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Scottie, I listen to The Majority Report w/Sam Seder consistently. I think he is off-base with his sentiments about vaccines, however, I really enjoy his presentations otherwise.
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Hello Ragnar. You are able to have your opinion on vaccines but as I have explained to you it is a fringe view that has been clearly and completely debunked. It has been four years of people taking the vaccines, which disproves everything the right wing media hosts pushed, everything the fringe medical groups claimed, and clearly the majority of medical organizations were correct.
The majority of medical organizations were correct on vaccines. They are safe and effective at saving lives from Covid. They don’t kill people, they don’t cause heart problems, they don’t inplant microchips in to the blood to control people, and so on. The people on the right pushed these ideas to hurt Biden poltically and make themselves money. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, medical care providers who have seen adverse reactions would disagree with you.
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Hi Ragnar. Those adverse reactions are minor and not life threatening. Covid can be and is. Even now unvaccinated people are dying from it. Those are now established facts. Dude you are fighting reason and reality. It is like people still arguing the earth is flat, or that the sun revolves around the earth. 4 years of proof is in. If the fringe was correct more people would die from the vaccines than died at the start from Covid before the vaccine. The data shows that did not happen.
You say you use reason. Reason says the idea that vaccines were dangerous or harmful has been disproven. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, I agree with you in terms of the technical details. For me, the pertussis vaccine for whooping cough was off-the-table for 2 reasons: 1: My status as an epilepsy patient precluded my getting it because my medical care providers thought the seizure risk made it inadviseable. 2: Early experience with whooping cough gave me a preexisting immunity.
Regarding the involvement that Robert W. Malone has with mRNA technology, I think he had intended for the possibility for there to be vaccines that were based in genetic components, not killed or weaken viruses. There are sources that indicates he promoted misinformation about the Covid so-called vaccine. Considering the fact that the vaccines have mRNA as part of the recipe, recipe being my choice of word, what he says I would be inclined to take at face value.
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Hi Ragnar. See again this is why I question your cognitive abilities. You are like a little kid repeating the same thing over and over long after you have been told something or corrected. You are the kid insisting that Mickey Mouse is a real mouse because it says so in the name long after everyone keeps tell you that it is a person in a costume. Seriously. We have covered your legitimate medical exemption. I have agreed that if your doctor says that your medical history is not compatible with the vaccine that you shouldn’t get one. Also we talked about Malone. He was not part of the vaccine team, he had no part in its development. To say he help invent the technology so he some how gets expert knowledge of the vaccine is wrong. It is the same as saying the person who invented the first combustion engine is qualified to argue against modern engines with all the integrated computer technology. Malone is wrong according to the experts. The experts that created the vaccine says he is wrong. Period. End of story. But Ragnar seriously understand that we have been over this, both things, a dozen times. Unless you are trying to say you have a mental handicap, please stop bring this stuff up. It doesn’t prove anything. Malone created the tires, he did not build the transmission or rest of the car. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, these so-called experts probably were not there to see the creation of the technology. Even if Robert W. Malone never invented the vaccine, he was involved in the technology that facilitated its creation. Every single source of fact-checking probably have no interest in facts.
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Hi Ragnar. So called experts … People with advanced educational degrees and experience in the field of study … so called. Tell me again, your advanced educational degrees? How long did you work in the field of medical science and immunology? Oh right, you have none. You watched right wing media hosts who have none either. Well Ragnar if I have to put their expertise up to yours or the right wing hosts making money off denying science …. I choose the credited experts. You really should also. Hugs. Scottie
Yes Ragnar I am mocking you if you are wondering. See you somehow think you have as much understanding and knowledge of the subject as the people who devoted their lives and careers to it. It is like you claiming to be a rocket expert because you watched a science video, or me claiming to be a doctor because I worked in an ICU! Education matters, experience matters. To say otherwise is to try to climb Mount Everest without the help of the local Sherpa, nothing any experienced climber would do. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, mocking me will only reinforce my sentiments.
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Hi Ragnar. If I mock you it is because you deserve it. If you can’t see that your comment deserved mocking, I am not sure how good your cognitive abilities are. What you wrote was pure projection. For example, “Every single source of fact-checking probably have no interest in facts”. That is just plain stupid. The job of fact checking is because they are interested in getting the facts, the correct information out. All that says is you are not interested in the facts, instead preferring your misinformation.
As for the stupidity of your first sentence, “these so-called experts probably were not there to see the creation of the technology”. Think about that. My ford dealership techs were not there when the model A came off the assembly line but they can fix a modern car which is something those that built the model A can’t do. Malone did not work on the vaccine, and the technology used was much more refined and advanced on from when he worked with it. Plus again he was part of a team he did not create mRNA by himself, and his fellow team members don’t agree with him.
Seems we can stop bringing up stuff already shown false, OK. Hugs. Scottie
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Hi Ragnar. Sorry I just enjoyed supper but I realized there were other aspects of your comment I wanted to explore than the anti-vaxx stuff. You said you like Sam Seder. I find that interesting as his views are in direct opposite of what you have expressed here before. What about Sam or the show do you find you like? Do you also like other hosts, what about the guests. Well I am off to bed, I am very tired. I look forward to reading your reply in the morning. Night, Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, I like the fact that he seems to be calm and sticks to the issues.
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Oh you really need to watch closer Ragnar. He gets very animated and agitated. You are correct that he has a grasp of facts and issues that many people lack. But he is also very emotional on issues he cares about. Do you watch the entire show, or just the free half? If you don’t watch the entire full show I encourage you do so. There is a way to do so without paying if you have the time. If not they offer free memberships for those not able to afford the show. Please let me know how much you watch. I can explain how to get the full show. But yes he is not without emotion and yes he knows his facts. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, I have seen some videos where he is somewhere between animated and relatively calm. To elaborate, here is what I mean: He gets into his topics with relative enthusiasm and yet is calm when he seems to offer rebuttals and disagreements.While I lean more to the right on a lot of things, I have a good share of left-leaning news anchors I find to be worthwhile to listen to.
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Hi Ragnar. I think this is where you and I differ again. I rarely find any news anchors worth watching. My view is if they are just reading a script that someone else in the network is writing up for them then they are not worth my time. If you look at the videos I post they are from individual researchers and posters. And I prefer those that place their sources in their pages so they can be double-checked. Hugs. Scottie.
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Scottie, I agree with your general premise. If you will indulge my curiosity, here are 3 questions for you: 1: Who on both sides of the political spectrum do you think are interesting to listen to? 2: While he would have helped his case by not getting into the Sandy Hook issue to the extent of saying it never happened, what do you think of Alex Jones’ position that we are turning into a police state? 3: While we both seem to enjoy him despite the fact that I disagree with him politically, do you listen to The Majority Report w/Sam Seder regularly?
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Hi Ragnar. Before I answer these tell me why I should when you constantly refuse to answer my questions? I am tired of this one sided arrangement. You either start answering what I ask of you, or you can forget me responding to you. Will you start answering my questions? Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, of the hosts of the more left-leaning inclinations, I really enjoy Thom Hartmann’s Youtube channel, The Majority Report w/Sam Seder, Secular Talk w/Kyle Kulinski, The Jimmy Dore Show, Vox, the David Pakman Show, to name my favorites.
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Oh Ragnar, good try, Jimmy Dore is one of the worst dorks unthinking out only for money and clicks people there are. But that is only the surface of the things I have asked you that you have ignored. But OK I will answer the questions you asked. I seriously doubt you can hold the views you do and watch all these mostly left / progressive hosts. At least not if you really hear what they are saying. I have a feeling you’re yanking my chain as they say. OK, it is late here, I have placed your comment in a tab for morning. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, I agree with you on Jimmy Dore. I was just being generic with my sentiment.
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Ok Ragnar. Well if you see what videos I post you get the flavor of what I watch. I watch all the major networks. I don’t watch Fox, they are an entertainment network not a news channel. And I don’t find their entertainment hosts funny. Any of their hosts I can fact check with reputable sources and find every thing they claim is wrong. They have openly become the media arm of the RNC. As for reading I spend time every morning going through the major print news networks including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Vox, Reuters, Associated Press, Time. I have Apple news on my devices along with all the major outlets, so they mix the different media outlets in one spot to pick from. There are a few more but I can not list them off right now. You get the point. I do read some Thom Hartmann’s written posts. But I have never watched his YouTube channel. But you see the different posts I forward from different columnist. Two I would suggest to you are Heather Cox Richardson at https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com . She is an award winning historian. A real one, accredited and everything unlike self appointed one named David Barton. The other person you can watch or read that is Robert Reich. He is an award winning economist. https://www.youtube.com/@RBReich
As for your list above … I don’t watch Kyle Kulinski or David Pakman and as you know I can not stand Jimmy Dore.
As for that waste of human skin Alex Jones … He is a blow hard disgusting con man that made a living selling gullible people fake boner pills / supplements while mocking, insulting, and hurting grieving people. I have watched him rush up to people and bully them in the public streets, yelling and screaming at them, getting in their face. He wouldn’t like it if he tried that shit with me, I would kick him in the nuts and use every skill I have to … convince him to back off and be a decent person. I can not think of enough bad things to call Jones. He gloried in the pain of fellow humans. Do I need to say more?
As for a police state, Jones hates that he got caught lying and a jury ordered him to pay for it. He hates that. Like every criminal he hates the justice system. Are we a police state?
Well quite frankly our liberties are being stomped on and denied … by maga thugs namely the Proud Boys, the 3%ers, the Oath keepers, Libs to TicTok, Mom’s for Liberty, just to mention a few that threaten and use violence to prevent legal drag shows, legal drag queen story hours, legal pride parades. Show up at events where parents proudly take their kids to hear stories and these people rush in with guns and scream and yell scaring the kids and adults. If they don’t want to go to these events or take their kids fine, it is a free country, but they have no right to block or prevent others from enjoying them.
Our rights as parents are threatened by fundamentalist Christian people demanding their church doctrines get taught and their view of what they want their child to read is the only books any child can read. These people don’t want to live their lives and let others live theirs openly as they do, they want to force everyone to live like they are members of the same strict church. They want to destroy marriages like mine by making it illegal to talk about it in schools. Bullshit. If Sally can talk about her summer vacation with mommy and daddy so can Billy about his vacation with daddy and daddy or mommy and mommy.
Yes I do watch the entire Majority report including their special events. Do you watch the entire thing or just the first part. There is a way to watch the fun half free if you want me to tell you, I have shared it with others. Sam himself shared it. Ok, got to go. Hugs. Scottie
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