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[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 204 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Or that everyone who got a vaccine would be dead in a year

[–] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 77 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Yep, but you're still piloting your flesh-armoured skeleton.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 46 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I was literally told that I was in danger of being "liquified" within 2 years. Literal melting in my skin Indiana Jones style

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[–] JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] mrbonejangles@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

...I got better.

[–] SwiggitySwole@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

He got better

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 years ago

I saw a early video from a "medical expert" the government was trying to "silence" we would all be dead within 6 months from the first jab containing cancer, ground up aborted baby fetuses, Aids, Cancer and Alzheimer's. I usually joke due to the Alzheimer's I've forgotten to die more than once now.

Most have moved on to Trans hate, bathroom use, child groomers and kidnapping. After reading Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World, it seems there are old themes religions have used to invoke emotional responses from the masses to maintain control. These conspiracy types have stolen the same plays for their causes to great effect as who does not think child grooming and kidnapping is terrible?

It doesn't require much thought or research to be moved with this kind of raw emotion and in the 90s these child abuse themes were hard to confirm on a grand scale but also invoked the same responses as alien abductions once did.

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[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 110 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"any moment now anyone who got the vax is gonna flop over and start foaming at the mouth, I heard it on the My Pillow Guy show."

I can't decide which is more depressing, people stupid enough to believe the shit, or the absurd lack of credibility their sources provide - fucking rubes and idiotic liars deserve each other I guess.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 71 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If the government wanted to kill people, they'd kill those who refused to comply.

So the thing that would make more sense, is that the COVID vaccine was an antidote, and the government was going to release a toxic gas to kill everyone who didn't take it.

But nah, their argument is that the government is killing those who comply. Ya, because that makes sense.

[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That's one of the things that bugs me about conspiracy theories. So many of them don't even have a point.

How can so many be people be so wrapped up in conspiracism, but never once have the though, "Oh, wait, why would anyone do this? It'd be pointless."

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[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 33 points 2 years ago

Someone straight up told me its because the elites only want those they can respect to survive.

It's a wierd form of hating them but desperately wanting their approval. I think they all just have daddy issues that aren't the kinky fun kind.

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[–] Misconduct@startrek.website 45 points 2 years ago

When you point out its been a long time, and you're fine, so they say, "Give it 10 more years" lmao wtf just shut up and crawl back under your rock you science denying turnips

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 60 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I wish. They still protest against the lockdowns every saturday down here in Melbs. You know, the lockdowns that are long over. But they want those freedoms that aren't being restricted in any way, shape or form, dammit!

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I’ve seen the anti-vaxxers out and about. They have all these photos of people on little sticks and you think it’s going to be people who allegedly died of vaccines, but when you get up close it’s all stuff like “Marie had the Moderna vaccine. A day later she sprained her ankle climbing down off a horse.” “John had a sniffly nose a few weeks after Pfizer.”

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[–] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Dictator Dan is just biding his time before the full communist takeover!!!

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[–] Nails@lemm.ee 54 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No time to talk about that now. Busy moving the goal posts.

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[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

I've heard someone tell me "it's a hoax but I got sick twice" in the same sentence.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I had a shopkeeper tell me it was a hoax and a few members of his family died of it.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Straight up my uncle was in the ICU for over a week and has been basically crippled by long covid. He still denies it's real.

Dude can barely check his own mail 18 months after getting it.

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[–] ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca 51 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Especially since there are people in places of the world that would kill for a vaccine

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[–] _bug0ut@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago

I assume the accepted copout is something along the lines of, "You can thank us for making enough noise that they backed down. Sheepdogs, sheep, blah blah something something..."

[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Everybody who got the vaccine was supposed to be dead by now, too. This is has gotta be the slowest-acting poison in history!

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[–] quadropiss@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I kinda wish we still had to wear masks

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[–] bquintb@midwest.social 47 points 2 years ago (3 children)

MAGA: wrong about everything

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
  1. Tell them that's what it really stands for
  2. Say it over and over and over and over
  3. Country fixed. America is great again!

I mean, it's already worked on them already...

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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They’ll just claim that it was because of their efforts that they prevented the Islamic takeover of the US through mask mandates, when really it was all because Trump didn’t want his makeup rubbing off on his mask. One man’s vanity and the whole nation suffers.

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[–] frokie@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In their minds they weren’t wrong they just succeeded in stopping it

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

IKR? credits where its due! Thanks, crazy man with the hastily scrawled anti-mask placard

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[–] jcit878@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

still plenty of cookers in Australia. they are even still protesting that shit that ended checks calendar 2 fucking years ago.

they never admit they were wrong, but you can't shut those stupid fucks up

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They still won't admit they were wrong. They don't possess the willingness to self reflect whatsoever. Imagine living such an empty husk of an existence.

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[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Still waiting for Obama to take all my guns and outlaw Christmas tbh.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] BeardedSingleMalt@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, they just moved on to repeating verbatim every other talking point they're spoonfed. Hunter's laptop, "it'll be gone after the election", Hillary's emails, election hoax

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[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Oh near me there are some idiots still waving banners about gender lockdowns and other inane bullshit.

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[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They are projecting. It would be nice if we as a society had enough resources to ask them what really makes them feel bad.

[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We know what makes them feel bad. It's the brown people

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’ve got some of this lot on my LinkedIn, of all places, all hoping to one day stop being openforwork by non-stop posting conspiracy theories where potential employers can see it. Their latest thing is that they saw The Hunger Games and decided that 15 minute cities means walled-off districts rather than simply not having to drive everywhere to get what you need.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Some of the shit I've read about 15 minute cities makes me really wonder how people take those nuts at all seriously ever again.

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[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

No no, you see, they WON, that's why! /s

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