RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/October 2021

October 2021
Katie Price: Uri Gellar may have 'cured' Harvey's blindness. File under 'Z-list celebrity believes utter bollocks' A list of all the absurd and idiotic things Fox News contributors and hosts have said about vaccine mandates. Steven Crowder mocked a local news reporter for having an "aggressively Asian face". Candace Owens says the US should invade Australia to "spread democracy" I don't want to say that my time in LessWrong's Machine Intelligence Research Institute was a cult. But if I thought Eliezer Yudkowsky was wrong about something, well, obviously I needed some debugging. The Federalist goes full Jim Jones on Covid: "For Christians, Dying From COVID (Or Anything Else) Is A Good Thing." Gab being Gab American Stinker: [https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/10/the_unvaccinated_are_looking_smarter_every_week.html It should be clear that the government has manipulated COVID to create perpetual fear, so we’ll hand it our liberty. In this giant battle between our government and the unvaccinated, I hope enough people will refuse to comply so that we can unite to stop this madness] Politico's potential new owner will seek to implement a paywall, as well creating an enviroment of non-biased, non-partisan reporting by requiring the staff to support principles like a united Europe, Israel's right to exist and a free-market economy Our old pal Steve King is back whining about the "Great replacement". UPDATE: So is Matt Gaetz, who also called the ADL "racist against white people".