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You Just Know Somebody is in a State of Retreat When the Strategy Becomes to Discredit One's Critics (or Collectively Paint Them All as Wrong/Crazy)



Potpourri of nonsense from pusher of stuff FDA rejects or has not approved

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Summary: A goulash of bullcrap from Bill Gates doesn't add up; it seems like his media strategy has warped (or fallen back) onto discrediting his critics as though they don't exist, don't know anything, or are simply jealous

THIS morning I noticed something rather spectacular. Bill Gates has shifted from pandemic salesmanship to attempts to discredit all of his critics. Of course he's helped by the fact that k00ks do exist out there and certainly spread misinformation (like "QAnon"). But as we've been saying all along, he's facing an uphill battle if he plans to paint everyone with the same broad brush and getting social control media giants/monopolies to censor/block/shadowban all of his critics is infeasible; it simply doesn't scale and cannot be rationalised. I therefore must conclude that he's running out of defenses and is now resorting to collective/en masse (large-scale) ad hominem; basically he's in retreat, having lost control of the narrative and public opinion (in spite of many media bribes).

The other day in IRC (#techrights) Ryan said: "Having Bill Gates' name plastered everywhere might be why the percentage saying they'd accept a vaccine is crashing. So it may well be doing more harm than good."

Separately he wrote: "Lots of Bill Gates bullshit on Fox Business about the virus. I was unaware that he went back to school and actually graduated, much less with a medical degree. ;)"

"...getting social control media giants/monopolies to censor/block/shadowban all of his critics is infeasible; it simply doesn't scale and cannot be rationalised."We've said many times before that the corporate media (bribed by Gates) associating the the vaccine with Gates would simply harm public health. The people won't accept it if the person putting these things in circulation is a profiteer (with lots to gain financially).

A lot of people point out that Gates is no expert in the area he speaks about. It's actually a lot worse than Gates being put on TV as if he's a medical 'expert' despite having zero qualifications. He's a profiteer and what he says is intended to help him make a profit. "Follow the money"-type interpretation by viewers then leads them to thinking even baseless stuff like, "what if he created it?" (he did not)

He keeps saying companies he invests in may have vaccine by year's end. Companies for him to profit from. It's not like Gates is known for generosity (ignore puff pieces he paid for); his lifelong track record shows endless greed and ruthlessness. Even people who knew him as a young person spoke about that.

We can't help wondering what actual experts think when they see Gates et al with their salesmanship on TV (without actual experts). It usually takes 10-15 years to properly develop and test vaccines, so optimistic predictions and an aggressive push to sell several doses per person are an invitation to join an experiment (partly facilitated already by the Gates-funded GAVI and collaborators who test things in the "global south", the clinical trials experiment zone with human subjects too poor to sue when things go wrong).

"We're not saying vaccination is bad; the very opposite is true. But to associate vaccination with people like Gates is harmful to everyone."The most frustrating facet about this whole thing is that corporate media is so toxic that it's happy to kill people (from diseases) if it means another buck... it could speak to actual experts, but instead it chose celebrities for irresponsible "marketing" disguised as journalism...

We're not saying vaccination is bad; the very opposite is true. But to associate vaccination with people like Gates is harmful to everyone. Gates-funded programs in South Africa have already come under scrutiny; if the vaccine fails and has serious long-term side effects, who will be held accountable? ⬆

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