<![CDATA[vax n relax was when the anti-science right wingers and the professionalist libs merged.]]>vax n relax was when the anti-science right wingers and the professionalist libs merged. they joined forces to create a singular vibe of haughty denial, they found one thing they could agree on. as long as it still came in two flavors: vaccine-good and vaccine-bad. maintain the appearance of disagreement while the core belief of anti-masking and anti-maskers could be shared. it was extremely effective, whichever think tank came up with this was so clever. and now the professionalist smarties get to talk down to both the maskers (filling the slot of 'far-left' in the standard liberal mindset), and the ivermectiners (filling the tea party righties obviously).

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"Science" always played this role in the liberal vision of society: as a confirmation tool and support for authoritarianism, not an exploration and discovery tool in search of reality.

The severing of "data-based decisionmaking" from actual, plausible data gathering was guaranteed from the moment neofascists replaced paleofascism's "disbelieve your eyes and ears" with "data is God; here's the data".

"AI" helps them immensely in this effort, btw.

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