Fascinating how "do your own research" just means "don't trust real research"
August 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
She smiles too much, she doesn't smile enough, her shoes/clothes/handbag/hair offend our delicate sensibilities, she's too confident, she's too awkward, ad nauseam
July 22, 2024 at 6:43 PM
“Experts fear”? Experts know children will get measles and die without prevention, which is vaccination. Try this instad: “Children projected to die of measles because preventive medicine discouraged.” #vaccine #publichealth
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.
May 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
March 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
JD Vance now wants to use the chaos ICE is causing in Los Angeles as pretext to pressure politicians to pass the Republican budget bill that will saddle Americans with trillions of dollars of debt, skyrocket the deficit, take away people’s healthcare, and give massive tax breaks to the wealthy.
June 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
ICE isn't "deporting" immigrants, it is kidnapping them.
DOGE isn't "fixing" the government, it is dismantling it.
Trump isn't "helping" Americans, he is retaliating against them.
Pam Bondi isn't "upholding" the Constitution, she is ignoring it.
DOGE isn't "fixing" the government, it is dismantling it.
Trump isn't "helping" Americans, he is retaliating against them.
Pam Bondi isn't "upholding" the Constitution, she is ignoring it.
April 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
#Semantics #Perception #BrainFunction
#SemanticManipulation
#LiesAreViruses
#GeneralSemantics #EducationIsTheVaccine
#SemanticManipulation
#LiesAreViruses
#GeneralSemantics #EducationIsTheVaccine
Cleetus: These words are like cinnamons. It’s when they mean the same thing. Like “wife” and “cousin.”
May 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This @washingtonpost.com headline, framing, and reporting is maddening.
This is not a push to cut waste...it is a push to drastically cut health care, food assistance and housing assistance to pay for tax cuts.
The reporting is ahistorical and misleading. It's stunning. 🧵
This is not a push to cut waste...it is a push to drastically cut health care, food assistance and housing assistance to pay for tax cuts.
The reporting is ahistorical and misleading. It's stunning. 🧵
June 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Awful way to phrase a headline... WV isn't often viewed as a public health leader, but historically, its (medical exemption only) school vaccination policy made it a leader in vaccinated kids. Though a red state for quite some time, a GOP-led effort now threatens this--a tragedy of politicization.
School vaccine exemption bills expected in WV next year, face easier pathway with Morrisey
CHARLESTON — Republican lawmakers say they’ll again introduce exemptions to the state’s strict school vaccine laws. They expect the measures to face an easier pathway next year due to the
www.timeswv.com
November 24, 2024 at 4:37 AM
Different forms of #SemanticManipulation
One reason people go wrong is that there are so many ways to do it.
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#atheist #skeptic #religion #christian #doubt
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#atheist #skeptic #religion #christian #doubt
August 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Different forms of #SemanticManipulation
“The hate” didn’t come by itself.
Donald Trump BROUGHT the hate to Springfield.
Donald Trump BROUGHT the hate to Springfield.
"In the streets and stores, strangers have hurled insults at Haitians. The tires on their cars have been slashed overnight. Some shoppers have meowed at Haitians in supermarket aisles, according to Haitians, community leaders and immigrant advocates."
October 12, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Trump and Vance have a new phrase for national abortion ban, which is “national minimum standard.” That’s just an abortion ban. They’re using it to claim Trump doesn’t support an abortion ban when he does, and much of the media is falling for it www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump and Vance Are Calling Their Abortion Ban Something New
Don’t be confused by Trump and Vance’s word games.
www.theatlantic.com
October 6, 2024 at 4:16 AM
Absolutely. 1947-1949 the rich paid high taxes; they were still still rich, just not aristocrats. Unions were robust. We grew the largest middle class the world had ever seen. Well, Reagsn started a trickle-down economics juggernaut that has never stopped and that ended all that...
November 19, 2023 at 8:26 PM
It's so bizarre how US media, this summer and now, frames the smoke like something Canada is DOING TO America, and not like a result of decades of catastrophic inaction on global climate change, inaction led in no small part by these very same United States.
Wildfires in Canada have roared back to life, sending harmful smoke into the northern United States — an unwelcome reminder of last summer’s historic fire season that also repeatedly sent plumes of noxious haze southward.
May 14, 2024 at 1:59 AM
#SemanticManipulation using a large #LibraryOfLies
Much less when she proposes even mild measures to control price gouging she’s basically accused of being a communist. The Republicans have reset the baseline where anything other than tax cuts or deregulation is reflected as some kind of government tyranny in the media.
October 6, 2024 at 6:55 PM
#SemanticManipulation using a large #LibraryOfLies
ALL of Trump's MAGA sycophants are TOTAL COMPLETE FRAUDS- ALL OF THEM. They're proven wrong time & time again; yet, STILL continue repeating the same bullshit talking points. They cling to their BS disinformation and BS GOP standard talking points for life; without even curiosity whether it's true..
December 5, 2024 at 2:37 AM
As #globalstress intersects #politicalgametheory, two major strategies are: #semanticmanipulation (lies) or #scientificdiscussion (truth)
#EmotionLogic
#BrainFunction
#CausalityCrisis
#Perception #HumanReasoning #CollectiveBehavior
#SharedFacts
#EmotionLogic
#BrainFunction
#CausalityCrisis
#Perception #HumanReasoning #CollectiveBehavior
#SharedFacts
September 18, 2025 at 4:23 AM
As #globalstress intersects #politicalgametheory, two major strategies are: #semanticmanipulation (lies) or #scientificdiscussion (truth)
#EmotionLogic
#BrainFunction
#CausalityCrisis
#Perception #HumanReasoning #CollectiveBehavior
#SharedFacts
#EmotionLogic
#BrainFunction
#CausalityCrisis
#Perception #HumanReasoning #CollectiveBehavior
#SharedFacts
Russian influence ops don’t aim to convince skeptical people that something false is real.
They aim to give sympathizers something to say, get gullible people—especially fans of sympathizers—to latch on to the excuse, and to muddy the waters enough that average people get frustrated and check out.
They aim to give sympathizers something to say, get gullible people—especially fans of sympathizers—to latch on to the excuse, and to muddy the waters enough that average people get frustrated and check out.
September 7, 2024 at 2:32 PM
💯
Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy.
If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2157...
If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2157...
September 25, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Okay so virtue-signaling is considered bad…
…but evil-signaling is considered good?
…but evil-signaling is considered good?
January 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
#SemanticManipulation #LiesFearHate
#LiesAreViruses #EducationIsTheVaccine
#Semantics #Perception #BrainFunction
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity #WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
#LiesAreViruses #EducationIsTheVaccine
#Semantics #Perception #BrainFunction
#GeneralSemantics #ScienceAndSanity #WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
When #globalstress intersects #politicalgametheory, two major strategies are: #semanticmanipulation (lies) or #scientificdiscussion (truth)
#Logics
#Relationships
#CausalityCrisis
#HumanReasoning
#SharedFacts
#Logics
#Relationships
#CausalityCrisis
#HumanReasoning
#SharedFacts
December 21, 2024 at 11:15 PM
When #globalstress intersects #politicalgametheory, two major strategies are: #semanticmanipulation (lies) or #scientificdiscussion (truth)
#Logics
#Relationships
#CausalityCrisis
#HumanReasoning
#SharedFacts
#Logics
#Relationships
#CausalityCrisis
#HumanReasoning
#SharedFacts
When #globalstress intersects #politicalgametheory, two major strategies are: #semanticmanipulation (lies) or #scientificdiscussion (truth)
#Logics
#Relationships
#CausalityCrisis
#HumanReasoning
#SharedFacts
#Logics
#Relationships
#CausalityCrisis
#HumanReasoning
#SharedFacts
December 22, 2024 at 1:43 AM
When #globalstress intersects #politicalgametheory, two major strategies are: #semanticmanipulation (lies) or #scientificdiscussion (truth)
#Logics
#Relationships
#CausalityCrisis
#HumanReasoning
#SharedFacts
#Logics
#Relationships
#CausalityCrisis
#HumanReasoning
#SharedFacts
I truly do not understand how it was a coup. The vice president exists SPECIFICALLY TO STEP IN IF THE PRESIDENT BECOMES UNWELL.
These newspapers were all saying Biden was no longer fit to serve. Now it’s a coup to elevate the Veep on the ticket???
These newspapers were all saying Biden was no longer fit to serve. Now it’s a coup to elevate the Veep on the ticket???
Is there a fucking gas leak at the New York Times
August 17, 2024 at 10:41 PM
#LiesFearHate #SemanticManipulation
#Perception ##BrainFunction
#GeneralSemantics #SemanticReaction
#WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
#Perception ##BrainFunction
#GeneralSemantics #SemanticReaction
#WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
#Politics #Election
This lie will *never* be corrected inside the Trump Bubble, and it will be used by MAGA's faithful to justify real-world violence.
This lie will *never* be corrected inside the Trump Bubble, and it will be used by MAGA's faithful to justify real-world violence.
MAGA’s Lies About a Deep State Conspiracy to Assassinate Trump Will Endure
Trump’s minions are spreading falsehoods about a boilerplate FBI document, and it could inspire the same kind of chaos as the Big Lie about the 2020 election.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 25, 2024 at 2:01 PM