dagblog - Comments for "How Trump And COVID-19 Have Reshaped The Modern Militia Movement" http://dagblog.com/link/how-trump-and-covid-19-have-reshaped-modern-militia-movement-32350 Comments for "How Trump And COVID-19 Have Reshaped The Modern Militia Movement" en Are you at all concerned that http://dagblog.com/comment/288696#comment-288696 <a id="comment-288696"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/288693#comment-288693">He gets a little</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Are you at all concerned that his background includes giving a lecture on the theory of everything to an empty hall and produced no paper?</p> <p><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23595-weinsteins-theory-of-everything-is-probably-nothing/">https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23595-weinsteins-theory-of-everything-is-probably-nothing/</a></p> <p>At least Kendi admits that he fails to meet his anti-racist criteria on a daily basis.</p> <p>Edit to add:</p> <p>He seems to believe that no news source attempts to avoid producing fake news</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein">Eric Weinstein</a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein">@EricRWeinstein</a></p> <p><a dir="auto" href="https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/806291952022876160" title="6:19 PM · Dec 6, 2016">Dec 6, 2016</a></p> <p>Any traditional "news" outfit wanting to destroy fake news can at any time just sell pure news to the public.That *none* even try tells all</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/806289791977287681?lang=en">https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/806289791977287681?lang=en</a></p> </div></div></div> Tue, 08 Sep 2020 20:40:34 +0000 rmrd0000 comment 288696 at http://dagblog.com He gets a little http://dagblog.com/comment/288693#comment-288693 <a id="comment-288693"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/288689#comment-288689">FWIW - Eric Ross Weinstein is</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>He gets a little conspiratorial in the tweet quoted by PP, but I don't see anything wrong with his general approach, things like this other recent one:</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote height="" width=""> <p>Fair point. The Republicans &amp; Trump do try to bury a lot of data and logic that goes against their agendas (e.g. climate). I honestly hate that.<br /><br /> So, what about us these days? Are we encouraging critical thinking, scientific thinking, or are we also ideological propagandists? <a href="https://t.co/X0B07snXaL">https://t.co/X0B07snXaL</a> <a href="https://t.co/Fe9UvZ2OMb">pic.twitter.com/Fe9UvZ2OMb</a></p> — Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1303107132514906112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 7, 2020</a></blockquote> </div> <p>It's a good thing to say that! Better than ideologue propagandist shit like Kendi!</p> <p>He's a numbers crunching type analyst who gets shit right SO RICH PEOPLE HIRE PEOPLE LIKE THAT, SO? You'd rather everyone else listen to propaganda?</p> <p>Look, lots of rich folk are rich because they pay people to figure out the truth of things for them!  How they use that info. is what is bothering you, not the info. itself. I'd rather see Dems reading and following his tweets rather than some ideologue like Kendi.</p> <p>He's not hiding his background, it's right at the top of his Twitter page <em>Math guy. MD at Thiel Capital. Host of The Portal</em></p> </div></div></div> Tue, 08 Sep 2020 18:43:54 +0000 artappraiser comment 288693 at http://dagblog.com FWIW - Eric Ross Weinstein is http://dagblog.com/comment/288689#comment-288689 <a id="comment-288689"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/288688#comment-288688">You the institutional Left</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>FWIW - Eric Ross Weinstein is an American managing director of Thiel Capital, Peter Thiel's investment firm.</p> <p>Peter Theil is a billionaire "prepper" who owns an <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&amp;q=peter+theil%2C+new+zealand">estate in New Zealand</a> where he can flee with his billions after guys like him and Weinstein help Trump and Republicans destroy the country.</p> </div></div></div> Tue, 08 Sep 2020 18:00:48 +0000 NCD comment 288689 at http://dagblog.com You the institutional Left http://dagblog.com/comment/288688#comment-288688 <a id="comment-288688"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/how-trump-and-covid-19-have-reshaped-modern-militia-movement-32350">How Trump And COVID-19 Have Reshaped The Modern Militia Movement</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">You the institutional Left are falling for this when you use ACAB/BLM/CRT as if they were the simple civil rights movements they tell you they are. You’re fools. Get outside of the Hamptons &amp; the DC beltway.<br /><br /> You think you’re the hunters?<br /><br /> You’re the bird:<a href="https://t.co/RsgMUgWgRB">https://t.co/RsgMUgWgRB</a></p> — Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1302658470458531840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Tue, 08 Sep 2020 16:33:29 +0000 PeraclesPlease comment 288688 at http://dagblog.com