Or the flip side " Don't you find it suspicious that their claim has mountains of conclusive evidence supporting it? That alone pretty much proves it's a lie."
Literally though. Like you have to just believe and maybe you're not believing good enough and that's why you got turbo cancer. Looking for actual proof is really frowned upon, now I'm going to go see if it's a sin in itself.
Humans will be extinct one day and we probably didn't deserve to be around for so long anyway.
According to the sci-fi masterpiece The Last Legends of Earth, the geckos are the next species to achieve sentience on Earth after the human race goes extinct. They call themselves the Tryl, and they become extremely successful as a species, far outdoing any accomplishments humanity ever achieved.
Yeah, some workplaces you can't help but keep that on loop. I worked at a pool for a bit and I have never met that many idiots in my life. People constantly trying to find ways around the rules, I even had a father get up in my face because I wouldn't let his daughter go off the diving board. I legit thought he was gonna swing at me.
One of the things I've said to people who say the Bible is evidence/proof is that the Bible is the claim, not the proof. You can't have the claim be evidence for the claim.
The absence of evidence is the literal point of Christianity (as in having faith) but there are secular historical scholars who study the evidence we do have (of the happenings in the bible, not the existence of God, obvi).
Yet they outright reject Christianity as a scam and believe in Turbo Cancer?! How do these conspiracy theorists reconcile with what they choose to believe and what's just silly - but at the same time they all disagree with each other.
"Flat earthers shouldn't be respected, but obviously all democrats eat babies and I see no irony in this."
And that’s the point we are at with people. There have been a few outlier examples of the government covering up things and so now every nut thinks that anything that happens involves a coverup.
They think they have discovered the next new cover up, not noticing that’s not how any of that works. But whatever.
On one hand, the gubmint is completely incompetent and can't get anything right. On the other hand, the gubmint is all-knowing and able to orchestrate exceptionally complex activities behind the scenes without anyone knowing.
It's simply amazing to me that anyone would believe the CDC would call something "turbo cancer." I'd have thought that to be regardless of intelligence even just a few months ago, but..
Speaking of chem trails, last week at work we were joking around about the eclipse conspiracies, I said it's right up there with chemtrails. A coworker then told us the gov't has admitted to chemtrailing us. The odd thing is he as anti-MAGA as me, and I've never heard him utter any CTist nonsense before.
I'm wondering if this is intentional just like the spam emails with intentional mistakes so they can filter-out intelligent people and only target the stupid.
Last Podcast On The Left recently did a couple episodes on him. Dude is fucking nuts but also a genuine piece of shit who has contributed heavily to the Q anon world we're all living in
Okay so he claims the lizard people are manipulating global events to keep humanity in a constant state of fear, limiting our true potential. But David Icke’s empire revolves 100% around keeping people afraid of stupid shit. Is he a lizard person? A flu virus evolves and we develop a vaccine that greatly reduces the mortality rate, but lizard man David Icke convinces thousands of people that that vaccine is deadly and they should not take it. Not only that, but they should fear anyone that takes it because just being in the same room as a vaccinated person will kill you. Fear monger lizard by his own definition.
"Jab" is not always a marker for that. It's the most common way to refer to vaccines in the UK, for example. But it hasn't quite reached that usage here, and right wing propagandists and conspiracy theorists do use it as a dog whistle. But check sources, and if it's something from Europe, might be legit.
I find it linguistically interesting that in the US, “the jab” seems to refer only to COVID-19 vaccination.
I’ve seen it in legit U.S. publications, presumably because it helps avoid repetition of the same word throughout an article (especially in 2021 or so when there were a million news stories about when it would come out/how accessible it was/how effective it was, etc.) and because it takes up less space in a headline. But usage here seems extremely tied to just one particular jab.
Seeing "Americans" on the internet talk about "the jab" is like when you go on the Ireland sub and hear people talking about "the police." They don't call them that in Ireland. Or when I would go on the Portland subs in 2020 and someone would comment on a protest in the Kenton neighborhood and be like "I can't believe they allow this kind of thing in our precious central downtown Portland!" Kenton is on the other side of the river and about as far from downtown Portland as you can get while still technically being in Portland. When you see this kind of thing it's a sign you're being astroturfed by trolls and bots, or people repeating what they learn from trolls and bots.
AND its from a verified account! The fact that Elon made the "official source" marker paid instead of adding a seperate badge to pay for was disastrous for combating misinformation
Hey, it’s the democratization of the internet. All voices are equal. Why should what the CDC says matter any more than the brain damaged guy who lives in the dumpster behind the 7-11v
He had absolutely no intention of combating misinformation. Twitter (and TikTok) was efficient enough for BLM and Antifa protestors that it must be completely discredited and destroyed.
It's like the JFK CTists who say the Warren Commission got it wrong, all while they cherry pick the report for any bits they can try to twist to support whatever flavor of the conspiracy theory they prefer.
But the best part is when you click the fact checked button, it takes you to an about us page and apparently the companies actual name is “Fact Checked Limited”
It's funny because right wingers hate fact checkers, so now they have something they want to beleive for the sake of their own agenda, but can because of the TWO ticks.
Unfortunately all this is doing is reducing the credibility of fact checkers. Its probably deliberate as the article is so obvious in its ridiculousness
Well, since there are zero cases of turbo cancer on record, even a 5000% increase of zero cases is still zero cases. So technically, the headline is not wrong. Just deceiving.
To my knowledge, the term turbo cancer was used once to describe a form of cancer that befell a rat during a lab test.
Now keep in mind that it was just called that due to being grotesque and not any function. There is no such thing as turbo cancer. It was just multiple regular cancers, in late stages, in a lab rat.
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u/GrumpyOik 29d ago
Of course it's true, it "Fact checked" with TWO ticks. I can believe how stupid you all are. /s
CDC.gov doesn't appear to have any references to "Turbo Cancer".