being wrong in ways that kill people, naturally, is polite

I like to repost my mother-in-law's posts about how she 100% guaranteed Russia wouldn't invade Ukraine. (From 3 months before the start of the Ukraine war.)

Is your aunt dead or does she get to live with the shame and ridicule? If she is dead, then this a definitely a way harder flex than if she isn't.

I deleted my Facebook because I would be going scorched Earth on everyone, mostly family, in my friends list. I don't associate with most of them IRL, but at least I haven't put in writing my true feeling about them and people that think like them. My thoughts are abundantly clear on Lemmy behind the veil of anonymity.

RFK blames Faucci for the measles outbreak and is calling people bad parents for not vaccinating their kids against measles.

When called out about his anti-vaccine rhetoric he's been spouting the last few years, he's crashing out and being defensive about how people are twisting his words / that's not what he said / etc.

Measles was one item. The other was the highly politicized and performative congressional hearing over Fauci's diary where they are foaming at the mouth about all his "lies". One such "lie" was his questioning the usefulness of masks in like Dec 2019. They address that as if that was his unwavering position to this day.

Measles cases are peaking higher than any time in the last 30 years?

They remembered that Faucci exists and that the country was overtaken by the tyranny of us wearing 4 inch pieces of paper on our faces so we don't kill sick people.

Thank you for what you did. It was brave.

I took the vaccine 2 times as soon as it was available and then on the third round I had a severe adverse reaction and was in the hospital for a few days with myocarditis.

I had family members face time me and say “ I told you it was dangerous, now look where you are “

I still encourage people to take the vaccine. I believe my reaction was because I got the flu shot and covid vaccine in the same day.

I still have not had Covid. A few doctors have told me that if I were to get it I’d probably die because of how severe my reaction was to the vaccine. Each time I had it, I had severe pain in my left arm and weird sensations. Then the third time it got me.

I got it November 2019 (I'm pretty certain) as a healthy early-20s in prime fitness and I nearly died alone in my apartment. I have never been that sick before.

I also got the shot and still got it. Thankfully I was home and had family to help. I was out of it for about 4 days. The only times I was awake was when I was coughing so hard I would pass out again. It was the sickest I'd ever been and while I probably wouldn't have died from it, I'm incredibly grateful I didn't have it worse.

I am going insane.

I think the absolute worst part is that I am the one being treated like I'm stupid for being college educated or for just having common sense.

Its like trying to talk and every time you do 20 toddlers scream and shit thier pants at the same time.

There's a minority in the US that is both loud and smells. Unfortunately, they drown the rest of us out, and make a bad taste in everyone else's mouth that I can't blame them for.

The Anti-intellectualism has been a thing for years though, it's suddenly exploded because it hit critical mass and they finally got one of thier guys elected while the rest of us were looking the other way (or in my case, too young to vote.)

Now? Being stupid is being smart. Being contrarian is being patriotic, money is God. Up is down, the sky is green.

I heard a teacher say Moscow was in Ukraine yesterday. No amount of pointing to it on a fucking map could convince her otherwise.

I am. Going. Insane.

Help

"I've been vaccinated so many times I've lost count. Yeah, I'm such a dirty slut for the vax. Pfizer, Moderna, they've all been inside me. Sometimes I don't even know their names - if it's mRNA I let them put it in."

“Talk dirty to me”

“I believe in basic science…”

“Hnnnngh, I’m gonna explode”

Sounds about right.

No one is. MAGA-pilled people act against their own self-interest to own the libs, they think the left must do the same.

Now that RFK is pushing people to get vaccinated, they think the libs must be embarrassed being pro-vaccine.

They aren’t. Do not engage with dipshits and their dipshittery.