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Exactly, now we're cooking

me trying to find common sense on piefed/lemmy too

Not reading all that, see previous reply

Why are you putting your own statement in quote marks? Seems like you're trying to pretend you can't understand the difference between my statements and what you just said

Who are the people who pretend to know nothing about weapons but do?

Mainly donors and lobbyists, I guess.

It's an oversimplification - it's more like they confuse you about who's making the decisions, than that they pretend to know less than they do. But when they formulate arguments based on lies, that's also pretending to know less than they do, so the oversimplification isn't actually wrong.

Complex thing being described simply: decisions are made by people who know how guns work, but a public figure announcing a decision might embarrass himself talking about guns. He might know how guns work, and just be pretending not to. But if he actually knows how guns work, the people sending him out to do the public speaking are the ones "pretending not to know more" - or rather, making you think "wow this guy is an idiot" instead of "wow these decisions are being made by lying donors and lobbyists."

Simpler thing that makes the oversimplification more exactly correct: even if the guy doing the public speaking genuinely doesn't know how guns work, it's still dishonest of his handlers to send him up, and in the process, they still make false arguments that omit their knowledge on the topic, meeting the exact original statement.

I’d actually loooove to see your papers on which vaccines should be approved and which should be rejected and backed up by your own peer-reviewed and published research as to why they should be given those conditions. Or at least, your degree in biomolecular sciences with a ruggedized essay on your opinions.

What do you mean? What made you think I had any of that stuff?

And if you can’t link those things, maybe stfu about vaccines?

No thanks.

But if you're using those things to decide who gets to make the decisions, and the people who have those things are apparently dumber than me, maybe stop letting those decisions include which vaccines I can access?

Like if you can’t tell me why mercury was a perfectly fine viral attenuator, then i’m not interested in discussing the intricacies of vaccine methodology.

And? Why are you telling me this? Did something I said seem like I was suggesting we discuss the intricacies of vaccine methodology?

As much as I love the rationalized view, I dont need to go back in time and un-invent them.

That's fine, but I do need to avoid gunshot wounds, according to people whose medical knowledge can be verified in better ways than just asking for credentials (e.g. asking if they're aware gunshot wounds are unhealthy).

Gun control has worked in multippe other countries for decades and could always be better and tighter.

But I don't want things designed to kill me and my loved ones to work. I want to survive and protect my loved ones. I want it to not work when you try to endanger me and my loved ones. I think you're a bad person for changing policy in a way that gets people killed and then saying that means it's "working."

I dont need every fuckwith with a room temperature IQ holding a gun.

Then don't hold one. I will still need one.

That’s whats got America completely fucked up and the morons just cant stop repeating NRA talking points because they froth at the idea of killing other citizens in the name of political ideology.

You're the one trying to do social murder here. I just want my fucking right to self defense.

I am not helping you chuds grow Truth Social after you banned me from the Donald Trump subreddit after the one time I voted for him 9 years ago. If you're having trouble getting people to join your new thing now, I'm laughing at you - I'm not the person to ask for help.

I have not quite given up on finding a piefed/lemmy community where this will be appreciated.

It is very good use of the format.

Until someone can think of a better format for the same meme, and then it would be downgraded to just a good use of the format, not very good.

But that hasn't happened yet. As it stands, I definitely qualify it as very good using this format to make Democrats and Republicans think about how they mirror each other on vaccines and guns, from the view of someone dedicated to surviving and protecting loved ones.

Red and blue are the color code for Republican and Democrat in the US

But yes, I am stretching the meme format

Alternatively, we can let the experts who spend their lives understanding vaccines dictate which vaccines people can and should have, because they know the most.

Yeah, but clearly if it were that easy, we'd already be doing it. The fact that we have fake experts making decisions shows that society doesn't find it very easy to select the people who know the most.

So, if you can't select the people who know the most, maybe just stop blocking access to vaccines. If you can't find anyone as smart as me you're comfy with deciding which vaccines to allow, why are you comfy with letting me be blocked from vaccines by people dumber than me?

And nobody should have guns, because its a fucking stupid idea to let the average monkey have a weapon that can instantly kill someone in the heat of an argument.

Then go back in time and un-invent guns, but while I'm waiting for you to do that, I have an interest in trying to ensure my loved ones and I don't get shot defenselessly.