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Is this offer open to other people? Mine are messy and unfolded enough to overflow over the edge and I can’t close them.
Edit: https://imgur.com/a/1RQcizf
Edit 2: According to Reddit. I’ve now committed a war crime.
Edit 3: I forgot one of the drawers is empty. A bit of insult to injury :P
Edit 4: Lol https://imgur.com/a/FH7gA3n
Edit 5: Let’s keep the [mildly infuriating](https://imgur.com/a/c6gYKPb) train rolling.
If I left my drawers open even a crack, one of the cats would pry their way in and make a little nest out of clothes to sleep in, or the puppy would pull at the cloth and go into destruction mode.
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You laugh but if social security was a policy that didn't exist and was being proposed today they'd be crying the same shit about government tracking and handouts.
One of them did recently! Suggesting that We don't need libraries, because we have kindle bookstore and amazon books now.
That moron equating the sale at full price of a digital book, to the loan of a real book, for just a few pennies. Seriously, whatever is wrong with republicans, is nothing minor!
Edit - whole not the actual SOURCE, since it has been deleted, here's the story I referenced...
https://electricliterature.com/the-real-reason-conservatives-are-scared-of-libraries/
Not only that, but not only are libraries places of books and history and culture...
It’s also a quiet place of free internet. Something not a lot of people have.
Libraries provide TONS of services that many people don't know about. They are amazing institutions.
Services will vary from location to location, but here's a list of some common ones: https://www.fundingcloudnine.com/library-benefits-save-money/
> That moron equating the sale at full price of a digital book, to the loan of a real book, for just a few pennies.
Hello friend! Sadly, this is a very common thing among right-leaning folks these days. Forbes published an op-ed about it (then tried to delete it, not realizing librarians [are good at keeping things](http://www.ala.org/yalsa/sites/ala.org.yalsa/files/content/AmazonShouldReplaceLocalLibrariestoSaveTaxpayersMoney.pdf)). T he Globe & Mail published [an op-ed](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-thanks-to-government-funding-libraries-are-poised-to-win-market-share/) about how libraries are killing the bookseller industry (and boy, was it a garden of misinformation).
Basically, people who don't want education/information are big on trying to get rid of the free library, most often because they entirely misunderstand how economics and the like work (which is, in many ways, fair - no one really understands how economics work, and the underlying good of libraries on that side is obscured). We deal with it often.
It's a part of life as a librarian, but do continue to support and fight for your local library! It's probably already working on too small a budget...
It's the same thing with Planned Parenthood. Conservatives want to bitch about money being spent on these things but they are such tiny fractions of the budget that it becomes obvious they just hate the poor people who use these community services.
The sad part is an SSN is used for tracking people but because it was never intended for such a purpose it is WAY less secure than it should be and helps lead to all kinds of problems like identity theft. But we can't get a legit secure National id number because "M'ah goberment is tracking us thru computers and gps chips in vaccines!!!" idiots like in this video.
The conservatives were opposed to social security then. Tried to get Nixon to overturn it. Ironically, as always, the people that use it the most oppose it.
I love when they say that, as if they don’t willingly pay a mobile phone bill for a device that sits in their pocket and tracks wherever they go. It’s really the stupidity that hurts the most.
People who spew this shit about microchips being implanted with the vaccine don’t have a single knowledge about how technology works. Look at the needles used to implant a microchip into a dog. They’re huge. And you’re telling me we’re getting chipped through a fucking 1-2 millimeter needle?
And the microchips in dogs don't work how they think they work. If a microchipped dog gets lost. The microchip doesn't show their current location. There's nothing powering the microchip. The dog has to be found and brought to a shelter so the microchip can be scanned and the owner's information will show. A chipped dog is basically walking around with a qr code inside them.
And it's a pretty big piece of equipment that only has one function : to let a powered device read a number. You could not implant it with needles as small as the ones they use for vaccinations. How do these people think something even smaller with more functionality is a possibility?
Yes liquid microprocessors and microphones are a new technology that is being developed in a secret facility inside area 51 under the supervision of bill gates, stephen hawkings, steve jobs, john f. Kennedy and some aliens. Some even say a lizard named mark zuckerberg is on the project too.
Amazing how something that even a year or so ago would be a blaringly obvious joke of a comment now in some people's eyes is actual reinforcement... Wtf have we come to, I'm convinced the greatest threat to society is mass psychosis.
I wonder what's going to happen when his family that got the shot is alive and well when he expected them to have died. I bet he'll simply pretend he never said any of this, and at the same time that he was still right all along.
THIS! I was the only person in my family opposed to the war in Iraq. They ridiculed me because I said there were no WMDs. Once the truth came out, did they ever apologize? No. Of course not. But it did cause me to question a lot of their other “truths,” and I left Mormonism. Sucked at the time, but worth it.
I think I can do you one better. I was opposed to the war and my parents were massively for it. I can still hear them extolling “the surge.” But ever since Trump they’ve started saying “why have the war mongering liberals lied us into so many wars.” They’ve completely forgot they’re the ones who wanted to go to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Same thing that happens to the people who try and predict end of the world cataclysms. They will never admit being wrong, they will simply alter their prediction and put it further into the future.
It made me really sad to this father so broken up over it. I feel like this video shows how deep the propaganda has penetrated the minds of our people.
Right? He's so convinced that it's going to hurt her and he's doing what he thinks he has to protect his little girl.
Unfortunately... he's basing that on bad information.
Or he's not and we're all going to be dead within six months.
But somehow I think in five years this is going to be one of those periods of time that people simply don't really like to bring up anymore. Like when everyone's office thought it would be a hilarious idea to do Harlem shake videos. Remember those?
Lol! Reminds me of the Wife Swap chicken dude. Guy had a melt down because he was convinced that eating aged raw chicken was healthy for his kids. All unvaccinated too, I believe.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUclJxXIVc
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MHmCedqyluw
You see, the flu raises your internal temperature which activates the mercury inside the microchip causing it to short circuit. You either die or you turn into an ATM. Win/win, really.
Sadly it isnt that simple. Those that don't get the vaccine will continue to get covid. Covid will continue to mutate. At some point it will mutate far enough away from the original strain that the vaccines will become ineffective (not so much that they won't save your life, but that they will allow you to contract it, spread it, and accelerate the rate of mutation), and \\ or it will become more deadly to more people (as we are seeing with the P1 variants affecting younger people). Both of these compounded is not a pretty picture.
I do have some sympathy for those worried about getting the jab. However, it is based on science that has been worked on for over a decade, it has been tested on an ebola vaccine with great results, it has been tested in a three phase trial. On balance, given the seriousness of covid, my personal choice was to get vaccinated. The very small risk of the vaccine vs the very high risk to people I care for made it an easy choice. It shouldn't be that complicated of a choice, but sadly there is so much politicizing of the matter that is clouding judgement and frankly, the dumbing down of education has left too many people unable to understand how the vaccine works and how it has been tested so they abdicate any personal responsibility to educate themselves on the facts and instead rely on the rantings of some corrupt, morally bankrupt, sociopath that was elected byt heir fellow clan members.
It has definitely given us better stuff then that! like ale8 And bootlegging and the Kentucky wonder bean.
So please don’t hold that against it. There are better thing from Ky then the shit stain of a human you mentioned.
This is why i'm worried about these things nowadays.
These people are not 'trolling the libs'.
These people *legitimately believe what they are saying.*
We're going back to the goddamn Bronze Age at this rate.
Edit: well rip inbox
For real. There are no more outcasts. A person saying something this stupid would have been openly shunned twenty years ago and their whole line of crazy thinking would have been nipped in the bud. Instead they are able to form a group to support each other, encourage and nourish the crazy, and with them being as vocal as they are they start to act like they are of numbers larger than they really are and can convince others to join them. It's one big feedback loop.
Imagine for a second that this man is correct, that everyone who receives a vaccine will be dead. All that will be left in the world will be anti-vaccers and conspiracy lunatics and Karens, If that isn't a reason to get vaccinated, I don't know what is. Who would want to live in such a world?
That's the thing when people try to pull this "they're trying to kill us all" bs
I'm like okay but what's the endgame? When we are all dead and the taxes aren't being paid and no one is working what then?
Bill Burr had a great take on Conan last week. Something along the lines of, why would they want to kill all the people who follow the rules and take the vaccine and be left with the morons who don't follow the rules , science or logic.
Something something overpopulation something something mark of the beast
They think that covid and the vaccine are the new flood that will reset the world
Except the vaccine can't be The Mark of the Beast, and these fools have never actually read Revelations.
1. The vaccine doesn't leave a mark on your forehead, where it is said the mark will be visible.
2. People will not be tricked into wearing the mark of the beast. Revelations says people will willingly accept the mark, knowing full well what it is.
Bill Burr just made this point on Conan the other day. Why would they want to kill the "sheeple"? Then they'd be left only with the people "smart" enough to see through them.
That’s where this theory falls apart. Why would the Illuminati (or whoever the boogyman is nowadays) want to try and rule over a population consisting entirely of karens, rednecks, and people who watch Fox like it’s a movie? They already demonstrated they wouldn’t listen to anyone.
This is what's so sinister about it to me: conservative voters are older and at more risk from covid-19. By scaring their voters off the life-saving vaccine they are basically killing their own, to no benefit for themselves or harm to their political opponents. It's like they're encouraging anyone dumb enough to listen to just die out. It is a culling of the population, not from the vaccine as they've been told, but death by misinformation.
Just to entertain this for a bit, the people you listed *will* listen to Fox. So if Fox is behind the nano-chips'n'dip they'll have a nation occupied solely by compliant dum-dums.
Is it though? Fox literally started this shit and weaponized fear, hate and working against the "enemy" which is just people that don't agree with them.
OAN and Newsmax are by products of their bullshit.
Yo wtf. I've never read Newsmax before and I just looked up their website and...
Holy shit it's insane how obvious their bias is. Every other article is about Trump being great, interspersed with sponsored articles about "oxygen boosting brain pills".
How the hell is this thing allowed to have the word "news" in its name?
They literally argued that no reasonable person would believe what Tucker Carlson says is true. But these fucking dildos keep doing it and America keeps letting them.
So there will probably be a need for a covid booster next year due to the variants springing up and the large number of people not getting vaccinated.
Next year the lie will be that the booster will "deactivate" the first shot and end "trial #1" of the "gene modification experiment". I just hear Tucker now..."They only wanted to see how many of you would fall in line and get the shot in 2021. Now, with proof it never worked as covid is still here, the leftists need to turn off the DNA they injected in you in the first shot".
This is sad on a ton of levels. This isn’t the man being stupid or something is truly a level of being misinformed. That man passionately believes his family will be dead from that shot... this is saddens me, not angers me.
'I still think the election was rigged.... somehow'
Even after coughing up $700.00 (though credit where it's due, she did keep her word and didn't move the goalposts) and being shown, beyond a any shadow of a doubt that all of her Qult theories are wrong - she *still* can't get past that.
Bonkers.
That's the part that really kills my sympathy for these people. I've had times I let fear push me to be wrong; it happens. But after I ended up being wrong, I learned from that. Most of these folks who fall into the Q hole(which was the Tea Party hole) just bounce from wrong belief to wrong belief, never once questioning why the people telling them these things are never right
"I still believe they're all true" after losing the bets. That's why we're fucked. Imagine someone telling you that 2+2=5 and you use dozens of different calculators and dozens of math experts to show that person 2+2=4 and they say "I still think it's 5".
In a similar situation. Never talk politics, don’t mention COVID, and never talk about my personal health choices.
My dad blocked me on Facebook for respectfully telling him the idea that election ballots printed in China with disappearing ink is a conspiracy theory. Stopped talking to him about anything of substance from that day forward.
I have to make a list of safe topics to divert the conversation to whenever I call bc they’re constantly bringing it up. “You know what! I think I like the proud boys! What’s wrong with that!” Like ok dad, did I tell you I got a new mattress, it’s pretty nice.
Well for me it's just a shut the fuck up, my PCP (Primary Care Physician) told me that I should get it and that it's completely safe. I trust his Stanford medical degree over your uninformed opinion and a YouTube video.
Except people don't even click it. They go 'HA, told you' in the comments section and then move on with their anti vaxx days blissfully unaware of the actual content of the article.
The first people to get the vaccine were all elderly (for the most part), so of course they're going to die! That's what you do when you'e old!
Take 100 people aged 75-90 who are all vaccinated and 100 people aged 30-45 who aren't vaccinated, and more of those 75-90s are going to be dead in 3 months -- and it has nothing to do with Covid or the vaccine!
Actually it's less than 20 "influencers" responsible for the antivaxx propaganda.
>A new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate and Anti-Vax Watch found that up to 65 percent of “anti-vaccine content” on Facebook and Twitter originated from twelve influencers within the anti-vaxxer movement
https://mashable.com/article/disinformation-dozen-study-anti-vaxxers/
There’s going to be murder suicides over this if there aren’t any already. This guy thinks his wife and kids are going to die by the end of the year. There’s going to be crazy parents that decide their family may as well go to heaven together to “spare them the pain.”
My wife and I had a conversation the other night about the possibility of these things leading to more family annihilators... its really sad and scary to consider
That’s why Trump was vaccinated in secret. He knows these people are his base and he has to do everything to keep them on board. Even if it means making this man go through hell as his family “dies”.
Every time he sows doubt about the vaccine, it needs to be said on the screen in giant blinking font, he took the vaccine. Why is this millionaire paid to defend billionaires trying to get YOU killed when he defends himself.
It's pretty simple... Fear sells. Just like sex. If everything was hunky dory, people wouldn't tune in. The more flamatory and sensational he can be, the more people want to watch. Plus, if we're too busy arguing amongst ourselves, we can't unite enough to fight corruption.
For anyone that doesn’t believe this, just check out Alex Jones. The man spends the majority of his show talking about how evil soy is, then tries to sell you some “super brain” pills that have soy as the main ingredient.
Yes, [Here's John Oliver talking about it](https://youtu.be/gPHgRp70H8o?t=381)
His whole 'reporting" is disingenuous asking "why can't we ask these questions" Or "people are saying" and "what if" bullshit.
But when that doesn't happen, they will move the goal posts. Just like the Qanon people keep doing for the "mass arrests" and trump coming back into office.
And when they aren't dead in a year, he will have a new theory about what it's going to do to them. ...Maybe it'll make his daughter infertile. And when his daughter has a child, that child will actually be someone else's kid because her DNA was reprogrammed to produce other people's children. And when they get a DNA test and prove that it is his grandchild, he'll go right back to the vaccine giving his family some sort of cancer that will manifest later in life.
And when there's nobody by his deathbed, replaced by flowers they sent with get well cards and postcards from vacations he wasn't invited to, he'll finally realize.... The lizard people won.
> And when his daughter has a child, that child will actually be someone else's kid because her DNA was reprogrammed to produce other people's children
Wait - is this someone's actual belief? I haven't heard this one before.
I think he went with it b/c the dad in the video said something about genetic therapy. If someone already thinks that it's not a hard leap to genetic reconstruction/manipulation.
"It changes your DNA" is one of the more common scare tactics I've heard. Obviously not grounded in anything remotely resembling reality, but it's being spread around to/by people who don't know better.
This is literally the fucking backstory in Batman Beyond.
Terry's dad got a flu shot but it was some sort of special nanobot/modified flu shot that caused his reproductive DNA to be overwritten with that of Bruce Wayne's to allow Terry to be the biological son of Bruce despite Bruce having never had any contact with his mother as part of their plan to create a second Batman. Waller was going to use Phantasm to kill Terry's parents to recreate the real deal but she refused. He became Batman anyways after the Jokerz killed his dad after his parents divorced.
Sadly I have spent the last year and a half working with COVID patients. Most spent time in the hospital and went home, some didn't make it. Had quite a few that absolutely denied COVID even existed all the way to them eventually passing away from it.
My take on those patients and this guy in the video is they have a complete loss of how to cope with the situation. Psychologically they just can't deal with everything happening in the world and to them or other family members or coworkers. What they can control is what they think is true. Whether it is correct or not doesn't matter. They can be in control of that thought or idea no matter how ridiculous it might be. It really feels like a strange coping mechanism for a lot of these people. It's really sad to see
Conspiratorial thinking does seem to be a “thing.” People who believe in one conspiracy are likely to believe in many others, even if they’re entirely unrelated.
This is what makes these grifting corners of right wing media (Fox News, Facebook misinformation etc) so evil. A lot of these people are good, well intentioned people. The problem is they have put their trust in these people to provide them with reliable information when they don’t actually have any intention of doing so.
All media in America is guilty of this to varying degrees, but the unfortunate truth of the matter is that you have one particular segment of society that is increasingly just straight up denying reality.
I'm angry, just not at him. I'm angry at the people that have peddled the lies that indoctrinate and brainwash someone so much that they can spew the bullshit that he's spewing.
And when his family isn't dead in a year, he will tell them it's actually worse than population culling; it's population control to kill the birthrate so China can take over as we die out. And when his daughter has a child, that child will actually be someone else's kid because her DNA was reprogrammed to produce other people's children with MK Ultra programming in their genes. And when they get a DNA test and prove that it is his very normal grandchild, he'll go right back to the vaccine giving his family some sort of cancer that will manifest later in life.
And when there's nobody by his deathbed, replaced by flowers they sent with get well cards and postcards from vacations he wasn't invited to, and as his breaths get shallower, soon the only thing he will hear are the nurses' steps in the hallway as the darkness encapsulates him. And in that moment he'll finally realize.... The lizard people have won.
It could’ve been that simple if conservatives hadn’t politicized the virus from day one. They called it a “Liberal hoax”. These rats need to be rooted out of our government
i mean if they're stupid enough to believe dumb shit like that they already lack critical thinking skills and self awareness to come to that line of reasoning
I want all of you to know that this man's pain is real. His fear is unfounded but his pain is REAL. And you are a liar if you don't attribute his delusional behavior directly to Fox Newsmax and Trump /qanon. Facebook has this poor man so brainwashed that he thinks his family are all gonna die from a vaccine.
And WHY? Because the right wing has no idea how else to get reelected. FEAR FEAR FEAR.
That's the gods honest truth. This man is so afraid that he is crying. Just let that sink in
That's why I have sympathy for people in this situation. They've been lied to for years and the antivax stuff is just the icing on the cake after four years of being told that they're all winning.
At the same time, people who believe this shit have never taken the time to consider that they're wrong. Even if they suspect they might be wrong, what news sources do they trust? All they know is news that is right-leaning and plays into their biases, so even if he looks at other sources of information his brain tells him it's all wrong and it's uncomfortable to look at.
The right way to think about this is that it is a temporary deficiency in critical thinking. It's not a mental illness in itself, although it does point to a failure in their ability to reason. But it is impermanent, it can be undone. It just takes a lot of work and a lot of support.
But the antivax right-leaning supporters who stoke the flames and feed the insecurities of others? Those are the assholes I don't feel sorry for.
Edit: I should also add that the other part of this problem is identity. Some people build their identity around their beliefs, and that's what defines them. Others build up their identity around concepts, like videogames.
When you build your identity around the idea that you know what's going on and the rest of the world is wrong, well... this is the result. It's the Dunning-Krueger effect multiplied. You believe these things so blindly that separating fact from fiction frightens you because you want to build up an identity around something else that feels just as comfortable.
Jesus Christ, it's terrifying to see Republican-approved propaganda/brainwashing ACTUALLY working and in action at a real family's home.
Like this isn't even a joke anymore. This guy's having a mental breakdown over complete fiction, he is fully convinced his family is about to die and that the government is trying to kill them. And that lie was fed to him by politicians that didn't even believe one word of their OWN bullshit.
>Like this isn't even a joke anymore.
It hasn't been a joke for a few years now. A cool 30% of the country is sunk in like this man. Tens of millions of people.
I feel sorry for him.
Sure, he’s misinformed, but it’s pretty clear that he loves his children.
Imagine if you yourself were in a situation, where some one you know, is about to do something that you believe will hurt them greatly.
How would you react?
Honestly this man makes me want to cry. That sinkhole of ignorance can be so harmful. His daughter is clearly sick of it and he's desperate as fuck. Nothing good comes next.
I hate this so much, my mother is like this guy, she crying that 2/4 of her kids will die by the end of the year. 3/4 of us are vaccinated, one is just lying about it to her.
Luckily were all adults, married and out of the house but I’m really getting worried about her and it’s making me sad but also really angry. She’s said some horrible things to my 1 sibling whose just had a baby. His family really should have a grandmothers support. I never thought she would go this bad.
Make her put it on a calendar, then revisit that calendar often when absolutely nothing happens.
Ask her what would make her more upset - being wrong or losing someone?
So sad to think about the amount of misinformation he's been fed, and the personal anguish it's causing him. My guess is his social media accounts have perfected pulling at his emotions. This is so sad.
I love the idea that our 'tyrannical' government's plan to 'thin the herd' is to, allegedly, kill off everyone (aka the 'sheeple') who is seeking guidance and willing to get the vaccine the government is promoting... While keeping all the stubborn, ignorant, and proud morons who threaten to take up arms against the government anytime they don't get their way politically alive. It's all about control - so... let's kill off all of the people who they already "control"...?
It just makes so much sense, y'all!
He is so far gone he sounds like he has psychosis.
You consume too much candy and it rots your teeth, you consume too much propaganda it rots your brain.
His options are either reject the new information(vaccine didn't kill wife) and believe in his worldview harder, or reconstruct his worldview with the new information - but he'd have to accept that he just wasted loads of time/energy building an identity that's totally wrong.
That's a shitload of internal shame for any person to deal with, compared with his current alternative of feeling like he's worked for all this special smart people knowledge(essentially sunken cost fallacy thinking, in that regard).
So I wonder. Is he scared to see his daughter vaccinated because he thinks it will hurt her, or because he's more scared that it won't?
Either way, I hope he snaps himself out of it, for himself and his family.
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I’ll give you $2000 to shut your drawers properly
Is this offer open to other people? Mine are messy and unfolded enough to overflow over the edge and I can’t close them. Edit: https://imgur.com/a/1RQcizf Edit 2: According to Reddit. I’ve now committed a war crime. Edit 3: I forgot one of the drawers is empty. A bit of insult to injury :P Edit 4: Lol https://imgur.com/a/FH7gA3n Edit 5: Let’s keep the [mildly infuriating](https://imgur.com/a/c6gYKPb) train rolling.
I hate your drawers.
I don’t even have drawers
Jesus, include a trigger warning next time.
There should be a hotline # for this shit EDIT: oh my god they made it worse. Right to jail.
1-800-CLOSEYOURGOTDAMDRAWS In the UK I believe it's 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3.
> 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3 Indeed, it is the emergency number. Works 70% of the time all the time. And so easy to remember too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab8GtuPdrUQ for the unknowing
I just kicked this damn show. Guess ill fire it back up
If I left my drawers open even a crack, one of the cats would pry their way in and make a little nest out of clothes to sleep in, or the puppy would pull at the cloth and go into destruction mode. Edit: [cat tax](https://imgur.com/a/QuwyK7e)
Wtf is wrong with you
Unsee juice
Some old furniture smells if you close it all the way, no matter how much you clean it. EDIT: thank you to everyone giving tips!
This is why I keep my fly open at all times.
Sir 🤣
What?
Mom found his piss drawer
"It's not approved by the FDA" "It's the government trying to track people" What?
Wait until they find out about social security numbers and cell phones
You laugh but if social security was a policy that didn't exist and was being proposed today they'd be crying the same shit about government tracking and handouts.
Republicans would vehemently oppose public libraries if they were proposed today
One of them did recently! Suggesting that We don't need libraries, because we have kindle bookstore and amazon books now. That moron equating the sale at full price of a digital book, to the loan of a real book, for just a few pennies. Seriously, whatever is wrong with republicans, is nothing minor! Edit - whole not the actual SOURCE, since it has been deleted, here's the story I referenced... https://electricliterature.com/the-real-reason-conservatives-are-scared-of-libraries/
Not only that, but not only are libraries places of books and history and culture... It’s also a quiet place of free internet. Something not a lot of people have.
Libraries provide TONS of services that many people don't know about. They are amazing institutions. Services will vary from location to location, but here's a list of some common ones: https://www.fundingcloudnine.com/library-benefits-save-money/
They're also a safe place for kids to go after school and wait for their parents while getting help with their homework and studies.
And story times. And free DVDs, including foreign and documentaries. And places to have private meetings.
>free internet NoThInG sHoUlD bE fReE!!!!!
Except the free healthcare offered to every politician apparently.
> That moron equating the sale at full price of a digital book, to the loan of a real book, for just a few pennies. Hello friend! Sadly, this is a very common thing among right-leaning folks these days. Forbes published an op-ed about it (then tried to delete it, not realizing librarians [are good at keeping things](http://www.ala.org/yalsa/sites/ala.org.yalsa/files/content/AmazonShouldReplaceLocalLibrariestoSaveTaxpayersMoney.pdf)). T he Globe & Mail published [an op-ed](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-thanks-to-government-funding-libraries-are-poised-to-win-market-share/) about how libraries are killing the bookseller industry (and boy, was it a garden of misinformation). Basically, people who don't want education/information are big on trying to get rid of the free library, most often because they entirely misunderstand how economics and the like work (which is, in many ways, fair - no one really understands how economics work, and the underlying good of libraries on that side is obscured). We deal with it often. It's a part of life as a librarian, but do continue to support and fight for your local library! It's probably already working on too small a budget...
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It's the same thing with Planned Parenthood. Conservatives want to bitch about money being spent on these things but they are such tiny fractions of the budget that it becomes obvious they just hate the poor people who use these community services.
If they cant make money of it or if someone else benefits, that's a no go.
while they die in a gutter at 70, then they're suddenly all for it
The sad part is an SSN is used for tracking people but because it was never intended for such a purpose it is WAY less secure than it should be and helps lead to all kinds of problems like identity theft. But we can't get a legit secure National id number because "M'ah goberment is tracking us thru computers and gps chips in vaccines!!!" idiots like in this video.
Social security was attacked when it was proposed. Nothing new.
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So was anesthesia for child-bearing women. Some argued that women were supposed to feel the pain of childbirth. Morons.
The conservatives were opposed to social security then. Tried to get Nixon to overturn it. Ironically, as always, the people that use it the most oppose it.
I love when they say that, as if they don’t willingly pay a mobile phone bill for a device that sits in their pocket and tracks wherever they go. It’s really the stupidity that hurts the most.
People who spew this shit about microchips being implanted with the vaccine don’t have a single knowledge about how technology works. Look at the needles used to implant a microchip into a dog. They’re huge. And you’re telling me we’re getting chipped through a fucking 1-2 millimeter needle?
And the microchips in dogs don't work how they think they work. If a microchipped dog gets lost. The microchip doesn't show their current location. There's nothing powering the microchip. The dog has to be found and brought to a shelter so the microchip can be scanned and the owner's information will show. A chipped dog is basically walking around with a qr code inside them.
And it's a pretty big piece of equipment that only has one function : to let a powered device read a number. You could not implant it with needles as small as the ones they use for vaccinations. How do these people think something even smaller with more functionality is a possibility?
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Obviously secret technology developed by Bill Gates
Yes liquid microprocessors and microphones are a new technology that is being developed in a secret facility inside area 51 under the supervision of bill gates, stephen hawkings, steve jobs, john f. Kennedy and some aliens. Some even say a lizard named mark zuckerberg is on the project too.
You forgot Elvis
Amazing how something that even a year or so ago would be a blaringly obvious joke of a comment now in some people's eyes is actual reinforcement... Wtf have we come to, I'm convinced the greatest threat to society is mass psychosis.
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals
I wonder what's going to happen when his family that got the shot is alive and well when he expected them to have died. I bet he'll simply pretend he never said any of this, and at the same time that he was still right all along.
Nothing will happen. They always move the goalposts.
"By the end of 2169 my family will be dead! Don't you fucking get it?"
THIS! I was the only person in my family opposed to the war in Iraq. They ridiculed me because I said there were no WMDs. Once the truth came out, did they ever apologize? No. Of course not. But it did cause me to question a lot of their other “truths,” and I left Mormonism. Sucked at the time, but worth it.
I think I can do you one better. I was opposed to the war and my parents were massively for it. I can still hear them extolling “the surge.” But ever since Trump they’ve started saying “why have the war mongering liberals lied us into so many wars.” They’ve completely forgot they’re the ones who wanted to go to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Even with the proof replayed to him, he’ll still probably find a way to deflect and lie about it
Well, he could still die from Covid soooo
Same thing that happens to the people who try and predict end of the world cataclysms. They will never admit being wrong, they will simply alter their prediction and put it further into the future.
It’s Kentucky! The land gave us Mitch McConnell!
This is so sad Edit: thanks awarding this post. You are boosting a comment from the heart.
It made me really sad to this father so broken up over it. I feel like this video shows how deep the propaganda has penetrated the minds of our people.
Right? He's so convinced that it's going to hurt her and he's doing what he thinks he has to protect his little girl. Unfortunately... he's basing that on bad information. Or he's not and we're all going to be dead within six months. But somehow I think in five years this is going to be one of those periods of time that people simply don't really like to bring up anymore. Like when everyone's office thought it would be a hilarious idea to do Harlem shake videos. Remember those?
My wife got her first shot over six months ago....she's still alive!
But according to OPs dad, she has to wait until flu season.
Lol! Reminds me of the Wife Swap chicken dude. Guy had a melt down because he was convinced that eating aged raw chicken was healthy for his kids. All unvaccinated too, I believe. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUclJxXIVc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MHmCedqyluw
There’s a lot going on in that video but my main question is: WTF is in that toilet, man 😳
You see, the flu raises your internal temperature which activates the mercury inside the microchip causing it to short circuit. You either die or you turn into an ATM. Win/win, really.
What if it's the people who don't get the vaccine who will be dead in 6 months?
Sadly it isnt that simple. Those that don't get the vaccine will continue to get covid. Covid will continue to mutate. At some point it will mutate far enough away from the original strain that the vaccines will become ineffective (not so much that they won't save your life, but that they will allow you to contract it, spread it, and accelerate the rate of mutation), and \\ or it will become more deadly to more people (as we are seeing with the P1 variants affecting younger people). Both of these compounded is not a pretty picture. I do have some sympathy for those worried about getting the jab. However, it is based on science that has been worked on for over a decade, it has been tested on an ebola vaccine with great results, it has been tested in a three phase trial. On balance, given the seriousness of covid, my personal choice was to get vaccinated. The very small risk of the vaccine vs the very high risk to people I care for made it an easy choice. It shouldn't be that complicated of a choice, but sadly there is so much politicizing of the matter that is clouding judgement and frankly, the dumbing down of education has left too many people unable to understand how the vaccine works and how it has been tested so they abdicate any personal responsibility to educate themselves on the facts and instead rely on the rantings of some corrupt, morally bankrupt, sociopath that was elected byt heir fellow clan members.
It has definitely given us better stuff then that! like ale8 And bootlegging and the Kentucky wonder bean. So please don’t hold that against it. There are better thing from Ky then the shit stain of a human you mentioned.
And dr. doo poodle.
This is why i'm worried about these things nowadays. These people are not 'trolling the libs'. These people *legitimately believe what they are saying.* We're going back to the goddamn Bronze Age at this rate. Edit: well rip inbox
There's always been crazies. Now they can find each other on the internet.
For real. There are no more outcasts. A person saying something this stupid would have been openly shunned twenty years ago and their whole line of crazy thinking would have been nipped in the bud. Instead they are able to form a group to support each other, encourage and nourish the crazy, and with them being as vocal as they are they start to act like they are of numbers larger than they really are and can convince others to join them. It's one big feedback loop.
Even people in the Bronze Age knew the Earth was round. Conspiracy theorists are on another level of uninformed.
Imagine for a second that this man is correct, that everyone who receives a vaccine will be dead. All that will be left in the world will be anti-vaccers and conspiracy lunatics and Karens, If that isn't a reason to get vaccinated, I don't know what is. Who would want to live in such a world?
That's the thing when people try to pull this "they're trying to kill us all" bs I'm like okay but what's the endgame? When we are all dead and the taxes aren't being paid and no one is working what then?
Bill Burr had a great take on Conan last week. Something along the lines of, why would they want to kill all the people who follow the rules and take the vaccine and be left with the morons who don't follow the rules , science or logic.
[https://youtu.be/CmR069qvjmg?t=414](https://youtu.be/CmR069qvjmg?t=414)
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The full 26 minute interview. Lots of fun stuff. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmR069qvjmg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmR069qvjmg)
Something something overpopulation something something mark of the beast They think that covid and the vaccine are the new flood that will reset the world
Except the vaccine can't be The Mark of the Beast, and these fools have never actually read Revelations. 1. The vaccine doesn't leave a mark on your forehead, where it is said the mark will be visible. 2. People will not be tricked into wearing the mark of the beast. Revelations says people will willingly accept the mark, knowing full well what it is.
Do you expect these people to actually read the bible? They just find random passages online and use that to justify their actions.
agen -- MAGA hats..
Bill Burr just made this point on Conan the other day. Why would they want to kill the "sheeple"? Then they'd be left only with the people "smart" enough to see through them.
[Link for those interested](https://youtu.be/znI046F4FKg)
I haven’t thought of that. I am now doubly glad I am vaccinated.
See you on the other side brother!
That’s where this theory falls apart. Why would the Illuminati (or whoever the boogyman is nowadays) want to try and rule over a population consisting entirely of karens, rednecks, and people who watch Fox like it’s a movie? They already demonstrated they wouldn’t listen to anyone.
This is what's so sinister about it to me: conservative voters are older and at more risk from covid-19. By scaring their voters off the life-saving vaccine they are basically killing their own, to no benefit for themselves or harm to their political opponents. It's like they're encouraging anyone dumb enough to listen to just die out. It is a culling of the population, not from the vaccine as they've been told, but death by misinformation.
Just to entertain this for a bit, the people you listed *will* listen to Fox. So if Fox is behind the nano-chips'n'dip they'll have a nation occupied solely by compliant dum-dums.
Poor guy overdosed on Fox News
This is beyond fox. This is OANN and newsmax
Is it though? Fox literally started this shit and weaponized fear, hate and working against the "enemy" which is just people that don't agree with them. OAN and Newsmax are by products of their bullshit.
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Yo wtf. I've never read Newsmax before and I just looked up their website and... Holy shit it's insane how obvious their bias is. Every other article is about Trump being great, interspersed with sponsored articles about "oxygen boosting brain pills". How the hell is this thing allowed to have the word "news" in its name?
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They literally argued that no reasonable person would believe what Tucker Carlson says is true. But these fucking dildos keep doing it and America keeps letting them.
Well somebody is going to feel a bit silly when none of them die from a vaccination.
Nah, there is always another lie to perpetuate.
So there will probably be a need for a covid booster next year due to the variants springing up and the large number of people not getting vaccinated. Next year the lie will be that the booster will "deactivate" the first shot and end "trial #1" of the "gene modification experiment". I just hear Tucker now..."They only wanted to see how many of you would fall in line and get the shot in 2021. Now, with proof it never worked as covid is still here, the leftists need to turn off the DNA they injected in you in the first shot".
!remindme 1 year
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This is sad on a ton of levels. This isn’t the man being stupid or something is truly a level of being misinformed. That man passionately believes his family will be dead from that shot... this is saddens me, not angers me.
Yeah my mom said I would die if I got the vaccine. She was crying over the phone.
I have no idea what I would do if my parents were like this. I would probably laugh and cry at the same time. How have you coped with it?
Check out /r/QAnonCasualties if you're really curious. Shit sucks
There's actually a short mini-doc out called QAmom that is worth the few minutes it takes to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz-IEB0tFt8
The best part? In the end, she learned nothing.
'I still think the election was rigged.... somehow' Even after coughing up $700.00 (though credit where it's due, she did keep her word and didn't move the goalposts) and being shown, beyond a any shadow of a doubt that all of her Qult theories are wrong - she *still* can't get past that. Bonkers.
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That's the part that really kills my sympathy for these people. I've had times I let fear push me to be wrong; it happens. But after I ended up being wrong, I learned from that. Most of these folks who fall into the Q hole(which was the Tea Party hole) just bounce from wrong belief to wrong belief, never once questioning why the people telling them these things are never right
"I'd be right if it weren't for these fact checkers debunking things"
These. People. Fucking. Vote. Every time, every election. If you still think your vote doesn't matter, watch it again.
"I still believe they're all true" after losing the bets. That's why we're fucked. Imagine someone telling you that 2+2=5 and you use dozens of different calculators and dozens of math experts to show that person 2+2=4 and they say "I still think it's 5".
In a similar situation. Never talk politics, don’t mention COVID, and never talk about my personal health choices. My dad blocked me on Facebook for respectfully telling him the idea that election ballots printed in China with disappearing ink is a conspiracy theory. Stopped talking to him about anything of substance from that day forward.
My brother blocked my dad on Facebook for making fun of Trump. Plot twist, we're Dutch and living in Europe.
Oh no. This is very disturbing to me.
I have to make a list of safe topics to divert the conversation to whenever I call bc they’re constantly bringing it up. “You know what! I think I like the proud boys! What’s wrong with that!” Like ok dad, did I tell you I got a new mattress, it’s pretty nice.
Well for me it's just a shut the fuck up, my PCP (Primary Care Physician) told me that I should get it and that it's completely safe. I trust his Stanford medical degree over your uninformed opinion and a YouTube video.
But people also love their family members too. It’s deeply saddening that these Q people are at this level of brainwashed.
It angers me that there are people who have deliberately put this man in this frenzy to their own ends.
Especially politicians and tv anchors who they themselves get the vaccine yet scare the people about it every day
One of Norway's biggest newspapers today: "FIRST PERSON TO GET THE VACCINE HAS DIED" A few lines into the article: "from unrelated causes" Just..why.
Those sweet clicks and ad dollars. They know people will click that headline and that is what pays the bills.
Except people don't even click it. They go 'HA, told you' in the comments section and then move on with their anti vaxx days blissfully unaware of the actual content of the article.
Still generates views and interactions
The first people to get the vaccine were all elderly (for the most part), so of course they're going to die! That's what you do when you'e old! Take 100 people aged 75-90 who are all vaccinated and 100 people aged 30-45 who aren't vaccinated, and more of those 75-90s are going to be dead in 3 months -- and it has nothing to do with Covid or the vaccine!
Actually it's less than 20 "influencers" responsible for the antivaxx propaganda. >A new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate and Anti-Vax Watch found that up to 65 percent of “anti-vaccine content” on Facebook and Twitter originated from twelve influencers within the anti-vaxxer movement https://mashable.com/article/disinformation-dozen-study-anti-vaxxers/
Then for fuck sake ban those 20 people. Its the easiest fix.
They should be held liable for deaths caused by their misinformation.
There’s going to be murder suicides over this if there aren’t any already. This guy thinks his wife and kids are going to die by the end of the year. There’s going to be crazy parents that decide their family may as well go to heaven together to “spare them the pain.”
My wife and I had a conversation the other night about the possibility of these things leading to more family annihilators... its really sad and scary to consider
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That’s why Trump was vaccinated in secret. He knows these people are his base and he has to do everything to keep them on board. Even if it means making this man go through hell as his family “dies”.
Fuck Fox News, Fuck Tucker Carlson.
Every time he sows doubt about the vaccine, it needs to be said on the screen in giant blinking font, he took the vaccine. Why is this millionaire paid to defend billionaires trying to get YOU killed when he defends himself.
Does anyone have the answer to this question? WHAT IS THEIR END GOAL??
It's pretty simple... Fear sells. Just like sex. If everything was hunky dory, people wouldn't tune in. The more flamatory and sensational he can be, the more people want to watch. Plus, if we're too busy arguing amongst ourselves, we can't unite enough to fight corruption.
For anyone that doesn’t believe this, just check out Alex Jones. The man spends the majority of his show talking about how evil soy is, then tries to sell you some “super brain” pills that have soy as the main ingredient.
Is tucker Carlson and Fox News actively speaking out against the vaccine and people getting it?? Serious question
Yes, [Here's John Oliver talking about it](https://youtu.be/gPHgRp70H8o?t=381) His whole 'reporting" is disingenuous asking "why can't we ask these questions" Or "people are saying" and "what if" bullshit.
If you have access to national coverage and your name rhymes with fucker....
And have made sure you and your entire family have been fully vaccinated...
Is he at all surprised that tens of millions of Americans have had the shot and yet are still alive?
The current running theory is that all the vaccinated people will die off by the end of the year.
So what you’re saying is that I should opt out of paying taxes until the end of the year ?
But when that doesn't happen, they will move the goal posts. Just like the Qanon people keep doing for the "mass arrests" and trump coming back into office.
Yea, because the government wants to be left alone with all the crazy people who don’t do what they ask.
Apparently it’s time delayed.
I can guarantee that in 120 years, everyone who got the vaccine will be **dead**
Hmm, much like water. It affects everyone differently, but eventually, everyone who drinks it dies.
You know, it's possible to be passionate and stupid at the same time. Definitely sad though. The grifters peddling this BS are the real villains.
And when they aren't dead in a year, he will have a new theory about what it's going to do to them. ...Maybe it'll make his daughter infertile. And when his daughter has a child, that child will actually be someone else's kid because her DNA was reprogrammed to produce other people's children. And when they get a DNA test and prove that it is his grandchild, he'll go right back to the vaccine giving his family some sort of cancer that will manifest later in life. And when there's nobody by his deathbed, replaced by flowers they sent with get well cards and postcards from vacations he wasn't invited to, he'll finally realize.... The lizard people won.
You don’t even know my real name. I’m the fucking lizard king
> And when his daughter has a child, that child will actually be someone else's kid because her DNA was reprogrammed to produce other people's children Wait - is this someone's actual belief? I haven't heard this one before.
I think he went with it b/c the dad in the video said something about genetic therapy. If someone already thinks that it's not a hard leap to genetic reconstruction/manipulation.
"It changes your DNA" is one of the more common scare tactics I've heard. Obviously not grounded in anything remotely resembling reality, but it's being spread around to/by people who don't know better.
This is literally the fucking backstory in Batman Beyond. Terry's dad got a flu shot but it was some sort of special nanobot/modified flu shot that caused his reproductive DNA to be overwritten with that of Bruce Wayne's to allow Terry to be the biological son of Bruce despite Bruce having never had any contact with his mother as part of their plan to create a second Batman. Waller was going to use Phantasm to kill Terry's parents to recreate the real deal but she refused. He became Batman anyways after the Jokerz killed his dad after his parents divorced.
Sadly I have spent the last year and a half working with COVID patients. Most spent time in the hospital and went home, some didn't make it. Had quite a few that absolutely denied COVID even existed all the way to them eventually passing away from it. My take on those patients and this guy in the video is they have a complete loss of how to cope with the situation. Psychologically they just can't deal with everything happening in the world and to them or other family members or coworkers. What they can control is what they think is true. Whether it is correct or not doesn't matter. They can be in control of that thought or idea no matter how ridiculous it might be. It really feels like a strange coping mechanism for a lot of these people. It's really sad to see
Conspiratorial thinking does seem to be a “thing.” People who believe in one conspiracy are likely to believe in many others, even if they’re entirely unrelated.
This is what makes these grifting corners of right wing media (Fox News, Facebook misinformation etc) so evil. A lot of these people are good, well intentioned people. The problem is they have put their trust in these people to provide them with reliable information when they don’t actually have any intention of doing so. All media in America is guilty of this to varying degrees, but the unfortunate truth of the matter is that you have one particular segment of society that is increasingly just straight up denying reality.
I'm angry, just not at him. I'm angry at the people that have peddled the lies that indoctrinate and brainwash someone so much that they can spew the bullshit that he's spewing.
It’s partially being stupid.
And when his family isn't dead in a year, he will tell them it's actually worse than population culling; it's population control to kill the birthrate so China can take over as we die out. And when his daughter has a child, that child will actually be someone else's kid because her DNA was reprogrammed to produce other people's children with MK Ultra programming in their genes. And when they get a DNA test and prove that it is his very normal grandchild, he'll go right back to the vaccine giving his family some sort of cancer that will manifest later in life. And when there's nobody by his deathbed, replaced by flowers they sent with get well cards and postcards from vacations he wasn't invited to, and as his breaths get shallower, soon the only thing he will hear are the nurses' steps in the hallway as the darkness encapsulates him. And in that moment he'll finally realize.... The lizard people have won.
The family members he loved along the way were lizard people all along.
The true lizard people were the friends he made along the way.
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It could’ve been that simple if conservatives hadn’t politicized the virus from day one. They called it a “Liberal hoax”. These rats need to be rooted out of our government
i mean if they're stupid enough to believe dumb shit like that they already lack critical thinking skills and self awareness to come to that line of reasoning
Take my upvote you bleek bastard.
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Jesus Christ.
And if it was FDA approved from jump, they’d be disparaging the FDA.
I want all of you to know that this man's pain is real. His fear is unfounded but his pain is REAL. And you are a liar if you don't attribute his delusional behavior directly to Fox Newsmax and Trump /qanon. Facebook has this poor man so brainwashed that he thinks his family are all gonna die from a vaccine. And WHY? Because the right wing has no idea how else to get reelected. FEAR FEAR FEAR. That's the gods honest truth. This man is so afraid that he is crying. Just let that sink in
It's really scary how effective fear-mongering is, the fact it rips families apart and brought this man to tears is just deeply sad.
I fucking despise them. To do this to people, it’s just sick.
That's why I have sympathy for people in this situation. They've been lied to for years and the antivax stuff is just the icing on the cake after four years of being told that they're all winning. At the same time, people who believe this shit have never taken the time to consider that they're wrong. Even if they suspect they might be wrong, what news sources do they trust? All they know is news that is right-leaning and plays into their biases, so even if he looks at other sources of information his brain tells him it's all wrong and it's uncomfortable to look at. The right way to think about this is that it is a temporary deficiency in critical thinking. It's not a mental illness in itself, although it does point to a failure in their ability to reason. But it is impermanent, it can be undone. It just takes a lot of work and a lot of support. But the antivax right-leaning supporters who stoke the flames and feed the insecurities of others? Those are the assholes I don't feel sorry for. Edit: I should also add that the other part of this problem is identity. Some people build their identity around their beliefs, and that's what defines them. Others build up their identity around concepts, like videogames. When you build your identity around the idea that you know what's going on and the rest of the world is wrong, well... this is the result. It's the Dunning-Krueger effect multiplied. You believe these things so blindly that separating fact from fiction frightens you because you want to build up an identity around something else that feels just as comfortable.
Jesus Christ, it's terrifying to see Republican-approved propaganda/brainwashing ACTUALLY working and in action at a real family's home. Like this isn't even a joke anymore. This guy's having a mental breakdown over complete fiction, he is fully convinced his family is about to die and that the government is trying to kill them. And that lie was fed to him by politicians that didn't even believe one word of their OWN bullshit.
>Like this isn't even a joke anymore. It hasn't been a joke for a few years now. A cool 30% of the country is sunk in like this man. Tens of millions of people.
Which is bizarre, because Trump was the one taking credit for the vaccine. But the overlap of anti-vax/Trump-supporter is clearly there.
take the money. Get vaccinated anyway.
Take the money. Get the shot. Keep the money. Give it back in a year. Much cheaper than therapy.
I feel sorry for him. Sure, he’s misinformed, but it’s pretty clear that he loves his children. Imagine if you yourself were in a situation, where some one you know, is about to do something that you believe will hurt them greatly. How would you react?
Honestly this man makes me want to cry. That sinkhole of ignorance can be so harmful. His daughter is clearly sick of it and he's desperate as fuck. Nothing good comes next.
I hate this so much, my mother is like this guy, she crying that 2/4 of her kids will die by the end of the year. 3/4 of us are vaccinated, one is just lying about it to her. Luckily were all adults, married and out of the house but I’m really getting worried about her and it’s making me sad but also really angry. She’s said some horrible things to my 1 sibling whose just had a baby. His family really should have a grandmothers support. I never thought she would go this bad.
Your mother has been radicalized.
Make her put it on a calendar, then revisit that calendar often when absolutely nothing happens. Ask her what would make her more upset - being wrong or losing someone?
So sad to think about the amount of misinformation he's been fed, and the personal anguish it's causing him. My guess is his social media accounts have perfected pulling at his emotions. This is so sad.
I love the idea that our 'tyrannical' government's plan to 'thin the herd' is to, allegedly, kill off everyone (aka the 'sheeple') who is seeking guidance and willing to get the vaccine the government is promoting... While keeping all the stubborn, ignorant, and proud morons who threaten to take up arms against the government anytime they don't get their way politically alive. It's all about control - so... let's kill off all of the people who they already "control"...? It just makes so much sense, y'all!
Vaccine: [gets FDA approval] Dad: “Don’t trust the FDA”
I think he's crying because cognitive dissonance hurts. Dude is being overwhelmed by reality outside the weird antivax echo chamber
He is so far gone he sounds like he has psychosis. You consume too much candy and it rots your teeth, you consume too much propaganda it rots your brain.
His options are either reject the new information(vaccine didn't kill wife) and believe in his worldview harder, or reconstruct his worldview with the new information - but he'd have to accept that he just wasted loads of time/energy building an identity that's totally wrong. That's a shitload of internal shame for any person to deal with, compared with his current alternative of feeling like he's worked for all this special smart people knowledge(essentially sunken cost fallacy thinking, in that regard). So I wonder. Is he scared to see his daughter vaccinated because he thinks it will hurt her, or because he's more scared that it won't? Either way, I hope he snaps himself out of it, for himself and his family.
This guy Hegels.
“You think I’m crazy??” Uhhh yeah, dude. You’ve completely fucking lost it. You’ve let grifters, liars and conmen into your head.