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YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Post by YZF »

OrvalWintermute wrote: post #557
YZF wrote: post #523

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You're making it sound like the people looking at this are idiots. Of course this is tracked across age groups. Look at the BC data where it's broken down by age. Also are you suggesting that the relative portion of the population in certain age groups has changed dramatically? Because otherwise you can still look at the aggregate as indicators. Sorry if I'm misusing the work indisputable. English is not my mother to…

> From where I stand, given the evidence, the people who say something like "vaccination has no impact on R" are not far from people claiming the earth is flat. I mean maybe the earth is flat. Even the guy who responded to me saying I was wrong then changes his mind on that Judging from the statistics of high vaccination rate countries like Israel vs Sweden,[1] there are a few important questions to respond with such…

I agree all these factors matter. But you're not really commenting on the question at hand.

But since you dragged me into a different debate, Sweden has 66% of the population vaccinated. So if they did so great on herd immunity why are they vaccinating? Is 66% of their population old and/or with co-morbidity? So clearly the Swedish disagree with the idea that you should only vaccinate the old or those with comorbidity? Are there any good examples of countries that are open, not vaccinating, and are doing well? I honestly lost track of what Sweden has been doing exactly but I think even early on the portrayal that they're just acting normally was wrong, they relied on recommendation rather than enforcement... and I think they did worse than their peers.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Post by TrispusAttucks »

elicash wrote: post #521
lettergram wrote: post #468

For those who think this isn’t political, check out what they posted on the POTUS Twitter the day before https://twitter.com/potus/status/1451544259992203266 The goal of this is to reclaim “let’s go Brandon” and it’s obvious. EDIT: for those who don’t know what “Let’s go Brandon” means, a child comment linked to a 40 second video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8asiDn2_A&feature=youtu.be For those who don’t watch or…

His name was actually Brandon. That's not the WH reclaiming anything, that's just his name. (And yes, I'm aware of the Brandon meme.)

It's way more than a meme!

"Let's go Brandon" was #1 on itunes for days. Another version was #3. Another version was #17. All at the same time! Huge swaths of people from from highly diverse backgrounds are unifing against what they see as poor leadership.

They are totally trying to sow FUD into the narrative form political purpose.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Post by lalaland1125 »

downandout wrote: post #549
_kbh_ wrote: post #546

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I'd like to see evidence for a lot of these claims that come from reliable sources cause I don't think the majority of them are true. > - anyone who has claimed election interference on the 2020 election has been threatened with lawsuits, lost jobs, etc I feel this is an especially interesting claim because the only people i've seen get hit with law suits for this have continually defamed specific companies and not j…

I think you'd be pretty hard pressed to argue that the Hunter Biden stories weren't suppressed until after the election. Those stories and corresponding evidence were around before the election. They were completely buried wherever possible, and dismissed as conspiracy theories by the mainstream media when they couldn't bury them. It was only after the election that they were forced to admit that the Hunter Biden sto…

Forced to admit that what Hunter Biden stories were factual?

And did any of those stories relate to Joe Biden?

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Post by pupdogg »

I’ve been led to believe that the Pfizer vaccine (being distributed in US) has not been granted an official FDA approval…though the media outlets state otherwise. I’ve tried to look for documentation on FDA’s website with little to no success. Can someone please provide me a link to FDA approval notice of the Pfizer vaccine that is being distributed here in the US?

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Post by calsy »

heavyset_go wrote: post #420
jeofken wrote: post #390

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When I advertise to consumers, it is not important to me that they believe vaccination against COVID-19 is good or not. I really struggle to think of any company for which it is important that their customers are not sceptical of vaccinations? Maybe airlines and hotels. Since I can’t see how any company would want to reject customers for making certain decisions about their health or not, it appears to me that it rat…

Brand owners don't want their brands next to conspiracy theories in the same way they don't want their brands next to pornography.

Since when do all brand owners share the same values? Why should advertisers be setting content standards regarding what you can and can’t watch.

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Post by commoner »

pupdogg wrote: post #584

I’ve been led to believe that the Pfizer vaccine (being distributed in US) has not been granted an official FDA approval…though the media outlets state otherwise. I’ve tried to look for documentation on FDA’s website with little to no success. Can someone please provide me a link to FDA approval notice of the Pfizer vaccine that is being distributed here in the US?

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Post by gfosco »

bestcoder69 wrote: post #364
gfosco wrote: post #344

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easier to just watch it: https://tv.gab.com/channel/realbrysongray/view/lets-go-brand...

Weird that YouTube doesn't want Gab's amazing content[0]. More for Gab, then! 0: https://tv.gab.com/category

That page is due for a change, for sure. We're very resource-constrained.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Post by ycombigator »

pstuart wrote: post #568
downandout wrote: post #549

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I think you'd be pretty hard pressed to argue that the Hunter Biden stories weren't suppressed until after the election. Those stories and corresponding evidence were around before the election. They were completely buried wherever possible, and dismissed as conspiracy theories by the mainstream media when they couldn't bury them. It was only after the election that they were forced to admit that the Hunter Biden sto…

What is your concern? Nepotism? Do you have any such concern for the conduct of the children of the previous president? HN is not the place for this. Save this for reddit or facebook.

Surely it's selling presidential favours? The whole Hunter art work stuff is ridiculously dubious...

And yes, equal concern for any president. Trump largely cared mostly about stuffing his pockets full of money.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Post by Zuider »

silverspoonin wrote: post #572
Zuider wrote: post #533

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What evidence is there that a general consensus on a thesis indicates that it is necessarily true? Is it rational simply to accept a consensus, effectively taking something on faith?

That was not an answer to his question, and I am really curious for an answer to it because I think it's a valid and reasonable point. Also, as to whether believing scientific general consensus should count as "faith" or not, I invite you to read Issac Asimov's short essay "The Relativity of Wrong".

OP's question appears to invert the burden of proof in assuming that a consensus, even of experts, ought to be believed unless there are compelling reasons not to accept it.

Where is the evidence that a consensus is a good metric for the truth of a matter? Has there been any work done to establish such a correspondence?

Asimov seems to be arguing that there are degrees of wrongness, and one can become less wrong by a process of rational error elimination and criticism. How does the mere fact of a consensus have any bearing on this process?

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Post by monkeydreams »

TrispusAttucks wrote: post #582
elicash wrote: post #521

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His name was actually Brandon. That's not the WH reclaiming anything, that's just his name. (And yes, I'm aware of the Brandon meme.)

It's way more than a meme! "Let's go Brandon" was #1 on itunes for days. Another version was #3. Another version was #17. All at the same time! Huge swaths of people from from highly diverse backgrounds are unifing against what they see as poor leadership. They are totally trying to sow FUD into the narrative form political purpose.

> Huge swaths of people from from highly diverse backgrounds are unifing against what they see as poor leadership.

The swathes are huge! The hugest and huge in... in diversity too! You know, when it comes to swathes, my swathes - you see, the thing is that I... I understand the big heart you need to be part of a swathe. And I'm part of this heart. This heart... this heart is me, really. I came up with it and when I did they said, they said "Sir, do you really think this swathe can do it?" And I looked out across all these smiling, white faces and said, you better believe it. We are the swathiest!

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