CT: The left is using "reverse psychology" to keep RWs unvaxxed and kill them

[pecksniff]

CT: The left is using "reverse psychology" to keep RWs unvaxxed and kill them

No, really.

Veteran shock jock Howard Stern, now 67, has grown increasingly fed up with far-right anti-vaxxers, noting all the MAGA radio hosts who railed against COVID-19 vaccines before dying from COVID-19. And Breitbart News' John Nolte has come up with a very imaginative conspiracy theory, claiming that Stern — along with Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — is using "reverse psychology" in the hope of keeping "Trump supporters" unvaccinated.

This conspiracy theory, reporter Matt Gertz stresses in Media Matters, shows the ridiculous and "toxic" lengths Nolte will go to in order to vilify political opponents.

Nolte believes that Stern and others are railing against unvaccinated supporters of former President Donald Trump because they hope that they will be offended, express their displeasure by remaining unvaccinated, get sick with COVID-19 and die from it. Even by Breitbart standards, that conspiracy theory is, Gertz writes, "far-fetched."

In an article published by Breitbart on September 10, Nolte wrote, "Do you want to know why I think Howard Stern is going full-monster with his mockery of three fellow human beings who died of the coronavirus? Because leftists like Stern and CNNLOL and Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and Anthony Fauci are deliberately looking to manipulate Trump supporters into not getting vaccinated."

Nolte went on to say, "If I wanted to use reverse psychology to convince people not to get a life-saving vaccination, I would do exactly what Stern and the left are doing…. I would bully and taunt and mock and ridicule you for not getting vaccinated, knowing the human response would be: Hey, fuck you, I'm never getting vaccinated! And why is that a perfectly human response? Because no one ever wants to feel like they are being bullied or ridiculed or mocked or pushed into doing anything."

 

[LupusDei]

Apparently it works.

 

[pecksniff]

Good for the gene pool, I suppose.

 

[zipman]

I don't know about you guys, but I feel pwned every time an unvaccinated right winger does.

 

[coati]

Well, as mentioned on other threads, Deplorables are easily manipulated, which accounts for their self-identification as perpetual victims.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

It's mostly true, except for the dems foing them, it was they who fooled themselves by being against anything a dem supports. They really do deserve what they're getting.

 

[JohnsonLongwood]

Or... is that conspiracy theory itself a plant by the deep state, Bill Gates, and the Clintons, to trick them into getting vaccinated and their DNA altered just to show the libtards they can't be manipulated like that? Perhaps we should ask Q-Anon?

 

[WillJ8787]

Apparently it works.

Chuckles...yep!

 

[Wrong Element]

The author concedes a couple of points that he might be too dumb to realize he was conceding:

1) The vaccines really do work; otherwise why would it even matter if liberals were supposedly tricking conservatives into not wanting to get them?

2. Alleged conservative skepticism about the vaccines isn't based on science or just wanting to wait and see, or anything more complicated than simply being oppositional for opposition's sake.

 

[YDB95]

In a really off the wall way, Nolte might be right: at this point, we all know anything any liberal (or anyone even perceived from the right to be a liberal, which means the entire mainstream media among other things) says will be met with nothing but raw contempt from the right, no matter how sensible or factually correct it is. So yeah, if I actually wanted right-wingers to remain unvaccinated, probably the best way to do that would be to have anyone associated with the left say they should get vaccinated. But we can't be responsible for their pigheadedness.

 

[Lazaran]

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Except in this case we know which came first, the chicken or the egg.

The anti-vaxxers popped up like moles first , and only then did the smart kids start whacking them.

*nods*

 

[YDB95]

The right loves to pine for the 1950s (ignoring little details like the 91% top marginal tax rate, of course). I didn't realize that included wanting polio back.

 

[BluesDriver66]

During the height of pre-vaccine Covid infections I saw some Save the Vote Rally where the speaker instructed the shoulder to shoulder crowd to remove their masks, face the flag, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance loudly and proudly. As if exposing yourself to airborne pathogens in the middle of world wide pandemic somehow proves your patriotism. Makes as much sense as licking truck stop toilet seats for freedom.

I love bashing the do nothing corruption of the Democratic Party but for sheer brain dead moronic beliefs and practices nobody beats Republicans.

Hoping the Democrats soon introduce legislation making it illegal to stick red hot pokers up your own ass.