
Max Blumenthal >>>>> Ee-oyn Higgins (brother of Eliot)

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
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https://twitter.com/CherylHines/status/1486002123280199684

Lmfao this mandate rally sounds hilarious.

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
lol wife is knife

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010


incredible facial hair here

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 18 days!)

Most of what Max is saying isn't even wrong, and everyone trying to own him is in denial about vaccines not being a panacea.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
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He's right you dumb dumb.

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

sounds like a loving retard there. “Covid killed the last vestige of liberal democracy now we live in the technocracy!”

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Ringo Roadagain posted:

sounds like a loving retard there. “Covid killed the last vestige of liberal democracy now we live in the technocracy!”

Yeah Liberal Democracy died a long time before COVID he should know that

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 18 days!)

Max just needs to accept that liberal democracy is bad.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
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Max needs to slay his inner liberal.

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002



Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

I literally just learned that Cheryl Hines is married to RFK Jr

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
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Pablo Nergigante posted:

I literally just learned that Cheryl Hines is married to RFK Jr

lmfao that makes this so much more funny

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
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https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/591255-rfk-jr-apologizes-for-anne-frank-comments-after-backlash

lmao

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Tfw my husband publicly compares the unvaccinated to Anne Frank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPrd8FoClAA

Greg Legg
Oct 6, 2004

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Most of what Max is saying isn't even wrong, and everyone trying to own him is in denial about vaccines not being a panacea.

This is why Blumenthal's position on this is so interesting to me. He's right about a lot of this but his reporting on it seems to me to not consider how bad coronavirus can be. I'm also not sure how many actual mandates are really in place since everything is open around here. That being said referring to what he's saying as "anti vax" is disingenuous to me.

BUT I also know that covid discussion is frowned upon outside of the covid thread so I guess I'll see my way out.

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 18 days!)

Greg Legg posted:

This is why Blumenthal's position on this is so interesting to me. He's right about a lot of this but his reporting on it seems to me to not consider how bad coronavirus can be. I'm also not sure how many actual mandates are really in place since everything is open around here. That being said referring to what he's saying as "anti vax" is disingenuous to me.

BUT I also know that covid discussion is frowned upon outside of the covid thread so I guess I'll see my way out.

There's sure as Hell not any mandates I've seen in my neck of the woods (Arkansas). Government policy is so inconsistent on it that it feels worse in some places than others, and nobody has a common experience to accurately judge things on.

Max needs to do a better job of explaining why technocratic solutions are gonna fail, but that's also not really his wheelhouse so I'd rather he not. There's only one real solution and it's Chinese style Zero Covid, but that's a non-starter for Americans so we're hosed no matter what.

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