Why would he want his photo in the middle of that text? He's associating himself with negativity, I feel like this is marketing/propaganda 101. It honestly looks like a movie poster where he's the one leaking it.
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The "ANDREW CUOMO: FAILURE" at the bottom of the government site is some random shade, but I enjoy that at least. Fuck Andrew Cuomo
Agreed. He's such a piece of shit. I mean, fuck Trump, but also, fuck Cuomo.
Yeah, fuck Cuomo, but a lot of the reasons for New York's poor performance at the start of COVID were structural issues that were out of his control.
China had a Wuhan Covid research lab with lax safety standards, is it really a conspiracy?
Usually you'd assume a high probability at least?
Not really. German intelligence just concluded a lab leak was the most likely source. Genetic analysis lines up with that, it's genetically odd. We will likely never get a "broad st pump" or patient zero for COVID but in April 2025 if you were filing a civil case against the Wuhan institute of virology you would win by the evidence it's more likely than not.
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What does it matter if it came from a research lab or a market? It’s a highly mutagenic rna virus and it WILL happen again. Wtf man. There are literally thousands of labs studying coronavirus snd one of them did the research that led to the vaccine that saved millions.
It needs to be fixed so it doesn't happen again.
You can’t prevent virus mutation and human infection. All you can do is prepare for it by studying and researching as much as possible.
People that are ignorant would call for research to stop. Without the previous research we probably still wouldn’t have a vaccine. Which saved millions.
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Ok, so people not overwhelmed by the election may remember that even under Biden last year, it was suggested as a solid, if not more likely possibility. Now, their position ultimately was "we don't think we'll ever find the truth" but I think part of that is also knowing that finding out is generally not with the trouble.
Naturally Trump doesn't care about truth or being nuanced with an "probability" of something, so they're going to be a bit more definitive.
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I saw a billboard outside of my city yesterday saying something like "did your loved ones really die of COVID-19?" and had some "covid is a hoax" website named on it. What a fucking dark timeline we're in.
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Lab leak: picture of Trump. Hm, I always suspected that’s how he came into this world. Good thing they’re officially confirming it.
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Trump is crazy but I still think its possible it was a lab leak. But of course everyone here is 100% confident it wasnt, so no point trying to discuss it.
As a general rule: Never accuse anyone of a serious crime unless you have evidence to back it up.
I think we should discuss different scenarios without having evidence. Thats how several different theories form in the first place. And then people figure out what happened.
You are probably aware that a lot of events are explained a certain way in public, but actually occured a different way.
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who cares if it was a lab leak or not, a comet hitting the earth could have been sent by evil aliens, you still have to appropriately deal with the adtermath
Knowing the origins of the last worldwide pandemic is critical to preventing a repeat incident.
Of course, its just that the article wasnt discussing how to deal with the aftermath.
I remember it being a huge deal to figure out where the virus came from. But now people lost interest because they think its figured out. Maybe it is. I dont pretend to know what happened. Will never find out anyway.
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That website is batshit. It looks like a tabloid website. It's not just promoting the lab leak theory. It also calls out Fauci, Andrew Cuomo, and Biden. It is basically a political hit piece. Fucking embarrassing.
It would basically be like Biden changing a site about Russia to include info about Trump's pee tape.
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USA are sooo close to reinstate flat earth!
.... Is this the new age dark ages?
I moderate the bad religion community (they have a song called The New Dark Ages). Its pretty bitchin. it was written during the W Bush presidency but their material get progressively more relevant as time goes on
Such a good song. I have not thought about or listened to that song or album in at least a decade. Thanks for the reference to rekindle my fond memories. Time to go listen to some Bad Religion... :-)
They released a record called Age of Unreason during the first trump term. Its some of the strongest material of their career imo.
New Maps of Hell was pretty killer though
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For the US maybe, but right now it seems like the wider world may survive.
Yup.
I feel like I'm screaming, "help" at the top of a mountain, yet nobody can hear me. I feel like almost all online interactions are false. I feel like my day to day life is shrinking from country scale to community to household scale. This is where we are divided and we don't care for another, but only ourselves. Not out of greed, but out of perceived necessity. It's all fake.
I'm with you. Corporations have figured out how to fully monetize the internet and information in general. Knowledge and education have been paywalled. What does filter through is manipulation and brainwashing in some form.
I completely understand sometimes it feels like everyone has their head buried in the sand or worse is lapping up the misinformation without a second thought, living in a post truth society is truly hell for the analytical.
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I’m just sitting here watching the end of the world
But I thought conservatives said COVID was all made up and a plot by the democrats to control the populace through mask-wearing?
That was last week
Note that mask-wearing only makes it so you can't breathe if Democrats want you to do it for public health reasons. Mask-wearing is hunky dory if you're doing it because you're a Nazi who doesn't want to be personally identified.
Oh sure this is like them claiming that nanograms of mercury in vaccines cause autism but they argue that companies dumping mercury into their local atmosphere, soil, and water are overburdened by liberal government regulations and shouldn't be regulated.
Then in order to "cure" said autism, they pump their children with any manner of completely worthless and dangerous interventions from the same pharma companies they claim to hate.
Yeah I just listened to the newest Behind the Bastards about this and Robert Evans describes numerous examples of parents treating their kids like lab rats and pumping them full of expiramental drugs until they died. It's awful shit all around.
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