The call has to come from inside the house.

September 22, 2021 9:45 AM

On morality and marks and the mitigation thereof in a pandemic (twitter thread). "As news stories drop about COVID+ pandemic deniers & anti-vaxxers ranting defiantly from ICU beds, let's review what fraud research suggests abt the responsibility we should attribute to them for their condition & the (messages) they send." Threadreader.

A companion to the Herman Cain Award thread. To me, that article Breitbart Writer Claims ‘Organized Left’ Uses ‘Reverse Psychology’ to ‘Trick’ People Into Refusing ‘Trump Vaccine’ (cw: Breitbart) is discussing a cooler as mentioned in the thread.

posted by snerson (3 comments total)

2nd strategy=identify figures that the marks trust & enlist them as "coolers." High-status members of the marks' own communities are the only ones who can help reconcile themselves to their humiliation & enable them to rejoin society w/out putting the rest of us in danger.

This was written back in late July, a full month before Trump himself - previously a high-status member of the marks' own communities - got booed at one of his rallies after halfheartedly recommending that his supporters take the vaccines. So it seems like these communities are getting much smaller and even more insular, which is going to make it even more difficult to reach these people.
posted by The Card Cheat at 10:11 AM on September 22, 2021

I'm mostly upset that someone tweeting as "Biff Hardcheese" is making an ass of themselves in the replies.
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 10:14 AM on September 22, 2021 [1 favorite]

GFY biff
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 10:14 AM on September 22, 2021 [1 favorite]