Civil Discord

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An episode in which the only people doing their jobs well are a group of tweens selling lemonade. 

 

Fasci’s Fiasco & Media Malfeasance

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins  

We Discuss:

  • Are the emails a ‘smoking gun’? Did we learn anything new? Should we care?
  • From ‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman’ to ‘I did not fund gain-of-function at that laboratory’
  • How the journalistic profession moved from inquiry-modeling to narrative-priming
    • Why Anthony Fauci isn’t evil

     

    Hacking Meat-Packing

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/some-us-meat-plants-stop-operating-after-jbs-cyber-attack-2021-06-01/

    We Discuss: 

    • Was this related to the pipeline hack? Another hostile foreign outfit? 
  • Does Maurice still think both were inside jobs? 
  • Is Amanda, a vegetarian, secretly behind this? 
  • Is there a relationship between this latest attack and rising prices across multiple industries?
  • Why does one company being hacked affect prices across an entire industry? 

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    First, They Came for the Lemonade Stands

    https://www.bdtonline.com/news/health-dept-shuts-down-four-tween-cousins-lemonade-stand/article_fd3ab80c-b682-11eb-a9c8-a74211d758cb.html 

    We Discuss: 

    • Was this about safety, or taxes? 
    • How people can stay accountable in a world without business licenses 
  • How overzealous licensing laws disproportionately affect low-income communities
  • “We can work for ourselves, and not work for other people”
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