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    1. Josh Barro‏Verified account @jbarro 11 Dec 2021

      Josh Barro Retweeted Amanda Marcotte

      “Your followers are bad” is the new “read the room.” It’s not an argument, it’s a statement of revulsion that stands in for an argument when you don’t have an argument.https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte/status/1469715983833182212 …

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      Amanda MarcotteVerified account @AmandaMarcotte
      Oof, from the replies I'm getting, it sure does look like Matt's audience is just full wingnut now. Which, good money, I guess. I would worry about the status of my soul.
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Dec 2021
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      It can both be true but also total cop-out. Many things where mainstream institutions fail—acknowledging when/how masks work, the virus is airborne, that lab incidents happen and there's major cover-up from China and big open questions etc.—also attract people who are just mad.

      10:27 AM - 11 Dec 2021
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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Dec 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @jbarro

          And the defensive, and frankly much of it vaporware, wagon-circling by the mainstream when there are obviously so many factual issues anyone impartial with a bit of curiosity and critical thinking can see makes the mad even madder—masks, lab risks, airborne, boosters...

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Dec 2021
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          And then, with time, getting weaker in substantive defenses, the vaporware wagoncirclers point to a variety of (actually existing) issues: that a mad, rude and lunatic fringe does attach themselves to any issue for which there is significant mainstream failure. So it goes.

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