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"Nothing Burger" is a colloquial term used to describe something that is insignificant, unimportant, or lacking substance. It's often used to dismiss a situation, event, or topic as being uninteresting or having no real impact. The term implies that whatever is being referred to is essentially devoid of substance, like a hamburger with no filling – just a bun. It's often used in casual conversation or in more informal settings to convey a sense of triviality or insignificance.
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"'''Nothing Burger'''" is a colloquial term used to describe something that is insignificant, unimportant, or lacking substance. It's often used to dismiss a situation, event, or topic as being uninteresting or having no real impact. The term implies that whatever is being referred to is essentially devoid of substance, like a hamburger with no filling – just a bun. It's often used in casual conversation or in more informal settings to convey a sense of triviality or insignificance.


The "Nothing Burger" expression is an example of linguistic framing, where language is used to shape perceptions and control narratives. Labeling something as a "nothing burger" serves as a form of linguistic dismissal, trivializing the significance of a topic or issue. This tactic can be weaponized as a means of maintaining the status quo or preserving existing power structures by downplaying dissent or criticism.
The "Nothing Burger" expression is an example of linguistic framing, where language is used to shape perceptions and control narratives. Labeling something as a "nothing burger" serves as a form of linguistic dismissal, trivializing the significance of a topic or issue. This tactic can be weaponized as a means of maintaining the status quo or preserving existing power structures by downplaying dissent or criticism.
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==On X==
==On X==


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=== 2022 ===
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|content=Maybe we need to make clear that Mainstream Media isn’t trusted to hold back '''“Nothing-Burgers”''' from the public. What other '''Nothing-Burgers''' has news media held back? Is there a '''Wuhan Institute Nothing-Burger'''? An '''Epstein Nothing-Burger'''?
 
I want all…*ALL*…our '''NothingBurgers''' now.🙏
|quote=
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|name=Matt Taibbi
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|content=“My jaw hit the floor,” says Weiss.
|timestamp=8:44 PM · Dec 6, 2022
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=I can’t quite believe what I’m reading so let’s go slow.
 
The FBI’s former attorney was hired by previous Twitter management, and was the one vetting the files to be given to @bariweiss & @mtaibbi that might reveal FBI collusion…and new owner @elonmusk wasn’t told any of this???
|quote=
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|name=Lee Fang
|usernameurl=https://x.com/lhfang
|username=lhfang
|content=Twitter's former top attorney James Baker was formerly an FBI attorney who passed on fake dirt from the Hillary campaign’s operatives in 2016, alleging a secret online portal from Russia's Alfa Bank to Trump. Now attempted to shape the “Twitter Files.”
|timestamp=8:56 PM · Dec 6, 2022
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|timestamp=10:55 PM · Dec 6, 2022
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=Huh. This '''nothingburger'''. Man.
|quote=
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|name=Matt Taibbi
|usernameurl=https://x.com/mtaibbi
|username=mtaibbi
|content=We can now tell you part of the reason why. On Tuesday, Twitter Deputy General Counsel (and former FBI General Counsel) Jim Baker was fired. Among the reasons? Vetting the first batch of “Twitter Files” – without knowledge of new management.
|timestamp=8:40 PM · Dec 6, 2022
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|timestamp=11:08 PM · Dec 6, 2022
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=“[W]e both dealt with obstacles to new searches.”
 
I interacted with @bariweiss late Saturday Afternoon, and she reflected that she had not been able to get at the source material yet. Which was totally puzzling. To me anyway.
 
Now, unfortunately, it starts to make sense.
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|username=mtaibbi
|content=Over the weekend, while we both dealt with obstacles to new searches, it was @BariWeiss who discovered that the person in charge of releasing the files was someone named Jim. When she called to ask “Jim’s” last name, the answer came back: “Jim Baker.”
|timestamp=8:44 PM · Dec 6, 2022
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|timestamp=11:34 PM · Dec 6, 2022
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|timestamp=11:44 PM · Dec 6, 2022
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|content='''Nothing burger?'''
 
Keep going. Who is going to ride the '''“Nothing Burger Express”''' to the last stop? Step right up.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Wow.
 
So you Lilliputians decided to override a dissenting Stanford medical professor in an area of core competence *during* a real-time pandemic? You took Fauci/Collins party line?
 
I know Jay. The problem isn’t Jay.
 
The problem is YOU. What the hell is wrong with you monsters?
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|content=3. Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending.
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|timestamp=11:30 PM · Dec 8, 2022
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|timestamp=12:59 AM · Dec 9, 2022
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|timestamp=1:05 AM · Dec 9, 2022
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|content=This story is anti-interesting in the way that Jeffrey Epstein is anti-interesting.
|thread=
{{Tweet
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=How interesting to corporate media are public airings of the details of the relationships between FBI, Twitter, the Military, elections and THE MEDIA itself?
 
Follow the pathological disinterest. Follow silence. Follow what is [[Anti-Interesting|anti-interesting]]. Let the '''“Nothing Burger”''' guide you.
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|name=Lee Fang
|usernameurl=https://x.com/lhfang
|username=lhfang
|content=1. TWITTER FILES PART 8
 
*How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign*
 
Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations.
|timestamp=7:02 PM · Dec 20, 2022
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|timestamp=6:09 PM · Dec 21, 2022
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|timestamp=6:17 PM · Dec 21, 2022
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Always order the '''Nothing Burger'''. Ask for the '''Nothing Burger''' by name.
 
[Also please double check the anagram? Thx.]
|thread=
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Technically, the MSM doesn’t spike stories to sway elections at the behest of the Intelligence Community colluding with Tech Platforms. I mean…*that* WOULD be a story!
 
They merely switch to anagrams as a courtesy to the IC. Mystery solved:
 
'''Nothing Burgers''' = '''Hunter’s Bong Rig'''
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|timestamp=6:27 PM · Dec 22, 2022
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=@alexattack88 Actual picture of a '''Nothing Burger'''.
 
“Nothing is left out.”
|timestamp=6:29 PM · Dec 22, 2022
}}
 
=== 2023 ===
 
{{Tweet
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1636739266083684353
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The Law of the [[The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (The DISC)|DISC]]: “Whenever you see it on the mainstream media menu, '''ALWAYS order the Nothing-Burger'''.”
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|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=“As you know, we have been focused on reducing the virality of content…[that] is often true content.”
 
Hence the [[Prebunked Malinformation|Prebunking (discrediting/image cheapening) of Malinformation Agents (Those spreading real/true information that contradicts the Gated Institutional Narrative or GIN)]]!
|quote=
{{Tweet
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|nameurl=https://x.com/mtaibbi/status/1636729265122168835
|name=Matt Taibbi
|usernameurl=https://x.com/mtaibbi
|username=mtaibbi
|content=36."OFTEN TRUE CONTENT" The Virality Project communications mirror those produced in the recent court case Louisiana vs Biden, which showed Facebook admitting to the WHO that it, too, was censoring true content.
|media1=mtaibbi-X-post-1636729265122168835.jpg
|timestamp=2:00 PM · Mar 17, 2023
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|timestamp=2:35 PM · Mar 17, 2023
}}
|timestamp=2:40 PM · Mar 17, 2023
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{{Tweet
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1651693521773146118
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=So…How does this all work exactly @cmsub, @latimes, @POTUS, @WhiteHouse?
 
Is this *all* just Kayfabe? Or is this yet another right-wing nothingburger?
 
Help us out. Thanks. https://t.co/VeQDzCSbwK
|timestamp=9:03 PM · Apr 27, 2023
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==See Also==
==Related Concepts==


* [[Anti-Interesting]]
* [[Cobalt and Baby Blue-on-Blue]]
* [[Follow the Silence]]
* [[The Invisible World is First Detected by the Visible World’s Failure to Close]]
* [[Jessupization]]
* [[Map the Silences]]
* [[Neo-Debunker]]
* [[The Optics are the Substance]]
* [[The Optics are the Substance]]
* [[Prebunked Malinformation]]
* [[Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing]]


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[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Nothingburger]]
[[Category:Nothingburger]]

Latest revision as of 05:57, 21 October 2025

"Nothing Burger" is a colloquial term used to describe something that is insignificant, unimportant, or lacking substance. It's often used to dismiss a situation, event, or topic as being uninteresting or having no real impact. The term implies that whatever is being referred to is essentially devoid of substance, like a hamburger with no filling – just a bun. It's often used in casual conversation or in more informal settings to convey a sense of triviality or insignificance.

ERW-X-post-1601020070716575744-Fjf3Q XVsAExCao.jpg

The "Nothing Burger" expression is an example of linguistic framing, where language is used to shape perceptions and control narratives. Labeling something as a "nothing burger" serves as a form of linguistic dismissal, trivializing the significance of a topic or issue. This tactic can be weaponized as a means of maintaining the status quo or preserving existing power structures by downplaying dissent or criticism.

Critical discourse analysis, which involves examining the ways in which language is used to reinforce social norms and power dynamics, can reveal such instances of weaponization. By identifying instances of language manipulation, individuals can become more aware of how certain groups or interests seek to control public perception and marginalize opposing viewpoints.

On XEdit

2022Edit

 
Eric Weinstein

I can’t quite believe what I’m reading so let’s go slow.

The FBI’s former attorney was hired by previous Twitter management, and was the one vetting the files to be given to @bariweiss & @mtaibbi that might reveal FBI collusion…and new owner @elonmusk wasn’t told any of this???

10:55 PM · Dec 6, 2022
 
Lee Fang

Twitter's former top attorney James Baker was formerly an FBI attorney who passed on fake dirt from the Hillary campaign’s operatives in 2016, alleging a secret online portal from Russia's Alfa Bank to Trump. Now attempted to shape the “Twitter Files.”

8:56 PM · Dec 6, 2022
 
Eric Weinstein

Huh. This nothingburger. Man.

11:08 PM · Dec 6, 2022
 
Matt Taibbi

We can now tell you part of the reason why. On Tuesday, Twitter Deputy General Counsel (and former FBI General Counsel) Jim Baker was fired. Among the reasons? Vetting the first batch of “Twitter Files” – without knowledge of new management.

8:40 PM · Dec 6, 2022
 
Eric Weinstein

“[W]e both dealt with obstacles to new searches.”

I interacted with @bariweiss late Saturday Afternoon, and she reflected that she had not been able to get at the source material yet. Which was totally puzzling. To me anyway.

Now, unfortunately, it starts to make sense.

11:34 PM · Dec 6, 2022
 
Matt Taibbi

Over the weekend, while we both dealt with obstacles to new searches, it was @BariWeiss who discovered that the person in charge of releasing the files was someone named Jim. When she called to ask “Jim’s” last name, the answer came back: “Jim Baker.”

8:44 PM · Dec 6, 2022
 
Eric Weinstein

Maybe we need to make clear that Mainstream Media isn’t trusted to hold back “Nothing-Burgers” from the public. What other Nothing-Burgers has news media held back? Is there a Wuhan Institute Nothing-Burger? An Epstein Nothing-Burger?

I want all…*ALL*…our NothingBurgers now.🙏

11:44 PM · Dec 6, 2022
 
Matt Taibbi

“My jaw hit the floor,” says Weiss.

8:44 PM · Dec 6, 2022


 
Eric Weinstein

Wow.

So you Lilliputians decided to override a dissenting Stanford medical professor in an area of core competence *during* a real-time pandemic? You took Fauci/Collins party line?

I know Jay. The problem isn’t Jay.

The problem is YOU. What the hell is wrong with you monsters?

 
Bari Weiss

3. Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending.

 
11:30 PM · Dec 8, 2022
12:59 AM · Dec 9, 2022
 
Eric Weinstein

Nothing burger?

Keep going. Who is going to ride the “Nothing Burger Express” to the last stop? Step right up.

 
1:05 AM · Dec 9, 2022


 
Eric Weinstein

How interesting to corporate media are public airings of the details of the relationships between FBI, Twitter, the Military, elections and THE MEDIA itself?

Follow the pathological disinterest. Follow silence. Follow what is anti-interesting. Let the “Nothing Burger” guide you.

 
6:09 PM · Dec 21, 2022
 
Lee Fang

1. TWITTER FILES PART 8

  • How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign*

Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations.

7:02 PM · Dec 20, 2022
 
Eric Weinstein

This story is anti-interesting in the way that Jeffrey Epstein is anti-interesting.

6:17 PM · Dec 21, 2022


 
Eric Weinstein

Technically, the MSM doesn’t spike stories to sway elections at the behest of the Intelligence Community colluding with Tech Platforms. I mean…*that* WOULD be a story!

They merely switch to anagrams as a courtesy to the IC. Mystery solved:

Nothing Burgers = Hunter’s Bong Rig

 
6:21 PM · Dec 22, 2022
 
Eric Weinstein

Always order the Nothing Burger. Ask for the Nothing Burger by name.

[Also please double check the anagram? Thx.]

6:27 PM · Dec 22, 2022


 
Eric Weinstein

@alexattack88 Actual picture of a Nothing Burger.

“Nothing is left out.”

6:29 PM · Dec 22, 2022

2023Edit

 
Eric Weinstein

“As you know, we have been focused on reducing the virality of content…[that] is often true content.”

Hence the Prebunking (discrediting/image cheapening) of Malinformation Agents (Those spreading real/true information that contradicts the Gated Institutional Narrative or GIN)!

2:35 PM · Mar 17, 2023
 
Matt Taibbi

36."OFTEN TRUE CONTENT" The Virality Project communications mirror those produced in the recent court case Louisiana vs Biden, which showed Facebook admitting to the WHO that it, too, was censoring true content.

 
2:00 PM · Mar 17, 2023
 
Eric Weinstein

The Law of the DISC: “Whenever you see it on the mainstream media menu, ALWAYS order the Nothing-Burger.”

 
2:40 PM · Mar 17, 2023


 
Eric Weinstein

So…How does this all work exactly @cmsub, @latimes, @POTUS, @WhiteHouse?

Is this *all* just Kayfabe? Or is this yet another right-wing nothingburger?

Help us out. Thanks. https://t.co/VeQDzCSbwK

 
9:03 PM · Apr 27, 2023

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