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              Honestly it’s cool. Personally I try to be very objective, scientific, and factual about stuff, but I’ve 100% been wrong about things in the past. I think the measure of a person is their ability to admit a mistake in the face of irrefutable evidence against their POV.

              Also non scientific bodies have been chiming in to promote the theory. With the whole anti-China thing going on, it’s gotten a lot more traction that it should have. If the superstructure wants this idea to become mainstream, it can and did.

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          That is still a possibility but given the conditions of some of the illegal wet markets in China, it is significantly more likely to have stemmed from one of those. I was reading the book Spillover, which was written before COVID, and they went to some wet markets around where SARS originated and while there were more regulations around wet markets, they were largely ignored. The author basically concluded that it was still a ripe environment for another SARS outbreak.

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          yea Canada and the residential schools truly is something else.

          And yeah I was against removing downvotes when it happened, but it truly has only been a boon for site culture

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              that’s like being mad at Biden about the War on Drugs

              I mean… He did author the crime bill. Dude hung out with white supremacists and was against bussing. Considering the fact that the schools were active all the way up to 1997, that’s probably a better simile than you think.

              You kinda lost me at the rest, I thought we were just mentioning atrocities. Your point is that we should punish people that hurt kids? Or are you trying to justify the existence of schools that tore away children from their parents due to racist assumptions about “christianizing” children?

              Nah it wasn’t a typo. Hexbear had a discussion about removing downvotes, I was against removing downvotes, but they were removed anyway. I mentioned that because you spoke on site culture.

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                  I gotta say I don’t really see how Biden has made things better. Climate change is still not being taken seriously, were embroiled in yet another war, the military budget has been increased yet again, more people died of covid under Biden, abortion isn’t a right anymore, LGBTQ are more threatened, the police has gotten more funding, Europe is entering a recession due to following America’s demands of cutting off Russian fuel, the US is pretty likely to enter a recession as well.
                  If you’re interested in these left-wing critiques I’d recommend watching “some more news”.

                  I chose hexbear because it was created by old r/chapotraphouse users in anticipation of the sub getting banned - incidentally for “calls for violence” though the only example Reddit could make was us calling for “death to slavers”.
                  I’ve stayed here because of its pro LGBTQ-stance and its great and knowledgeful userbase wrt discussions of news and world events. It’s the only place where I don’t see people take news at face value, but instead investigate the truth of claims - no matter where the claims come from. It’s the only place where I’ve seen such skepticism be hailed rather critiqued

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      While it’s not entirely ruled out, the lab leak hypothesis is looking less and less likely for a variety of reasons. The most likely suspect at this time is a raccoon dog sold at a specific wet market in Wuhan about 7 miles away from the WIV lab. This has not been proven yet either, it’s just the most likely, so ultimately we still don’t actually know.

      There was a deep-dive article about it in the NYT Magazine recently.

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        While it’s not entirely ruled out

        It was always bogus and has always been ruled out by anyone even remotely serious. Giving into that theory just feeds racist bigotry. If you wanna get conspiracy-brained then Fort Detrick is a much better bet anyway.

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            That’s a drastic reaction. Did I scratch you, racist?

            I just looked into the claims at the time and afterwards. They were led by politicians and they were mocked and critiqued at the time.
            it was always just led by us politicians wanting to blame someone other than themselves for their terrible handling of covid.

            Of course you already know this, you just want an excuse to say “China bad”. You could’ve posted some sources instead of insulting me, but then again there aren’t really anyone credible to post about <3