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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Okay, so what you're saying is that they're just ignorant enough to think that not vaccinating their kids won't put them at risk for illnesses that can kill them? It's still pretty bad, but I guess if they're not actively being malicious... My guard has just been raised by organizations like Autism Speaks who believe that autism 'takes their kids away.' Plus there's obviously the whole "no actual scientific evidence supporting a link," part.
edited 30th Jul '16 10:02:26 AM by Pseudopartition
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Her "personal health adviser" is Mark Hyman, a Huff Po writer, antivaxer, and homeopath snake oil salesman who's raked in millions off of books and phony cures. While she hasn't been as vocal as Bernie the alt-med crowd has taken his employment as an open endorsement. They're expecting an extension of Bill Clinton's policies, considering his hand in empowering them through the CAM commission and his support of Tom Harkin's lunacy. Very recently the alt-med crowd has has encroached into the VA hospitals, where alongside actual treatments veterans are now being offered their "alternatives".
I do pray I'm reading too much into it, all things considered. Over my lifetime I've seen Alt-med's influence here in rural Appalachia devastate the health of the poorest and most vulnerable residents.
edited 30th Jul '16 10:09:02 AM by carbon-mantis
Anti-vaxxers don't care about the scientific evidence. It's not a position that's built on a scientific foundation. It's built on a foundation of snappy sound-bites and arguments that "seem reasonable enough" when they come out of celebrities' mouths.
You can wank science at them all you want, but all they hear is "blah blah I'm brainwashed by the system blah blah."
edited 30th Jul '16 10:07:11 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Re: Pokémon Go — there have been a few instances of people trespassing on private property, entering restricted areas, etc., just to catch a Pokémon. That's really no worse than falling into an open manhole because you were oblivious to your surroundings while texting. But we really don't need more potential candidates for the Darwin Awards.
This Space Intentionally Left Blank.I fully agree that it's New Media Are Evil. I remember when the new moral threat to our survival as a species was MMOs because some people were getting so addicted that they stopped going to school or taking care of their babies.
I also remember when the new moral threat was Pokemon, which makes it darkly amusing to see that come back around.
edited 30th Jul '16 10:16:21 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.To get this back on an on-topic direction, what possible splinter polities are plausible if a Divided States of America scenario were to happen within the near future? Assume for the sake of convenience that the timeline includes events in past years/decades that have exacerbated secessionist sentiments in the USA to sufficient levels, and that an appropiate "trigger event" would serve as the camel's back-breaking straw that sets off a Second American Civil War.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Yeah, it's definitely the "it's popular and I don't get it, therefore it must be a threat to society" effect. Like people who who spend hours watching TV a week, but consider videogames (that you actually have to interact with and engage your brain playing) a danger to children's childhoods.
Surely things won't get that bad, will they?
edited 30th Jul '16 10:26:03 AM by Pseudopartition
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In response before Figtheer hits us with the "Off-Topic" thump-basically, what happened in The Falcon Cannot Hear. That is, Clinton wins the Presidential nomination...and then gets assassinated. Kaine is instead sworn in but lacks the ability to get the nation behind him, so in four years, another Democrat tries to pick up the pieces. By then, though, the nation is a powder keg just waiting to be lit.
EDIT: I do not want this to actually happen, so save your "Please don't talk about people getting assassinated!" BS.
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edited 30th Jul '16 10:29:41 AM by SciFiSlasher
"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."Trump says he will not be so nice to Hillary anymore
Trump slanders the family of fallen Muslim soldier
I knew he wasn't going to change his mind. But dam this is horrible even for Trump. I hope they lock him up when all this is done.
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So basically saying the same thing some of the left-wing nuts were saying in the comments of that Slate article I posted. "She's not talking and we know why". After all there can't be any reason beyond her husband being a misogynist, right. Nice to see horseshoe theory in full effect.
For the record, an interview in which she talks
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I think it means moving from calling her a weak crooked insider into [[Abomination Accusation Attack
accusations]] of paedophilia, substance abuse, and being fat, ugly, and old. Also of being a cuck.
I'll be honest here, her backgroundish behaviour in the convention speech left me uncomfortable ("Ugh, another demure Muslim woman letting the man do the talking. Does she usually stay three metres behind her husband, too?") I'm genuinely happy that I was wrong, and terribly sorry as to the actual reason she was quiet at the con.
Also, I'm rather shocked at the sheer magnitude of Trump's assness.
edited 30th Jul '16 1:43:19 PM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.![]()
...You do know that it is the Democratic Party who has the donkey as a mascot. The Republicans use the Elephant.
edited 30th Jul '16 2:07:57 PM by GameGuruGG
Wizard Needs Food Badly

edited 30th Jul '16 9:48:02 AM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.