• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    30 days ago

    Every year I post a screenshot of my aunt’s rant about everyone dying from the covid vaccine in 3 years.

    Every year people tell me that’s not polite, and every year I reply that admitting you were wrong is free.

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      29 days ago

      Is your aunt dead or does she get to live with the shame and ridicule? If she is dead, then this a definitely a way harder flex than if she isn’t.

      I deleted my Facebook because I would be going scorched Earth on everyone, mostly family, in my friends list. I don’t associate with most of them IRL, but at least I haven’t put in writing my true feeling about them and people that think like them. My thoughts are abundantly clear on Lemmy behind the veil of anonymity.

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      29 days ago

      I like to repost my mother-in-law’s posts about how she 100% guaranteed Russia wouldn’t invade Ukraine. (From 3 months before the start of the Ukraine war.)

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        29 days ago

        Ouch, I said that too. I honestly thought Putin wouldn’t be that stupid, because the guerilla war that followed the occupation would be insanely costly.

        But I’ll admit I was wrong.

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      30 days ago

      Measles was one item. The other was the highly politicized and performative congressional hearing over Fauci’s diary where they are foaming at the mouth about all his “lies”. One such “lie” was his questioning the usefulness of masks in like Dec 2019. They address that as if that was his unwavering position to this day.

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      29 days ago

      They remembered that Faucci exists and that the country was overtaken by the tyranny of us wearing 4 inch pieces of paper on our faces so we don’t kill sick people.

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      30 days ago

      RFK blames Faucci for the measles outbreak and is calling people bad parents for not vaccinating their kids against measles.

      When called out about his anti-vaccine rhetoric he’s been spouting the last few years, he’s crashing out and being defensive about how people are twisting his words / that’s not what he said / etc.

      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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        29 days ago

        how people are twisting his words / that’s not what he said / etc.

        Someone should send him footage of exactly what he said, or links to X posts or w/e form he said it in.

        Wakefield, father of the anti-vax movement, actually did have his words twisted though - it was never “vaccines are bad”, it was specifically the combined MMR being administered to young children that he opposed (claiming they should instead be spread out), in no small part because he owned separate vaccines for each.