covid deniers
Nov. 29th, 2020 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdAnother bit of writing from Twitter, again building on something Vixy tweeted.
As far as I can tell, they consider more words to be more truth, no matter how incoherent and meaningless those words are, as long as they’re in grammatical order. Or mostly so.
And, obviously, you’re a brainwashed MAIN STREAM SCIENCE / MAIN STREAM MEDIA dupe who has never questioned anything, ever, and actually knows nothing, fuck your published original research science.
It’s kind of angering, but it’s more befuddling, because it’s literally so incoherent that you have to spend several paragraphs on why and how each sentence is orthogonal-to-reality batshittery - and then they just spool out more Markov chain. It’s pointless.
Two days ago was with someone whose uncle - also in the conversation! - is dealing with long-term heart and kidney damage from COVID. Said uncle has friends with similar long-term health damage, some of which is definitely permanent.
It’s still all fake. Nothing gets through.
I thought deaths and debilitations might sink in, but it doesn’t seem to be happening. They’d rather die. All we can do is keep them as out of power as possible, forever, and lay down some goddamn consequences for the movement that led them here.
Vix o' LanternI haven’t been able to get through to deniers. I mean, I’ve tried. Like, I was trying two days ago. But it’s literally like arguing with a Markov chain word generator - there is _no connection_ to reality, and no willingness to consider one.
@vixy
Reminder that Covid deniers didn't just spring up out of nowhere. They were betrayed by a lack of leadership after years of deliberate discrediting of any and all news sources.
9:52 AM · Nov 29, 2020
As far as I can tell, they consider more words to be more truth, no matter how incoherent and meaningless those words are, as long as they’re in grammatical order. Or mostly so.
And, obviously, you’re a brainwashed MAIN STREAM SCIENCE / MAIN STREAM MEDIA dupe who has never questioned anything, ever, and actually knows nothing, fuck your published original research science.
It’s kind of angering, but it’s more befuddling, because it’s literally so incoherent that you have to spend several paragraphs on why and how each sentence is orthogonal-to-reality batshittery - and then they just spool out more Markov chain. It’s pointless.
Two days ago was with someone whose uncle - also in the conversation! - is dealing with long-term heart and kidney damage from COVID. Said uncle has friends with similar long-term health damage, some of which is definitely permanent.
It’s still all fake. Nothing gets through.
I thought deaths and debilitations might sink in, but it doesn’t seem to be happening. They’d rather die. All we can do is keep them as out of power as possible, forever, and lay down some goddamn consequences for the movement that led them here.
