• Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    25 minutes ago

    I don’t like being alive, I already didn’t, but I like it less now. I crave the afterlife.

  • sumguyonline@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 minutes ago

    Vaccines are evolution at work. So long as they work, you live longer and have a higher chance of reproducing. This is not a difficult concept. My genetic line is going on as long as I can throw it.

  • kn0wmad1c@programming.devEnglish
    18·
    2 hours ago

    “Warrior Essentials”

    “Spike Gangsters”

    Do the incels he’s trying so hard to market to understand how stupid these names are?

  • uberfreeza@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    3 hours ago

    Out of curiosity, I read one of their scientific studies on the website. The first one I read was a literature review (no tests were actually done) that said “one study says the supplement does nothing and another two sources say the study was done wrong so it could maybe be beneficial???” Wow. Such strong evidence.

    • TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 hours ago

      Yes, pay attention to mention of “shedding”. They think that vaccination causes the PT in question to shuck it off as though they were Pigpen from Charlie Brown cartoon.

    • notthebees@reddthat.comEnglish
      4·
      56 minutes ago

      It’s not even applicable to most vaccines.

      Basically polio spreads through poop, and this is your shedding. Oral Polio Vaccine does this as it’s a weakened form of the polio virus and exhibits the same spread and provides vaccination indirectly to others. The US uses E-IPV, which is inactive and harmless and doesn’t have this spread.

      You’ll only find OPV being used in countries with very inadequate medical access as it can be administered orally(hence the name). Only downside is that if you are very immunocompromised, there is a non zero chance you get polio and a chance you suffer from paralysis.

      Flu vaccines, covid vaccine, literally anything else doesn’t have this “shedding”. It’s literally one vaccine that isn’t even administered in the united states.

    • somethingsnappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 hour ago

      Vaccines can shed (sometimes we have to add that as an seondqry endpoint to clinical trials), but not even remotely in the way these idiots are saying.

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1632·
    6 hours ago

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha This guy just discredit any future movie involving an FBI agent for the next 75 years. We knew america had a under-education problem, but man you guys are something.

    • Jyek@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 minute ago

      I guarantee he doesn’t actually believe this shit. He’s just a grifter grifting just like the rest of the Whitehouse circus cast. The only exception might be Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That freak show might actually believe the shit he spews.

    • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
      698·
      5 hours ago

      Germany just had a sweeping far right election, and Argentina has had a libertarian at the helms for a bit now. A ton of south Asian countries have had hardcore conservative views for a while now, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Canada shifts right next election. There are basically few corners of the earth where populism/right wing ideology isn’t growing and expanding. This isn’t an American education system problem, it’s world wide. The political elites in your country just have you convinced that it’s America that’s now the problem, which then creates a new wave of populism in your country. It’s a self eating snake.

      Not that I’m disagreeing that our slapping of allies isn’t problematic. This is just something that is clearly growing everywhere and the people of Lemmy love saying “America bad” as the same exact shit is happening in your country. If you’re an American expand your news beyond our shores. The grass is unfortunately turning to shit everywhere. We’re in for a rough decade together.

      • serenissi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        565·
        5 hours ago

        Germany just had a sweeping far right election

        you can’t say 20% a ‘sweeping’. The situation is worse at other places. And thanks to true multi party democracy, AfD probably won’t be in government anyway.

        • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
          33·
          4 hours ago

          I hope so for Germanys sake. A 9% increase from the last election, for a party that’s 12 years old… that’s pretty sweeping to me. Not to mention that it’s more so the southern parts of Germany that have an even stronger percentage of AfD support.

          Again, I’m not wanting a right shift for these countries, but it’s become clear that things are. We could stick our head in the dirt and say it’s only America, but that wouldn’t be true, and that’s what I was getting at with my comment.

      • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.mlEnglish
        17·
        5 hours ago

        Let’s be clear here, the right extremist party got over 20% which is really bad for sure, but the mid-right party rules out working with them in a coalition no matter what. That’s rather different from where the rest of the republicans and many democrats fall over themselves to do whatever the lunatic fringe says. Further, the American billionaires are strong influencers of these trends in other countries. The core of the disease is the USA even when there are symptoms everywhere.

        • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          4 hours ago

          The mid-right said they wouldn’t work with them, but as we have seen that means absolutely nothing. I wouldn’t be surprised if the SDP CDU broke that and started working with AfD. Maybe it’s just me being cynical.

          I’m not going to disagree that our power projection from the US isn’t a power boost to other right wing governments. I just think that to claim this is solely a result of poor US education when we can see this happening elsewhere in so called better educated countries means it isn’t really the predictor they’re claiming it to be.

      • Mannimarco@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        211·
        5 hours ago

        The US is literally in control of fascist now, it’s not nearly as bad in Germany, not that it’s good but there is a big difference

        • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          4 hours ago

          If we’re saying things are “not that it’s good” then it sounds like there is a rightward shift. Which was my point. America isn’t alone in this trend. To act like it is due to some lack of education was the original OPs point and I simply disagree with that based on the current trends of countries around the world.

          • Mannimarco@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            4·
            4 hours ago

            I mean that is a fair point, but AfD got 20% of the vote and are likely not getting in the coalition, proportional representation and all that

            • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 hour ago

              Thanks, I’m hopeful for Germany that they can keep the AfD at bay. I’m hopeful that Americas former allies make enough of a turn on us that the people here realize we messed up and I’m hopeful if we return to decency here that we didn’t burn up all of our credibility. A lot of Americans aren’t Trump supporters, but certainly there is a decent amount that is and it disgusts me.

      • Archmage Azor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        5 hours ago

        Didn’t the German election end well? AfD isn’t in charge, and the winner is pro-Ukraine, anti-Russia, and pro-EU independence of the US.

        • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          4 hours ago

          AfD walked away in second, but jumped by nearly 9% over the last federal election. That’s a huge gain in momentum.

      • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        5 hours ago

        Argentina has had a libertarian at the helms for a bit now.

        milei is not a libertarian, he’s a generic hard right conservative.

        • BakerBagel@midwest.socialEnglish
          142·
          5 hours ago

          You mean a libertarian? Yeah we know. The dude is currently wrapped up in a memecoin scandal is oeak libertarian dude

          • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 hour ago

            No, libertarians are on the right, assholes etc but we need to be fair to them to expose milei’s lies.

            He’s anti abortion and is not going to be introducing any new freedoms to Argentina. The libertarians claim they are pro abortions, drugs and anything else… For a price. And anything…

            • Jack Riddle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              3 hours ago

              Idk what else you would mean by libertarian. The original (marxist) meaning is long gone and all the right-wing larpers are just as bad as Milei if not worse. There exists no libertarian who isn’t just an authoritarian fascist.

              • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eeEnglish
                4·
                2 hours ago

                Idk, a quick search shows that the President of Chile, apparently, is a left wing libertarian. Unless he’s also secretly an authoritarian fascist?

                I guess nowadays every political ideology ever is just a facade for yet another right wing authoritarian shithole.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
        76·
        5 hours ago

        The cope is strong with this one. “There’s other people being dumb too!”

        Yup, and the source of this is disinformation from adversaries like Russia, China, and Iran being laundered through US social media companies to made to appear legitimate. Well I guess TikTok isn’t American (yet) so I guess China somehow got into the game of laundering disinformation too.

        And the trend is actually incumbents losing power, not necessarily a right wing shift. You see the disinformation can be a blunt tool so it just results in people hating their own governments. The UK had an election where the Conservative party lost… as they were the incumbent.

        But nowhere has the government been turned over to greedy businessmen to the degree the US has been. Argentina has their President briefly promoting a memecoin, sure, but he may face a lot of repercussions for doing that. Fun Fact: the Argentinian memecoin was launched by the same people that launched $MELANIA, and no one in the US cares about it nor do they care about the $TRUMP memecoin. It’s open season for grifting Americans, because it’s the gritters that are now in charge of everything in the US.

        But go on making excuses for why it’s all ok. I’m sure that will result in fixing the problems in your country.

        • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          4 hours ago

          The incumbents are losing to whom? Certainly not their own parties. You bring up the UK which is an outlier of recent events, but was a predicator of the future with Brexit during their right wing shift. Brazil could be another, but Bolsanaro is still an active threat as are his supporters.

          But sure, just say “cope” and it automatically makes my comment wrong and yours right!

          • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
            23·
            3 hours ago

            What word describes what you’re doing better than cope? You’re coping with the embarrassment of what your country’s becoming. Which would be fine, but trying to make it be about other countries rather than facing up to it, that just makes you part of the embarrassing state your country is in.

            And yeah incumbents losing is a well known thing… here’s a link to the first article on the results from a simple search: https://abcnews.go.com/538/democrats-incumbent-parties-lost-elections-world/story?id=115972068

            Also here in Canada, the Conservative poll numbers are dropping like a rock. The Conservative are now running a ridiculous number of adds to try to claim Carney is the same as Trudeau because they got nothing other than the incumbent disadvantage that’s become the global norm. The US idiocy is serving as a cautionary tale and making people turn away from anything resemblance of it.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    17·
    4 hours ago

    This guy should be, at the very least, removed from office. I don’t care if it’s handcuffs or a body bag.

    Fuck. I just want to thanos snap away all the republicans. The absolute worst people.

  • BorgDrone@lemmy.oneEnglish
    54·
    6 hours ago

    Gotta love people who don’t want to take a vaccine that was designed by the absolute top experts in the field and extensively tested, but have no problem popping pills some grifter on the interweb sold them.

  • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    68·
    6 hours ago

    We’re fucked. This guy is now in charge of the FBI and now has the power to investigate and charge people with federal crimes.

  • PattyMcB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    5 hours ago

    I was planning on starting a website that will “use your device’s wifi to purge any 5g nanitesfrom your body” with a “cleansing signal” for only $19.99. (For entertainment purposes only - there are no health benefits guaranteed or claimed by this site)