To be fair, food is a significant contributor to the existence of adults. And we all know those are problems.
100% of pedophiles are adults if this didn’t convince you enough.
On one hand, food gave us Hitler. On the other, that dude actually killed Hitler. So...
Unfortunately, this is simply not true. There are some sick teenagers out there...
Would you say they’re pedophiles if they’re children themselves? At the end of the day you are raised not gifted intelligence.
If a 17 wants to fuck an infant they're a goddamn pedophile.
Jesus Fucking Christ, take off your fedora.
If you want to be really pissed, read up on ~~doctor~~ disgraced former doctor, lifelong charlatan and grifter Andrew Wakefield. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
He abused autistic kids in a medical experiment that was meant to convince both the public and the scientific community that a specific combined vaccine (measles-mumps-rubella, a.k.a MMR) could trigger some kind of bowel disease that causes autism, all so he could peddle his own alternative that is three separate shots.
And here's the kicker: he did that because he was financially invested in the company producing the older, separate vaccines.
You know what every living autistic kid have in common? They all eat!
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I would even be bold enough to say that Autistic adults eat.
Yeah, but people are more afraid of autistic children.
WARNING 100% OF CHILDREN EXPOSED TO DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE DIE!
Actually, they die while not being children anymore
Checkmate atheists
I feel like it's probably worse than this. It should start with "I read about this thing called 'choking to death'".
Or better yet, take out "choking to death" (which can happen) and insert some made-up bullshit like "choking so hard your eyeballs pop out".
But they are not afraid of children dying, that's totally fine. They're afraid their kids might become "weird". Because that is how they see autism, as being weird.
And as everybody knows weird is literally worse than death.
I actually bothers me that parents hate there kids that much.
Can you just be happy with who they are?
Even then, starving your own children isn't going to cause their classmates and teachers and those people's families to also go hungry. OP's comparison is extremely forgiving to those dipshits.
"Do your research" is a dogwhistle and of course what it really means is "Google what you want to be true and read all the shit from morons like you who agree with you."
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What annoys me is that "doing your own research" actually makes sense in a lot of contexts. Our modern politics driven news is 90% bullshit and you're better off fact checking everything they say by looking at reliable sources and tracing the origin of dubious claims. But these people have ruined that by acting like "do your own research" means "blindly trust some guy with a podcast who tells you what you want to hear."
因噎廢食 (īnyēfèishí)
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%9B%A0%E5%99%8E%E5%BB%A2%E9%A3%9F
This is a Chinese proverb meaning "to avoid something essential because of a slight risk of making a mistake." Literally it means "to not eat due to the risk of choking on food."
I would love it if antivaxxers stopped eating.
They don't stop eating. They will stop their kids from eating because they have been already vaccinated, so they can't live without eating, but their children can
Outstanding. This is what good satire looks like.
If you choose to give your kids deadly food, that's your problem
Also, we're nominating a Director of HHS and a Surgeon General who will be adding corn, wheat, and rice to the Controlled Substances List.
I think that this is the thing that's starting to really get me about this crowd. The pure unashamed hypocrisy and contradictions, accompanied by zero self reflection or awareness.
"I love freedom of speech and expression! Now shut up and get out of my sight, gay people." "I care so much about the kids, so I'm supporting politicians that want to marry and fuck them." "I can't stand these feminazis acting like all men are ok with rape, now excuse me while I listen to the latest sermon from Andrew Tate." "I'm sick of DEI ruining my precious meritocracy. That's why I'm voting for an ex reality TV star to be my president and why I'll defend him putting a news reader in charge of the military."
I feel like I could actually go on and on and on with more examples of this if I really tried. And I know that we're supposed to be kinder to these people or some shit, so that they don't crap in their nappies and their temper tantrums and vote for even bigger pieces of shit next time. But at this point, tell me, how does one view these people as anything other than cruel, profoundly fucking stupid hypocrites?
how does one view these people as anything other than cruel, profoundly fucking stupid hypocrites?
Unfortunately, by also viewing them as victims. Humanity was not ready for the internet or multi-billion dollar media conglomerates, horizontally integrating across almost all sources of information in an endless stream of emotionally manipulative and intellectually degrading "content".
Many of these people are profoundly fucking stupid hypocrites, but they weren't born that way, they were made. Either as byproducts of greed seeking "engagement" and attention, and/or direct products of a deliberate decades-long effort to push society to the tipping point that it is facing right now.
A handful of powerful individuals and faceless corporations have manufactured the consent of the masses by dismantling and weaponizing education and communication.
They are responsible for taking fringe, outdated elements of society - people that are usually ignored, shunned, or left behind in times of progress - and instead gave them a platform, legitimacy, power, and a sense of community.
People like this were always a part of humanity, but it isn't natural for there to be so fucking many of them all at once, all in one place. It usually requires incredible societal upheaval, like the aftermath of a "war to end all wars".
But in the modern day? All it took was a steady influx of fear and hatred, experimentally perfected over the lifetime of radio, TV, and finally the internet.
All delivered by Murdoch, Koch, Zuck et al through the mouthpieces of complicit bastards like Limbaugh, Hannity, and Tate.
Always remember who the real problems are.
I was talking to a new friend who is a nurse yesterday, and she told me she worked in peds a bit last year during a measles outbreak in my city, during which one child died. She said she has never seen sicker children in her life, they were all unvaccinated, and that they all went home having lost so much ground. She says half the parents were just victims of disinformation but that many of them were super obnoxious.
Interestingly, I have some nurses in the family and the rate at which people who are educated in healthcare, are anti-vax, is too damned high.
Which isn't to imply its a lot of people, but any nonzero amount of people, working in healthcare, who buy into anti-vax propaganda, is too many. You've been formally taught about this stuff. Yet, you're anti-vax because some person on Facebook/Twitter/whatever, fed you some bullshit about the "dangers"?? Wow. What the actual fuck.
My sister left a really great hospital job (radiology tech) due to the vaccine mandates. Some people are so smart and yet so dumb.
I mean, this level of Darwinism would be fine. What grates me is not recognizing the effect it has on others.
Still seeking an analogy where not eating food somehow puts a neighbor or classmate at risk of starvation.
I stopped at a stop sign and somone almost rear-ended me. Had I driven through, I would have been safe. There is no reason to stop at stop signs. Other people can stop if they choose to, but the government can't force me to risk a rear-ending in order to protect someone else. Jesus wouldn't let me get T-boned in an intersection, I'm covered in his blood.
Herd immunity is pretty important.
The first of the crazy parents who went anti-vax benefitted greatly from Herd immunity. Now enough of them are not vaccinating that the herd immunity is basically non-existent. So we get things like measles outbreaks.
There are people who are medically incapable of getting vaccinated, like those with compromised immune systems (some might be in treatment for cancer)... And their best defense is if all of us, who can be immunized, are immunized.
Cancer treatments are not the only immunocompromising thing that can happen and not all immunocompromised people have cancer specifically.... For the record.
Anyone who is anti-vax should be aware that they are actively and intentionally putting other people at risk and that should be strongly and thoroughly documented; so when they bring in a cold/flu/COVID/measles/whatever preventable disease to the school and someone else's kid dies as a result the grieving family has the ability to sue them into poverty.
They deserve worse, but legally, I can't condone that.... But if someone wanted to take a page from a particular person named Luigi, I would be hard pressed to find a good reason to pursue any charges against them.
Do the kids get a vote?
True, I usually refer to something similar: Do you know how many people die in bed every year? Perhaps we should ban beds.
People would rather there kids die of Measles than have Autism
Obviously vaccines/environmental factors/food coloring doesn't cause Autism but if we play along with the RFK Jr. narrative that's basically what they are saying. Also the RFK Jr. research is specifically funding people can find a link. They will find a link because of conformation bias.
to be fair if foods are banned, then we will have zero food related choking incidents
“Better dead than fed” is how a lot of bigots see outgroups tbf
I got 3 vaccinations today for a trip to Asia for Hep A, Typhoid and Tetanus. Two jabs in one arm and one in the other. Because while getting vaccinated isn't pleasant (sore arms and mild flu like symptoms) I would rather that than to the horrible, potentially life threatening illnesses they prevent.
The problem is that big pharma lobbying and deregulation keeps giving these people ammunition to work with. So we have the FDA approving drugs they know don’t work, and the CDC allowing the ceo of Delta to decide Covid isolation guidelines. There’s too much corruption, and too much money involved, with diminishing oversight and accountability.
If scientific institutions want to be trusted, they need to behave in a trustworthy manner, and enforce accountability.
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