{"id":3551,"date":"2021-10-13T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2021-10-13T00:22:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T07:22:00","slug":"the-grift-is-easier-when-you-believe-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/?p=3551","title":{"rendered":"The grift is easier when you believe it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Spent the day watching my fully vaccinated 13-month-old cough until blue with pertussis because others didn&#39;t get vaccinated. Thanks, dolts.<\/p>&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/571113104920027136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2015<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">@thetrueoorah <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NolteNC<\/a> Pertussis vaccine is not fully effective. Herd immunity is key.<\/p>&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/571115700267282434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2015<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem isn\u2019t intelligence; the problem isn\u2019t even ignorance or education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ben Shapiro knows about vaccines. He knows how they work and that they\u2019re effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, whether his current Covid-19 stance is pure grift or partially sincere irrelevant. His politics have led him to a place where he has to oppose people \u201cbeing forced\u201d to get vaccinated, and he can\u2019t speak out against people who selfishly choose not to get vaccinated, not if he wants to maintain his current social status and, relatedly, his current income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The thing about capitalism, like all grifting, is it\u2019s much easier to get money doing something when you believe what you\u2019re doing isn\u2019t a grift than to recognize what you&#8217;re doing and just try to continue not to care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-458317b97ab65f033d28d3483142aa0a is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twitter Ben Shapiro @benshapiro<br>Spent the day watching my fully vaccinated 13-month-old [infant] cough until blue with pertussis because others didn&#8217;t get vaccinated. Thanks, dolts.<br><br>Pertussis vaccine is not fully effective. Herd immunity is key.<\/p>\n<cite>[<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/571115700267282434\">Tweet<\/a>] Feb 26, 2015<br><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem isn\u2019t intelligence; the problem isn\u2019t even ignorance or education. Ben Shapiro knows about vaccines. He knows how they work and that they\u2019re effective. But, whether his current Covid-19 stance is pure grift or partially sincere irrelevant. His politics have led him to a place where he has to oppose people \u201cbeing forced\u201d to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[690,692,712,741,831,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ben-shapiro","category-beyond-satire","category-capitalism","category-covid-19","category-grifting","category-memes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}