Meanwhile, I wonder their opinion of this clear breach of private corporation’s rights to refuse to be the platform of hateful speech.
So while you suffer cold, without power, from a disease your child brought home because the now dead parents of a classmate wanted to show how tough they were, you can rest assured Texas says you can harass black and asian people on facebook while posting clan memes to your weak hearts content.
Not that I’m feeling cynical about the conservative ‘fuck everything if I can’t get my way’ view, as California heads into a recall election driven entirely by republican cry babies who literally wish they were in a different state and I hope they just get it over with and move to Texas after their home burn down… or anything.
When people say "Andy Ngo provides kill lists of journalists to right-wing extremists", they're not kidding.
Andy Ngo just tweeted a how-to guide for murdering me and my child inside our home, and he colluded with a Proud Boy currently under federal investigation to do it. pic.twitter.com/TvEAI3mx7D
because if a tenth of them die, they still have 90% left to sell junk cures and covid contrarianism to. but if 90% of them get the vaccine, they don’t need to buy any more own-the-libs covid solutions https://t.co/evVX5hYfBB
— kilgore trout, joe rogan took horse dewormer (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 14, 2021
this is the ivermectin story - not ivermectin, but how it’s just a plug-and-play monetized industry that is driven by forces vastly larger than a bunch of dopes with facebook poisoning eating horse paste. until this becomes the narrative there will be dozens more ivermectin sagas https://t.co/l8yU5X5j0e
— kilgore trout, joe rogan took horse dewormer (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 13, 2021
that the covid vaccines are so remarkably effective at their job at a price point of *free* is a terrifying threat to the right wing miracle cure economy
— kilgore trout, joe rogan took horse dewormer (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 13, 2021
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A man has been charged with murdering a woman and shooting her husband because they voted for President Joe Biden.
Joseph Angel Alvarez, 38, was arrested on September 8, almost a year after the shootings took place.
Authorities say that Mr Alvarez staked out the couple’s home ahead of the shootings, and discovered a pro-Biden “flag and a doll of Trump hanging" outside.
He shot and killed Georgetta Kauffman in her garage on November 14, 2020, and then shot her husband Daniel Kaufmann, in the head, shoulder and wrist, reports CBS4. Mr Kaufmann crawled to his bedroom, and then managed to escape the attack by running out of his front door to a neighbour’s house to call 911.
Mr Alvarez allegedly emailed the 902nd Military Intelligence Group, a counterintelligence unit, saying that he targeted the Kauffmans because they voted for Mr Biden and demanding that people "stop all murder of babies," reports the El Paso Times.
He also emailed the military unit to say that pro-choice supporters were a part of the "Jewish Satanist" party and that the Kauffman’s neighbourhood was a "ritualistic satanic ground to conduct abortions by the manner of magic.”
A police officer wrote in an affidavit: “The defendant’s belief was ‘to end the Satanic activity’ near the crime scene [and he] acted out his manifesto by killing and shooting the Kaufmanns.”
He is currently being held at the El Paso County Jail with bail set to $2.5 million.
Republican death cult leader Gregg Abbott treads all over the sacred rights of the private business by mandating that
This may be a direct attempt to force SouthWest airlines to forgo vaccine mandates for all staff, allowing them to spread their infection to over 100 destinations, many outside of Texas.
Viewers rarely get a behind the scenes view like this, but in a recent package produced showing off the unveiling of Fox News’ upgraded DC bureau, you can see that the entire office is masked up. pic.twitter.com/mIH33GQnFj
Dennis Prager, of the fake university PragerU claims to have hugged thousands of people in order to purposefully infect himself with Covid, because ‘natural anti-bodies are better’ and he didn’t want to take an experimental drug.
A combination of feeling on edge and not sleeping has had me venturing into what is the current antivax, pro-trump reddit sub, and wow did I get an education!
First and foremost they are all desperate for validation. Absolutely desperate! I understood this academically but I don’t think I understood the full extent. Insecurity and validation cycles absolutely rule the sub. Anyone looking for advice is generally looking to have their beliefs confirmed by others, and the others will tell people to destroy their life to validate their own beliefs (Wife wants me to get my second jab or she will divorce me, I don’t want a divorce, what should I do? Answer, kick her to the curb, divorce her before she can divorce you, she obviously want’s you to die! You’re better off without her.)
The “we’re not sheep!” sentiment is a direct result of the out of control need for validation projected onto others. They desperately want to be part of a group that bleats in unison, yet want to consider themselves a free independent thinker, so they shout “I’m not the sheep, you’re the sheep!” as loudly as they can to drown out the voice in their head.
Many are also scared and confused, which is certainly a driving force behind the validation, but they also don’t fully see the fear instead only feeling it manifest.
Second is that the poor or non existent understanding of probability and statistics is a serious issue. Way too many don’t seem to understand percentages, what 99% really means, what a false positive, or false negative really means in a tangible sense. It’s become obvious now that things like “99%” or “99.x% are shorthand for “So likely it might as well be certain!” and not, ya know, a 1:1000 chance or less.
While only a small microcosm that is admittedly on a social media system that uses validation and shame as its reward system, but it has become so repetitive over only a few nights that I’m pretty sure now the best thing anyone can do for people caught in this death cult is to find them validation elsewhere, and once they are finally hooked up to a different validation machine, shame the previous one as dumb or the antithesis to this new validation.
I’m pretty sure now the best thing anyone can do for people caught in this death cult is to find them validation elsewhere, and once they are finally hooked up to a different validation machine, shame the previous one as dumb or the antithesis to this new validation.
While shaming an aggressive asshole trolling is a technique, mostly to get them to fuck off after you fill up their confirmation bias tank with LIBTARDS LOL, and I forgot the second half of this sentence. Oh well, here's the gist:
Some vaccine skeptic who behaves in some way open to talk to you in good faith.
"Oh hey, yeah, here's how that stats thing works. -digestible portion of math-"
Some back and forth later, "Yeah, you got it. (Oh hey look, validation.) That's why statistically, you really should get the jab."
Side effect is you might pick up a clingon humping your leg for more of that precious validation. The sheer size of the Mutual Validation Society itself though makes it hard to compete with.
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Oh yes, I was meaning more that if they are your friends or family what should be done. As a rando on the internet there is absolutely nothing I could say that will convince them otherwise. When talking to those so far down the rabbit hole, the only people you have even a chance to convince are the unknown lurkers who have only just sipped the koolaid.
Just look at how they reacted to Trump when he told them to get vaxed. For a brief moment he was giving real advice and not being a mirror to bounce back praise, and they lost their shit about it.
that the covid vaccines are so remarkably effective at their job at a price point of *free* is a terrifying threat to the right wing miracle cure economy
— kilgore trout, joe rogan took horse dewormer (@KT_So_It_Goes) September 13, 2021
FL’s new political Surgeon General Joseph Ladopo, with Desantis, today became the first SG in the US to question the safety and efficacy of vaccines, saying to ignore the experts: “People need to stick with their intuition and their sensibilities.” pic.twitter.com/1H6tVQzwWb
Apparently here in NZ 1000 Italian troops have already flown in and have rescued children from under tourist town Te Anau. Farmers and Tradies are about to surround Government buildings and arrest the PM. Citizen tribunals are being set up and the lid is being blown off the whole thing, any day now.
So yeah, the batshit has reached this country. I quite enjoy a lot of American cultural exports, but this one I can do without.