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    From Jeff Thiele@1:387/26 to Aaron Thomas on Tuesday, September 21, 2021 19:43:06
    John Nolte of Breitbart News is apparently upset that Howard Stern is commenting on all of the right-wing, anti-vaxx radio hosts who have died of COVID. I mean, who would get upset about someone pointing out such a correlation, amiright?

    So Nolte has come up with a conspiracy theory to explain this, in which
    Stern, Nancy Pelosi, Dr. Fauci, and Joe Biden are attempting to use "reverse psychology" to keep Trump supporters from getting vaccinated in the hopes that they will subsequently die of COVID.

    Obviously that's ludicrous, but did you catch the underlying yet
    unspoken assumption on which this conspiracy theory is predicated?

    Yep! Inasmuch as this conspiracy theory attempts to explain the
    correlation between Trump voters and vaccine refusal, it *depends* on Trump supporters not being vaccinated in order to remain relevant.

    So here's somebody who's been show the same correlation that you have, but
    has chosen in their own special way to accept it rather than deny it, in a
    way that still allows them to be anti-vaxx.

    Jeff.

    "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken, who indeed was a racist thereby proving himself right.

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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:275/99 to Jeff Thiele on Wednesday, September 22, 2021 00:44:51
    So Nolte has come up with a conspiracy theory to explain this, in which Stern, Nancy Pelosi, Dr. Fauci, and Joe Biden are attempting to use "reverse psychology" to keep Trump supporters from getting vaccinated in the hopes that they will subsequently die of COVID.

    I get this part of what you're saying, maybe Nolte is correct.

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  • From Jeff Thiele@1:387/26 to Aaron Thomas on Wednesday, September 22, 2021 10:36:47
    On 22 Sep 2021, Aaron Thomas said the following...
    So Nolte has come up with a conspiracy theory to explain this, in whi Stern, Nancy Pelosi, Dr. Fauci, and Joe Biden are attempting to use "reverse psychology" to keep Trump supporters from getting vaccinated the hopes that they will subsequently die of COVID.
    I get this part of what you're saying, maybe Nolte is correct.

    So you're saying that, in urging Americans to get vaccinated, Stern, Pelosi, Fauci, and Biden are relying on Trumpers' distaste of being told what to do
    to ensure that Trumpers do not get vaccinated.

    You're saying that if celebrities, politicians, and medical professionals
    would stop urging the vaccine, then Trumpers would be more likely to get one?

    Somehow I doubt it. The fundamental conservative tenet that people will,
    absent government interference, tend to do the right thing has yet again been disproven.

    Jeff.

    "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken, who indeed was a racist thereby proving himself right.

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