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Murdered by Words

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Responses that completely destroy the original argument in a way that leaves little to no room for reply - a targeted, well-placed response to another person, organization, or group of people.

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[–] dotslashme 77 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Man that is a dark response. Unfortunately it's probably true.

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also and I seen this with covid too, we tend to concentrate on deaths and barely talk about the damage done by disease when you survive.

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

With these people, they think the long term effects are fabricated or exaggerated. Death is a lot harder to make alternative explanations for.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Death is a lot harder to make alternative explanations for.

If only. A lot of dumbasses will justify it away as "God's will."

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

I have few in my family.

One likely contributed to the death of another as he convinced his brother in law to not get the vaccine.

He now goes with the explanation that the hospital killed him. Ignores (or comes with new conspiracy theories) when asked why his brother in law needed to go to hospital if it was just cold?

You know what's funny? When he eventually caught covid (fortunately for him it was omicron variant, the other family member got delta). When he was sick he was willing to take anything, including a full bag of monoclonal antibodies (do you know how many microchips they could fit in one bag???) but then doctors didn't want to give it to him.

Of course after he recovered, he resumed talking about conspiracy theories.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 months ago

That would probably be a pediatric oncologist tho. Who would rip her a new one.

[–] NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I can't leave. I see the sheer stupidity, I want to distance myself from it, but I'm stuck on this planet. No matter how hard I want to live on Mars, I can't, and it's not fair.

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would be ok with a compromise to get the current administration and those nuts to Mars ASAP.

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

I'd like to see them leave for Mars. Don't care if they actually make it there.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

if Mars get populated, bunch of Musk fanboys would be among the first to volunteer, so i pass

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Wouldn't be long before they convinced themselves the outside air was breathable and staying inside was infringing on their liberties.

I hear the perchlorates are lovely this time of year.

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

The SpaceX mission to Mars more and more look like FSD in Tesla.

There's no way a company will bet on such risky mission, that if it failed it would completely kill it. It would actually have to be financed by a government, but as they are dismantling it, it also looks less likely.

We have much better chance for future if we can stop pollution and stop climate change. The billionaires think that they can simply run to Mars, but it won't be in their lifetime.

Also if somehow it will be successful, it won't be for us, unless maybe sending us as a slave labor.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Honestly at this point, I don't need a ship or even a suit, just shunt me straight out into the cold vacuum of space. I just don't want to die on this rock, let my corpse drift among the stars until it gets caught in a gravity well and pulled into our Sun.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

cold vacuum

Well, is it? The air can be hot or cold.
On sunlight or in shade of some object?

The outside of ISS heats up to 250°F (121°C) in sunlight. That's not quite cold.

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

brutal. i'm assuming this isn't true actually... anybody know?