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[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 4 points 43 minutes ago

Where are them Epstein Files and such?!

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 hour ago

Oh that’s an intelligent policy decision

/s ♾️

[–] Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 39 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

We are in the dumbest fucking timeline

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 1 points 37 minutes ago

Still waiting for TVA to prune us.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago

Every possible version of it.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Somebody needs to infect them both

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I recall Trump has already had it.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I've had it 3 times. Viruses mutate all the time so his favor is probably already out of date

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

When are this years shots going to be available?

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I almost hope there is another huge pandemic, it would probably be the best and easiest way of fighting the war against fascism in America.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 minutes ago

Its probably just anxiety but since the last one I haven't been able to shake the feeling that another is inevitable.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

If there is a 2nd American Civil War, I would be alright with conservatives not having vaccines. Disease was the #1 cause of fatalities in warfare, and I would like to have fewer enemies to fight.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 minutes ago

I dont really know much about this but I know youre probably right in the context of the world wars.

Was it Spanish flu? IDK, but poor nutrition, hygiene, and close proximity in the trenches was a huge factor.

In a present day war, it would probably be different? Still some "dug in" defences but far more ranged, airborne, and remotely controlled armaments.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 50 minutes ago

The one time when coughing in crowded spaces would be socially acceptable and morally just.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 hours ago

It did a pretty good job on them the first time. Fingers crossed for COVID 2: The Defuckening

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Time to get a refresh before they're gone forever

[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 hours ago

So that's why zombie apocalypse in every Hollywood movie happens in the USA.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 20 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So a million and a half deaths weren't enough for those fuckers.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

With all seriousness, no, it isn't. They want millions of deaths.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Trump once said that Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller said that he wants America to decrease to 100 million people, who all look like him. That's a 70% decrease in population. You have to wonder how he intends to accomplish that objective.

Now he's Trump's most trusted advisor. He's like Wormtongue whispering poison into Trump's ear.

[–] Gargantuanthud@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 hours ago (4 children)

I don't understand this though. The majority of people who would die from this would be his supporters. Why encourage a reduction in your own support?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago

These are people with absolutely no critical thinking skills. They believe that this will work because they demand that it will work.

Remember that they are both Sociopathic Oligarchs who have everything handed to them on a silver platter, almost literally. They've never had to suffer the consequences of their poor behavior, so they've never learned their lesson in anything. They think they just manifest anything to happen by virtue of their magnificent ego, and their money, or course.

It's true because they demand it, and pay for it.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I think... for fun?

I don't even know anymore

I just... just wow... just... what the hell

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

This isn't wrong. They love seeing powerless people frightened at the fact that they wield power that can hurt them, and what fun is power if you don't play with it now and then?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

You’re asking a dementia patient and the guy with brainworms

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

If they ban the vaccine- this won’t be the case. Then they get to say, they told us so.

[–] jazir5@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

So this is effectively an ad for the COVID vaccines, hello the walk in appointment I'm actively waiting for! I'll have fun getting it in 5-10 minutes!

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Family members just went in yesterday for shots at CVS, but Covid isn't in yet. They're thinking early September. So they got flu and something else.

If it comes out in early September, I'd get my butt in there right away, before they ban it.

Fucking psychopaths.

[–] jazir5@lemmy.ml 2 points 31 minutes ago

They didn't have the new version only last years, still got it though.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The pandemic was awesome for us healthy surviving introverts. Not so much for the dead introverts or everyone else.

Yeah....... I wasn't a fan, but that's mostly jealousy talking. As an introvert working in healthcare, it was painful to have to go to work everyday and deal with the dumbest patient population in the history of the country while everyone else got to work from home.

It was like summer school for adults, but even dumber.

[–] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 70 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Question: since Trump was the administration in charge of those vaccines, can we sue the president for releasing an "dangerous" vaccine, "harming" Americans?

Like, you can't have it both ways. You can't hate the COVID vaccine and ignore that it was done under Trump's administration. I'm so confused, my head hurts, these people are fucking stupid.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago

Don't try to make sense of it. These people don't operate within the confines of logic, only what is convenient to their agenda in the moment.

[–] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 17 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm anticipating congestive heart failure will be nominated as person of the year next year.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I nominate a massive cerebral aneurysm. Competition is good.

[–] Gargantuanthud@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

I don't know what it would be but I think he deserves a slow, painful, publicly humiliating death.

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 118 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

They should ban it for Republicans only

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 4 points 2 hours ago

You know these fuckers will keep a supply in the works for themselves.

Class wars, disasters, make people need a savior.

That's the whole fucking game, and the ignorant cunts keep voting for it

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

It's available in other countries, so rich MAGA Nazis will ALWAYS be able to get it. The rest of us, not so much.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 hours ago

They can stick fluorescent lights up their asses instead.

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