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[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Only the best and the brightest from Donald's administration.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You know, occasionally I'm led to believe that we live in the 21st century, but then I read a quote like that and I'm reminded, nope, definitely Middle Ages still. I better go hunt some witches now.

They're called trans people now.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was vaccinated as a child. Does that mean I'm dead now? Cause I could be convinced either way.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

No, but autism is worse for these motherfuckers than death.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's like a trolley problem. If you do nothing, an RFK shaped train will speed down the tracks and kill untold innocents (and some maga assholes). If you pull the lever to try to stop it, you'll almost certainly die, and it's possible another train will be placed on the tracks later anyway.

So I don't know what to do. I pray to saint luigi.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ideally, as many people who try to kill that many people are stopped.

RFK specifically can't be allowed to fuck with vaccines. That isn't, like, an industry shifting around. It's worse than life and death, it's brutal, chronic illness--preventable horrendous individual suffering on a mass scale.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah we thought guardrails were in place with covid but here we are

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Who goes hiking with an unvaccinated infant? His babble is almost as incoherent as Trump's.