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A pathological tactic of malignant narcissists is exhaust the normies so we stop fighting them.

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Alas, I fear that this is but the tip of the iceberg.

Not all opinions deserve an airing.

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tDrumpf is providing rhetorical cocaine to the batshit crazy. I was gonna say rhetorical oxygen but cocaine is more accurate.

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Anyone who knows not so distant history understands that the benefits of the polio vaccine are enormous and beyond doubt. The problem however is that the medical establishment has lost its credibility, and largely for legitimate reasons. It uses the phrase “settled science” falsely, applying it to *extremely* unsettled topics such as how to treat gender dysphoric youth: even as the American association of pediatricians claims it’s all settled English and European medical establishment are voicing grave doubts! Origins of covid are another example, the medical establishment in the us went so far as to pressure social media to censor lab leak theory even as behind closed doors they themselves admitted knowing that it can’t be ruled out.

We have here a “boy who cried wolf” effect. The medical establishment has done enormous damages to its credibility by abusing the term “settled science” beyond any reasonable stretch, as had the msm, by parroting this uncritically. The results is giving an opening to dangerous conmen and crackpots. We need to acknowledge this if we are to fight this challenge effectively.

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Another way to put this is "flooding the zone with shit."

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I find the MMR-autism argument particularly infuriating because, at its core, it's all argument that children getting autism is worse than children dying of preventable diseases. Even if the autism argument were true (which, to be clear, it's not), it's still a reprehensible moral position to argue that preventing a small number of cases of autism is more important than preventing a significant number of deaths.

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Never attempt a rational discussion with MAGAs, antivaxxers or the drunk at the corner of the bar.

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