Trust the government! At least if it is run by credentialed dems. No need to actually learn any science, economics or history. Just learn to trust. Team Dazzler loves themselves some credentialed dems. Say, that barry fellow is a Harvard law grad and was the Law Review editor and he really knows stuff.
A novel aspect of our present political moment is that the more credentials a person has, the more likely he or she is to be a Democrat. This wasn’t true 50 years ago; on the contrary. But creeping credentialism has become a key feature of our culture. I think we are in the midst of a coup being carried out by people who are dumb, but have credentials, usually half-baked.
These thoughts are prompted by Matt Taibbi’s current Racket News post. I am not sure whether that link will work if you are not a Racket News subscriber. If not, you might consider signing up. Meanwhile, I will try to do justice to the post with a few excerpts.
Briefly, Taibbi has obtained documents in response to a FOIA request. His post focuses on an alleged “misinformation” expert named Michael Caulfield, of the University of Washington. Early in the covid fiasco, Caulfield wrote an email in which he ridiculed people who were trying to understand the actual lethality of the virus:
Caulfield dismissed efforts to analyze data to figure out what was happening, on the ground that most people lack credentials. (Not that he himself had any relevant expertise, by the way.) Instead, the average person–pretty much everyone–should just figure out “who [sic] to trust.” And that would be the government.
Caulfield unveiled some of this thinking in December 2018, in a blog post called “Recalibrating our Approach to Misinformation,” while writers like Martin Gurri argued that audiences lost trust because the tools are now available for audiences to see authorities aren’t trustworthy. Caulfield’s take, consistent with what most “anti-disinformationists” believe, is the mere fact of mistrust is a net negative, because it raises risks of “totalitarianism” (read: Trump). Therefore, student “orientation towards truth” is “far more ominous than mere gullibility.” Rather than teach kids to evaluate information, the idea is to teach “trust.”
So, teach young people to trust the government.
Taibbi addresses the broader issue of the “misinformation” movement and its political orientation:
The new FOIA production repeatedly shows academics or professional fact-checkers choosing which “false narratives” to study merely by reading news and guessing what the rabble might obsess over next, perhaps while stroking a chin. “As more people are infected, expect to see new false narratives about how the virus started,” a Newsguard circular read, adding that “many of which will seize on…xenophobic themes.”
Most revealing: while researchers constantly scan for misinformation/disinformation spread by ordinary consumers, they never (literally not once that I’ve found, across years of reading these communications) look at government officials or credentialed experts as possible sources of bad information. The hundreds of millions spent on “anti-disinformation” initiatives can be boiled down to one principle, repeated endlessly: trust your betters. Forget critical thinking, locate authoritative voices, and stick with them.
Of course, as to the covid epidemic, the oft-censored independent voices generally turned out to be right, and the government was wrong.
Finally, I note that Caulfield described thinking for oneself as “a lousy epistemology.” As a one-time student of epistemology, I say with confidence that no philosopher has ever advanced such a theory. The idea that one should always believe the government and follow its dictates has a name, not in epistemology but in politics. It starts with an F. That is where today’s Democratic Party lives.
If the FBI was out interviewing the kid a year ago about being a mass murderer, and the dad still thought it was cool to let him have access to guns, I'm fine with the dad being charged.
This is a great example for the gun grabbers. If they hate the constitution on guns then fuck it. Arrest the kid on a thought crime. That would have saved lives. Taking your gun wouldn't
No thought-crime arrests, but if the parent gives the minor a gun and the minor goes and murders people I have no problem with the parent having culpability.
Saying you're a tranny has risen by more than 8,000% in the past few years. It's a trend mostly shitty leftist parents have to deal with but none of it's real just like the government they vote for.
30 years ago, life was good. That didn't last long. Prozac, internet, and Tickle Me Elmo came around. Elmo in particular twisted entire generations into knots after 96. It's no wonder anyone who lived through that laugh would want to bump stock 600 bodies full of lead from a hotel window or shoot up a school with meth Daddy's easily purchased AR birthday present. Can't even blame these transgender Democrats for what they've done. Elmo was traumatizing. I'm lucky to still be here and not in prison, personally. Luckily I was able to stop at only shooting neighborhood pets with my high magazine capacity rifle. I think I was able to enjoy it because I rarely had to reload. That's all I needed, thankfully.
To be factual, the first "school shooting" (that I can remember) was the tower shooter in Austin 1966 almost 60 years ago… There may have been prior shootings, we'll have to assume this one kicked off the horrible trend as it was the most publicized and happened during the culture revolution of the 60s.
EDIT..This was the first video I grabbed, there's a good documentary on the full story but I couldn't find it quickly..
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Sure if you mean Russian collusion and effective covid vaccines
This seems legit. The FBI said he had a discord account talking about mass shootings
tranny killers on the loose
Shills gonna shill. Trust the science, big authoritarian state and big pharma.
If we were fishing for you it would sound like "trump bad, mmmkay"
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Give it 15 years
Trust the government! At least if it is run by credentialed dems. No need to actually learn any science, economics or history. Just learn to trust. Team Dazzler loves themselves some credentialed dems. Say, that barry fellow is a Harvard law grad and was the Law Review editor and he really knows stuff.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/09/liberal-know-nothingism.php
Liberal Know-NothingismA novel aspect of our present political moment is that the more credentials a person has, the more likely he or she is to be a Democrat. This wasn’t true 50 years ago; on the contrary. But creeping credentialism has become a key feature of our culture. I think we are in the midst of a coup being carried out by people who are dumb, but have credentials, usually half-baked.
These thoughts are prompted by Matt Taibbi’s current Racket News post. I am not sure whether that link will work if you are not a Racket News subscriber. If not, you might consider signing up. Meanwhile, I will try to do justice to the post with a few excerpts.
Briefly, Taibbi has obtained documents in response to a FOIA request. His post focuses on an alleged “misinformation” expert named Michael Caulfield, of the University of Washington. Early in the covid fiasco, Caulfield wrote an email in which he ridiculed people who were trying to understand the actual lethality of the virus:
Caulfield dismissed efforts to analyze data to figure out what was happening, on the ground that most people lack credentials. (Not that he himself had any relevant expertise, by the way.) Instead, the average person–pretty much everyone–should just figure out “who [sic] to trust.” And that would be the government.
So, teach young people to trust the government.
Taibbi addresses the broader issue of the “misinformation” movement and its political orientation:
Of course, as to the covid epidemic, the oft-censored independent voices generally turned out to be right, and the government was wrong.
Finally, I note that Caulfield described thinking for oneself as “a lousy epistemology.” As a one-time student of epistemology, I say with confidence that no philosopher has ever advanced such a theory. The idea that one should always believe the government and follow its dictates has a name, not in epistemology but in politics. It starts with an F. That is where today’s Democratic Party lives.
I was right. And first.
But was the FBI egging him on in that account?
If the FBI was out interviewing the kid a year ago about being a mass murderer, and the dad still thought it was cool to let him have access to guns, I'm fine with the dad being charged.
Can we charge the FBI?
This is a great example for the gun grabbers. If they hate the constitution on guns then fuck it. Arrest the kid on a thought crime. That would have saved lives. Taking your gun wouldn't
No thought-crime arrests, but if the parent gives the minor a gun and the minor goes and murders people I have no problem with the parent having culpability.
Saying you're a tranny has risen by more than 8,000% in the past few years. It's a trend mostly shitty leftist parents have to deal with but none of it's real just like the government they vote for.
So all the mass shooterss lately were Trans. Let's outlaw trans people not guns! Guns are inanimate objects let's put the blame where it belongs.
Ya know it’s funny.
Guns have always been around in the US.
We’ve always had guns. For hundreds of years in fact. But we didn’t really have school shootings 30 years ago.
But that was before Prozac and the internet.
Are we gonna get rid of those things as well?
30 years ago, life was good. That didn't last long. Prozac, internet, and Tickle Me Elmo came around. Elmo in particular twisted entire generations into knots after 96. It's no wonder anyone who lived through that laugh would want to bump stock 600 bodies full of lead from a hotel window or shoot up a school with meth Daddy's easily purchased AR birthday present. Can't even blame these transgender Democrats for what they've done. Elmo was traumatizing. I'm lucky to still be here and not in prison, personally. Luckily I was able to stop at only shooting neighborhood pets with my high magazine capacity rifle. I think I was able to enjoy it because I rarely had to reload. That's all I needed, thankfully.
I’m in complete support of getting rid of Prozac. More harm than good.
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You spent time on this.🤷♂️
To be factual, the first "school shooting" (that I can remember) was the tower shooter in Austin 1966 almost 60 years ago… There may have been prior shootings, we'll have to assume this one kicked off the horrible trend as it was the most publicized and happened during the culture revolution of the 60s.
EDIT..This was the first video I grabbed, there's a good documentary on the full story but I couldn't find it quickly..
Lol the lefts obsession with bump stocks is so incredibly demonstrative of how stupid, ignorant, and ineffective their policy positions oare.