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An extremely important point that seems to be completely missed in the discussion of disinformation.

We are exclusively focused on the *supply chain*. We neglect the *demand* for this content.

The truth is that people searched for an excuse, or opening, to be radicalized.


I find the comparison to drugs and addiction helpful here, and it is one that I do carefully.

100 people to to the doctor and get an opioid after a procedure. About 95 will never use again.

A lot of us are exposed to extremist content. Most of us don’t get radicalized.

So while the supply and exposure played a role in both addiction and radicalization, it is not magic. It doesn’t just take over people. It taps into demand.

So maybe the question is less about how they got the supply and more why they find it so appealing.

That’s tougher.

It is much easier to imagine an immediate policy solution to Trump’s twitter account or YouTube’s auto play than to the coercive impact of 401 years of America apartheid and racist myth making.

But again drugs suggest that those quick supply cuts don’t work.

A century of drug busts made the problem worse. This observation led to the iron law of prohibition: the harder the enforcement, the harder the drugs.

When you cut supply, people who want drugs *will* find drugs — and often more dangerous drugs.

This is where my insight ends.
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Bad faith smears, such as this article, omits so much context, order of events and perspective, in order to turn Lockdown into a partisan issue.

Context like claims about 500K deaths, and 67 million people under house arrest for a year.

67 million house arrest years, and their as yet uncalculated second-order consequences amounts to vastly more lost QALYs than were allegedly lost to Covid19.

No lockdown sceptic I am aware argued against precautionary measures for the categorically vulnerable.

Moreover, the lockdown hawks have traded on rank fearmongering, leaving much of the public with the view that ~10% of the population had succumbed to the virus. There has been no effort from the official narrative to address that fear.

Here, Lawson takes Yeadon's comment, which is a statement about ONS's reporting of the week -- ONS's own claim of no statistically significant increase -- as a claim about the year.

https://t.co/J0ZBFKxfG4


He goes on to wonder what Yeadon was referring to, though Yeadon's Tweet was clear enough. The 5-week figures give some big number-drama to his story, but the daily death rate is less stark: 1,691 versus 1,397. Hardly heart-warming figures, but hardly the year 1349.
Christians have known this was coming. But we must ask ourselves:
1. What is Satan's ultimate goal? His goal besides enslaving mankind, is to sit in God's temple on earth
Where is God's Temple on earth? Hint: It's not in Jerusalem.
2. How will he accomplish this goal?


We know that God has a temple in heaven by reading Revelation 11:19
And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

And we know there is no temple in the New Heaven & earth Rev 21:22-23
I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty & the Lamb are its temple. The city does not need the sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp

So where is the Temple Satan wants to sit in?
1 Corinthians 3:16 tells us
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”

So how does Satan sit in YOU? How does he control you? How does he accomplish controlling the whole world; every living human on this planet?
This sounds insane and yet it's pretty much what happened.


If we're being extremely sober-minded about this, in a tight election there's always multiple causes and movements are caused by a complex interplay of factors etc etc.

But it's also true a far right tumor grew within gamer communities and


To me the big mystery of 2016 is always going to be how did Trump, who has no redeeming characteristics, get a perfectly normal number of votes? Why did multiple parts of our political immune system fail? A large part is that the GOP qua Party was weaker than we thought.

Gamergate and its spawn did a couple things to the immune system. It directly stressed it by creating a dangerous identity in a way it turns out it could not handle, and it revealed flaws that other bad actors took advantage of.

If you time-traveled and you eliminated Eron Gjoni before he hit "publish" would Donald Trump still be elected in 2016? I honestly don't think so, because it was such a close election. But the dominoes would still be in a place for a different trigger that could have happened.
@johnkoetsier @LarryRosenthal @John_Westra True, but I only get 140 characters at a time and I’m trying to cover a lot.

“The media” meaning the primary outlets of information and opinion in America: news, TV shows, movies, magazines. Nearly all follow and promote whatever the dominant cultural values are at the moment.

@LarryRosenthal @John_Westra It used to be that there was civility in the media. But that came from a more civil society, where traditionally correct behavior was deemed important. That’s been erased by modernism. Today political correctness has replaced civility, and the media parrots that instead.

@LarryRosenthal @John_Westra The moral distortion becomes evident when you read the words Trump speaks. Consider what he might be referring to without PC bias, and then watch how those media outlets speak about those same words. The presumption of guilt starts, fills and ends nearly every message.

@LarryRosenthal @John_Westra Charlottesville is a perfect example. “There were good people on both sides” was entirely referring to those for and against removal of statues - NOT about “good white supremacy”
or “good Antifa counter-protesters”. He clarified this exact point at the time. That’s the “truth”.

@LarryRosenthal @John_Westra But to this day that’s not what the “media” gave to the world to chew on, now is it? Instead there is the deliberate and persistent lie that he meant to defend white supremacy because that narrative sells better to a PC public: half of America now thinks he’s a racist for sure.