CharlesDarwin @ CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world

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What's the sad truth is that vaccines are a victim of their own success. We seem to be right at the point in generational die-off where all that wisdom is being lost and a whole lotta dipshits that didn't watch babies dying of preventable diseases are now taking over...and believe the anti-vaxxer bullshit about how it was "really" because of things like septic systems, clean water, etc...

(What's even scarier is that also explains the rise of fascism, too. I know the 80 year cycle theory has supposedly been disproven, but it would explain a lot about the rise of the "alt-right" nonsense among the young)

Very true. If these dumbfucks want to live by their own credo, I guess....go for it?

But the idea that they get to set policy, spread disinfo, do things to discourage vaccination, or worst of all: keep US from getting vaccinated?

GO.

FUCK.

YOURSELF.

After all this is done and over with, these pieces of shit should be happy that we no longer prop people like this up in front of a firing squad...

I know it’s trendy to hate on the elderly but y’all need to understand you will be old yourselves soon enough and the cultural hate of the old will apply to you. You are neither different nor special. Get vaxxed, eat your veggies.

This, 100%. I see what seems to be a huge rise in bagging on "boomers" and a lot of it is among the supposedly progressive, which is just....mind-boggling. Apparently one of the last identity it is open season on is anyone above an arbitrary age, no matter what their life experiences. Everyone above, say, 70 years of age is one big monolith that caused all the problems...

Taco and Bobby Brainworm's Ministry of Truth will have to get to scrubbing THAT data soon, too.

Does he have the shingles vaccine?

Let's hope so. The guy is way too cozy with the likes of Thiel and Musk and all that freakishness combined with way too much money that they represent.

I mean, I'm not looking for more Curtis Yarvin or lame-brained insanity like The Sovereign Individual injected into my life or American institutions....but a "JD" "Vance" presidency just might bring it about.

Taco can bully the Republicans with the power of the purse and threatening the funding of primaries against them if they don't go along. Sure the base firebombing their families is a factor, too. But Musk and Thiel obviously have very deep pockets and could do similar bullying. Musk in particular also has his share of crazy stans and incels that could also probably be whipped up into threats of violence against non-compliant pubbies.

I would have been just fine with the Democrats running him, TBH. If something were to happen to him, there is a line of succession and he's not surrounded by total buffoons and Nazis, unlike Donvict.

BTW, all of their stupid rhetoric about the autopen is even dumber than their stupid fixation with teleprompters, except autopens have been used without fanfare for even longer than the teleprompter.

But when Democrats use technology that has been in use for decade upon decade, idiotic right wing mouth-breathers can be trained to think it's bad.

Taco has a meltdown about a teleprompter, accusing everyone of some kind of plot at the UN over it, but when Obama used a teleprompter it was like the end of Western civilization itself, because it was a Blah guy running as a Democrat.

These people don't even have any internal consistency. They are reprogrammable meatbags. If Taco uses an autopen and even talks about how he uses it, they won't bat a fucking eye.

Rules like that only apply to everyone else, not Republicans, who are special people.

If they amendment 25 him or if he keels over whatever, we all get to look forward to this asshole, I guess...I'd be curious if he carries on with extremely idiotic and unpopular things like tarrifs and golden ballrooms and bombing fishermen and talking about annexing Canada/Greenland or Panama, too. Same with all the stupid vendettas and childishness like putting up a picture of an autopen instead of Biden's picture or trying to charge Biden with "fraud" (LOL) for the autopen.

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”

-- Asimov

This is a nearly perfect quote, and my only quibble with it is that it comes off rather both-siderist, when the problem seems to be largely among conservatives. Not that the general population doesn't have problems; but proud ignorance seems to be a badge of honor on the right...

With the conservatives, cruelty is the point. If an idiot like RFK jr with no experience, no education and no qualifications is put in charge, that also just demonstrates their mantra that "government doesn't work", also furthering their agenda of destroying government and destroying any confidence in sound governance.

Will this combo hurt lots of conservative voters? Of course, but most of them are so balls-deep in anti-intellectualism and conspiracy theory that they'd never admit it, probably not even to themselves.

LOL when it comes to all of this, including the image they chose for this story.

I guess this was because of BLM and "antifa".

Yeah, I notice the same thing IRL - most people (except for the very young and rather naive) don't tend to fall for what seems to be a rather obvious ploy to further atomize and divide.

But online, holy cow, I seem to see a whole lot of alleged progressives that seem to be deeply engaged in lots and lots of discussions involving identity and intersectional this or that and lecturing on language (see as an example, "the r word"), but then be apparently very okay with dunking on "boomers" and seemingly being more preoccupied with the age of someone like Biden or Nancy or Taco or Schumer, etc., vs. things of actual substance...

I've said it a lot here, but this kind of thing is going to age like fine wine if/when breakthroughs in life extension/age reversal come online. I cannot believe how backward and regressive a lot of these positions are, but apparently this kind of thing is one of the last areas where it is perfectly fine to show bigotry (while in so many areas and corners of the 'net, the progressives love to play the Oppression Olympics) and it's rather concerning to see supposed progressives espousing it all over the place.

I figured a whole lot of "the kids" never even really did the piracy thing and instead went right to things like Spotify anyway...I though the idea of actually curating your own music (legal or otherwise) was something so passe.

Isn't "internet users" darn near everyone at this point?

I honestly don't understand why "shareholder value" has not already demanded something like this, given how formulaic most "leadership" actually is.

I think I know the reason, and the entire narrative is mostly bullshit, and instead the wealth that companies generate is set up to be extracted by a very, very few and they sit on each others' boards and set up their own compensation, etc...

I just find it so weird that people seem to be buying into this intergenerational warfare and the assumption that somehow younger candidates are just better by default.

It feels like I've heard this one before....I'm Gen X and if you watch a lot of the output about and by the boomers, there were similar narratives about how they were going to fix all the problems caused by The Man. For my generation, I heard a lot of similar sentiments from and about people my age. I still have not seen a whole lot of evidence for positive change, other than social issues. That's not nothing, I guess, but...for fiscal ones, it seems remarkably worse.

Ironically, the nonsense that Taco and Bobby Brainworm are doing to our scientific funding and educational institutes may impede breakthroughs for things like Alzheimer's.

I guess we'll purge everything of all things "woke", but people will die of things that might have been prevented/cured sooner. I suppose some other country may have that breakthrough(s) on the same timeline, with or without us, but Taco and crew certainly are not helping.

Dementia Donnie is still bragging about how others wouldn't be able to score as good as him....on a dementia screening test.

Dude is still so stupid as to think it's an IQ test.