Conspiracy Theories

[Svartalf]

Ted Cruz's book Unwoke explains. Abortions, not owning a gun, transgenders, race riots. It's all Marxist.
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How can one have gone through princeton and harvard and still be a complete ignorant and stupid bigot like that?

[L'Emmerdeur]

The title of the book may give us some idea. He's knowingly peddling malignant nonsense to those who wish they were living in a dream world where white right wing Christians rule and everybody else keeps their head down. The nebulous nemesis 'Cultural Marxism' is haunting their nightmares--thoroughly capitalist multinational corporations have been parasitized by the woke ideology, like insects zombified by a fungus. Cruz is riding the wave of their delusion.

[Svartalf]

We need a video showing him sucking trump off

[Joe]

All I need to know about Lyin' Ted Cruz.



I understand how Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks felt. I'm ashamed this twat is from Texas.

[Strontium Dog]

Ted Cruz's book Unwoke explains. Abortions, not owning a gun, transgenders, race riots. It's all Marxist.
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How can one have gone through princeton and harvard and still be a complete ignorant and stupid bigot like that?

Lool, just look at the people who operate those universities. They just had a congressional hearing with the heads of MIT, Harvard and UPenn, who were asked if calling for the genocide of Jews violated the schools' codes of conduct. Not one of them said YES.

[Tero]

In his book Ted talks about gun criminals. As opposed to good guys with guns. He says the strict gun laws cause high crime rates. Chicago I guess and E coast.

It is not possible that dense urban populations cause those crimes.

[Tero]

There are no moderate Democrats! The3y are out to disarm law abiding gun owners! Our cities are in disarray! Labs or liberalism!

[L'Emmerdeur]

There must be some way to spin this as a highly suspect tactic deployed by the shadowy 'them.'

'Judge Orders Release of Sealed Docs Naming Epstein Associates'

The names of dozens of people in Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit are scheduled to be revealed early in the new year as part of a lawsuit filed against the late sex-trafficker’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

On Monday, Manhattan federal judge Loretta Preska ordered another group of documents to be unsealed in the case in a ruling first reported by the Daily Mail.

Many pleadings in the lawsuit—filed by victim Virginia Giuffre in 2015 and settled two years later—were filed under seal. Preska has released the secret court filings on a rolling basis since 2019, casting light on powerful men tied to Epstein who were also accused of abuse.

The Miami Herald, which published an exposé on Epstein’s lenient 2008 plea deal that led to his arrest in 2019, sued to release the legal documents.

While Preska ruled against revealing the names of victims who hadn’t come forward publicly, she ordered previously sealed records related to Epstein’s recruiters, staffers and other associates to be released.

The anonymous parties are listed as “Does,” and Preska notes that multiple individuals are “public figures” including one listed in Epstein’s address book.

In her order, Preska said the Does had 14 days to appeal her decision.

[Brian Peacock]

I'm sure some members of the legal profession are rubbing their hands together in glee and delight at the prospect of pasty-faced high-profile clients with sensitive reputations running into their offices in a blind panic - and uttering the phrase that's music to every law firm's ears: "I don't care what it costs!"

[L'Emmerdeur]

Not particularly ground-breaking finding: those with more extreme political views are more likely to believe misinformation. Given the (possibly performative) disdain for fact-checkers/fact-checking and willingness to simply discard inconvenient information we see in a fellow like Cnut, one wonders if it's even possible to get through to them.

'Online misinformation most likely to be believed by ideological extremists, study shows'

Political observers have been troubled by the rise of online misinformation—a concern that has grown as we approach Election Day [USA}. However, while the spread of fake news may pose threats, a new study finds that its influence is not universal. Rather, users with extreme political views are more likely than others are to both encounter and believe false news.

"Misinformation is a serious issue on social media, but its impact is not uniform," says Christopher K. Tokita, the lead author of the study, conducted by New York University's Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP).

The findings, which appear in PNAS Nexus, also indicate that current methods to combat the spread of misinformation are likely not viable—and that the most effective way to address it is to implement interventions quickly and to target them toward users most likely to be vulnerable to these falsehoods.

"Because these extreme users also tend to see misinformation early on, current social media interventions often struggle to curb its impact—they are typically too slow to prevent exposure among those most receptive to it," adds Zeve Sanderson, executive director of CSMaP.

[Brian Peacock]

I'm pretty extreme.

[L'Emmerdeur]

I'm pretty extreme.

Aye, though naturally it's about specifying a bump in the curve rather than particular data points. Per the abstract: "... users who are both exposed and receptive to believing false news tend to have more extreme ideologies. These receptive users are also more likely to encounter misinformation earlier than those who are unlikely to believe it." (Emphasis mine.)

Not all communists are tankies, for instance.

Anecdotally, a significant percentage of the loony tunes right wing clickbait noise that the hyperborean fellow brought here was new to me. Apparently he spends time in the places where it's dished out, so has earlier access to it. I generally only come across it second hand, from podcasts like QAA (formerly QAnon Anonymous) and various 'hey look at those guys' sites. Some of which are fairly straight, like Right Wing Watch, and some of which are questionable in themselves, like Crooks and Liars.

[Brian Peacock]

One takeaway from these simulations was that the earlier interventions were applied, the more likely they were to be effective. Another was that "visibility" interventions—whereby a platform makes flagged misinformation posts less likely to appear in users' feeds—appeared more likely to reduce the reach of misinformation to susceptible users than did interventions aimed at making users less likely to share misinformation.

So shadow-banning works eh? Remember when the alt-right complained that their tweets weren't being shared enough by the algorithm? Lucky now Musk has redressed that outrageous imbalance, with 'visibility interventions' that ensure everybody can sup freely from those foetid teats.

[Tero]

Journalist writes new vaccine conspiracy book.
Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails
bySharyl Attkisson
1.0 out of 5 stars Total waste of money; political rant from hypocrite
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2024
Verified Purchase
I totally agree that big pharma is too intertwined with scientific research but Attkisson lost all credibility with me when she's guilty of exactly what she blasts the scientific community for - a total lack of transparency. In what is supposed to be non-fiction, there is not a single footnote or link to specific research to support her supposed "facts." The book started out somewhat promising but quickly devolved into a political attack where the "facts" she cites were neverly explicitly backed-up with where she's getting her information. That's very ironic considering her supposed practice of following the science and the money which the reader can't do since she fails to list her information sources. I read dozens of books each year and this was the worst one I've read in a very long time. Don't waste your money!

[Tero]

Wow, look what popped up with her:
Master Manipulator: The Explosive True Story of Fraud, Embezzlement, and Government Betrayal at the CDC Hardcover – May 31, 2016
by James Ottar Grundvig (Author), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Introduction), Sharyl Attkisson (Foreword)