Remember when giving a shit about others was touted as a virtue?
They don't like being reminded.
Empathy is Weakness, Ignorance is Strength, Equality is Woke.
When was that? Surely you don't mean the 50's?
Generally, when we were kids, whenever that may have been. We were taught that sharing and compassion were good things.
That's fair, and in that case I'm glad that it never stopped being touted as a virtue.
Even if there have always been selfish idiots who fail to learn that lesson ruining it for the rest of us.
Not my generation, no. It was always about enterprising and cunning more like. Something like American dream and all that. Get rich and stuff. I really don’t think many people were raised with a focus on altruistic values. It was singular kids that seemed to be kind when others were rather trying to climb the elementary school social ladder and were taught that money is the measure of all
I was taught loyalty is very important personally and that kinda bite me in the butt in the end
I don’t think it ever was actually. At least I don’t remember anything like that. Do you remember something?
Children’s TV shows
Ohh well during my times we had this fearful dog, powerpuff girls, samurai jack I guess and Dexter? Ah and ed edd and eddy
Idk maybe I missed some messages in them
I guess there was also this stupid Czech thing where this animal who digs in the soil whatever it is called in English was having all sorts of stupid stuff happening
Well and the Tom and Jerry too I think?
Maybe I missed some messages in them
Courage taught us to be empathetic and stand up for those we loved, no matter how scary the challenge was
Ed Edd and Eddy taught us the importance of the family we choose. Even if your parents aren't always looking out for you, your friends are.
Dexter mostly taught me not to be an insufferable "intellectual" asshole like that little fucker was
Tom and Jerry probably had a message? I dunno but it was fun
Was never interested in Samurai Jack
You know what I never got anything of the kind from these things. They were just funny mostly and kinda scary in some places. I don't know, maybe it is something subconscious.
I just remember wanting to slice everyone with a lightsaber at some point. I guess there were plenty of lessons about dismemberment in Star Wars. Actually Star Wars had plenty of these lessons but from the perspective they were kind of... well. Fitting for a monk more than a normal human. Not really that great.
Lucas is nuts claiming it was a kids movie series. Maybe phantom menace but even that was like cmon people got sliced in half and politics lol. I am a rice field worker if OT are children movies.
You don't even understand half of the Vader, Luke stuff until rewatch when you are much older. Actually I almost went to monastery or something thanks to Star Wars and got super religious and dogmatic at one point roleplaying a Jedi of course for a whole school year or something. That was quite embarrassing
Then I got a bible and started reading and repeated to everyone who wanted to hear and those who didn't the selected holy warfare quotes. That was also quite embarrassing
If the bible had more warfare quotes who knows what I would be doing today, fortunately there are only like three in total. Unlike in Koran I guess. Poor muslim kids.
Still better than the cursed smartphone zombies we all turn into
My fringe theory is all antivaxxers are just terrified of needles and playing the long con. They act like wimps so it tracks.
i genuinely think this plays a major factor. vaccines are unpleasant to get and you receive a subset of the symptoms of the actual disease for your trouble (because the symptoms are your immune reaction to having a disease, and the vaccine is like a scrimmage practice). a lot of these chucklefucks simply don't understand that while the vaccine isn't fun, it's far more enjoyable than dying of the disease. they'll even plan on just avoiding sick people or justify they have strong healthy bodies and don't need to worry (even though a strong healthy vaccinated body is the ideal place to stop a spread)
that is 100% the case.
But what, and hear me out, hear me out hear, what if that shot all those years ago was actually part of a plot spanning across all political parties and involving millions of government employees and the plot was to give us a shot to minimize unnecessary death BUT that shot hurt a little bit and I don't like ouchies so, and hear me out, what if we don't get the shit and protest it but come up with a better excuse than disliking ouchies?
Or it was part of a plot to put oligarchs with vested financial interests in control of the US government?
...Oh, right, we got that already.
"don't leave, hear us out, don't leave, hear us out, hear us out, hear us out. Sushi Glory Hole, imagine that.
Goin to get my MMR tomorrow because I’m not fuckin with these antivaxx inbreds
When I was a kid, they had developed the oral variant already. I still remember my mom taking me to a place where I had to eat a lump of sugar a couple of times. I didn't complain even though it tasted a bit odd.
Apparently oral one is less effective. I got the shot even as an adult because the gov said it's back now and is mandatory for certain things.
I just hold a crystal these days.. no money hold a crystal.. cat's fucked hold a crystal. Measles.. hold a crystal. Do I need to add the /s tag?
Jonas Salk was a man who understood the point of science and life
The polio vaccine was extremely effective and polio was very nasty. It also affected kids.
Smallpox is gone, there's still polio in three countries. But if it were eradicated like smallpox then we wouldn't have to vaccinate for it. Like a bunch of other diseases only found in humans...
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