• squiblet
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    10 months ago

    It’s something slightly different than hypocrisy. They’re not only criticizing people who choose to be vaccinated, which is hypocrisy, but the vaccine itself. It seems like a pretty fucked up political agenda to have, but what we’d expect from fox - be contrary, divide people just for the sake of profit and sowing discontent and confusion, and fuck the effects on the country. Or they actually want to harm the populace…

      • squiblet
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        410 months ago

        It’s not clear whether that’s their intent or just a side effect.

        • prole
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          Fox News was created by Roger Ailes after Nixon was impeached for this exact purpose. It is not a side effect.

          • squiblet
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            310 months ago

            I meant whether harming the populace is a specific conscious goal.

    • El Barto
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      What you’re describing is redundant… it’s like saying that not only you criticize people who use 5G, but the 5G tech itself.

      • squiblet
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        Not precisely. Saying the vaccine isn’t effective or is dangerous can’t be hypocritical because they’re not a vaccine. Saying vaccine users made a bad decision isn’t even necessarily hypocritical because maybe they think they themselves did. Saying vaccinated people are sheep or unintelligent would be hypocritical because they’re vaccinated.

        • Flying Squid
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          Saying vaccinated people are sheep or unintelligent would be hypocritical

          Would it? I mean she works for Fox. That sounds like an accurate statement in her case.