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Funny and depressing, poor Dylan having to read that for a day. The art of delegation is a wonderful thing. So much in the world that is harder to get through because people believe these steaming piles of bs. Someone I know has been offered the covid vaccine but won't take it as listening to similar grifters in the UK. That's the scariest thing, this flavour of idiocy is everywhere. I really hope governments ramp up science education after this, because these people don't have the most basic grasp on how their bodies work, weather systems, the limitations of technology and very basic physics. Also lol doomscrolling in bed and dropping phone.

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Delegating horrible tasks to Dylan is one of my favourite things!

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I’m in California and I just got my 5G Bill Gates microchip last week. I live in LA and was able to get my vaccine without an appointment because the citizens of Bakersfield (aka Trumpersfield), which is about two hours away, won’t take the vaccine. So officials in Bakersfield have adopted an open door policy where anyone can walk in and get the Pfizer vaccine because otherwise those vaccines get thrown out. As much of a positive as it is for me and other LA residents who are struggling to get vaccine appointments, it’s a bummer because of the reason why. It’s one thing for QAnuts to refuse the vaccine, but there are a lot of Latin American farmworkers who are extremely afraid of the vaccine thanks to misinformation, and these are the people, along with African Americans, who are most at risk of catching COVID and dying.

I agree with you about governments needing to ramp up science education. Hopefully, they’ll do that and ramp up civics education as well. Maybe then we’ll be in a better place.

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That is... fucking nuts. I am glad you got it. I am sad for those who chose - through wilful ignorance - not to. Jesus wept.

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Wow, as you say, great for you but really depressing a whole town is largely not taking vaccine offered. I work in a very socially, economically and culturally deprived area. The local pharmacy is offering the vaccine, a real bonus for them as this place is on the very edge of the city, someone spray painted 'SHEEP➡️' on the wall by the pharmacy. Smh. I just can't deal with it. Fingers crossed for better education in the future.

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Unfortunately education in the sciences isn't a total fix, the documentary 'Behind the Curve' has a good insight in the the fact that belief (ahem...sorry) trumps eduction.

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No, but it has to be a start. It's global too, so not just trump. I have a healthy distrust of career politicians, but that seems to be out of control in people who believe these conspiracies. Beyond scepticism into believing the state, any state, could get its shit together enough to pull off some of these elaborate plans. Half the time we can't even trade with each other like adults. 🤷‍♀️

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I totally agree with what your saying, I just find when ever I am using science or history to explain things to people (Qanon included) their personal internal justification system (belief?) is the hardest part of the brain to over come, even when there is overwhelming evidence. Belief seems to one of the most powerful human traits that can send even the most educated person into some very weird places.

And yes the underfunding of sciences is a major problem, here in New Zealand one of our universities has just decided to cut funding to science courses, and that seems to be the exact opposite of what should be happening.

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That made me larf too Sarah.... Have done the same me self......so glad I am in good company! Lol

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It was a wonderful image. :) Done it more than once, or fallen asleep reading on my tablet and woken up with a sore face as tablet has been pressing into it half the night.

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I have done it more times than I like to count.

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Well at least the Q nutters taught me one thing and it's that the CDC website has a zombie preparedness page and it's pretty good so let me link it for youhttps://www.cdc.gov/cpr/zombie/

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Ha! I had not seen this. Fun. Glad we can still have fun.

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The 'more knowledgeable than the experts' post. Just wow.

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I totally understand why you could not bring yourself to view those sites & apps etc! I admire your fortitude even writing what you do! One wonders if the conspiracy theory stuff would have grown so quickly had it not been for the social media phenomena or the coronavirus pandemic? I have already read a summary of one paper that had labelled these followers as lacking in cognitive ability (to question and check before believing) and IQ. Wonder if there will be more corroboration of this? If its true, at least we could predict the likely rabbit hole divers and do something to stop them ruining their lives?

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I think people's ability to analyse sources and think critically is all but gone. I don't see a scenario where there isn't a decent proportion of the world that believes utter bollocks. Before this it was religion - and still is to some level. In a secular world, this stuff is bound to fill the gaps. We need some bigger picture to believe in. Even if its fantastical nonsense.

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The level of desperately determined delusion (ie the three D's) is as sad as it is alarming. People are also willing to pay these scammers to indulge in these fantasies. Unfarkingbelievable........ The work you and Dylan do is worth so much more than you know. There is so little actual truth reporting out there, and the 'spin' on so much of it does my head in. So.... Mega gratitude you guys... And its why I will proudly wear my webworm tee shirt far and wide!

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Love how jacinda got both a "bad" and a "very bad" option for that super legit leadership comparison hahaha

Its so sad, you just imagine if these people actually put their efforts towards something non insane. The world could be amazing

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Sacred Geometry? Are they now using Dreams in the Witch House as reference material?

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Putin for New Zealand PM??!!

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That would work out well, I'm sure...

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Last week I heard that "black threads" were "in the masks" and "they get into you and you can see them move under a microscope"...from someone that hadn't heard of margellans before. I thought "surely not" - but there it is: Freedom Village. This person told me in a revelatory rush of excitement, another piece in the proof we're all at the hoof of great evil - and they seemed really happy about that. They didn't know that Freedom Village is a Billy thing, they'd previously abandoned their support for him. Way to capture the unwitting.

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Oh, that suckkkks. Back in Billy land. He's even on the main hero image of the app! Gah.

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I guess i shouldn't be surprised people believe morgellons disease is embedded in the masks AND nasal swab tests now.

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It was nice to see in the news the other day that old Billy got one of his 'conferences' shut down for a short while because the facility he wanted to use, a cafe (privately owned), realised who they were going to make money out of. Of course the usual free speech bollocks came out, nothing about right of refusal. Unfortunately another cafe was found close by and the power point presentation went on. Down here in Christchurch he seems to have rather decent following, a bit sucky really.

Isn't 'Sacred Geometry' just another name for the building skills that date back to when only a very select few had access to various mathematic and building knowledge.

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Ron Watkins - caught (virtually)! Huge interview with Cullen Holden on the latest QAnon Anonymous podcast, very interesting. Sacred geometry?

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In the United States, the relatively newfound love for Putin and Russia as a whole by the Right Wing nuts stems from Russia being the last all white (or mostly white) Superpower on Earth. They fanboy Putin for blatantly assassinating political dissidents and cavorting with young women. Russia has changed so much in the past thirty years, that I feel sorry for poor Elizabeth Jennings from The Americans, the Russia she fought so hard for is long gone and in it's place is a Conservative government that is closely aligned with the Orthodox Church.

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That makes a lot of sense, in a horrible way. Thanks for the context.

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Just skim read latest spinoff release and was quite disappointed with this paragraph:

‘But its psychological toll is a different story. Though Healthline and the New Zealand Medical Association said they didn’t have enough data to comment on this story, anecdotal evidence is that beeturia reduces thousands of New Zealanders to quaking remnants of their former selves every year.’

https://thespinoff.co.nz/food/26-09-2018/psa-you-are-not-dying-you-have-eaten-beetroot/

How did the author actually get ‘thousands’ - is it just some kind of extrapolation? Or just it happened to me, my mate bob also had it, put the call out on my Twitter feed, therefore 1,2, miss a few, thousands are worried unnecessarily ....?

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You can take a bit of a look inside 'freedom village' without signing up, cause the posts are public e.g. community dot freedomvillage dot me/posts/2834 (url deliberately broken by me).

Change the number to see another post. Many numbers are missing, which makes me think heavy deletion is happening.

You can click on Terms and Privacy at the bottom of any of those pages to find out that the site is run by Tiamara Williams, Christchurch candidate and ?deputy leader? for NZ Public Party, or is that NZ Freedom Party, or Advance NZ or whatever.

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