fatbongo
@fatbongo.bsky.social
Dislike but fascinated by antivaxxers and the conspiracist/far right.
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Of course he would say that. Peters launched his last election campaign on Reality Check Radio, his political career depends on the ability for online platforms to spread disinfo without any accountability to the public
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Winston Peters accuses Broadcasting Standards Authority of 'Soviet era stasi' censorship | RNZ News
It follows a decision to begin regulating podcasts and online media.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Of course he would say that. Peters launched his last election campaign on Reality Check Radio, his political career depends on the ability for online platforms to spread disinfo without any accountability to the public
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Just to show the absurdity of the analysis - Imagine
- 45 studies of looking at Venus through a beer bottle finds evidence of rings around Venus
- 1 study of looking at Venus through a telescope finds no rings
Would you conclude "there is evidence that Venus has rings"?
- 45 studies of looking at Venus through a beer bottle finds evidence of rings around Venus
- 1 study of looking at Venus through a telescope finds no rings
Would you conclude "there is evidence that Venus has rings"?
September 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Just to show the absurdity of the analysis - Imagine
- 45 studies of looking at Venus through a beer bottle finds evidence of rings around Venus
- 1 study of looking at Venus through a telescope finds no rings
Would you conclude "there is evidence that Venus has rings"?
- 45 studies of looking at Venus through a beer bottle finds evidence of rings around Venus
- 1 study of looking at Venus through a telescope finds no rings
Would you conclude "there is evidence that Venus has rings"?
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Quick Test:
- 45 studies of 0.3-20k children over 2-10 years based on interviews without any control yield 20% increased risk
- 1 study based on 2.5m children over 25 years based on medical data shows 10% but, after control against siblings, shows 0% increase
What is the scientific conclusion?
- 45 studies of 0.3-20k children over 2-10 years based on interviews without any control yield 20% increased risk
- 1 study based on 2.5m children over 25 years based on medical data shows 10% but, after control against siblings, shows 0% increase
What is the scientific conclusion?
September 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Quick Test:
- 45 studies of 0.3-20k children over 2-10 years based on interviews without any control yield 20% increased risk
- 1 study based on 2.5m children over 25 years based on medical data shows 10% but, after control against siblings, shows 0% increase
What is the scientific conclusion?
- 45 studies of 0.3-20k children over 2-10 years based on interviews without any control yield 20% increased risk
- 1 study based on 2.5m children over 25 years based on medical data shows 10% but, after control against siblings, shows 0% increase
What is the scientific conclusion?
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This is incoherent and hypocritical given NZFs stances on supposed plots to undermine NZs sovereignty & foreigners in general
But it won't make a blind bit of difference to his cooker support base, because all their stated values and principles are fig leaves to hide their authoritarianism.
But it won't make a blind bit of difference to his cooker support base, because all their stated values and principles are fig leaves to hide their authoritarianism.
Behind a pay-wall until tomorrow, but I'm the "legal expert" gently pointing out that a party called "New Zealand First" arguing that we should have judges with no knowledge of our local conditions and values deciding our law is 💀🤡🤠
Jones wants foreign judges on NZ cases amid war on judiciary
NZ First will take its proposals on the campaign trail, but a legal expert is critical of ‘almost a parody suggestion’ from the party
newsroom.co.nz
September 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
This is incoherent and hypocritical given NZFs stances on supposed plots to undermine NZs sovereignty & foreigners in general
But it won't make a blind bit of difference to his cooker support base, because all their stated values and principles are fig leaves to hide their authoritarianism.
But it won't make a blind bit of difference to his cooker support base, because all their stated values and principles are fig leaves to hide their authoritarianism.
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I strongly recommend fine documentary “A Shot in the Arm” on vaccine hesitancy & its (often well-paid) promoters, incl RFK, Jr.
www.pbs.org/video/shot-i...
Watch whole thing, but especially:
34:32-onward RFK, Jr
43:45-50:27 Samoa deaths: he denies/evades involvement, video records contradict.
www.pbs.org/video/shot-i...
Watch whole thing, but especially:
34:32-onward RFK, Jr
43:45-50:27 Samoa deaths: he denies/evades involvement, video records contradict.
Shot in the Arm
Explore vaccine hesitancy historically and in the context of COVID-19.
www.pbs.org
January 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I strongly recommend fine documentary “A Shot in the Arm” on vaccine hesitancy & its (often well-paid) promoters, incl RFK, Jr.
www.pbs.org/video/shot-i...
Watch whole thing, but especially:
34:32-onward RFK, Jr
43:45-50:27 Samoa deaths: he denies/evades involvement, video records contradict.
www.pbs.org/video/shot-i...
Watch whole thing, but especially:
34:32-onward RFK, Jr
43:45-50:27 Samoa deaths: he denies/evades involvement, video records contradict.
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Remembering Charlie Kirk's Greatest Hits
September 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Remembering Charlie Kirk's Greatest Hits
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Tom Phillips is dead after a police shooting, and his three children have been found alive. The immediate danger is over. But a larger question lingers: who decided Tom Phillips was safe enough to be left alone with his children - and why?
My story: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
My story: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Who decided Tom Phillips was safe enough to leave alone with his kids?
Experts are calling for a full inquiry into the case, saying questions have to be asked about what agencies knew.
www.rnz.co.nz
September 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Tom Phillips is dead after a police shooting, and his three children have been found alive. The immediate danger is over. But a larger question lingers: who decided Tom Phillips was safe enough to be left alone with his children - and why?
My story: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
My story: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Moreover, MAHA as a movement is eugenicist, which is not surprising because antivax and huge swaths of alternative medicine are suffused with eugenicist thinking. RFK Jr.’s approach to measles is a good starting example. sciencebasedmedicine.org/measles-maha...
Measles, MAHA, and “soft eugenics”
I've long said that the antivax movement is borderline eugenicist (or at least social Darwinist) in nature. Now that a second child has died of measles, it's time for me to take a look at the "soft eu
sciencebasedmedicine.org
August 31, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Moreover, MAHA as a movement is eugenicist, which is not surprising because antivax and huge swaths of alternative medicine are suffused with eugenicist thinking. RFK Jr.’s approach to measles is a good starting example. sciencebasedmedicine.org/measles-maha...
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This is a depressingly clueless take.Trump and RFK Jr. In fascist regimes science is subverted to serve ideology, and the ideology being served is quite recognizably fascist.
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
August 31, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This is a depressingly clueless take.Trump and RFK Jr. In fascist regimes science is subverted to serve ideology, and the ideology being served is quite recognizably fascist.
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there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
www.advocate.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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It's official: NZ First is the cooker party
I think it says a lot about NZ's Green Party being environment/ecosystem/science based rather than some of the cultural trends in other countries, that the Green Party had the fewest voters who had never had a covid vaccination 0.34%.
32.5% of NZ First voters say they never had a covid vaccination.
32.5% of NZ First voters say they never had a covid vaccination.
August 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
It's official: NZ First is the cooker party
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Gift link:
Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism (Gift Article)
Data can easily be manipulated to show a causation that doesn’t exist.
www.nytimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Gift link:
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Fascinating if scary account of how a conspiracy theorist became a powerful force in NZ Parliament, advising NZ First Ministers. HT Andrea Vance in SST 💐
Links to local govt candidates too. FYI @theprogressreport.co.nz
#NZpol
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360... or unpaywalled
archive.is/cZRWx
Links to local govt candidates too. FYI @theprogressreport.co.nz
#NZpol
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360... or unpaywalled
archive.is/cZRWx
How a conspiracy poster landed a job at the heart of government
A NZ First staffer who attended the Parliament occupation is still sharing conspiracy theories and far-right content while working in the office of Winston Peters.
www.thepost.co.nz
August 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Fascinating if scary account of how a conspiracy theorist became a powerful force in NZ Parliament, advising NZ First Ministers. HT Andrea Vance in SST 💐
Links to local govt candidates too. FYI @theprogressreport.co.nz
#NZpol
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360... or unpaywalled
archive.is/cZRWx
Links to local govt candidates too. FYI @theprogressreport.co.nz
#NZpol
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360... or unpaywalled
archive.is/cZRWx
Antivaxxers constantly lie about vaccines causing mass deaths and injuries to stoke anger
They promote 'Nuremberg 2.0' to frame retribution as "protective violence"
And use this threat of violence to intimidate/silence their critics
The "medical freedom" movement is extremist and authoritarian
They promote 'Nuremberg 2.0' to frame retribution as "protective violence"
And use this threat of violence to intimidate/silence their critics
The "medical freedom" movement is extremist and authoritarian
RFK Jr. et al seem to have bred stochastic terrorism. MN political assassin tells Glenn Beck's outlet his plan was "citizen arrests" of lawmakers responsible deaths from taking the Covid vaccine.
www.theblaze.com/news/exclusi...
www.theblaze.com/news/exclusi...
Exclusive: Assassination suspect Vance Boelter tells STUNNING inside story about shooting | Blaze Media
Vance Luther Boelter told Blaze News he shot at Sen. John Hoffman and his wife only after they laid hands on him and his shooting arm.
www.theblaze.com
August 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Antivaxxers constantly lie about vaccines causing mass deaths and injuries to stoke anger
They promote 'Nuremberg 2.0' to frame retribution as "protective violence"
And use this threat of violence to intimidate/silence their critics
The "medical freedom" movement is extremist and authoritarian
They promote 'Nuremberg 2.0' to frame retribution as "protective violence"
And use this threat of violence to intimidate/silence their critics
The "medical freedom" movement is extremist and authoritarian
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NEW: The CDC shooting was much worse than initially reported. 181 rounds. 150 windows hit. Staff are furious at RFK Jr. and Trump becuz their long-running fears about anti-vax rhetoric turning deadly seem to be vindicated. @laurenweberhp.bluesky.social + Me.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
After CDC shooting, its employees turn their anger to RFK Jr. and Trump
Investigators allege the shooter targeted the agency because of his coronavirus vaccine beliefs, according to two CDC officials briefed on the case.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
NEW: The CDC shooting was much worse than initially reported. 181 rounds. 150 windows hit. Staff are furious at RFK Jr. and Trump becuz their long-running fears about anti-vax rhetoric turning deadly seem to be vindicated. @laurenweberhp.bluesky.social + Me.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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🧵I keep seeing/hearing mention of QAnon's "Satanic sex-trafficking pedophiles" conspiracy & hand to God it makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills that NO ONE MENTIONS THE ANTISEMITISM.
They are talking about Jews.
They are talking about Jews.
They are talking about Jews.
HERE LET ME HELP:
They are talking about Jews.
They are talking about Jews.
They are talking about Jews.
HERE LET ME HELP:
Mystified as to why DOJ’s withholding of the Epstein files so upsets Trump’s base?
It’s simple.
👉 A third of MAGA Republicans are QAnon.
👉 QAnon teaches that government, media, and financial elites are Satanic sex-trafficking pedophiles.
prri.org/spotlight/th...
It’s simple.
👉 A third of MAGA Republicans are QAnon.
👉 QAnon teaches that government, media, and financial elites are Satanic sex-trafficking pedophiles.
prri.org/spotlight/th...
July 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🧵I keep seeing/hearing mention of QAnon's "Satanic sex-trafficking pedophiles" conspiracy & hand to God it makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills that NO ONE MENTIONS THE ANTISEMITISM.
They are talking about Jews.
They are talking about Jews.
They are talking about Jews.
HERE LET ME HELP:
They are talking about Jews.
They are talking about Jews.
They are talking about Jews.
HERE LET ME HELP:
If this was over a Black or Jewish shop assistant, no one would have any difficulty saying exactly what's going on here, but because it's a trans person, it's treated as valid, because our political and media class spent years crystallising all trans people as an imminent sexual threat to children.
Horrible story. Apologising because a trans employee had the temerity to interact with a customer. What are we becoming?
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...
August 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
McKernan was one Voices for Freedom "expert witnesses" at the COVID Inquiry.
He said "what I'm about to say will shock you" before giving a long presentation on his debunked theory that COVID vaccines change your DNA.
So no surprise he, like VFF, is "not an antivaxxer" who opposes all vaccines
He said "what I'm about to say will shock you" before giving a long presentation on his debunked theory that COVID vaccines change your DNA.
So no surprise he, like VFF, is "not an antivaxxer" who opposes all vaccines
🤣
It would be highly unethical to withdraw a known working profilaxia for disease from anyone. The data is so overwhelmingly strong, it is insane to even consider doing such a thing! Besides, it is highly unnecessary! We have the data.
It would be highly unethical to withdraw a known working profilaxia for disease from anyone. The data is so overwhelmingly strong, it is insane to even consider doing such a thing! Besides, it is highly unnecessary! We have the data.
August 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
McKernan was one Voices for Freedom "expert witnesses" at the COVID Inquiry.
He said "what I'm about to say will shock you" before giving a long presentation on his debunked theory that COVID vaccines change your DNA.
So no surprise he, like VFF, is "not an antivaxxer" who opposes all vaccines
He said "what I'm about to say will shock you" before giving a long presentation on his debunked theory that COVID vaccines change your DNA.
So no surprise he, like VFF, is "not an antivaxxer" who opposes all vaccines
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In this year's local government elections, all kinds of people are running. But some of them aren't necessarily who they seem.
Charlie Mitchell sets out how the "freedom movement" - riddled with conspiracy theory - is organising, on the down-low: www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607... 1/
Charlie Mitchell sets out how the "freedom movement" - riddled with conspiracy theory - is organising, on the down-low: www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607... 1/
The quiet campaign: Inside the freedom movement’s bid for council influence
Voices for Freedom and like-minded groups are campaigning for council seats, changing their rhetoric from the pandemic to potholes.
www.thepress.co.nz
August 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
In this year's local government elections, all kinds of people are running. But some of them aren't necessarily who they seem.
Charlie Mitchell sets out how the "freedom movement" - riddled with conspiracy theory - is organising, on the down-low: www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607... 1/
Charlie Mitchell sets out how the "freedom movement" - riddled with conspiracy theory - is organising, on the down-low: www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607... 1/
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At this point the only evidence they need for anything is "The people you hate said the opposite".
Newsmax's Greg Kelly on Ghislaine Maxwell: "There's something else going on here. It's an injustice ... people are horrified when I say that this individual just might be innocent. But think about it. Who told us about her? The most reviled institutions in America. The media and the Biden DOJ."
August 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
At this point the only evidence they need for anything is "The people you hate said the opposite".
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Secrecy, spin, media training and blatant dishonesty - including passing themselves off under false identities - are hallmarks of "concerned citizens" groups spearheading a right wing push to grab council seats around New Zealand www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607... #nzpol
The quiet campaign: Inside the freedom movement’s bid for council influence
Voices for Freedom and like-minded groups are campaigning for council seats, changing their rhetoric from the pandemic to potholes.
www.thepress.co.nz
August 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Secrecy, spin, media training and blatant dishonesty - including passing themselves off under false identities - are hallmarks of "concerned citizens" groups spearheading a right wing push to grab council seats around New Zealand www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607... #nzpol
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If you joined InternetNZ to help stop the takeover by rhe FSU and Hobson's Pledge, you've done some great work tonight
Consider bringing that energy to other civil society organisations, groups like Voices for Freedom are also trying to take advantage of low participation to push their agenda
Consider bringing that energy to other civil society organisations, groups like Voices for Freedom are also trying to take advantage of low participation to push their agenda
July 31, 2025 at 9:07 AM
If you joined InternetNZ to help stop the takeover by rhe FSU and Hobson's Pledge, you've done some great work tonight
Consider bringing that energy to other civil society organisations, groups like Voices for Freedom are also trying to take advantage of low participation to push their agenda
Consider bringing that energy to other civil society organisations, groups like Voices for Freedom are also trying to take advantage of low participation to push their agenda
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Berlinski: “So I was genuinely surprised—after all that drama and the buildup!—to discover that no, there is not one single word in these documents that says anything like what Gabbard claims. No reasonable speaker of English could read them and draw those conclusions.”
July 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Berlinski: “So I was genuinely surprised—after all that drama and the buildup!—to discover that no, there is not one single word in these documents that says anything like what Gabbard claims. No reasonable speaker of English could read them and draw those conclusions.”