Deonandan
@deonandan
Prof Raywat Deonandan. Epidemiologist & Research Chair in University Teaching, uOttawa. Senior Fellow, Massey College, UofT. Good hair. Teller of stupid jokes.
Daily, I reiterate my rules for navigating social media: 1. I am complicit in any offence I might take. 2. I can't control what others think or say, only how I react. 3. I don't have to have an opinion on everything. 4. If I don't know you, then your opinion of me is irrelevant.
The deep affective polarization in our country is not improving and we need to deal with the immediate threats of disinformation and RWA populism while understanding that the genie will not be put back in the bottle without recreating an economic narrative of shared prosperity
Top of mind opinions are fine but this is an attempt at more thoughtful scholarship. This issue continues to divide the country and is linked to a constellation of other factors producing previously unimaginable polarization rooted in disinformation, institutional mistrust and…
Nah that’s not why people hated the convoy. They hated that a bunch of people too selfish or scared to take a needle to protect their neighbours and the Canadian economy instead chose to go on an expensive, disgusting, disruptive, embarrassing and noisy three week temper tantrum.
I can understand why people hated the convoy. It was upsetting to see that some people had the willpower and spine to resist all of the Covid stupidity, after spending 2 years wearing a mask and injecting themselves repeatedly with mRNA. I'd be mad as hell too if I had done that
Holy shit! Hulk Hogan is dead! (Maybe this is an angle. Maybe Undertaker resurrects him at Summerslam?)
Playing my 5-year old in his 2nd ever game of Scrabble. His first word scores 48 points. I'm doomed.

If civilization survives the next few decades, all signs point to it being the Century of China.

Dear MAGA Morons, In case you didn’t understand the metaphor, you’re the sheep, in this image from the new South Park episode.
I find Vance worse than Trump. Trump is pure, unrefined malignance. He is what he is and has never wavered. The voters are to blame for seeing it, yet allowing it. On the other hand, Vance's moral compass is a weather vane. His convictions shift depending on the climate.

I don't have a lot of faith that this interview will be as penetrating (pun unintended) as it should be.

russia’s drone production has expanded so rapidly that it may soon be able to launch up to 2,000 (!) per night -inst of the study of war
2) They’re getting their ideas from this organization. Marco Rubio was involved in this org. In this thread, I will also explain the painting to you. And then you will see what Homeland Security is doing. This is what the mass deportations are really about.
1) Here is yet another suspicious organization that has recently emerged. Now this one engages in a subtle version of white supremacy which I will prove in this thread. The circled statement is Exhibit A. WHO did they “conquer”? Let’s find out, shall we?⬇️
No wonder the evil amongst us feel free and empowered, when there are clearly no consequences for the worst abuses of power.

This is from the official Homeland Security account. The random capitalizations are troubling. More so the glorification of John Gast's vision of Manifest Destiny, complete with indigenous displacement.

I can't believe the Democrats went through all the effort to doctor the Epstein files and then forgot to release them.
Remember "Grab 'em by the pussy"? His supporters have always been fine with him being a sex criminal. I don't know why anyone expects that to change now.
Tamara Lich’s sentencing hearing is the first time freedom convoy supporters have sat silently and listened to an expert. -ND
Countdown until Candace Owens starts a GoFundMe to pay for her defense against the Macron lawsuit.
No wonder this person is no longer an RCMP officer. Her lack of understanding of the law and justice system is embarrassing.