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[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I got blocked by him on Twitter (in 2012!) for mocking his whackjob antivax views. He was espousing shit headed antivax nonsense long before it was fashionable.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Antivax goes back at least a decade before your 2012 blocking. My kid was born in 2001 and the whole vaccines cause autism thing was already big. In fact, I'd suggest it was nearly mainstream at the time.

When the study that suggested the correlation with autism got thoroughly debunked, nay, proven willfully fraudulent, it fizzled out a little bit, but has still stuck around like a raging case of herpes to this day.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Yes I know. I've was there for it too mocking these dinguses. But it only became mainstream with COVID when it sort of metastasized and merged with a bunch of other deranged conspiracy nonsense via MAGA & QAnon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Think Andrew Wakefield was before that. I wanna say... 2006? 2008? 2020 is just when it started killing even more people

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It was never fashionable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hope you are happy to have that honor. I would be.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I certainly am. I also got blocked by Kirstie Alley, Rudy Giuliani and Michael Avenatti for criticizing their cult, grift & grift respectively. I'm sure there are a few others I don't know about.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

8 years ahead of his time is some proper foresight

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Aye, and 2020 is 4 years ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I think they’re saying before the Covid anti vaccine crowd.