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  • No, the conspiracy theory in 2016 and 2020 was that extra people were voting, in particular dead people and people who weren’t eligible. Specifically, Republicans were claiming that Democrats were making fraudulent votes. I’m saying that Republicans took control of vote counting and didn’t count Democrat votes.

    Furthermore there is a growing body of evidence showing that this has happened. Specifically, sworn affidavits from people claiming they voted one way, which exceed the number of votes that were recorded for that candidate. Furthermore, statistical analysis shows that it is virtually impossible for so many people to have voted for Trump at the top of the ballot but the Democrat line the rest of the way down (the US election isn’t just about the president, they lump in Congress, Senate, a bunch of judges, police, and even state law amendments into one multi-page ballot).

    So please, with all due respect, fuck off with your mindless hyperbole.






  • I didn’t just read your post article, I read the article linked within it (which is what you’re actually quoting here - maybe you should have posted that article?).

    Based on the materials BND agents found and analyzed, they used a ‘Probability Index’ to measure the reliability of information, which determined the lab-leak theory was ‘probable’ with an ‘80 to 95 percent’ certainty.

    So we’re taking the word of a foreign spy agency cosplaying as academic researchers?

    Actual scientific research and probability assessment points to Covid 19 being much more likely to be a zoonotic transfer from the Wuhan wet market. We can’t rule out a lab leak, but neither can you rule out a wet market - and yet that’s exactly what you’re trying to do.

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    Additionally, uncovered materials revealed Chinese scientists had ‘an unusually large amount of knowledge about the supposedly novel virus available at an unusually early stage.’

    Are intentionally misleading. Of course China had enhanced knowledge of the virus - it originated there. It is also widely known that China did not publish most of the information they had, and only selectively released a very limited amount of data to the public.

    China took tons of samples from the wet market, hyped their own paper that was going to claim proof it wasn’t from the wet market, but only released data they thought wouldn’t prove it did. However, researchers managed to glean significant indication that it did come from the wet market based on the limited data available. It wasn’t the best indication, because the type of data that would show that was withheld by China, but it was still strong enough that they wrote a paper on it. The Chinese paper remains unpublished, along with its data. The data China did release on public servers, the stuff used in the paper above, was promptly removed from Chinese servers as soon as the researchers started asking them about it.

    China have done what they can to cover up the fact that it came from the wet market. China’s official stance is that it didn’t come from China at all.

    This here is and has always been nothing but a political witch hunt from the extremist far right, exploiting China’s lies and molding them into your own.