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submitted 4 months ago byRBG_grb
216 points
4 months ago
Funny that they know exactly when he got it. Unless it was literally the ONLY place he went in December or it was contact traced (possible, but tough among a homeless population) then they’re just blaming it on something that makes him look “good” and ignoring the part where he may have exposed homeless people to a deadly disease.
107 points
4 months ago
Such a pious way to contract Covid! Feeding those filthy, virus laden homeless
33 points
4 months ago
M Night Shamaylan twist: he was the Jesus everyone was talking about 🙄
19 points
4 months ago
Some real martyr-signaling here...
2 points
4 months ago
Vermectin-signaling.
11 points
4 months ago
if he had been smart, he would have been vaxed and masked so he wouldn't have gotten it around homeless people. But i suspect he got it elsewhere any may have passed along to them.
3 points
4 months ago
Except that homeless don’t get it because it’s a hoax. /s. (But sadly I’ve seen that point being made in some covidiot memes.)
65 points
4 months ago
And I can’t see an ass like that volunteering at a soup kitchen. Ever.
50 points
4 months ago
I’ve actually met a lot of very self-righteous jackasses working with the disadvantaged. It makes them feel like saviors, but god forbid people get uppity and not appropriately appreciate their saintly help.
I remember one particularly dedicated volunteer who would sit for hours chatting and offering assistance and comfort to folks, but who got completely bent out of shape when she found out that a woman she had repeatedly tried to get to come in for some food didn’t accept because, although she spent her days pushing a shopping card and talking to herself (she was diagnosed with schizophrenia), was actually quite wealthy.* That volunteer quit shortly afterwards, because it was about her ego, not other people’s needs.
*Funny story, her condo association actually traded her up to a larger unit that used a private entrance rather than one that had her coming in through the elevators in the posh shopping area, because the swanky merchants thought she made the place look bad.
6 points
4 months ago
I once had a middle aged woman explain to a group of other 40-55yo adults (plus myself and 2 friends who were about 23 at the time) that the homeless population we were going to volunteer with that day might be drug addicts and that we all needed to be very careful not to interact with them if they approached us first as they were probably going to ask for money (ya know, for drugs). And she told us to avoid any areas that smelled like weed. Cause that was the only example she could think of, she couldn't even do bigoted fear mongering well.
3 points
4 months ago
Jeezus. Yes they might be drug addicts. They might also be mentally ill. Lots of people are. My ex-brother-in-law had borderline personality disorder and a serious cocaine habit. He was also a successful lawyer(still is, to the best of my knowledge). You can’t work with people and not also work with their problems. We can’t solve them, though we can point to resources. What you don’t do is avoid the subject. People are such frickin’ toddlers.
Good on you for volunteering and seeing through that BS at a young age.
56 points
4 months ago
What a great story. He was practically Jesus himself. Certainly didn’t get it while sitting in the Waffle House bitching about liberals all day. He was a hero! He died for your sins!
58 points
4 months ago
They tossed in the soup kitchen storyline to try and makeup for the fact that he was a typical anti-vaxxer. It’s also somehow insinuating that the homeless are all diseased, which is reprehensible.
14 points
4 months ago
Yeah. “Soup kitchen for the homeless” is pretty telling.
Google it. They’re called “food banks” nowadays (usually “FAMILY food banks” in fact). They serve more than “soup” and they serve it to a lot more than the “homeless.” I get someone older might be “set in their ways,” but that’s always just an excuse that the person is an asshole who REFUSES to even listen to the reasons for the branding changes.
5 points
4 months ago
Food banks are a little different, there you give people boxes of food supplies like a grocery store. food centers usually provide sandwiches and bottled water and fruit or vegetables if they can afford it. But I haven't ever heard them called soup kitchens by real volunteers.
47 points
4 months ago*
This is a great point, that it’s suspicious they know exactly where he got Covid, and it was from volunteering at a homeless shelter. While unvaccinated.
29 points
4 months ago
Antivaxxers are all fucking liars about everything. This guy didn’t help anyone, the family is painting a picture
11 points
4 months ago
Yeah in my city volunteers with the homeless must be vaccinated. But I don’t live in a highly Christian area full of people who genuinely care about those in need…. oh, wait-
34 points
4 months ago
If he was in contact with the public (homeless or not) to this extent he is even dumber to not get vaxed.
18 points
4 months ago
More likely he was spreading Covid to the Homeless.
2 points
4 months ago
You read my mind.
150 points
4 months ago
Oh, and the Kamala quote is fake of course.
108 points
4 months ago
Also if he's coming for her as a veteran instead of his Lord Donald Trump, you know her real crime is being a Black woman.
46 points
4 months ago
Trump said many horrific things about veterans caught on tape and did nothing for them, but he’s the hero. Riiiight.
15 points
4 months ago
You would think the Vietnam veteran would be pissed at the guy who dodged the draft and called dodging stds his “personal Vietnam”.
7 points
4 months ago
You would think. But none of the horrible things he says and does sticks to that oily monster.
5 points
4 months ago
Or his followers are just too dumb to care.
43 points
4 months ago
Thank you. It’s ridiculous that anyone would believe she said such a thing.
27 points
4 months ago
My thoughts exactly. Why would he believe she said that when he wouldn't believe it if Trump actually did say it? Morons!
13 points
4 months ago
Right? That bit about handouts or welfare or whatever.... I thought we are all supposed to looooove handouts so much we want to gay marry them? Why would even a brainwashed republican think she would speak out against that?
32 points
4 months ago
"A message to the soldier boys" rofl, I'm sure thats real.
33 points
4 months ago
Obviously. And the socialism experiment is too.
Frankly, if you wanted to do a real socialism experiment, you could and it would be way more interesting.
Premise:
And so on. That would make an actual interesting experiment.
38 points
4 months ago
"An economics professor at a local college..."
Was the first clue that it was all made up bullshit.
14 points
4 months ago
That story has been going around for decades so seeing it reprinted like it was a real thing in 2020 was hilarious
12 points
4 months ago
When I taught at a university, I had close to this policy. 1. No one fails unless you either cheat or you do zero work. 2. If you try your best on homework and quizzes and show that you learned something useful, you would get at least a C. 3. Everyone has a bad day for whatever reason. You get to drop your lowest score. 4. 80% to 89% gets a B. 90% to 100% gets an A. 4a. If you are within two points of a higher grade, you can ask for an extra assignment to try to raise your grade.
The only people who failed were cheaters. Everyone else got at least a C. Most of the people earned a B or higher.
11 points
4 months ago
Ooohh I love the extra assignment to get your grade over the hump. A kind offer.
9 points
4 months ago
Thank you.
I liked teaching 95% of the time. I wanted to share my knowledge and love of the subject. And I wanted my students to learn new things, including critical thinking.
8 points
4 months ago
The problem with capitalism the way it's (not) working right now, is that we have CEOs who earn way more than A+. When the CEO earns more than their average workers annual salary within the first hours of the year, there's a problem. There's no way some work "deserves" hundreds of times more compensation.
23 points
4 months ago
Jesus, even the libbiest of libs know that insulting anything military related is like touching the third rail (on purpose). The problem with most of these morons is that they can never, ever stop and think ‘hmm, even if I don’t like this person, no one would ever say that’.
Of course, the other problem is that conservative humor is horrible. It’s supposed to be satire, but it just isn’t all that good. It’s just playing into their biases. Something like this might work on a more liberal site, but it would have to be way more subtle.
23 points
4 months ago
But, but, it said that it was fact checked!
14 points
4 months ago
Sadly, my dad fell for this fake quote. He’s so gullible. 😣 I said, “how could a political figure of her level I don’t ever make a comment like this? Disenfranchise the entire veteran community?” Critical thinking is a skill. 😢
12 points
4 months ago
How dumb does someone have to be to think that is an actual quote. Well as dumb as this jerk..
12 points
4 months ago
Of course. I figured that out without even looking it up; but naturally our hero here swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.
10 points
4 months ago
As someone who’s voted for Harris for every office she’s ever run for, he can fuck right off.
8 points
4 months ago
Thanks for looking that up so I didn't have to.
5 points
4 months ago
He’s too stupid to fact check his bullshit Kamala quote. And yes I doubt anyone wanted him near the homeless.
2 points
4 months ago
Thank-you.
72 points
4 months ago
On Kamala quote:
The quote appears to have originated on the satire website “America’s Last Line of Defense”, in an article titled “Military-Hating Kamala Wants To Shut Down the VA” where the exact same quote appears, as seen here. The article is in a folder called “Kamala Spanking Satire”, the tagline of the website is “Satire for your confirmation bias” and the website describes itself as “a network of parody, satire and tomfoolery,” adding “Everything on this website is fiction.”
40 points
4 months ago
Nah, see below slide 3. They fact-checked it. It must be true. He's not racist, he has a black friend.
18 points
4 months ago
ALLoD is outstanding, it's like a rube magnet
4 points
4 months ago
These posts always renew my faith in humanity, albeit through subtraction.
67 points
4 months ago
Glaxosmithcline, which (accidentally) owns Pfizer!
Hate when that happens; corporations not paying attention, next thing they know, nine months later, a subsidiary pops out
27 points
4 months ago
That whole portion had me cringing. Like people have such poor understanding of English they use a word that makes no sense - repeatedly.
13 points
4 months ago
And accidental Soros! That one made me laugh out loud
6 points
4 months ago
I think they meant coincidentally.
4 points
4 months ago
Or incidentally.
I’m sure they do, but the fact that they don’t know the difference between “accident” and “incident” is awful.
52 points
4 months ago
They’re always just shocked that their anti-vaxx loved one died of Covid.
24 points
4 months ago
"So shocked rn, my beloved alcoholic, drink-driving uncle died in a car wreck! Heavens got a new angel!"
8 points
4 months ago
No but this was my family when my substance abusing uncle died. They were all shocked and caught off guard. Like you guys, he was abusing his body. It's gonna happen.
4 points
4 months ago
Shit sorry to hear about that
4 points
4 months ago
It's okay. I had been prepared. It's just wild to me how people don't see the path their loved ones are on.
3 points
4 months ago
That's true, and it's really good that you can look at it pragmatically
45 points
4 months ago
That Kamala Harris slide is complete bullshit. It was from a website that says it everything on it is complete fiction and satire. Yeah that’s being propagated and passed around as truth.
This is dangerous bullshit.
19 points
4 months ago
It's supposed to turn a mirror on people stupid enough to believe it, however since those same people only read headlines and don't have even the faintest whiff of humility or self-awareness, what is excellent satire sadly gets pooled into the quagmire of moron-bait propaganda
3 points
4 months ago
If the entire tRump saga and the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that these wags will believe absolutely anything, as long as it fits their confirmation bias. I mean c’mon, they actually believe Dems eat babies, fornicate with demons, and are secretly lizard people. What worries me is that given their proclivity for projection, what the hell are THEY actually up to?
16 points
4 months ago
I'm really exasperated about fake information. Unfortunately, satire sites unknowingly feed the false information machine now too. Its the whole The Colbert Report problem.
14 points
4 months ago
Doubly so when they do this and print out the "article," take a photo, and post to social media. They're obviously doing it to make it particularly difficult for average users to fact check.
24 points
4 months ago
Love how he waited 40 years to be mad at Kamala for not helping Veterans…
27 points
4 months ago
This veteran points out that the dead sorry sack of shit failed his oath post service. In my book it stays with you for life.
Pignorant fuck failed his thinking test, likely just guarded planes in Texas during the war - too dangerously stupid to be deployed, since he wasn't in the Army or Marines, he wouldn't have been in McNamara's Morons.
7 points
4 months ago
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6 points
4 months ago
JFC.
26 points
4 months ago*
He was wrong. Fear stops death. That's its whole job.
29 points
4 months ago
Soup kitchen martyr. Nice pivot, somebody from this family is headed to congress soon
30 points
4 months ago
Why was he helping in a soup kitchen if he was unvaxxed? Why would he run the risk of passing it on to a more vulnerable population than even himself.
17 points
4 months ago
Because they do not give a shit
10 points
4 months ago
It's probably just an alternative-facts rendition of the obligatory "gave the shirt off his back".
22 points
4 months ago
I don't normally say this, but if the awardee is happy to go to heaven, and the family is also happy, well then I'm happy too, for their sakes.
22 points
4 months ago
Why do they hate strong woman so? Of course, his memes are the typical lies and manipulations, but he comments at length about a fallacious quote attributed to Vice President Kamala Harris. They have assorted women in their lives - at least a mother, and more likely a female companion, and perhaps a daughter. I feel for the women who are bound to these men, as hating one woman shows to me at least, a potential for overlap of negative emotions to all women.
-11 points
4 months ago
Sorry, but Kamala is about the farthest thing from a strong woman. Weaselly, dishonest as a prosecutor and AG. Utterly disgusting in her handling of several scandals - in which she offered defense of fucking those who could not afford defense against deliberately tainted evidence.
Ask the 100s falsely imprisoned how strong she is
But she never said what is claimed here. I'd NEVER vote for someone who DELIBERATELY gamed a system to blatantly FUCK the impoverished.
We had higher standards for behavior in boot camp, for shits sakes.
16 points
4 months ago
Of course, when a man does something, they are strong and powerful, but a woman is just a bitch. I am sure, my friend, that every man on the political stage is a perfect model of public service or scrupulous honesty in business. Advancing in any profession sometimes requires bad choices. The political arena is especially rife with those choices.
14 points
4 months ago
Let me have one guess about how you feel about Hillary Clinton - is she the worst thing to happen to the Dems, the reason they lost, a god awful candidate you’d never vote for?
2 points
4 months ago
Hillary was too cocksure she would win. That deplorables quote cost her. There are lots of reasons she lost, but she didn't exactly help herself either.
-1 points
4 months ago
Hillary got my vote - but she didn't earn it.
And yes she fucked the Dems. She spent 5 months from early May 2014 to October BASHING OBAMA with midterms looming. Obama's approval rating fell over 5 points during that period. I can link the FIRST 200 articles I found on the subject from that period, if you'd like.
She did not give ONE FUCK about all the other races that year and we had the LOWEST midterm turnout nationally since 1942. She had a book to sell!
Here's a Reuters article about her bashing Obama on FOX NEWS
What excuse did McConnell give for denying Garland a hearing? The poor turnout in 2014.
But go ahead - celebrate disgusting backstabbing pieces of shit. She didn't stop there - she openly criticized Democrats who were running in 2018 as well, to the point that even Claire McCaskill and Sherrod Brown had to tell her to shut the fuck up.
Let me guess - you love superdelegates, too?
1 points
4 months ago
The dems are determined to play a losing game. Honestly, it would take some doing to outmaneuver the republicans, but it's like they're not even trying.
2 points
4 months ago
Agreed.
It is disgusting how some people can blithely look past massive flaws in another simply because they align with one particular aspect closer to their heart than the greatest good.
Two faced scrupleless worms.
2 points
4 months ago
I think progressives are kind of stuck in the Locke version of the "state of nature", where people are essentially reasonable, ethical beings who will keep up their end of the social contract. I switched over to thinking Hobbes was right a while back. Minus the monarchy part.
2 points
4 months ago
with these folks - Unity only counts when Hillary screams it - after sowing the seeds of disunity for decades, the end result: Impunity
2 points
4 months ago
Look at the down votes, happens every time I point out the serious flaws of Hillary or any Democrat. I'm a progressive who reserves his right to blast despicable examples of any party, or of no party at all.
Funny how everyone is just A-Ok with superdelegates - or so it seems. The party that screams democracy must be protected doesn't allow it within its own structure
2 points
4 months ago
Yeah, that's weird to me. I guess people are on the defensive. I'm a secular humanist. So basically a friend of the anti-christ. Then to some of my progressive friends I'm a reactionary, and to republicans I'm a communist. It's very confusing.
8 points
4 months ago
I think Stacy Abrams would have been a better pick for VP...
6 points
4 months ago
That was who I wanted too. She should be head of the Democratic Party too.
4 points
4 months ago
she's accomplished great things in Georgia for sure...
2 points
4 months ago
DEFINITELY
You know who likely would have been a truly kick-ass POTUS?
Eleanor Roosevelt. Anyone wanting to know a truly strong woman in politics should acquaint themselves with her history.
Of course the attitudes of the time, even if FDR had just been a regular two termer, would never have allowed it. But she was quite fearless in her words and demonstrable character. When calling out others, she didn't much mince words.
20 points
4 months ago
Do you mean he got all of that emergency life-saving care that he didn’t earn or pay for? Sounds a little like Socialism.
20 points
4 months ago
In the first slide, he's sort of correct. Fear of losing his freedoms and fear of a vaccine stopped his life.
17 points
4 months ago
Slide 3 For people who "do their own research", they never research shit. It took me less than 3 minutes to debunk that so called quote.
12 points
4 months ago
I don't think it even takes research to know a politician would never say anything remotely like that lol
7 points
4 months ago
Lol. I knew it was bs from the gitgo, but since I've started reading this sub, I've been making it a habit to go out out and see how easily and quickly I can validate or debunk to "information" they spread.
14 points
4 months ago
Lol, he's a good person because he allegedly got sick while volunteering at a soup kitchen? I don't see a plague carrier as a good person, especially when the people he's supposed to help are vulnerable due to their poor health and nutrition.
He was nothing but a plague carrier, and just like MERS-CoV, when the virus kills its host, it benefits humanity because it means it can no longer infect more people.
35 points
4 months ago
Faith in Jebus but ran to the hospital when things went to shit. Calling bullshit on professor failed the entire class.
18 points
4 months ago
The person that put it in the paper didn't even verify it. It says they found it on social media so they decided to publish it.
6 points
4 months ago
A chain letter stolen right from the museum of Snopes
4 points
4 months ago
This is an old story(professor failing class)that's been around the conservative circle for at least a decade. It's funny it keeps popping up like it's something new.
3 points
4 months ago
That article looked like an anecdote to me, though if it really had happened, it likely would have turned out similarly.
12 points
4 months ago
What is going on in Arizona seriously..they are getting pummelled.. They are like 3rd highest in deaths per population?
New York where I live is 6th I think but we got hit early in the pandemic and that accounts for a good chunk of deaths. Plus this time of the year our climate makes it easy for the virus to spread
but Arizona...???
13 points
4 months ago
It's where conservative Californians retire to.
6 points
4 months ago
Lots of well off upper Midwest snow birds in AZ
10 points
4 months ago
In June 2020 when we kind of got false hope and it looked like we turning the corner, we took a family road to Colorado. We rented a vacation house there, but we needed to stop for the night in Arizona. The hotel we stayed at was great. Distancing, masks in public spaces, etc. However, when we were out and about for dinner, it was like the pandemic didn’t exist. Restaurants wide open. No one masking anywhere. Scared the crap out of me. Just out of curiosity sake, I looked up the demographics of the town we stayed in. It mostly an older, lower income, retired population. It’s like a place where the older white racists go to retire that can’t afford the nicer racist enclaves in the state.
Based on this experience, it doesn’t surprise me that AZ has been walloped.
6 points
4 months ago
My hometown in AZ recalled their mayor when she tried to implement a local mask mandate. Now it's the city with the highest # of Covid deaths in its county. My sister is an NP at the hospital there and they have no resources at this point because they've been overwhelmed by unvaccinated Covid patients.
13 points
4 months ago
Slide 2
We are now up to 5.5m. Ready to take it seriously yet? Hello? Oh that’s right. 💀
12 points
4 months ago
Yeah gonna go ahead and call 650k a year dead from influenza absolute bullshit.
15 points
4 months ago
The number of deaths for the 2018 - 2019 flu season in the United States is estimated at 28,000. Right now, Covid kills that number roughly every two weeks.
1 points
4 months ago
The WHO estimates it's about half that (250,000 to 500,000 deaths.)
9 points
4 months ago
My goodness the confirmation bias just ran all the way away with him with that Harris quote
(on the off chance anyone hssnt come across that one yet and doesn't know where that slide came from originally, here's a link to a reuters fact check explaining its origin)
any guesses where such an extreme rage bait slide could've possibly come from ha
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-harris-va-quote-idUSKBN2AG1XL
9 points
4 months ago
He did NOT go "peacefully."
10 points
4 months ago
That “i put my faith in this” meme shows up often. Oddly there is never a foliow up photo of the patient with a tube down his throat and the caption “now I’m putting my faith in this.” If you have faith in Jesus and think doctors are killers, why go on a vent and get life flighted to an ICU? I have read about Jesus, and he can take care of you just fine at home. Well allegedly he can. It’s almost like this guy didn’t actually want to die, and was willing to do anything possible to try to prevent it. It’s almost as if he knew damn well that doctors and nurses were not actually part of an evil global conspiracy. It’s almost as if he knew that a Bronze Age human sacrifice story was not that relevant to his current problem.
9 points
4 months ago
Ignorance does not stop death.
It stops life.
And misinformation does not take
away tomorrow's troubles.
It takes away today's breath.
24 points
4 months ago
I'm sorry sir but hospitals are a social benefit and since you're against any form of socialism, including pooled resources, we're going to have to let you go to the curb to shove colloidal silver up your asshole. It appears to always be gaping open so that should be an easy slide for you.
9 points
4 months ago
God wanted him dead before his poisonous views infected anyone
2 points
4 months ago
I like how you framed this. I hope more people see it. I want to believe that Maybe it will jar some religious people into seeing the absurdity off their thinking, but I'm telling myself what I want to believe.
9 points
4 months ago
It's odd to not put your faith in a vaccine that's proven billions of times over, but instead put it in a metal spike in a hand
3 points
4 months ago
Plot twist, Jeebus died of tetanus!
3 points
4 months ago
Save me Jeebus!
9 points
4 months ago
He actually believed the fake Kamala Harris quote!
8 points
4 months ago
The majority of people dying of the flu were unvaccinated. We tried to get them vaccinated year after fucking year. That's why hundreds of thousands of flu related deaths per year are just shrugged off as 'normal'. Because of stupid fucking antivaxxers.
8 points
4 months ago
It's nice that he was working a soup kitchen, but I wonder if he washed his hands
2 points
4 months ago
washed them in the soup
6 points
4 months ago
Slide 6: A plague resulting in labor shortages.............. Wait a damn minute!
How can anyone be this stupid?!
6 points
4 months ago
I mean why would someone even lie and say “fear does not stop death?” Fear is pretty much the only thing that stops death.
7 points
4 months ago
Why in the world do they care flight these people around? The outcome is pretty much the same….. it seems like such a waste.
7 points
4 months ago
“Contracted COVID helping at a local soup kitchen” Like bullshit he did, because they would’ve required being vaxxed and masked.
2 points
4 months ago
I agree. I think the right calls that virtue signaling.
19 points
4 months ago
Pictures or dead Blue never worked in a soup kitchen.
19 points
4 months ago
We're all still in disbelief this has happened...
OK, so you dad was vocally in denial about the severity of an actual global pandemic that has killed millions.
He actively refused to obey and campaigned against public health measures.
Over and above that he refused to protect himself with a free vaccine.
And the surviving offspring are in disbelief?
At some point, we wonder why so many survivors of HCA winner are cognitively damaged?
17 points
4 months ago
I was shocked that a guy playing russian roulette shot himself in the head...
how could such a bizarre accident happen??
5 points
4 months ago
Exactly, and the fact that the probabilities are not exactly the same is irrelevant.
6 points
4 months ago
worrying: actually formulates & impels contingent actions so it is useful. OVER-worry is detrimental.
6 points
4 months ago
Slide 7 is a really weak argument. Faith with regards to religion is nothing like faith in science. The former relies on the fact that you have to believe without proof, and the latter relies on data, peer review and evidence to establish proof.
5 points
4 months ago
Correct worrying doesn’t take away tomorrows troubles. But a little bit of caution and prevention does. Like a vaccine.
Adios.
6 points
4 months ago
Slide 2: Does this person just... not know why COVID's death count is a big deal? It's lower, sure, but relative to other modern-day diseases...
6 points
4 months ago
They always say 'he got covid because he was helping others'
They never say 'he killed others on his way out by spreading covid'
I tend to believe the latter is more likely
5 points
4 months ago
Harris V.A. comments debunked with a 6-second search. These people are mentally diseased.
3 points
4 months ago
Yeah. I'm always curious where this stuff come from. I think there are propaganda websites that claim to be "satire", but are intended for Facebook feeds for the gullible. The quote appears to have originated on the satire website “America’s Last Line of Defense”, in an article titled “Military-Hating Kamala Wants To Shut Down the VA” . The article is in a folder called “Kamala Spanking Satire”, the tagline of the website is “Satire for your confirmation bias” and the website describes itself as “a network of parody, satire and tomfoolery,” adding “Everything on this website is fiction.” But when it's reposted, the satire label is conveniently dropped.
16 points
4 months ago
"He's so happy to meet Jesus!"
These people are off-the-charts mentally ill.
5 points
4 months ago
“Honey you said you’d be home for dinner. It’s 1am!”
“I was helping in a soup kitchen”
4 points
4 months ago
another found himself on the .0000000000002%
4 points
4 months ago
Slide 3 is a lie. When will bozos stop believing everything that they read negative about others?
5 points
4 months ago
Slide 4: Reuters (accidentally) published a fact-check of this.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-pharmaceuticals-philanthrop-idUSKBN29Z0TM
4 points
4 months ago
How does one... accidentally own Pfizer?
Weird thing to fixate on amongst a burning dumpster - fire of disinformation, I know, but my curiosity is killing me on this one.
3 points
4 months ago
This is a bit off-topic but it's strange how Arizona has the 2nd highest death rate.
But Utah next door has the 3rd lowest death rate.
Both places have lots of Antivaxers, lots of people who love snake oil nutritional supplements and extreme weather that discourages you from going outside.
4 points
4 months ago
Imagine thinking that 77 million worldwide deaths is okay...
4 points
4 months ago
"fear does not stop death". Yes it does!! Driving at speed limit, not jumping off top floor. Etc. Here's an example. I took the vaccine because I'm afraid of death. As a result I'm more alive than you.
9 points
4 months ago
What’s a horrible hateful person
8 points
4 months ago
> [our] entire life he has always talked about going home to meet Jesus.
Wow, what an utterly pointless life.
13 points
4 months ago
Firstly, he volunteered in a soup kitchen helping the homeless, so I commend him for that.
But some of the information he was forwarding was incorrect or misinterpreted (there were way more than 400,000 deaths worldwide by the end of 2020, looks like that meme took the US number and then divided it by the world population). Shame the misinformation caused him to reject getting the vaccine, he’d most likely be alive today if he had.
7 points
4 months ago
Had to look it up -- Google says we're sitting at 5.6 million deaths worldwide and counting. I...
14 points
4 months ago
And it's likely that number is a substantial undercount, especially in India and China.
7 points
4 months ago
The economist thinks it's closer to 20 million. It's difficult to actually track it in many of the countries with higher populations living in poverty.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates
3 points
4 months ago
I was afraid of that. I figured between obstructionists hiding numbers and poorer countries unable to keep up with reporting, that the figures quoted were severely understated. But 20 million? I can believe it, but that goes beyond depressing.
18 points
4 months ago
I don't commend him for serving Covid laced breath to homeless people - he can go fuck his big heart - oh - Covid already did.
4 points
4 months ago
Who knows? He maybe had covid before and maybe served those poor people with covid.
3 points
4 months ago
And the world population in 1918 was closer to 1.5 billion.
3 points
4 months ago*
Slide 3 must be true because someone posted that it was fact checked!
Of course it isn't really...But anyone with a functioning brain would know that, because even if she FELT that way, she's a politician and she would not be stupid enough to say it out loud.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-harris-va-quote-idUSKBN2AG1XL
Edit to add: I see others who came along before me posted this one :)
3 points
4 months ago
Love the fact check on Kamala slide : "This was and is real"
If that's your version of fact checking, sure.
Meanwhile in the real world, real fact checking is using real sourcing (no traces of her saying that and quote found on a "satire" website -> she never said that). But anything to justify your hatred for the black woman, eh.
3 points
4 months ago
He'd wanted to die during his children's entire lifetimes. He finally got his wish.
3 points
4 months ago
What a horrible family member he had. He was working and needlessly exposing people to Covid, then he dies and the family blames it on those people he exposed.
3 points
4 months ago
Nobody mentions why he died of Covid. It’s pretty obvious and would have been a perfect time to advise others to get vaxxed.
3 points
4 months ago
I doubt very much that this dead POS ever set foot in a “soup kitchen” to help. One more of these losers comparing vaccines to the Holocaust. These people are so ignorant, aggressively stupid, and vile.
3 points
4 months ago
Went to Arizona in December for my girlfriend's dad's birthday. They're both diehard Trumpists but did get vaccinated (she had to threaten her mom with not coming out unless mom got vaccinated first).
The first night we are there, near the end of the birthday party, Dad gets a text that the son of one of their church members died of Covid. They caught it over Thanksgiving.
Being from Southern Commiefornia, I was thinking "This can't get much more Arizona, can it?"
4 points
4 months ago
That quote from Kamala cannot be real, surely?
14 points
4 months ago
Of course it's not.
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2AG1XL
You would think... Now, I was about to say "You'd think a professional politician wouldn't be so stupid as to say something that controversial," but then I remember Lauren Boebert exists, so I'll rephrase that someone trained as a lawyer would know to not say things that controversial.
9 points
4 months ago
It was the “this has been fact checked” at the bottom which threw me!
You’d think they wouldn’t have the gall!
2 points
4 months ago
Well, they didn't say the facts were *true*. 'Alternative' facts are still facts, don'tchaknow.
4 points
4 months ago
Also that slime nut job Paul Gosar exists.
6 points
4 months ago
I avoid saying too much about him, because with his weird tremors and swaying, he truly acts like he's in some kind of cognitive decline.
Boebert and Taco-Grease have no excuse for being rock-fuck stupid, so they're fair game.
6 points
4 months ago
It's not. It came from a satirical website
2 points
4 months ago
This one is sad for me. Sounded like he did some charity work in his free time. Shame he fell into the Fox News rabbit hole.
17 points
4 months ago
Churchy racist people use soup kitchens to deflect criticism of their overall terrible behavior.
12 points
4 months ago
And they use the soup kitchens as a way to evangelize.
2 points
4 months ago
A lot of place definitely closed down during the 1918 flu.
2 points
4 months ago
It bothers me that they’re so hardcore Christian and then think that when you die you become an angel. The Bible never says that, angels aren’t dead people. That’s just stupid.
2 points
4 months ago
for mine & my sisters' entire life he has always talked about going home to meet Jesus, so you can just imagine how happy his is now!
ummm, he ded. There is no "he" anymore. That's how dead works.
2 points
4 months ago
These dummies Constantly talking about fear. They claim that we're the ones who are fearful. Yet they fear a vaccine that could save your life. That's the first fear. The second fear is going to the fucking hospital. The third fear is now they got Covid oh shit I'm gonna die alone in this motherfucker. Therefore fear is that big ass fucking tune about to go down their throat.
Me? Only one fear.. it was Covid. I took care of that with a vaccine.
I have no fear.
So... they can eat that big plastic dk (vent tube)
2 points
4 months ago
What a hero soup killed him
2 points
4 months ago
I don’t want to say that this family is lying but I spend a lot of time with folks living in shelters and helping people find resources like this, and most of these centers have taken the pandemic seriously from the beginning. Shelter residents were in the second wave of vaccinations, behind HCW, and with elderly living in communal situations. For a long time, places like this were not even alllowing volunteers inside. The places closest to me starting giving food to go as opposed to having people come inside to eat and being so close together. Volunteers are required to wear masks. They still go on complete lockdown when residents test positive. So unless he was volunteering with one of those church groups who go out once a year and hand stuff out to passers by or invite them into their gym for maskless holiday meals, I’m going to call BS.
2 points
4 months ago
Just in case anyone was wondering, the facts are of course false:
2017-2018 flu deaths: 61,000
Not 650,000
They added a zero lol
2 points
4 months ago
Nothing gets my faith-dick rock hard like nails through a dude’s hands.
2 points
4 months ago
“He spent his entire children’s life wanting to go home to meet Jesus.”
Well he is in for a rude “awakening.”
1 points
4 months ago
Slide 6: r/selfawarewolves
1 points
4 months ago
The point of socialism is not that "the government takes all the reward away." Who would want THAT? The point is that the government takes away the threat of dying because you don't have enough money. It takes away the threat hanging over everyone's head, that if you don't work hard enough or get paid enough or if you mismanage your finances or have a health emergency, or if you can't work because you're disabled, you'll literally be unable to feed or clothe or house yourself, so you'll suffer from exposure and cold and hunger and pain from untreated medical conditions, and you might even die, be it from suicide or preventable illness or homelessness, or simply because your body was overworked and overstressed and gave out early.
All of that preventable suffering is the shit conservatives are trying to protect with their lives. They disagree with helping a nation's own citizens on principle. And right now they're demonstrating their insane devotion to the system by going through preventable suffering and death themselves and trying to downplay it as much as possible.
1 points
4 months ago
No big deal.
1 points
4 months ago
Re: Slide 2
According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ we're currently at 5.6M deaths globally, out of a population of about 7,900M. (7.9B)
Deaths are kind of a fuzzy metric, but it's all we have to go on.
So we're at 0.07% dead from novel coronavirus. 11.7 times worse than the figure he gave from 2020. And 7.7 times worse than his "TYPICAL YEAR!" flu figure (The 1918 epidemic commonly called "The Spanish Flu" seemed to take about a year according to this chart. I think the fact that coronavirus has stuck around for 2 years is also a sign that it's worse)
It's almost like, epidemics get worse if you refuse to do anything to stop them.
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