blakeabbott.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Towson University
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It’s a major factor in why conspiracy theories are so rampant on the right: Arrogant mediocrities stumble on things they don’t understand and spin out some fantasy rather than thinking to maybe ask someone who understands it better.
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there is no ideological substitute for good government and the only way you get popular public programs is with lots of skilled bureaucrats doing their jobs well
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Immigrants, trans people, palestinian rights activists, eventually it’s going to be your turn when the regime decides you are an enemy
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Sam’s in Cockeysville
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It applies elsewhere too, not just medical research. It’s the typical fascist move to control information. They want to make you rely on Big Brother for information.
Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.
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Knowing how bad things were led to lockdowns and huge disruption to our lives, which made it easy to blame Trump for the shitstorm. The lesson he seems to have taken is to make it impossible for people to know how bad the next pandemic is so he can BS his way out of blame for the disaster. 3/
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The COVID pandemic was a problem for Trump because he couldn’t BS his way out of rates of infection and death. For him, though, the problem wasn’t the pandemic but the fact that people were properly informed about it. 2/