Employing the term ‘crisis actor’ (except in jest) is a 100% reliable marker of a low-info right wing nut job. Gods, these people are just execrable idiots.
I recently had to listen to someone at work bang on about crisis actors in the Manchester Bombings
I wanted to shoot myself
Did these idiots not learn from Homosexual Frog Enthusiast Alex Jones? This is a one way ticket to court.
The internet has filled the god shaped hole in peoples brains with cult and or conspiracy nonsense.
It’s all very neo-christian, there are angels and demons, dogma and heretics, utopian and rapture thinking and ultimately in groups and out groups.
I’m not suggesting a return to abrahamic belief, but it seems clear to me that humans have evolved to exist in these types of meme-complex tribes and in the absence of a centralised religion, people are replacing it with whatever faddy political trend is popular and/or outright conspiracy nonsense, often overlapping.
We need some kind of new epistomology to build a cohesive belief system(i.e. a societal operating system) around, quite how that arises I’m not sure.
> “It is unfortunate that Mr Dyne decided to reference himself sarcastically in his social media accounts,” Taylor wrote, “I have lived believing that when someone tells you who or what they are, believe them, so I would have taken Mr Dyne at face value when he referenced himself as a crisis actor.”
Lol, so he genuinely thought there was an Academy Award for Crisis Acting and that ‘*crisis actors’* market themselves on Instagram.
I live in an area which has historically had problems with anti vaxxers, the ones I have had the misfortune to meet over the years are by far the dumbest most inconsiderate fucks I have ever seen.
The mask thing has been a boon though, they all stand out now.
But it’s no surprise they’d be caught out by this low level trolling of them by this covid patient, although he’s complaining I’m sure he feels quite smug knowing how much he’s wound up these poor,inconsiderate fools.
These people…. they argue you should not believe anything you read and then instantly believe what they read simply because it supports their stance. A complete unawareness of bias in action.
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One of the main drivers of the Twitter storm was an aspiring Welsh politician, Richard Taylor. He posted the video on Facebook and racked up thousands of reactions with a tweet.
Well he’s got the intelligence and critical thinking qualities to make it to government
TIL about crisis actors.
However I think we’ve long passed the time when we should be treating anti-vaxxers, and a lot of other activists, as terrorists.
>”It is unfortunate that Mr Dyne decided to reference himself sarcastically in his social media accounts,” Taylor wrote, “I have lived believing that when someone tells you who or what they are, believe them, so I would have taken Mr Dyne at face value when he referenced himself as a crisis actor.”
Tell me you’re a stupid inbred twat, without telling me you’re a stupid inbred twat.
>”I would never intentionally contribute to abusing or threatening another individual, having spent a large part of my vocation life helping and serving others,”
Yeah that’s why you re-tweeted the story having written “WE SEE YOU”. Who is ‘we’? It’s the mob of dickheads you gave voice to.
These guys are idiots. But that was a stupid joke to put on your instagram, sir.
At a slightly more intellectual level: this is what happens when you’re so wedded to your initial axioms (in this case, that Covid is fake) you aren’t prepared to question it, even when it leads you into more and more ridiculous territory. We all need to be aware of that.
For example I’ve seen people (with otherwise progressive opinions, I doubt you’d call them conspiracists) claiming that the ONS inflation stats are manipulated by the government because they are so sure that inflation is huge and can’t question their own data’s representative nature. I’ve seen people on the other side of the Covid argument claim that UK figures can’t be real when they’re going down (e.g. October) because they’ve so convinced themselves that restrictive measures are valuable that they can’t question that.
So yeah, let’s laugh at these ridiculous people, but let’s also take it on board that maybe sometimes *our* axioms are wrong when they conflict with evidence.
I don’t really care about this but I must say, that guy has a really annoying face and the photo doesn’t help at all. It looks like an actors rendition of “pleading.”
>Taylor wrote, “I have lived believing that when someone tells you who or what they are, believe them, so I would have taken Mr Dyne at face value when he referenced himself as a crisis actor.”
I’m James Bond.
Not ALL news is fake, but ‘fake news’ (AKA propaganda) IS a thing.
Remember the people in China filmed supposedly ‘dropping dead in the street’ from covid right at the start ?
Believing that EVERYTHING you are told is true is just as dumb as believing that EVERYTHING you are told is fake or staged.
Social media companies have got to step up. It’s all very well having a policy that says no imitation accounts, but if you’re not going to verify the identities of users when they register then nothing will change.
How does a 29 year old get hospitalised due to COVID? Was he unvaccinated?
Are the replies to this from bots or what, all very similar in tone.
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Employing the term ‘crisis actor’ (except in jest) is a 100% reliable marker of a low-info right wing nut job. Gods, these people are just execrable idiots.
I recently had to listen to someone at work bang on about crisis actors in the Manchester Bombings
I wanted to shoot myself
Did these idiots not learn from Homosexual Frog Enthusiast Alex Jones? This is a one way ticket to court.
The internet has filled the god shaped hole in peoples brains with cult and or conspiracy nonsense.
It’s all very neo-christian, there are angels and demons, dogma and heretics, utopian and rapture thinking and ultimately in groups and out groups.
I’m not suggesting a return to abrahamic belief, but it seems clear to me that humans have evolved to exist in these types of meme-complex tribes and in the absence of a centralised religion, people are replacing it with whatever faddy political trend is popular and/or outright conspiracy nonsense, often overlapping.
We need some kind of new epistomology to build a cohesive belief system(i.e. a societal operating system) around, quite how that arises I’m not sure.
> “It is unfortunate that Mr Dyne decided to reference himself sarcastically in his social media accounts,” Taylor wrote, “I have lived believing that when someone tells you who or what they are, believe them, so I would have taken Mr Dyne at face value when he referenced himself as a crisis actor.”
Lol, so he genuinely thought there was an Academy Award for Crisis Acting and that ‘*crisis actors’* market themselves on Instagram.
I live in an area which has historically had problems with anti vaxxers, the ones I have had the misfortune to meet over the years are by far the dumbest most inconsiderate fucks I have ever seen.
The mask thing has been a boon though, they all stand out now.
But it’s no surprise they’d be caught out by this low level trolling of them by this covid patient, although he’s complaining I’m sure he feels quite smug knowing how much he’s wound up these poor,inconsiderate fools.
These people…. they argue you should not believe anything you read and then instantly believe what they read simply because it supports their stance. A complete unawareness of bias in action.
[removed]
One of the main drivers of the Twitter storm was an aspiring Welsh politician, Richard Taylor. He posted the video on Facebook and racked up thousands of reactions with a tweet.
Well he’s got the intelligence and critical thinking qualities to make it to government
TIL about crisis actors.
However I think we’ve long passed the time when we should be treating anti-vaxxers, and a lot of other activists, as terrorists.
>”It is unfortunate that Mr Dyne decided to reference himself sarcastically in his social media accounts,” Taylor wrote, “I have lived believing that when someone tells you who or what they are, believe them, so I would have taken Mr Dyne at face value when he referenced himself as a crisis actor.”
Tell me you’re a stupid inbred twat, without telling me you’re a stupid inbred twat.
>”I would never intentionally contribute to abusing or threatening another individual, having spent a large part of my vocation life helping and serving others,”
Yeah that’s why you re-tweeted the story having written “WE SEE YOU”. Who is ‘we’? It’s the mob of dickheads you gave voice to.
These guys are idiots. But that was a stupid joke to put on your instagram, sir.
At a slightly more intellectual level: this is what happens when you’re so wedded to your initial axioms (in this case, that Covid is fake) you aren’t prepared to question it, even when it leads you into more and more ridiculous territory. We all need to be aware of that.
For example I’ve seen people (with otherwise progressive opinions, I doubt you’d call them conspiracists) claiming that the ONS inflation stats are manipulated by the government because they are so sure that inflation is huge and can’t question their own data’s representative nature. I’ve seen people on the other side of the Covid argument claim that UK figures can’t be real when they’re going down (e.g. October) because they’ve so convinced themselves that restrictive measures are valuable that they can’t question that.
So yeah, let’s laugh at these ridiculous people, but let’s also take it on board that maybe sometimes *our* axioms are wrong when they conflict with evidence.
I don’t really care about this but I must say, that guy has a really annoying face and the photo doesn’t help at all. It looks like an actors rendition of “pleading.”
>Taylor wrote, “I have lived believing that when someone tells you who or what they are, believe them, so I would have taken Mr Dyne at face value when he referenced himself as a crisis actor.”
I’m James Bond.
Not ALL news is fake, but ‘fake news’ (AKA propaganda) IS a thing.
Remember the people in China filmed supposedly ‘dropping dead in the street’ from covid right at the start ?
Believing that EVERYTHING you are told is true is just as dumb as believing that EVERYTHING you are told is fake or staged.
Social media companies have got to step up. It’s all very well having a policy that says no imitation accounts, but if you’re not going to verify the identities of users when they register then nothing will change.
How does a 29 year old get hospitalised due to COVID? Was he unvaccinated?
Are the replies to this from bots or what, all very similar in tone.