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This is going to be fun watching over the next four years. LOL. You just gotta laugh.

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

It's obvious why they're suddenly obsessed with Raw Milk. It's the same reason they were suddenly Anti-Vax, anti-Mask, and anti-plague-control.

Democrats said a thing, Republicans immediately reply with the opposite.

Democrats said Vaccines prevent disease, Republicans declared vaccines are poison. Democrats said wearing a mask can reduce the transmission of airborne pathogens, Republicans said masks will kill you and are illegal now. Democrats said "Don't drink raw milk, it can transmit deadly diseases." Republicans declare "You can take the raw milk from my cold dead hands."

I honestly expect that if Democrats released a PSA against jumping off cliffs onto jagged rocks, because the fall could be dangerous, Republicans would immediately start taking picture standing on the edges of cliffs with the caption of "Don't tell me what to do."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, we could at least try releasing that PSA.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Imagine being so vapid that the extent of your understanding of the world boils down to just being contrarian.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hear the "deep state" wants to stop you from eating rotting food. You're not going to let a bunch of scientists and health department officials tell you what to eat, are you?

/s just in case.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

They richly deserve tuberculosis. Too bad it'll also afflict innocent people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

If they want to drink raw milk and cough their lungs out; I am not going to stop them. The conservatives clearly wish to be left alone in their stupidity and lack of education, and we can't force them to pursue knowledge.

I also suspect that the bird flu (H5N1) is not (as of yet, at the time this post was written...) likely to mutate to spread in a human-to-human context. It's not impossible for it to do so though...but the mutation(s) have not yet reached a point where humans can pass it on to each other by breathing the same air; I would guess that a significant contact (Like breathing, eating or touching a very very very large amount of a bodily output that contains the virus) is likely needed to spread that virus; as that's how it's spread from animal to human so far. TL;DR: I could be wrong; but I don't believe it's capable of a pandemic yet. Science has not yet presented enough strong evidence that this is spreading from person to person. I welcome any citations to prove that wrong however. Thankfully I'm not conservative, and do welcome being shown that my suppositions are indeed wrong; as long as it's done respectfully.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

They've done it before, they'll do it again. Just give it time and with abundance of idiots helping it along, soon the Maga bird flu will be the hot new COVID.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I also suspect that the bird flu (H5N1) is not (as of yet, at the time this post was written...) likely to mutate to spread in a human-to-human context.

If you are infected with multiple flu strains at the same time, the viruses can recombine and yield a new strain. That is substantially more chance to get a human-to-human transmissible H5N1 than just by mutation alone (which is still something that should not be underestimated - flu mutates like crazy). There is a reason why virologists warn about H5N1 as the likely candidate for the next pandemic.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

H5N1 isn't going to be the last virus. The next time they cough their lungs out, it could be contagious.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The conservatives clearly wish to be left alone in their stupidity

No, no they do not. They feel compelled to force their stupidity on everyone. I guarantee you, there will be bills brought to the floor that require raw milk to be served at elementary schools.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Adult humans should not be drinking milk in liquid form in any way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

"Why Tommy, what have you been reading?"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I only drink my milk in a solid state

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

I too enjoy cheese

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

If you mean biologically- the ones without lactose tolerance, sure. The ones with lactose tolerance evolved to do so.

Morally is a different story, although even there, I don't really see a problem with a subsistence farmer living off of cow and goat's milk. Factory dairy farming is another issue.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are they or is that just what the media wants us to believe? I hear the "left" is obsessed with all kinds of things too yet I never seem to encounter these people outside of social media.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder if the GOP really thought this through. First, they try to breed more uneducated Americans, so they have a voter base that is stupid enough to vote conservative, and then they kill them off by a combination of an antivaxx mindset and unhealthy food that promotes an incoming pandemic virus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

They thought it through... Throughout every step of the process, they're making money hand over fist.

They want this. They want a form of neo-feudalism where they're the warlords, and everyone else that's left is their subject.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's because the gubmint told them they can't have it and, like petulant children, they just wanna do what they've been told they shouldn't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Wait till they outlaw/regulate eating unpasteurized cheese in the US...

Oh wait.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

This is exactly it for the vast majority of them. And there's a minority that have been duped into believing there are legitimate benefits.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

You know what? We should probably deny vaccinations, unions, and "love thy neighbor"... The world would be a better place

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