When Reddit and their mods live in a fantasy and have convinced themselves that reality is just "racist lies"...

SoCo · 2022-10-20T16:29:32+00:00

As someone who does a ton of data analysis for a living...

This is a purposely terrible choice for a chart. When you can read this chart properly, you can tell the data shows vaccination rates didn't matter much and blue counties weren't as vaccinated as it seems by a glance. This chart style was obviously chosen to make that difficult to tell and make the real data impossible to extract precisely from the melted together blobs.

Some things to remember:

The very worst was almost 0.7%, which is pretty significant, a little over 30x what the flu does normally. Although, this is using the inherently inflated emergency counting, which is reasonable for a poor unorganized country that can't do real testing and cause of death examinations, which calls any death with a positive emergency high-false-positive junk test, as being a Covid death.
You see that red line along the bottom, those are all zero's.
Those big dots...those are up to 10K times the deaths of those little dots and obscuring if not totally hiding a massive disproportion. Counting deaths or infection rates in per population is always dumb and misleading, but common practice.
The dot trick makes it seem like a downward trend as vaccination rate increases, but that is misleading. What you really see is a box at the high end of vaccination rate. This box is pretty well covered, especially guestimating for the data obscuring of bigger dots.
If you ignore the red, you see that the blue extends all the way into the unvaccinated side, down to at least 30-35%. You also notice that much of the blue is under 75%. This chart type and its dot-trick hides how much of the blue is unvaccinated, but it is still clear that it is a lot.
that solid line of blue dots and one red dot, along the right shows peak vaccination rate's failure.
Heavily obscured by the dumb-dots, it appears that blue counties were mostly only between 55%-70% vaccinated, although it appears some carefully manipulation of dot overlapping may have hidden many blue counties whom were only 40 -55% vaccinated and had higher death rates.

Takeaways:

This chart it total and utter manipulated/misleading garbage.
Larger population densities are more at risk and thus more likely to be vaccinated. These are usually around larger urbanized cities, with high poverty rates, homeless, and students. The flood of low-info, politically uninformed, reactionary, and uneducated tend to lean towards blue.
The normal death rate was about 0.05% to 0.25% and didn't tend to matter too much about vaccination rate.
The highest vaccination rates only helped, at best obscured by a dumb chat type, to help reduce deaths by about 0.1% to 0.15%, although this seemed only for some counties with those high vaccination rates.
The highest vaccination rate counties still had some very large counties with death rates comparable to the lowest vaccination rate counties.
A large amount of blue counties had very low vaccination rates.

SoCo · 2022-08-16T16:51:48+00:00

You get a lot of anti-science corporate funded boot licking advertisers making cash to publish utter diarhea like this. You also have tons of low info suckers who love the taste.

SoCo · 2022-08-18T14:45:42+00:00

Saidit currently is a mirror image of Reddit when it was younger, before corporate interests took over discourse. Reddit was right wing and the main news sub was r/conspiracy for the longest time. I tried making local state subreddits, but there wasn't enough people or interests yet.

SoCo · 2023-07-06T17:14:55+00:00

The weaponized professional spin-articles are coming out on this topic, hoping to throw shade on the subversion of democracy.

They took a little while longer, so this must be a hard one to spin. Shit-birds at arstechnica also did a careful downplaying article.

It must of taken some extra time to buy the fake comments on the news articles too.

Remember that Congress spent years loudly and publicly threatening to destroy social media companies with anti-trust enforcement, before forcing them to play ball with this "public-private partnership", where the government demands social media sites remove specific users and content.

We know from the Twitter leaks that a lot of what they were demanding to be removed was not disinformation. Quite a few incidents showed that government entities demanded the removal of content that they knew was true and was not disinformation.

SoCo · 2023-04-11T16:23:57+00:00

They've been gaslit into thinking it's their duty and if they must work the social media war trenches, fighting against the wrong-thinker's they've been convinced were evil and dangerous by attacking them, while spewing hype for their own enshrined perspectives like a commercial. If they don't, then they've been convinced by corporate media's decade's long multi-source collusion campaign to flood constant AI-enhanced fear-based psychologically-aimed daily reminders, that the world would crumble.

'Vote like your life depends on it, because it does!' - DNC 2020, prior to a post-election bipartisan civil uprising mobbing the Capitol

SoCo · 2022-07-25T20:23:46+00:00

Discord would be much better with open source software and a federated/decentralized platform.

SoCo · 2023-11-08T21:17:22+00:00

Terrorists attack an afraid and frustrated man with a gun, who they trapped and cornered on a dangerous street.

I'm not sure what they expected. This seems pure self defense.

SoCo · 2023-09-27T22:58:29+00:00

I recall several big user purges. One that got me was when their 3-rd party 2-factor authentication partner had a data breach. They suspended my account, despite never enabling 2FA, with the only way to rectify it to verify my account with the email I signed up with.....which was on a domain that got swooped up by squatters 10+ years ago, not long before that purge.

Shortly after, Reddit partnered with the Hillary Clinton campaign's Correct The Record (CTR) lie factory. They immediately purged moderators from large key subreddits and installed their own. censorship began then and the very conservative Reddit, turned to a low-info strictly one-opinion allowed liberals-only heavily censored rage fest.

That was over the period of 2014 and 2015. There were some later ones and they slowly slayed subreddits not consistent with the political messaging over time, with the help of persistent troll attacks and their false-flag hate-posts.

SoCo · 2023-05-26T22:12:40+00:00

Super old news, but when it came out, stating that Floyd's autopsy showed drugs in his system was a ban-able offense on several large subreddits, /r/news and /r/science even, for "spreading racist lies", despite the information being publicly accessible and verifiable. Mods just refused to respond.

SoCo · 2023-02-15T21:52:01+00:00

You will find that the Wayback Machine has removed access to a lot. It has removed a lot and it has also manipulated pages and their history, including everything about Covid and politics.

You should archive any important publications your self, going further.

SoCo · 2023-02-09T16:59:57+00:00

Reuters lost their credibility long ago, long with most main stream news. It is hard to give any outlet more than blog-level credit without verifiable sources as they have been so overtly misleading the public and searing the public and the country to its own demise.

It has been hard to not give individuals more credit than corporate tools publishing AI perfected deception talking points.

SoCo · 2022-11-03T22:24:35+00:00

This dumb Salon article is just gaslighting. It's whole point can be summarized as pushing the logical fallacy that 'if you care about the economy, then you don't care about democracy.'

They never really established how or why democracy was at risk, yet they found that the majority of the public, which they characterized as too dumb to understand politics or economics and suggest they simply "take their cues from trusted elites about how they should think about politics and what they should do about it."

They also seem to have no clue what "fascism" is, nor do they attempt to explain why they throw the buzz-word around. Chris Hedges suggests that dysfunctional democracy can easily slip into fascism, but he does that by projecting that the public would follow any public figure who expressed hate towards the ruling class. This does have some fascist ties to it

Yet, Salon fails to connect the constant hate propagandized towards "Conservatives", Republicans, Trump, and anyone who disagrees on political topics as this same form of fascism. The kind of fascism that would call border security racism, while lack of border security only hurts legal immigration, you know those people doing things correctly and waiting years, as well as supports the drug and sex slave smuggling industry.

The public sees approaching war, economic disaster, inflation, and exploding gas/energy costs already affecting them. They know this is a pressing danger.

Some of the public have been sold that democracy might be under some kind of vague threat, because they've been propagandized so heavily about it. The biggest threat is democracy might not vote the way they wanted, so they must remove the risks of those whom they disagree with, from participating.

Salon's own source disprove their gaslighting narrative. It is not that they trade strong economy for democracy. The CBS study they reference says their concern is that the "economy and country's direction is seen as bad; out of control."

CBS are dirty democracy haters too. They try to trick readers into thinking that bipartisan ballot oversight isn't an integral part of election security, required by law in most states to ensure the election is secure. Due to twisted interpretations of voting privacy laws, citizen observers are the only security, the only oversight permitted at all, frequently enshrined in law as the key to all election security. Yet, that security was suspended, roped off in a corner, and tricked into leaving with fake water-main break deceptions, in most urban counties that make up the battle ground states in the 2020 election.

A big majority of Republicans support the idea of private citizens challenging elections officials as they process and report vote counts on election night.

And two-thirds favor the idea of private citizens patrolling ballot drop-boxes and polling places. They're alone among partisans in that — independents and Democrats are opposed.

The whole thing from both is just the an insane and twisted drivel of mental gymnastics that must be targeted and the lowest of low hanging fruit.

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