Michael Hobbes

@RottenInDenmark

Reporter at , co-host of and . Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

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  1. 27 minutes ago

    This is the entire project: To cast marginal, sometimes goofy left-wing ideas as equivalent to *the president of the United States fomenting a violent white supremacist coup attempt*

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    I think Robin DiAngelo is goofy but most of the targeted harrassment of her by supposed free speech intellectuals is rooted in jealousy that no one is paying and or paying attention to their goofy ideas.
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  2. 30 minutes ago

    "I take racism SO SERIOUSLY that I have spent the bulk of my career criticizing the people who oppose it. YOU'RE WELCOME."

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  3. 32 minutes ago

    Yes "oppose racism and sexism" by constantly drawing equivalence between racists and anti-racists.

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  4. 44 minutes ago

    It would not have been censorship for Oprah's producers to decide that the vaccine "question" wasn't worth airing. The country would objectively be better off if they had. Some issues aren't worth airing and some debates simply aren't worth having.

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  5. 46 minutes ago

    This is exactly the debate we're having now with white supremacy and these constant dust-ups about shit like B*n Sh*piro writing a newsletter. The Great Replacement is just as toxic as anti-vaxx shit and platforming these dumbasses normalizes them.

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  6. 49 minutes ago

    Not only did this call the efficacy of vaccines into question, but it allowed hardcore anti-vaxxers to flood mainstream TV shows with misinformation. Even if you go back and debunk the claims later, you can't un-ring the bell.

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  7. 50 minutes ago

    The anti-vaxx "question" appeared on Oprah, The View, Larry King and The Daily Show. It was always framed as a debate, a possibility worth discussing. What could possibly be the harm of discussing preliminary data from a single study?

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  8. 53 minutes ago

    So much of the damage of the anti-vaccine movement took place in the decade where it was seen as edgy and "challenging" to constantly ask questions about aut*sm and v*ccines

    Just finished the latest on the anti-vax movement. I feel like I need to add just how harmful the Oprah episodes on Autism were, specifically the one with Jenny fucking McCarthy (sorry, can't refer to her any other way)
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    2 hours ago

    SUCH a good and important one. they touch on one of the worst things about anti-vaxxers who have kids with autism: “it always makes me uncomfortable when parents talk about the tragedy of their kids being who they are.”

    New episode! tells us about autism, anti-vaxxers and Elvis Presley.
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    3 hours ago

    "Harvard's History Department never teaches military history and, also, the most popular course in Harvard's History Department is on the Vietnam War." Seems has a job opening for an editor.

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  11. 2 hours ago

    I dunno, it just really seems like you should subscribe to this podcast immediately.

    A label from a late 1800s bottle reads “Clark Stanley’s Snake Oil Linament. The strongest and best liniment known for the cure of all pain & lameness. Used external only for rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, lame back, lumbago, contracted muscles, toothache, sprains, swellings, etc. Cures frost bites, chill blains, bruises, sore throat, bites of animals, insects and reptiles. It gives immediate relief. Is good for everything a liniment ought to be good for.”
    This Tuesday: the wild story behind SNAKE OIL!
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    3 hours ago

    A lot of conservative commentators desperately *want* the "nobody wants to live in blue states/blue cities anymore" meme to be true but the market doesn't lie

    case-shiller hpi by metro area, 12-month % change
    Zillow searchers may be daydreaming about the Sun Belt, but the reality is: 12-month home price appreciation (as of Nov 2020) was HIGHER in... Boston than Atlanta Chicago than Las Vegas New York than Miami Seattle than Dallas
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  13. 3 hours ago

    It should not have surprised me that diet and wellness bullshit was part of the anti-vax movement from the very beginning.

    New episode! tells us about autism, anti-vaxxers and Elvis Presley.
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  14. 4 hours ago

    Shoot, if only *everyone* had predicted this

    In just one month of post- trading, British logistics expert Jon Swallow has seen exports dive, prices rise and customers so desperate that he is practically offering a counselling service
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    Jan 31

    Astonishing vaccination numbers released today in the UK: the NHS provided a vaccine dose to ≈1.2% of British adults *yesterday* alone. 1 out of every 87 adults got a vaccine dose yesterday! The UK has screwed a lot up, but the vaccination effort so far is a huge accomplishment.

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    5 hours ago

    Party asymmetry: Democrats uncertain about using Senate control representing tens of millions more voters to help the public, while Republicans charge forward on locking in minority rule.

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    16 hours ago

    The use of "legally dubious" as a euphemism here is a great example of the problematic impulse to downplay when one side proposes something flatly illegal and/or authoritarian. Ending birthright citizenship by EO is A) facially unconstitutional, and B) plainly authoritarian.

    Amid the many attempts by Trump to overturn the 2020 election was a defunct plan to repeal Reconstruction by executive order
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    21 Aug 2019

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  19. 18 hours ago

    This is smart and lovely

    "[T]he pandemic has come for all but the closest of my close ties... people I could theoretically hang out with outdoors or see on videochat, but with whom those tools just don’t feel right." Nice one from .
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    Jan 30

    What a bizarre way to present this data. The uncropped version makes clear this change is being driven entirely by the drop in number of No opinion/Never heard of, which is just what you’d expect to happen as wealth and education go up.

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