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[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 6 points 16 hours ago

"The USA, where we deport the browns and kill whats left over"

[–] ClydapusGotwald@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So they are banning the vaccine that the “trump administration made” ….. America is a third world country and I want out of it asap.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

I've been looking for a way to leave, but man it's expensive.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago

A healthy, well educated population which feels safe and secure is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

death is the most serious outcome of COVID-19, but was excluded from consideration in the analysis, which only considered hospitalization.

Seems like a fundamental flaw to me.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They fucking developed, distributed, and administered the vaccine under Trump 1.0

Apparently Trump was a woke idiot before and is somehow smarter now... Make it make sense Republicans!

[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What capitalist interest is behind this decision?

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The largest transfer of wealth is going to happen in the next 10 years. Western nations need to deplete and indebted the population to the wealthy. They are using Healthcare, education, and the economy to bring about this wealth capture. They can't allow zoomers and millennials to get there hands on all the money their parents accumulate. Otherwise, their labor force will suddenly have better options.

[–] Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 79 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

We are in the dumbest fucking timeline

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Still waiting for TVA to prune us.

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[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

Every possible version of it.

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This reads like fake news. I don't believe they are that idiotic.

Oh fuck.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Really, you don't? They are the dumbest people I've ever seen.

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 156 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They should ban it for Republicans only

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 day ago

They can stick fluorescent lights up their asses instead.

[–] aramova 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know these fuckers will keep a supply in the works for themselves.

Class wars, disasters, make people need a savior.

That's the whole fucking game, and the ignorant cunts keep voting for it

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[–] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 95 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Question: since Trump was the administration in charge of those vaccines, can we sue the president for releasing an "dangerous" vaccine, "harming" Americans?

Like, you can't have it both ways. You can't hate the COVID vaccine and ignore that it was done under Trump's administration. I'm so confused, my head hurts, these people are fucking stupid.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Don't try to make sense of it. These people don't operate within the confines of logic, only what is convenient to their agenda in the moment.

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[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I almost hope there is another huge pandemic, it would probably be the best and easiest way of fighting the war against fascism in America.

[–] Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I have been feeling the same way. I am kinda in a " I hope it all burns down. Then they will understand how stupid they are" mood about things as of late.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 15 points 1 day ago (7 children)

If there is a 2nd American Civil War, I would be alright with conservatives not having vaccines. Disease was the #1 cause of fatalities in warfare, and I would like to have fewer enemies to fight.

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[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Its probably just anxiety but since the last one I haven't been able to shake the feeling that another is inevitable.

[–] fusionsaint@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I don’t mean to increase your anxiety but another one IS inevitable. Pandemics come and go, our massively interconnected world is the perfect breeding ground for them. You can see and hear real experts talking about it a few years ago to Congress. They said another massive one is likely within the next decade. A quick googling will give you articles from every major medical school. This will leave us radically unprepared, not that they care.

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[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Where are them Epstein Files and such?!

[–] mateofeo85@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, let’s say he released them with his name all over it and video evidence, what would really happen at this point? We’re already in the fascist machine.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah but it annoys They/Them to no end when we ask. It's the least I can do.

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Being burned so they can be used as a distraction from the fascism forever

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So a million and a half deaths weren't enough for those fuckers.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (8 children)

With all seriousness, no, it isn't. They want millions of deaths.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Trump once said that Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller said that he wants America to decrease to 100 million people, who all look like him. That's a 70% decrease in population. You have to wonder how he intends to accomplish that objective.

Now he's Trump's most trusted advisor. He's like Wormtongue whispering poison into Trump's ear.

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[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 day ago

So that's why zombie apocalypse in every Hollywood movie happens in the USA.

[–] stupe@lemmy.zip 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Remember when the Republicans wanted the vaccine to be a choice?

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 46 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Just to be clear, the person making this claim is Dr. Aseem Malhotra, the crazy guy who's gotten into the good graces of RFK Jr. "Crazy Guy who makes Crazy Claims makes another Crazy Claim that aligns with his previous Crazy Claims." For me, I'm sticking this bit of information on the corkboard, but I'm not going to freak out about it. Yet.

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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

Oh that’s an intelligent policy decision

/s ♾️

[–] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm anticipating congestive heart failure will be nominated as person of the year next year.

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The pandemic was awesome for us healthy surviving introverts. Not so much for the dead introverts or everyone else.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah....... I wasn't a fan, but that's mostly jealousy talking. As an introvert working in healthcare, it was painful to have to go to work everyday and deal with the dumbest patient population in the history of the country while everyone else got to work from home.

It was like summer school for adults, but even dumber.

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 days ago

Can't have anything that helps people

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Didn't the traditional COVID vaccine have way more issues than the mRNA one?

[–] just2look@lemmy.zip 65 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The mRNA vaccine has a shockingly low rate of side effects or adverse reactions. Nearly all of the negatives were less severe versions of symptoms and impacts from COVID. So even if you were impacted by a negative side effect it was likely you were still better off vaccinated than not.

Banning it has nothing to do with the reality, and everythinf to do with their ignorant and dangerous beliefs.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Somebody needs to infect them both

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