Seen this shit before with Reddit’s most astroturfed poison producers: Monsanto.

“Glyphosate is so safe that you can drink it.” eco-porky

“Then drink it. Right now. With the cameras on you.” ecoterrorism

“I got to go!” porky-scared-flipped

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    Scientism is a helluva drug. A lot of self-described leftists (and especially self-described progressives) have big blinders on whenever something sounds like it’ll make their favorite fiction books come a little closer to true, no matter the actual cost of whatever it is.

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      Scientism is a helluva drug

      As someone that is very much into science, I agree. That’s why one of my favourite albums of all time is “Dear Science” by TV On The Radio. It’s very much a critique of scientism and a critique on the “corruption of science”, if you will.

      If you’ve watched Breaking Bad walter-shock before you’ve probably heard this song from the album already, but it just sums it up perfectly.

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        Sometimes I think I need to follow your example and disconnect from internet

        I wasn’t entirely without the internet while I was away, but I was very, very distracted with the early stages of my ongoing projects. Now that I have a bit more free time, posting here is habit forming and I sometimes feel like Lahey falling off the wagon again.

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        disconnect from internet but my job is internet

        Consider having an inexplicable log in issue that makes it so you can’t log onto hexbear on your work computer. That’s what I do