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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1448715)	3/25/2024 2:06:11 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571068

"They are responsible for proving that global warming was real, and then creating the climate denial industry so that they could keep selling us their drug." 60 Minutes on the Culture of Misinformation – This is Not Cool (thinc.blog) If you wonder why we’ve known about climate change since the early 80s, (at least) and yet have done nothing about it, this report is worth watching. Tobacco Denial, and Climate denial set the standard and the template for what is now standard practice for political “conservatives”, what strategist Steve Bannon called “flooding the zone.” CNN: While watching the news coverage of Steve Bannon’s initial appearance in federal court on Monday, I kept thinking about his 2018 confession to the acclaimed writer Michael Lewis. His quote is like a compass that orients this crazy era of American politics. “The Democrats don’t matter,” Bannon told Lewis. “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.” That’s the Bannon business model: Flood the zone. Stink up the joint. As Jonathan Rauch once said, citing Bannon’s infamous quote, “This is not about persuasion: This is about disorientation.” Below, additional 60 Minutes reporting on “Prebunking” disinformation. Can people be “inoculated” against lies? (and is that inoculation safe, or a plot by the Lizard people?)

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1448715)	3/25/2024 4:13:33 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571068

Wharfie, Maybe you should start thinking about mitigation, not migration. Migration happens. Demographics and declining birth rates means we're going to import people anyway. You still haven't proven to us that suing Big Oil is going to stop the climate from changing. All it will do is enrich the pockets of lawyers at the expense of everyone else ... and only a small fraction of that money will actually go toward that mitigation thingy. Tenchusatsu