The american voters have really outdone themselves this time

  • @[email protected]
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    015 days ago

    WaPo strikes again with a plausibly deniable disinformation title, using the word “skeptic” wrong on purpose. I expect nothing less from Bezos.

  • Archangel
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    016 days ago

    As long as it’s peer reviewed, this is fine. If they want to try and pass off faulty research as if it were valid, then all they’re going to do is embarrass themselves.

    • Baron Von J
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      016 days ago

      then all they’re going to do is embarrass themselves.

      No, they’ll also set government policy that kills people.

    • @[email protected]
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      015 days ago

      Peer reviewed? Where are they going to find enough brainworm victims to be considered peers?

    • FuglyDuck
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      016 days ago

      … then all they’re going to do is embarrass themselves. get published in the lancet.

      FTFY.

      The original study that said there might be a connection, was originally published in the lancet. It was later retracted, after years, but the damage was done.

      which… the study looked at like a dozen autistic kids and found they had all gotten vaccines.

      They all, also probably had all worn clothes. You don’t see people saying “clothes cause autism!”, though. Or you know, breathed air. Drank water. Played outside in the sunshine. I’m sure there’s more.

  • [email protected]
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    016 days ago

    “You’ll never believe it, Mr Kennedy. According to our data, vaccines causes cancer”, he says, smiling. “Once we increased our vaccination rates, cancer became a major cause of death within 15 years. I suspect that far fewer people will die of cancer, if we simply roll our policies back

    • @[email protected]
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      And we also discovered everyone who drinks water, has died some point in their life. We must take all the water from the people and give them to corporations so they can protect us.

    • Kevin
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      016 days ago

      “Name one person that died of cancer who never received a vaccine for anything. That’s what I thought!”

    • @[email protected]
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      016 days ago

      And more people will die of polio, measles, mumps, and other preventable diseases BEFORE they have the chance to die from cancer!

  • @[email protected]
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    016 days ago

    They really should review dihydrogen monoxide which is continually pushed by doctors but has a 100% mortality rate! DO YOUR RESEARCH!

    • Yggstyle
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      Goodness me. It’s so dangerous it eats away at untreated metal. How could they foist this dangerous mixture onto us. It’s worse than micro plastics. I heard estimates that claim it’s now found in every living American… and may even be now found in almost all of our food. Absolutely disgusting.

    • FuglyDuck
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      This is why RFK only drinks methylated paint thinner.

      Well that and he confused the methyl-part with methamphetamine.

      Don’t do meth. Or methyl alcohol. Both are awful.

      • @[email protected]
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        methylene blue to be exact, he has been seen in a video, of him using a large dropper of methylene blue on a flight into his drink. he bought into the unsubstantiated reports of it being useful.

    • @[email protected]
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      Nah, that’s just a red herring, and completely discredited. The real problem is hydrogen hydroxide. Everywhere that you see dihydrogen monoxide, there’s also hydrogen hydroxide. That’s the real danger.

      (/S for people that don’t know the different chemical names)

    • @[email protected]
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      015 days ago

      Of course. There are a larger number of vaccinated people who have used a trebuchet than non-vaccinated people, and trebuchets are a great way of helping pigs fly

  • @[email protected]
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    015 days ago

    Mark Geier

    Is that the patient 0 of that autism claim? The one that was discredited decades ago (both the person and the claim)?

    The biggest problem with him was, he just couldn’t admit he had been wrong and continued to spout the bullshit, thus discovering a moderately profitable grift. And now his son is continuing it.

  • @[email protected]
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    015 days ago

    I feel like I should start wearing a mask again in stores and other crowds, because this administration is going to kill me if I wait for the experts.

    ps There are no experts anymore just these anti vaccine loony fuckshits.

    • @[email protected]
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      I never stopped. And I damn well won’t be anytime soon.

      A large enough proportion of the populace has deemed it their God Given Right to infect anyone and everyone under the doctrine of “It’s Just the Flu, Bro”.

      • Binette
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        015 days ago

        for real. During covid, I didn’t get sick once, and that was heavenly cause when I get sick, it runs for weeks and get really really bad. I thought that wearing masks when sick would be the norm now, but whatever

        • @[email protected]
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          I foolishly had dental work done in 2023. LONG overdue.

          The tech doing my x-rays had an n95, full face shield and gloves. The idiot dentist starts poking in my mouth with NO gloves and is completely unmasked.

          The 3 years of being hyper cautious, getting every damned booster and treating every stranger as a plague vector down the drain. Thankfully only a week of what felt like one of the worst bouts of influenza I’ve had.

          Still getting yearly boosters, still masking and still assuming that every one I run into in public is on a holy crusade to spread mega measles or the like.

    • @[email protected]
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      014 days ago

      They fired all of the people working on the bird flu and put an anti-vaxxer in charge of public health. What could possibly go wrong?

  • @[email protected]
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    014 days ago

    Next up, UFO conspiracists will determine if alien UFOs are real, Kennedy assassination conspiracists will review the Kennedy files.

  • Gordon Calhoun
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    016 days ago

    I’d just like to caveat that a slim majority of American voters outdid themselves to undo decades of past hard-won progress.

    • Baron Von J
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      016 days ago

      a slim majority

      Not even that. The majority of voters, 50.2%, voted for Harris or third party.

        • Baron Von J
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          They didn’t technically vote for Trump. Which I don’t say to absolve them of blame, but this particular thread of comments was pedantry over how many people voted for Trump.

            • Yggstyle
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              015 days ago

              I wouldn’t exactly define this current situation as working, would you?

                • Yggstyle
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                  015 days ago

                  Absolutely nothing… hence the It needs to change bit.

                  Realistically it’s the same question I could pose you saying just play the game… What exactly does picking the “lesser of two evils” net us? A race to the bottom. It’s not ideal nor does it work. The most recent election is a perfect example of this.

          • Baron Von J
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            015 days ago

            The only pathways are direct voter ballot initiativesmin the states that have them (only 26 states do) and progressive candidates and voters flooding the Democratic primaries to take over the party.

            • @[email protected]
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              voters flooding the Democratic primaries to take over the party.

              And this is how you have to do it in a two-party FPtP system.

              That’s exactly how the Tea Party turned the GOP into the mess it is now.

    • kersploosh
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      016 days ago

      A third of eligible voters didn’t vote. The remaining people who did vote were almost evenly split. So, in rough numbers, 1/3rd of American voters put us all in this mess.

      • Billiam
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        016 days ago

        No, 2/3rds.

        The third-ish that voted for Trump, and the third-ish that didn’t vote for Harris.

        In other words, the majority of Americans either wanted this government, or didn’t care if this was the government.

        • knightly the Sneptaur
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          016 days ago

          Exactly one organization is to blame, the one that finally got Biden to step down long after it was clear he had no chance, just to replace him with someone who promises to change nothing.

          The only reasonable explanation is that the Democrats threw the election on purpose. They very well know what it takes to motivate the voters and they did the exact opposite by putting Republicans on the campaign stage with Harris.

            • @[email protected]
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              016 days ago

              I might, outside of the beef with Harris, that are kinda right. Dem advisors seem to have deliberately sunk the campaign once they took over and they seem to be pushing for another loss by moving even more right.

              • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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                Here’s a simpler explanations: DNC is an umbrella party with many different factions. Sometimes they miscalculate, make mistakes, and are raked over coals for it.

                Compare that with RNC. Their voters show up to vote for R no matter what RNC does.

                It’s not DNC management’s duty to go left. It’s the duty of American leftists to push them left and withholding votes isn’t the way to do it.

                • knightly the Sneptaur
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                  Their voters show up to vote for R no matter what RNC does.

                  Exactly.

                  So, obviously, trying to appeal to them is at best a waste of time.

                  The threat to withhold our vote is the only leverage we have to effect change within the party. Of course I’m voing to use it.

  • @[email protected]
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    014 days ago

    I never thought I’d have a gov that had a health dept that was determined to make me sick. I expect things to be occasionally suppressed, bias, and flawed studies but not a deliberate effort. It is like they put the Phillip Morris tobacco company in charge.

  • @[email protected]
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    I feel like using terms like “vaccine skeptic” for these morons is a major PR win for them. It makes it sound way more legitimate than it is. Fuck corporate media sanewashing everything going on politically right now.

  • @[email protected]
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    015 days ago

    We know what contributes a lot to developing autism. It’s pollution, more specifically small particle matter found in for example car exhaust. The same cars for which they’re now killing the environmental regulations.

  • @[email protected]
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    If the word “skeptic” in the title actually meant that, this would be a good thing. It’s good to be skeptic about everything until you’re shown evidence. The problem here is that those folks aren’t really skeptic.

    • @[email protected]
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      Hard to accept a “skeptic” in a field with overwhelming evidence that he’s wrong. It means he either doesn’t or refuses to understand the current data which makes him just a dummy not a skeptic