[FRIAM] Liberal "othering" or statement of fact?

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I think you guys are counting on natural selection to do a lot work than it is capable of.  How many illegitimate children to you guess Alex Jones has!!!????  I’d guess more than all the discussants on this thread put together.  

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If they're influencing their children along those lines this is, as we have discussed, natural selection at work.  I wonder if the effect on future elections will be measurable.

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On Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 8:18 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com <mailto:thompnickson2 at gmail.com> > wrote:

So saith Paul Krugman: 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/opinion/covid-misinformation-supplements.html  

Once you’re sensitized to the link between snake oil and right-wing politics, you realize that it’s pervasive.

This is clearly true in the right’s fever swamps. Alex Jones of Infowars has built a following by pushing conspiracy theories, but he makes money by selling nutritional supplements <https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/how-does-alex-jones-make-money.html> . It’s also true, however, for more mainstream, establishment parts of the right. For example, Ben Shapiro, considered an intellectual on the right, hawks supplements.Look at who advertises <https://tvrev.com/whos-still-advertising-with-tucker-carlson-at-the-end-of-q2-2021/>  on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show. After Fox itself, the top advertisers are My Pillow, then three supplement companies.Snake oil peddlers, clearly, find consumers of right-wing news and punditry a valuable market for their wares. So it shouldn’t be surprising to find many right-leaning Americans ready to see vaccination as a liberal plot and turn to dubious alternatives — although, again, I didn’t see livestock dewormer coming.

 

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