as one of the friends brendan is apparently in hot water with the cancel culture vultures over, let me weigh in:

popper is just carrying water for a culture of censorship that compensates for its own intellectual bankruptcy by silencing those who speak against its diktats. https://twitter.com/nathanielpopper/status/1341509687078842369

it's the cowardly mob behavior of bullies who fear their power threatened.

they cannot win arguments on their merits but demand obeisance to their doctrine like some dark ages witch hunter.

no dissent is to be tolerated.

ESPECIALLY when it's true.

fauci does lie. a lot.

this is not some reasoned critique nor disagreement on facts or theory. cowards like this know they lose if they engage that way, especially with smart people like brendan

so they attack their very right to speak

this is not the behavior of someone with the facts on their side

they gleefully wrap themselves in the mantle of faux righteousness and dog whistle to the winged monkeys of the allegedly "progressive" posse to attack any who would dare challenge their right to dominate discourse despite being unable to defend their positions.

this is not righteousness, it's the sublimation of the need to bully into something deranged & despicable

pack mentality only serves to reinforce this in-group viciousness

this is a fundamentalist religion attacking apostates but without the honestly to admit it's a religion.

and if we will not stand up to the crybullies of cancel culture and call them out on this grotesque pastiche of principled activism and debate, then they will only grow bolder and stronger.

take a stand and call bullshit on this.

it's as craven as it is dishonest.

disagreement on some issue or policy is not a reason to go after someone's life and livelihood.

you can disagree and be friends. you can disagree and respect people.

i disagree with brendan on same sex marriage.

but disagreement does not affect my ability to be his friend because i am not a crazy person who sees the world only in histrionic moral absolutes that render any variance from my beliefs an assault on me that incites instant enmity

can popper & these reddit thugs say the same?

if you have a view, share it.

if you have a point, make it.

but to attack the lives of those who dare disagree with you
to cow them and others like them into silence makes you the villain. period.

grow up you reprehensible little twerps.

you are the problem.