Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the President

Re:Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the Pres... by supernova87a on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:12PM (#23850182)

Fauci has the enviable position of being objectively correct on almost everything he says, and being correct on a topic that pretty much everyone cares about and can see he's correct.

You can observe the difference in how resilient such a position is against political games and maneuvering, compared to a position that is based in subjective or differences of opinion-based matters (where the each side may have legitimate claims that have to be weighed).

When some issue draws heavily on subjective factors, you play games like this and you will lose against people who are more politically skilled than you.

But in this case, right makes might. I love it.

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Re:Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the Pres... by Fjolsvith on Thursday July 16, 2020 @09:46AM (#23858901)

Fauci saying that masks are not effective protection from coronavirus:

https://streamable.com/oml2rf

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Re:Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the Pres... by monocasa on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:24PM (#23850340)

I'm not sure it's so cut and dry that he's resilient to political games.

I follow right wing groups to understand the cognitive structure they use to understand the world and new events, and they're currently comparing him to Josef Mengele.

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Re:Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the Pres... by supernova87a on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:28PM (#23850414)

Well, let me qualify my remarks to limit to those people whose opinions are worthy of respect, and can hold sway over other reasonable people.

I don't know what the opinions of these groups are that you mention, but in this case they sound fringe to the point of being ridiculous. I hope. I really hope.

Btw, is there somewhere (non-gross) to read about such theories being circulated? Maybe my deeper interest is, what does someone's life have to be like to be receptive to these kinds of ideas? And how do we fix it?

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Re:Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the Pres... by spiderfarmer on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:29PM (#23850429)

This is very depressing.

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Re:Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the Pres... by oblongx on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:40PM (#23852323)

How right wing, we talking dailystormer?

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Re:Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the Pres... by pmiller2 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:21PM (#23853648)

They might actually like Mengele there.

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Re:Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the Pres... by pohl on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:12PM (#23855339)

They’d still happily wield him as a rhetorical cudgel, probably, though.

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Re:Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the Pres... by thephyber on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:40PM (#23854367)

Are these groups active in the QAnon LARP?

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