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nakedfrog

No Lifer
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Lots of people fucking died before getting immunity!
You have to survive a disease and hope you don't get any life changing conditions from it to get immunity. The point of vaccines is you don't have to risk the disease to get the immunity.
Also ignores that hospitals were already kind of overloaded with all the people who already had it. He's probably already retconned that part out of his head, if he even believes it happened in the first place.
 

VashHT

Diamond Member
Feb 1, 2007
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Pure bullshit. Stop getting your health information from social media and snake oil salesmen.


"Is natural immunity better than a vaccine?
Natural immunity is the antibody protection your body creates against a germ once you’ve been infected with it. Natural immunity to the virus that causes COVID-19 is no better than vaccine-acquired immunity, and it comes with greater risks. Studies show that natural immunity to the virus weakens over time and does so faster than immunity provided by COVID-19 vaccination."
Seems to be a weird new phenomenon for people to suggest that the human immune system is amazing and only needs a good diet to easily fight off diseases. Reminds me of this chiropractic thing my wife and I got tricked into going to, guy claimed getting spinal adjustments cured some liver disease he had, saying the human body can fight off anything if it's "in balance" or some shit. There was heavy implication that the human body is perfect because we were made by god so if we keep it in balance it can fight off anything, the whole thing was weird as hell.
 

[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
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1.) Not sure what you are getting at here. I dont watch Fox News.
2.) Immune response from natural recovery from the actual virus is superior to immune response to partial (spike protein) virus. You ignored the fact that many young people contracted and recovered from the virus before they were even eligible for vaccination. To force vaccination on those people, is unscientific, and completely unnecessary .
3.) China doesnt even do that. 99% tax on assets over 100M? OK Mr. Mao.

So the concensus from the communists here is that the Biden administrations handling of things like immigration, COVID, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and energy policy was spot on, 100% perfect, and that the subsequent election of Trump simply happened in a vacuum, with no actual reasons driving it.

Amazing delusion. No progress can be made with the that kind of propensity and desire to lick the nuts of your chosen party.
Man you got slapped down so hard I'd feel bad responding to any of this.

Just.. stop thinking you know things that you don't. You're at the bottom of a bell curve. Listen to people that know more than you.
 

fskimospy

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Funny how these self-described ‘centrists’ repeat a lot of ultra right wing misinformation and then when you point that out start calling everyone communists.

@Josh128 there is no need to lie. We don’t care what your politics are. There is also no reason to be the crazy uncle at Thanksgiving so keep that in mind too.
 
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WelshBloke

Lifer
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Also ignores that hospitals were already kind of overloaded with all the people who already had it. He's probably already retconned that part out of his head, if he even believes it happened in the first place.
That one pisses me off. I worked in a hospital all through COVID and it wasn't fun. Two of my colleagues died just because they went to work to help people.
In short they sacrificed themselves for the good of the community and people just think that it's all made up.
 

manly

Lifer
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Funny how these self-described ‘centrists’ repeat a lot of ultra right wing misinformation and then when you point that out start calling everyone communists.

@Josh128 there is no need to lie. We don’t care what your politics are. There is also no reason to be the crazy uncle at Thanksgiving so keep that in mind too.
Not that it matters, but his posting history suggests he's not lying. Delusional, absolutely.

To be fair, I don't know that he called everyone communists. He replied to a poster that proposed a wealth tax of 99% (over $100M). IMHO it's a fair retort to call that communism. Call it what you may, it's not a serious proposal and I highly doubt Bernie Sanders proposed wealth tax calls for 99% government seizure of assets. Granted, one can certainly live well off of $100M in assets, but there is some fair tax policy in between status quo and 99%.

Edit:
you're right, he did call everyone communists, for a bunch of reasons completely unrelated to economics. 🤣
 
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[DHT]Osiris

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Not that it matters, but his posting history suggests he's not lying. Delusional, absolutely.

To be fair, I don't know that he called everyone communists. He replied to a poster that proposed a wealth tax of 99% (over $100M). IMHO it's a fair retort to call that communism. Call it what you may, it's not a serious proposal and I highly doubt Bernie Sanders proposed wealth tax calls for 99% government seizure of assets. Granted, one can certainly live well off of $100M in assets, but there is some fair tax policy in between status quo and 99%.
Nah that's a serious proposal bruh, I don't care if you think it's communism, no human needs that much money. That's me negotiating from a $10M cap.
 

manly

Lifer
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Nah that's a serious proposal bruh, I don't care if you think it's communism, no human needs that much money. That's me negotiating from a $10M cap.
I don't think it's communism, which is an entire economic system that has failed miserably. But I assert it's completely unserious; whether or not any human needs that much wealth is irrelevant.
 

[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
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I don't think it's communism, which is an entire economic system that has failed miserably. But I assert it's completely unserious; whether or not any human needs that much wealth is irrelevant.
That's fair, we can have different opinions.

I say we treat them like dragons and raid their lairs, let's see how much fire they have.
 

JD50

Lifer
Sep 4, 2005
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And COVID is mutating and any immunity to one strain is less resistant to new strains. Vaccination allows you to keep getting updates to new mutations, without the downsides and increased risks of new infections.
Oh, well in that case, you just need to get sick with COVID once a year, so you can get natural immunity, so then you won't get sick from COVID, even though you were already sick with COVID, which you were trying to avoid in the first place.
 

Heartbreaker

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Apr 3, 2006
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Oh, well in that case, you just need to get sick with COVID once a year, so you can get natural immunity, so then you won't get sick from COVID, even though you were already sick with COVID, which you were trying to avoid in the first place.

I know you are being sarcastic, but to the antivax crowd, that just seem perfectly reasonable.

Also instead of each infection getting milder, it gets more likely to induce complications, like "long COVID".

I really don't understand how so many people turned into such wimps over vaccinations.

We live in stupid times.
 

[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
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I really don't understand how so many people turned into such wimps over vaccinations.
The honest answer is modern conservatism is based on contrarianism. It necessitates doing, saying, and supporting the opposite of whatever their perceived opponent does, says, and supports, which leads to absurd places like anti-vax, nazism, pizza-basement, clinton-lizards, biden-bots, etc.
 

fskimospy

Elite Member
Mar 10, 2006
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The honest answer is modern conservatism is based on contrarianism. It necessitates doing, saying, and supporting the opposite of whatever their perceived opponent does, says, and supports, which leads to absurd places like anti-vax, nazism, pizza-basement, clinton-lizards, biden-bots, etc.
I view it differently. In my opinion it is an entirely tribal ideology and tribalism explains everything.

Look at Greenman. Hillary does something he doesn’t like, she should be in prison. Trump does far worse, well, to say that exposes your own bias and rush to judgment.

It is all culture war to them. Independent values are not important.
 

RalphTheCow

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So now Musk is backpedaling all his Trump shitposts. The net result is he clearly demonstrated that he is way too unstable to have any involvement at all in government. Just like his host.
 
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K1052

Elite Member
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So now Musk is backpedaling all his Trump shitposts. The net result is he clearly demonstrated that he is way too unstable to have any involvement at all in government. Just like his host.

Just like in Russia and China the oligarchs eventually figure out they don't have power just because they are rich. The guy controlling the state has the power and if you want to live then you either flee or play nice with him.
 

JTsyo

Lifer
Nov 18, 2007
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So now Musk is backpedaling all his Trump shitposts. The net result is he clearly demonstrated that he is way too unstable to have any involvement at all in government. Just like his host.
Question is does he still oppose the BBB and the ballooning deficit.
 
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The FTC looking to give a big handout to Musk: for the proposed merger of Omnicom and IPG (ad companies), they're proposing a rule that they wouldn't be allowed to boycott platforms because of political considerations.

Sorry, but I don't think it's good for my client's brand to appear next to HitlerYouth1488.
 

ch33zw1z

Lifer
Nov 4, 2004
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The FTC looking to give a big handout to Musk: for the proposed merger of Omnicom and IPG (ad companies), they're proposing a rule that they wouldn't be allowed to boycott platforms because of political considerations.

Sorry, but I don't think it's good for my client's brand to appear next to HitlerYouth1488.

Wouldnt this violate the 1A?
 

ch33zw1z

Lifer
Nov 4, 2004
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Almost certainly. But the current clowns don't care about the Constitution.

Stephen Miller and co upset that brands won't advertise on Stormfront and at the Nazi Bar formerly known as Twitter.

Yea just wanted to make sure im understanding this correctly. Seems blatantly unconstitutional
 
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