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Iron Lung futures through the roof!!
I didn’t notice that was a mirror at first. Was like: are there two people in that thing?
Then I was like whytf you want to stare at your own face all day? Then I realized this would let you see who is standing there talking to you. Thanks for attending my TED talk.
As a lot of people discovered over the pandemic, staring at their own face is the only thing they want, I've seen a lot of people pinning their own camera in zoom to have their own face full screen the whole time
If they are a death cult, and want to die so bad, why don't they... You know... Do that?
They are a type of death cult, they just aren't the ones they want dead. It's "us." :/
No I get that. But all these policies impact the death cult too, and I don't know if they're unaware of it, or they're all like 'eh, worth it.'
And if they're like 'eh, worth it' then why the crap do they need these policies when they can lower the population amongst themselves? I would be willing to bet that we could even criminalize something like planning mass death by unconventional means, and maybe even make it a crime punishable by death to make sure their death cult includes enough death.
I think a very very large portion of them are antivax, they see it as not only unnecessary, but harmful. Tie that into the corporate mandates to get vaccinated which they viewed as oppressive and this is just exactly the kind of stuff they'd love to see. I don't think death is a thought at all in regards to this, if anything they consider it a safety measure.
I'm sure there's not an insignificant portion of them also thinking "anything that triggers a liberal is great in my book!"
Your last point is the most obvious one, but the most confusing.
Progressives debate everything, and in their mind anything that is arguable and debating equals arguing, so everything can actually trigger a progressive. All they really have to say is "some people are better than others because we say so."
Some excerpts:
The co-chair of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s transition team promoted the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism in a CNN interview Wednesday. He also said Trump ally Robert F. Kennedy Jr., hopes to get “data” through a Trump administration to have vaccines pulled “off the market.”
Kennedy told supporters earlier this week that Trump had promised to give him “control” over key public health agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“The key that I think I’m — you know, that President Trump has promised me is — is control of the public health agencies,” Kennedy said in a livestream, video of which CNN obtained. He cited the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health, among others."
There an Ezra Klein interview with Maggie Haberman, who has followed trump closely from the start in which she says leading the American people is not what he’s interested in. The constitution and rule of law is not what he’s interested in. It’s power. He’s not keen to dive into those other two things.
He’s also way more erratic and impulsive since getting shot at.
Also, have we talked yet about how RFK appears to have nearly - if not fully - admitted to illegal corruption?
Sorry to link to a PDF, but see p.8 of this government summary of corruption law: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44447/9
While supporting a candidate is not illegal, and nor is offering financially valuable support if within limits or through a super PAC, providing value in exchange for a government position - quid pro quo - is illegal. RFK's exchange of value is not merely supporting Trump, but actively trying to remove himself from the ballot in swing states to materially alter the election. Not illegal except it appears RFK has just admitted he was promised a position in Trump's administration.
So how do we know it's quid pro quo? We know leaks before RFK's endorsement were that he was shopping himself to the Harris and Trump campaigns. He didn't explicitly say "in exchange for," but it's almost certain that's what happened, and that there are witnesses to it who could testify or be subpoenaed.
That’s what Trump publicly promised Musk, a position. So if it’s really illegal no one is doing shit about it.
That's an excellent point, and since we know Musk has spent over $100 million so far trying to get Trump elected, it's a lot easier case to make (if there really was a quid pro quo promise made).
Yeah but these guys are above the law, so it won't matter.
It is surreal, in a bad way, to watch as the US might actually vote to put itself in mortal danger.
Unfortunately, not just itself. Pandemics don't respect borders.
Same goes for fascism...
It’s a good thing then that Donald and his cronies handled the last pandemic so well /s
Sure, but ThE iMmIGrAnTs!!! ThE tRaNsGeNdEr!!! THE WOKE!!!!
Uggghhh...I hate people.
wanna bet this guy doesn't believe in soap?
or that soap is the devil?
Wait, wouldn't Freedom-loving Republicans ban mandatory vaccines but still allow them because Freedom?
the “freedom” they love so much is the “freedom” to tell other people what to do
The party of small government and freedom.
I also think we should yank vaccines off the market. They should be free, why are we selling them?
"on the market" means available to us, regardless of whether we would have to pay for them or not. They don't want us to have access to vaccines at all. This is not a joke.
Oh I know what he meant.
Death cult
Why wouldn't you take health advice from this guy? I mean, apart from the fact that he has already caused disease outbreaks to kill many people?
Can't just have their voters dying next go round
Goddammit....i just gets worse and worse!
Ya I am sure it would be one hell of a shit show.
These people are deliberately trying to harm the country so that Russia can win the century.
Meanwhile China is laughing its ass off because its century has already begun. If Russia loses, China wins. If the US loses, China also wins.
More efficient than death camps! Let the viruses do their work for them.
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