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And then we ingested a bunch of lead through our lungs

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5G hadn’t been invented yet. They had nothing to worry about back then.

/s

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In 1955… Most people personally knew someone aflicted with polio. They knew how bad it was

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In Appalachia, it was unlikely to not know someone on a vent or dead from Covid, yet…

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Fox News tells you not to believe your eyes, and conservatives trust Fox News more than their own eyes.

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Their final, most essential command.

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Why wouldn’t they trust Fox News over their own eyes? Fox News is the most trusted name in news. At least that’s what the viewers get told when they come back from commercial breaks. It’s not like Fox would lie to them. They are the most trusted name in news after all…

Circular logic at its finest.

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I didn’t see anybody die of covid. 2 relatives died after getting the shot tho, of apparently unrelated cause.

Tell me what to believe.

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Trust me. I’ve been along live enough to recognize that if people don’t want to believe something, then they won’t.

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I knew three people who died from COVID and another after they recovered from COVID, unfortunately unless it’s their direct family they would just assume ‘theyre just making it all out to be covid’

I assume most people would blame social media for this, but here’s my c/unpopularopinions take, it’s inevitable with a profit oriented news platform, where they try to scaremonger in both ‘we are all going to die’ and ‘government is putting chips in our bloodstream’ directions

In other nations, unless a blunder by government policy, they werent as affected by the anti vaccine shenanigans, even though they were as affected by social media and such

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Dude my grandmother died of Covid in August pf 2020, and yet my father and his sister who is a nurse and gave her the dease arge to this day weather covid is bullshit or not. AT HER funeral they argued about mask mandates. Maga brains will watch millions die from covid, and polio and still call it fake news.

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And then there’s my ex who after COVID took nearly 9 months (!) to get normal use of their lung again. Fuck people who go all “COVID is bullshit”.

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i mean unless you were like 10, chances are everyone was aware of fdr

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If anything, this should tell us the trolls won.

Or at least have been more successful then they ever should have been.

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Maybe we’re going about this the wrong way. We know what kind of country we live in, a nation of proud, almost patriotic willful ignorance. By design. An laborer ignorant to who is fucking them is a dependable laborer, after all.

So in the spirit of playing to the audience we have, have we tried rebranding the “vaccines” as, and I’m just spitballing here, Freedom Blessings, Robert E Lee Juice, The Joe Rogan Vein Experience, or the Prove You Hate Commies Test?

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I had a thought along the same lines. I was thinking we should coin the term “immunition,” and tell people it was a way to arm your immune system to defend itself. It’s not even all that misleading.

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I think it has more to do with an authority figure telling them to do something. I think we’d have to distract them like we do children getting a shot. Instead of a toy beer we could use a talking revolver?

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children getting a shot. Instead of a toy beer

I think we should stop with the toy beer. Next thing you know they’ll move on to toy heroin.

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Instead of a toy beer we could just give them a real beer.

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I think it has more to do with an authority figure telling them to do something

Which is weird, because they love authority figures

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Get the NRA (the New Resistance Augmentation) into supporting immunition imports!

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I can find no fault in this whatsoever. Nothing else seems to get through to them, not even death.

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How about we rearrange a little and try Joe Rogan Juice? Joe Juice for short. It makes your immune system swole.

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Vaccines protect the workforce and allow individuals to produce more. People being against vaccines cannot be good for capitalism, can it?

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It’s more important to the owners to keep us largely uneducated and ignorant for their own continued dominance than it is to maximize our longevity. Also they would have to pay honet to God taxes to fund public education, something they’ve spent decades installing loopholes to get out of, despite profiting directly from a pre-literate workforce Pool.

Just look at our for profit deathcare system, you would think, as they demand Healthcare largely be tied to employment to keep their employees desperately loyal, that it would be in their best interests to approve claims and keep their labor force healthy enough to labor, but it’s a numbers game and there’s just too much profit to be had, just as with their tax loopholes, in letting laborers die when they get sick or injured rather than approve their claims and letting them eventually recover. That’s a lot of lost profit when they can just replace them with someone ready to work tomorrow.

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Keeping America unhealthy and stupid is good for Russia. Republicans also benefit because they get to keep stupid people on their side, instead of realizing that they should pair up with poor people on the left. Democrats also benefit because splitting the class across two parties helps maintain the status quo.

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Congrats, even this you managed to turn into a class struggle.

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Every struggle is either created by or exacerbated by class struggle.

Many cannot be addressed at all without first addressing class inequity.

Antivaxxers were largely made ignorant by for profit media.

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I think you meant to reply to the parent comment?

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Everything is a class struggle for us poor folk.

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