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   tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 13:47:05 JST tinydoctor

   "As a word-nerd, I have known "skepticism" to refer to a sort of stubborn insistence upon rigor and evidence in place of things like dogma and "common sense." A skeptic, by those terms, is someone who questions what they are told. Crucially, a skeptic actually questions, as in seeks answers. A person who merely refuses to learn what can be known is not a skeptic, but rather an ignoramus; a person who raises questions but does not seek their answers is not a skeptic, but a bullshitter." #quote

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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 13:52:52 JST tinydoctor

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     ... "A person who rejects empirical knowledge, who refuses the answers that exist while requesting ones more to their liking that flatter their preference for unfounded contrarian gibberish and conspiratorial paranoia, is not a skeptic. They're the exact opposite of that: a mark. A sucker. A credulous boob." Albert Burneko

     #skeptic #vaccineskeptic #rfkjrbrainworm

     https://defector.com/what-the-fuck-is-a-vaccine-skeptic

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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 14:11:55 JST tinydoctor

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     "How does a shit-for-brains like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. come to be described as a "vaccine skeptic" in the New York Times, in 2024, when he absolutely is not one, and when there is also no such thing as one? As a copy matter, "skeptic" certainly costs less column space than engaging with the question of whether Kennedy's anti-vax fear-mongering reflects the cynical calculus of a scumbag grifter or the sweaty but sincere raving of a dumb guy with grave mental illness, or both, or what."

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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 14:23:30 JST tinydoctor

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     "At any rate, "vaccine skeptic" certainly is nicer and less contentious than calling Kennedy a motivated bullshitter, a peddler of antiscientific garbage, the type of dogshit-brained imbecile who will stiff-arm all that can be learned from centuries of medical research and practice because he preferred what he learned from a 25-second TikTok video made by a spiral-eyed homeschool casualty who'll be hospitalized next month with an illness that hasn't sickened a human being since the Bronze Age."

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     Grassroots Joe (joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 14:38:10 JST Grassroots Joe

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     @tinydoctor

     Needless to say, the cancelation of my NYT subscription looks better every day.

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 23:07:06 JST simsa03

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     If it were not such an insult to the anti-war activists and groups in the former USSR, one should call him a vaccine refusnik.
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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 23:36:13 JST tinydoctor

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     • simsa03

     @simsa03 Antivaxequus. In the context of Trump's pick of RFK Jr/aka Mr. Brainworm for Tribune of Health, he can be considered the Orange Caligula's horse. Do the senators bow down and lick his hooves, or do they slit their political wrists?

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 23:40:42 JST simsa03

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     The will lick the hooves with all the faeces on them, because T "has a mandate".
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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 23:49:22 JST tinydoctor

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     • simsa03

     @simsa03 Trump in his cabinet and agency picks is acting on sgame principle articulated by the dictums "shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and get away with it" and "grab 'em by the pussy, you can do anything." How many of his proposed nominees have been credibly accused of sexual assault? I may have fallen behind in the count.

     #grabembythepussy #trumpcabinet

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 23:54:04 JST simsa03

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     Remember to set up contingency plans, first.
     Swear, later.
     These fuckers are about to hurt your daughter.
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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 23:56:08 JST tinydoctor

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     • simsa03

     @simsa03 I am. I can do both at the same time. Contigency plan has priority.

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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 00:14:53 JST tinydoctor

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     • simsa03

     @simsa03 Trump can haz a mandate. Rumper-Trumpers: Mandates R Us. (the "R" should be backwards.)