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lucrezia's avatar

Your trafficking in conspiracy theories and counter-narratives that are products of carefully crafted propaganda campaigns actually makes you a valued ally to forces which you claim to...despise?

Whether you can admit it or not, anti-vaxxers are a small minority whose amplified voices and influence are disproportionate to their actual numbers and influence.

Piketty gets to the crux of the problem in his comment above---by focusing on phantom issues around vaccines you obscure the real and far larger problem of the reach of Big Pharma's deleterious monopoly over the U.S. healthcare system.

You have unwittingly (or wittingly) become a valued asset of Big Pharma.

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Michael D (Piketty)'s avatar

Lucrezia...

I have a conspiracy to push. I think the vaccine companies are FUNDING the Anti Vax propaganda.. They are using it as a distraction to force people to defend them...

Like in the South when white politicians pushed laws to favor poor whites over poor blacks. That we you divid the poor people...

My ideas is still a CONSPIRICY but i believe it. The biggest THEFT ever is the money these vaccine companies are making off of a vaccine they were paid to create...

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lucrezia's avatar

I dunno. As a general rule I don't traffic in conspiracies, let along concoct them. Big Pharma, I would think, is BIG enough that that level of cunning is unnecessary.

Conversely, I also would think that at some point Big Pharma became alarmed that the anti-vaxx movement would explode inward, from the periphery, where the American Wild Things operate. For now.

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Michael D (Piketty)'s avatar

Well i totally admit i am manufacturing a conspiracy here. But the facts are compelling:

- The anti vax movement is well funded and highly effective at getting attention and dividing Americans

- Big Oil was proven to have funded organized efforts to get the public not to believe Climate Changes was real through the use of Psudo Science similar to what the Anti Vax movement is doing. And Big Oil hired the same PR firms that big Tobacco hired to discredit the science around tobacco creating cancer.

- There is no organized movement looking into the obscene amounts of money the Vaccine makers are being paid by the US government. And the left would never partner with the anti vaxxers to protest the prices Big Pharma is charging. The old divide and conquer, just like southern elites did with poor blacks and poor whites to prevent them from teaming together to vote in better wages and entitlements.

Compelling evidence i would say...

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lucrezia's avatar

Who is actually funding the anti-vaxx movement? I've more or less recused myself from the covid controversies and skirmishes. No interest. I'm aware that anti-vaxx groups predate covid, but from my chair the anti-vaxx movement started and settled down in the republican party, and spread from there.

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Michael D (Piketty)'s avatar

You got me there. I am no expert in conspiracy theories. I have gone as deep as i can..

Oh well, there goes my career as a conspiracy inventor...

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