Binger’s not even keeping the same goalposts between two references within a single post, considering that ‘prevent transmission’ is different than ‘get infected’.
Perhaps Binger has always thought that, say, the yearly flu shot would unequivocally prevent him from catching flu (as opposed to possibly lessening it’s effects) and also prevent him from transmitting flu to anyone else. He must have missed the basics behind this.
I don’t quite understand a mindset that wants to tell folks to avoid a vaccine because it might only prevent folks from being terminally affected by a virus the vast majority of the time, as opposed to all of the time.
Wow! Yet another thread in which Binger starts out with an irrational premise and only succeeds in inadvertently making both the premise and himself seem more and more irrational and disinformed with every subsequent post he makes!
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No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
On Oct. 2, 2020, President Donald Trump and the first lady tested positive for the coronavirus. As we were all waking up to the news, I got into my car and tuned in to “The Breakfast Club” on Power 105.1 FM in New York, where Charlamagne Tha God, its most outspoken host, wasn’t having it. “I got a few thoughts, and one of those thoughts is the reason I’m saying ‘allegedly,’ ” he said.
At the time, the country was accelerating into the third wave of the pandemic, and the president had been appearing at large maskless rallies. But the news didn’t sit right with Charlamagne. “The conspiracy theorist in me simply doesn’t believe it,” he said.
As I listened, he seemed to build a conspiracy theory on the fly. According to Charlamagne, the president was pretending to get the coronavirus so he could be the first to take the vaccine and become a hero to the world just in time for the election. Which is the provocative, Sasquatch-exists brand of conspiracy theory you might expect to hear on the show. But then Charlamagne took the conversation in a direction I didn’t see coming: “Millions will line up to take the vaccine, and boom, microchips for all of y’all, right in time for goddamn Thanksgiving.”
Microchips? In the vaccine? I looked around to see if I could make eye contact with any neighbors. Did anyone else hear that? I thought. But no one else was shaking their head at their radios. Hopefully, the millions who tune in to this nationally syndicated show knew he was just joking. Right? But after the fourth time Charlamagne repeated his wild claim that the government is putting microchips in the COVID-19 vaccine, I couldn’t help but wonder: Is this going to be a problem?
To be clear: There are no microchips in any vaccine. There’s no evidence that even one of the nearly 170 million Americans who have received a shot so far have been implanted with a tiny piece of tracking hardware.
But this conspiracy, along with other false claims about the vaccine, has gained traction. These dangerous myths have built on a distrust of vaccines sown for years by well-organized groups that launched targeted, effective disinformation campaigns.
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So you have a theory that people believe the vaccine has microchips?
Even that is no more irrational and ill-informed than what you have been arguing since the beginning of this thread!
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No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
I don’t quite understand a mindset that wants to tell folks to avoid a vaccine because it might only prevent folks from being terminally affected by a virus the vast majority of the time, as opposed to all of the time.
It's very like the analogy already pointed out with rejecting the use of seatbelts and airbags because sometimes even people who use them manage to die in accidents.
But does Binger really, in fact, have that mindset, or is he just being a troll? I find it difficult to believe that Binger is really that stupid!
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No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
You did. Now after pages of being proved wrong you want to pretend you were trusting some out of context quips by Biden? This is why it is pointless to even try to have an honest intelligent conversation with you. Why didn't you quote your source from the beginning? Because you like to play these games as if it makes you come off as being cute and witty, when in reality it is pretty pathetic. The guy who lies about not trusting FOX is again referencing Peter Doocey and the far Right Wing blog Daily Caller to provide him with his latest dose of faux outrage based on out of context, edited clips.
Biden's remarks were made well before the virus mutated into Omicron, and at the time it was believed the vaccine would prevent transmissions. But of course, anyone who wasn't being a whiny disingenuous hack would know this. Disingenuous because we all know that people like you would never rely on anything Biden said anyway. You're just using a couple of instances where he misspoke to churn out another dishonest "gotcha" moment to stroke your pathetic little egos and to discount everything Biden said which was pretty much dead on accurate if you understood his point being that vaccinations are important if we're serious about ending the pandemic. But for idiots who think Bill Gates is funding the Lancet so he can make people write things only he wants published, or that he somehow placed microchips in the vaccines, then you're beyond help anyway.
So you have a theory that people believe the vaccine has microchips?
It isn't a theory, it is a fact. I had two people stand in my kitchen last year telling me that exact thing. It is all part of the idiotic Bill Gates hysteria which you're clearly facilitating.
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There is a funny phenomenon in this thread worth taking note of. That being the way conspiracy brain denies his views were picked up from Fox News. And I believe him. Conspiracy brain is authentically anti-media of the sort a person might consume via cable TV. So what's interesting about it? It illustrates just how complete conspiracy thinking has become part of the GOP identity that the most mainstream of right-wing sources and your average curmudgeon conspiracy brain are effectively living in the same ecosystem. Culty may imagine there is separation but it's just part of the illusion of conspiracy thinking - the unique understanding of what is REALLY going on, the dismissal of widely held perspectives as inherently flawed or engineered misdirection. The people are being lied to but waking up and someday there will be a reaction to all this misinformation that is totally not conspiracy brain thinking.
But does Binger really, in fact, have that mindset, or is he just being a troll? I find it difficult to believe that Binger is really that stupid!
I prefer to refer to arguments as stupid, rather than people.
Smart people can purposefully make stupid arguments, depending upon the point being made. Although, sometimes an argument is just legitimately stupid. : )
But does Binger really, in fact, have that mindset, or is he just being a troll? I find it difficult to believe that Binger is really that stupid!
I prefer to refer to arguments as stupid, rather than people.
Smart people can purposefully make stupid arguments, depending upon the point being made. Although, sometimes an argument is just legitimately stupid. : )
Valid points. I did say, after all, "I find it difficult to believe that Binger is really that stupid!" Yes, I realize that smart people can and sometimes do make purposefully stupid arguments. Intelligent people can be quite ingenious at making up elaborate, convoluted yet persuasive arguments and conspiracies to justify denying stark, straight forwardly discernable realities that they would rather not believe or persuade others to not believe. Binger is arguably a prime example of that.
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
