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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 18:18:35 +1100
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On 5/01/2025 3:09 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 02:58:08 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/2/2025 8:53 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>> On 2/01/2025 10:24 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
>>>> On 02-Jan-25 2:00 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>>> Is what 'they' said at the outset. Now it emerges he had an ISIS flag inthat
>>>>> his truck at the time! No wonder fewer and fewer people are trusting the
>>>>> legacy media. This is why it's so important to have citizen journalists
>>>>> mobilised and fact-checking what's really going on when these incidents
>>>>> occur. I don't suppose the rather embarrassing presence of the flag
>>>>> would
>>>>> have been revealed otherwise.
>>>>
>>>> For years the conspiracy theorists were telling us that governments
>>>> were using the threat of terrorism to take away our freedoms.
>>>>
>>>> Now the conspiracy theory is that governments are hiding the existence
>>>> of terrorism from us.
>>>>
>>>> So which is it?
>>>
>>> No point in asking Cursitor Doom - he just looks for fatuous nonsense
>>> and posts it here whenever he finds it.
>>>
>>
>> Fox News et al. generates a whole variety of fatuous nonsense and they
>> see what gets clicks and eyeballs and what doesn't, throw shit at the
>> wall and see what sticks.
>>
>> Then they feed the most highly-rated nonsense to Trump/Musk/Vance et al
>> who bring it up in their next speech or X post and the hoi polloi are
>> like "Wow, they know what's on our minds. they really understand us!"
> 
> 
> You sneer at the people who keep you alive. Maybe they shouldn't
> bother.

Trump, Vance and Fox New don't keep anybody alive. The Covid-19 epidemic 
killed more Americans per million than any other advanced industrial 
country lost, and Donald Trump's ignorance and excessive self-confidence 
were definitely part of the problem.

Covid-19 immunisation levels in the USA never got above 81% and only 70% 
of the population got fully immunised. Australia got to 95% which is 
what you need to get to herd immunity, if the vaccine is 100% effective 
(and the Covid-19 vaccines aren't that good).

> My biskits are better, but that video is enough to rate him eight
> years of baking biskits in the White House kitchen.

He should be kept away from more demanding tasks.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney