• phej@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    You seem anti-capitalist. Yet hear you are repeating far-right talking points.

      • ToxicDivinity [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        I think because you seem to be agreeing with the poster who is against masking? But I’m not sure because his post is removed now.

        When you said

        Because it generates clicks (and thus revenue) for media conglomerates.

        What generates clicks?

        I’m just asking because the post you were responding to got removed so I’m missing context

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        1 year ago

        To answer your question, while you didn’t say it outright, your response makes a likely inference to be that you believe COVID reporting was overblown to generate revenue.

        That is the far-right taking point they are most likely referring to.

        The number of hospitalizations and deaths is a statistic that was tracked and the far-right lead a campaign to discredit those statistics. Later, the far-right lead a campaign to say that vaccination should have resulted in full immunity, which it was never reported to do, in an effort to discredit scientists and make their followers feel validated in their decision to not vaccinate.