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And your people are never nasty? Have a gander at Post #96 here.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4027708/posts?page=96#96

Look, I’m not a Q member, but I am vehemently against mandates and am very skeptical about the efficacy and reliability of these so-called vaccines. I also do not trust the motives behind the Democrats and their media arm pushing it so hard, even using bribes and threats.

There was already one Big Pharma salesman with a relatively recent signup date who was outed and banned not long ago. I don’t have the details, but this is one reason people are skeptical of those who seem to post an awful lot pushing the vax and deriding those of us who aren’t on onboard with it. Especially those who don’t seem to post about much else. (I’m not saying that’s you two because I haven’t really looked at your overall posting history.)

The pro-vaxxers here are far from being little paragons of virtue and are quick to insult and ridicule, Alinsky-style. I think we all know the saying about glass houses and throwing stones, do we not?

First, I apologize for pinging you in error. When I started that post, I had it in mind the post in question (the one I linked to) had been directed at you, but when I went back to check, it was actually to setter. Then I forgot to change Allegra to setter in the ping box.

Have a gander at this one to me last night:

Please get another “booster” ASAP so you can have a much-deserved heart attack and die

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4033326/posts?page=37#37

And I’ve seen plenty more like it wishing death on fellow FReepers and “mutant mudbloods” — all from *your*side.

I started out being polite and kind and infinitely patient with the conspiracy theorists and rabid antivaxxers. All I got back was name calling and crazy accusations from the little bully squads. Because that’s all they’ve got. And again, there is no reasoning with cultists and conspiracy theorists. So now, when I get tired of seeing FR awash with crazy conspiracy nonsense and nastiness and whatnot, I dish back.

I, too, have had concerns about the vaccines. I’m not vaccinated myself. Just the issue of quality control alone concerned me in the very beginning. Could they really do adequate QC while pumping out such incredible quantities? Of a brand-new vaccine? I know they do batch checks on both ends, and sometimes the middle too, but ... could the batch checkers keep up, I wondered. I have other concerns, as well.

But it seems there’s no reasonable discussion here anymore, and reasoned debate is a thing of the past. It’s all crazy nonsense from the likes of The Daily Expose and Steve Kirsch and various nutty sites posted over and over. The vaccines supposedly contain nano octopodes, 99% graphene oxide, tiny razor blades, squiggly wormlike parasites, etc., will make you magnetic, and one day Bill Gates will whip out his secret code and control all the “mutant mudbloods” via 5G. It’s ludicrous. Yet if you don’t buy into their madness, you’re a $hot $hill and a Fauxi Follower, according to your side.

Speaking of sides, it’s sad that FR has come to this. The frothing-at-the-mouth antivaxxer brigade has chosen to polarize the issue (classic Alinsky, but they constantly accuse us “normies” of Alinsky tactics — hmm). So now, we have “sides”. Sorry, I prefer to think for myself and draw my own conclusions rather than let some “side” do those things for me.

I have yet to see anyone here post in favor of vaccine mandates. Perhaps someone has, but I missed it. It seems quite obvious we are all united against mandates and for personal freedom to make our own healthcare choices. Personally, I am against lockdowns and all the rest, too. I think it’s nuts to require children to wear masks — I could go on and on.

You guys can call me a $hot $hill all you like (although I double dog dare you to find a single post of mine where I have urged or even hinted anyone should get the vaccine). You can call me a Fauci lover (although you can find posts of mine with links to damning evidence Covid came from that shamefully leaky lab in Wuhan and I have no kind words for Fauci at all). I just let it roll right off, considering the source and how unhinged such accusations are.

But I find it really sad your side has striven so hard to polarize the issue and divided us this way. There is so much we agree on. We do differ about the nutty conspiracy theories. All the nano octopodes and tiny razor blades and magnetic sea monkeys nonsense hurts the conservative anti-mandate pro-freedom cause in our eyes, and just makes us look like kooks.

Perhaps now that Omicron is winding down and it’s becoming clear that Covid has entered its trajectory toward milder strains, we can all get back to normal and leave the vaccines and masks and whatnot behind, and all the attendant bickering. It’s really the only sane course.

But we *do* still need to deal with important issues leftover from Covid, and do a “lessons learned” exercise to correct them. Like mail-in voting and election fraud, like gain-of-function research, such research being carried out in substandard leaky labs, like sharing such potentially dangerous technologies with the Chinese, like being dependent on China for essential goods such as PPE and pharmaceuticals. Again, I could go on and on.

But no, we’re squabbling over crazy conspiracy theories, nearly all them emanating from the Special Q Threads and sites like The Daily Expose and Steve Kirsch’s SubStack.

That’s what this thread is about. The grifter sites churning out all this laughable nonsense. If your side can carry on about “Big Pharma” and $hot $hills, our side is free point out these conspiracy grifters are raking in cash, too. Do Big Pharma $ dwarf what these little grifters are taking in? Of course. But bear in mind the grifters get to keep it all and have very few expenses, very few employees, and have to answer to no one, not even their stockholders, as they have none. And they love the smell of money just as much as the big boys of Big Pharma.