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• On the post: GOP Releases Bill To Stop Administration From Pressuring Social Media Companies… And, It’s Actually Not Totally Crazy?

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 06:20am

  That was mockery of the people taking it against medical advice, not because people thought that’s all it was.

  The vast majority of people who took it were prescribed it by their doctor. Basically everything you said after that was invalid. I get it, you hate Trump a whole lot, but TDS isn't an argument. "Big Pharma" is actually essentially forced to say certain things by the FDA, actually. Man, you just don't know very much.

• On the post: GOP Releases Bill To Stop Administration From Pressuring Social Media Companies… And, It’s Actually Not Totally Crazy?

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 06:16am

  I definitely was NOT trying to claim misinformation doesn't exist. I am saying lots of things that were true got labeled as "misinformation", and that no one is particularly good at nor trusted enough to make that determination. You can't actually stop people from saying things that aren't true, and you shouldn't try.

• On the post: GOP Releases Bill To Stop Administration From Pressuring Social Media Companies… And, It’s Actually Not Totally Crazy?

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 06:08am

  Weak little gotchas is all you have.

  Glad to see you admit I gotcha. They're great gotchas. But no, I didn't write the linked comment, and of course you know that.

• On the post: GOP Releases Bill To Stop Administration From Pressuring Social Media Companies… And, It’s Actually Not Totally Crazy?

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 06:07am

  You bash people for not properly reading your sources, and then proceed to only glance at what someone else links. Fucking hypocrite.

  "Glance"? It's one sentence and a chart. I read it, and then told you why it's irrelevant. We're overcounting covid deaths (STILL) a little less than 2:1

• On the post: GOP Releases Bill To Stop Administration From Pressuring Social Media Companies… And, It’s Actually Not Totally Crazy?

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2023 @ 11:51pm

  There’s some concern because your behavior patterns strongly correlate to the sort of actions usually taken before someone goes on a school shooting.

  Yeah that made me chuckle.

  Nobody actually cares about you, people care about the collateral damage an incel like you is going to inflict because you haven’t poked a vagina yet

  I happen to be 45, married, with children. (what makes you think I'm not a woman, tho? "course haven't poked a vagina, I have no poker! Silly cis-troll) Honestly, I love this shit. Liberals are so hateful, it's just amazing. Look at you rage! All the opprobrium you can muster, without anything to anchor it to. Just delectable.

• On the post: GOP Releases Bill To Stop Administration From Pressuring Social Media Companies… And, It’s Actually Not Totally Crazy?

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2023 @ 11:40pm

  Well, those sure are words, I guess. unclear, tbh.

• On the post: GOP Releases Bill To Stop Administration From Pressuring Social Media Companies… And, It’s Actually Not Totally Crazy?

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2023 @ 11:38pm

  I said so? Anyone can write anyone's name in there. Actually considering your eagerness to post it, it's most likely you wrote it. What is your evidence I wrote it? You have none of course. This is grade level shit, c'mon.

• On the post: GOP Releases Bill To Stop Administration From Pressuring Social Media Companies… And, It’s Actually Not Totally Crazy?

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2023 @ 11:18pm

  cuz your actions are dumb, and tribal. Why are you so upset about me caring?

• On the post: GOP Releases Bill To Stop Administration From Pressuring Social Media Companies… And, It’s Actually Not Totally Crazy?

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2023 @ 11:17pm

  Or, alternatively, you just can't see how extreme and fucked up your ideas are. This is the sorta thing that happens before major revolutions, y'know. Cambodian killing fields, that sorta thing. Whole classes of people purged and the babies heads smashed against tree trunks for who their parents are. Every case that we know of has been pre-internet so some things will play out different but the all the same ideas are getting bandied about. I fear it, truly.

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  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2023 @ 11:10pm

  Basically anything that disagrees with you? This seriously isn't hard. I just want people to know I didn't write your post, cuz it's a perfect foil: Free speech you don't want people to have: "hate speech" which can be literally anything you don't like *Anything questioning a vaccine's efficacy or safety, *even a little bit (seriously, everything has some drawbacks) even if it happens to be true. anything pointing out discrimination *in a preferred direction is still discrimination (aka affirmative action is totally racists) *refusing to pretend women are exactly the same as women. * refusing to pretend Men can get pregnant, or that transwomen are "real" women. Just anything that offends that orthodoxy of the liberal group think, ever. Which is constantly shifting, btw, so that's extra fun.

• On the post: GOP Releases Bill To Stop Administration From Pressuring Social Media Companies… And, It’s Actually Not Totally Crazy?

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2023 @ 10:56pm

  Musk, Santos and Trump

  That is a VERY random collection of names. Like there's basically nothing in common between the 3 of them.

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  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2023 @ 10:53pm

  you did twice? Why?

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  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2023 @ 10:52pm

  it's a hobby maybe

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  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2023 @ 10:50pm

  bro, be as fabulous as you want, live your best life. The women who are interested in you aren't gonna to be into me and vice versa, we'll be OK. Also I've been married for a billion years so it's all kinda null. Also I think Musk has 9 kids? He's doing OK, depends on what you want in life. Personally I want to spend more time with my kids but Musk seems a kinda "married to his job" sorta guy. I mostly get mad at stupidity tbh.

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  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2023 @ 10:42pm

  You keep getting angry that people who gorged on ivermectin are getting insulted.

  Against voltage or temperature? Fun fact: about 60-70% of metals thermal conductivity is based upon the shared electron shell, i.e. what makes it a metal and means electrical and thermal conductivity is highly correlated but not exactly linearly and that only holds true for metals. All of that has nothing to do with anything, except that I know more than you, natively. Not actually natively, of course, when born I knew almost nothing, but I mean intrinsically, as a part of who I am, I know how some things work. But you don't. So you make jokes about Ivermectin you don't understand.

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  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2023 @ 10:32pm

  not actually my comment, but I get it, you're very homophobic, thanks for sharing.

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  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2023 @ 10:27pm

  This reminds me a little of FOIA avoidance

  Every FOIA law is a little different, of course, but it seems in the vast majority of cases government can just ....refuse to comply (either they make up ridiculous costs to comply with the request, or often, they just say "no responsive documents found" regardless of whether that's true...and just....nothing....happens. You have to threaten to put officials in jail (elected or otherwise) or else crap all will actually happen

• On the post: GOP Releases Bill To Stop Administration From Pressuring Social Media Companies… And, It’s Actually Not Totally Crazy?

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2023 @ 08:55pm

  nothing about that was an argument nor logic

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  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2023 @ 08:52pm

  Yeah, OK, there was no factual underpinning of the claim then. There was no evidence that twitter favored conservatives. That's just actually made up, yeah? If you have actual numbers based on something objective (no idea how, violating a TOS is obviously judgement call subject to disagreement) then post that.

  Meanwhile, I will note that in this single thread you both try to dismiss an argument by waving it away as a “CNN opinion piece” while simultaneously insisting that we should all take a Washington Post “opinion piece” as gospel.

  Except these things are not equivalent. One is just a standard reporter mouthing off their opinion (on CNN you're lucky when they don't try to pass that off as actual news) on the other you have a medical expert, who had been cited claiming this was "misinformation" in the past, now saying it is true, and citing actual statistics and math. Those are vastly different cases. So you're just dumb, then? Like I don't even know what you want me to do with this. Do you realized how little sense that made? Take the L

• On the post: GOP Releases Bill To Stop Administration From Pressuring Social Media Companies… And, It’s Actually Not Totally Crazy?

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2023 @ 08:44pm

  Wow, it’s a contributing cause. Who every would have thunk? (This is how death certs work.)

  OK, damn, so you didn't understand ANY of what was talked about in that article. Wow.

  In the height of a pandemic (or epidemic), yes, things should stop. Because business can’t seem to handle that is a problem with how business is done, and economies are run.

  OK, point of order: economies do not run when they are stopped, I sense you're making a sorta anti-capitalist argument here (dumb on it's face) because this basic question doesn't even involve money: Do you want the bread to be baked and lights to be on? Even if you're communist the economy needs to run for that. More broadly the relevant question is: were the lives saved worth the cost saved? Since the lives saved was a very low number, very close to zero (one estimate I saw was 0.2%....of the deaths, already a low number) and the costs were enormous it's pretty hard to conclude that was worth it.

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