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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2023-02-07 12:15 pm

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 79

They LiedAs we proceed through the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselessness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. 

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before: 

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 
 
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue. 

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religions, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.

Scott Adams' Trolling

(Anonymous) 2023-02-08 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
I'm trying to follow Adams with his reaction to whether or not the anti-vaxxers were right. Has it been determined that he was trolling? Most people who had a comment last week were pretty sure he was trolling.

Robin Koerner at Brownstone had some excellent arguments why the unvaxxinated got it right. Adams' response, at least in one of his tweets was vague and sarcastic. So, can anybody tell me what Adams is up to?

https://brownstone.org/articles/how-the-unvaccinated-got-it-right/

Re: Scott Adams' Trolling

(Anonymous) 2023-02-08 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Adams is playing the court jester. In this case, he's using a trick that the MSM uses all the time.

Every now and then, the MSM will run an article that appeals to the "other side". For example, the Guardian will run some article questioning the vaccines. All the people vaccine sceptics will immediately post the article on their social media with something like "see, even the Guardian admits it!" Meanwhile, regular Guardian readers will be outraged and will post on their social media complaining about how the Guardian is going to the dogs. Put it all together and the Guardian gets a nice bump in their advertising revenue for a few days.

Adams got a similarly nice bump in his social media reach and boosted his brand by posting a message many people want to hear "I was wrong. You were right".

Re: Scott Adams' Trolling

(Anonymous) 2023-02-08 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
I commented last week, and I still think he's a troll who accepted the shots.

After reading some of his tweets, I don't rate him, so I couldn't care less what he thinks about people who didn't accept the shots.

If I was the kind of person who did care what sources like Adams have to say, then maybe I'd have accepted the shots and see more value in needling others.

It's not so bad to be the subject of Adams' disdain though, especially if that means continuing to enjoy a healthy immune system, circulatory system, gonads, and a superior ability to draw reliable conclusions, if not cartoons.

The Ninth Mouse
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Re: Scott Adams' Trolling

[personal profile] kimberlysteele 2023-02-11 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
A bottle of $400 champagne might as well be a can of Sprite made lukewarm by the addition of pee if you can only drink it painfully through a straw with the assistance of a home nurse. In other words, health is wealth, and if you squander your health as a rich person, you are much worse off than someone who is healthy but poor as a church mouse. He was fine with playing Russian roulette with an MRNA shot and he needs to own that. It's easy to see he ties up all of his self-worth in how much money he has made, and I think the reason he's acting out is because he knows that his money is worthless if he feels like garbage all the time, which puts random poor people above him in the hierarchy of his tortured mind. Subsequently, he trolls because he only knows how to spread darkness. If he has not suffered any of the well known side effects yet, then he should consider himself very fortunate. Trying to bait the unvaxxed for outrage clicks and curious subscribers is weird and pathetic. He reminds me of Madonna but instead of trying to draw attention for her recently disfigured face, he uses his alleged vax-injury status as his lure.

Re: Scott Adams' Trolling

(Anonymous) 2023-02-08 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
Your attention. He thrives on attention. And everyone keeps giving it to him. Then with it he used hypnosis techniques to play with your minds. You say - no, my mind isn't affected by him! - and I say, people are posting about Scott Adams and what he could be thinking and his motivations.

In the time you all spend thinking and writing about Adams you could be doing a 1000 other things.
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Re: Scott Adams' Trolling

[personal profile] transcriberb 2023-02-08 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
What is Adams up to? Seems to me he has always been about getting paying attention and, until now, he has been remarkably good at that.

Re: Scott Adams' Trolling

(Anonymous) 2023-02-08 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I think Adams always has to be the smartest guy in the room, and he has 10,000 crappy little rhetorical tricks to ensure his perceived intellectual dominance.

To quote Achewood, he's a crappy little bullsh*t man.
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Re: Scott Adams' Trolling

[personal profile] kimberlysteele 2023-02-11 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly! Honestly I did fall for his mea culpa and felt genuinely sorry for him. Now that I know he only seeks to mock people like me, I will ignore him forevermore.