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When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed

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267 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 18:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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renewiltord ◴[29 Mar 25 19:14 UTC] No.43517794[source]▶
The people opposing these things do themselves a serious disservice by conflating someone who attended the funeral of the top guy of a designated terrorist group with the biologist moving biomaterial between research labs.

Now every time I hear one of these stories I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop and hear about how the frog biologist attended Prigozhin’s funeral (purely out of recognition for his work as a chef, of course)

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1. tdeck ◴[29 Mar 25 19:40 UTC] No.43518035[source]▶
Ah, the old trope of pretending to give a movement advice so they don't "do a disservice" to their cause, advice which just happens to be about throwing marginalized people under the bus yet again.

It's as transparent as it is craven. In the 1960s 50% of white people polled said that MLK was hurting the effort for civil rights. It's because they didn't want to want those civil rights to begin with, in the same way that you're clearly totally cool with the genocide and don't want rights for those who opposed it.