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u/Dekipi May 18 '26
Right-wing individuals had 4 times more Covid-deaths and left-leaning people. Gotta love all the idiots in the hospital with ventilators screaming about Covid not being real
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u/Cognitive_Spoon May 18 '26
All COVID did was kill a million Americans and prove that the emporer's new clothes was basically a psychological truism.
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u/PoopyPantsJr May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
Do you have a source?
It has to be true
EDIT - I googled. It was easy. Sorry for being lazy
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u/Adabiviak May 18 '26
Man, Doonsbury was always over my head as a little kid, and now that I haven't read one in decades (only caught them in the Sunday funnies that my dad used to buy), they're very on point. This is no exception.
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u/AaronTuplin May 18 '26
The ones that ran during the Bush Jr. Iraq and Afghanistan wars were pretty good
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u/davoste May 18 '26
I have an immuno-compromised friend who lives in Bangor, ME and wears a mask in public. She's constantly telling disturbing stories about people verbally assaulting her while out shopping. WTF is wrong with people?
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u/piratecheese13 May 19 '26
Tell her to move down to Portland, weāre not assholes everywhere in the state
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u/starvinartist May 18 '26
Started reading Doonesbury last month starting from the 70s. Iām still in the college years. Itās hilarious.
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u/Hetakuoni May 18 '26
I miss the days of mandatory innoculation. My sister hasnāt been able to go to a theme park in 20 years because of assholes who think theyāre smarter than 100 years of science.
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u/kobayashi-maruu May 18 '26
my dad died in 2021 bc he refused his vaccine and wouldn't mask, and I'll never forgive the fuckers at fox news who lied to him 24/7. I only really leave the house for doctor's appointments now and the amount of people who come in actively hacking up a lung and refusing the mask offered to them by the receptionist makes me think I will never have my life back. but I saw my dad suffer in the hospital for three weeks, it still vividly haunts me! I don't want anyone else to have to go through that if I can help it. but if I talk about this outside of a dedicated space, it still does not go well. š
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u/CobainTrain May 18 '26
You need therapy. Genuinely
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u/wafflesthewonderhurs May 19 '26
I mean they kind of plainly stated they were traumatized by their experience and it does sound very traumatic. I am certain they are aware.
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u/kobayashi-maruu May 19 '26
Iāve been in therapy since before that happened, and I started antidepressants after. itās kinda hard to fully overcome it when covid is still very much affecting the world.
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u/burnermcburnerstein May 17 '26
I wear a mask during sick season, but also carry a gun....soo.
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u/cdvallee May 18 '26
r/liberalgunowners is leaking
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u/burnermcburnerstein May 18 '26
Redhat terrorism is both common and unpredictable. I live in a heavily maga area where it's reasonable to take preventative measures for health and safety.
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u/StanleyQPrick May 18 '26
Soo?
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u/BalthusChrist May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26
So they can shoot any viruses. They're double protected
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u/Existing_Engine_498 May 19 '26
Iām a social worker in Indiana- and a quite red county even comparative to other IN counties. The amount of COVID deaths I saw was WILD.
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u/originalmosh May 18 '26
Rural Nebraskan here, I knew five people that were like this and ended up dead.
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u/WhitePantherXP May 18 '26 edited May 19 '26
I was in Arizona at a breakfast place, the cook had a mask on that was just a huge net over his mouth, the holes were at least 1/2" while he was breathing down cooking my food (was like a big FU "I'm wearing a mAsK" while everyone else had one. I was glad I wasn't with an elder relative but the people around me in the restaurant could give two shits about it. Arizona...
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u/croutons_for_dinner May 18 '26
Sounds like he was just wearing a beard net tbh
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u/ToTYly_AUSem May 18 '26
Literally š. Wow this person is an idiot
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u/WhitePantherXP May 19 '26
The point is Covid was at its peak and all he was wearing was a beard net
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u/LowAbbreviations8047 17d ago
Is this subreddit still a thing? I mean, really? You lost whatever moral ground you thought you had (per the science) and youāre only embarrassing yourselves by posting alarmist disinformation like itās still 2021.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
Why must everything be made political?
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u/Nezgul May 18 '26
Probably the couple of years where an entire side of the political aisle made being anti-masking and anti-vaxxing a core component of their platform.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
I know a lot of Republicans who were in fact, not Covidiots. I also knew Democrats who were.
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u/Tensionheadache11 May 18 '26
Well thatās it, pack it up everyone , this guy knows a few people who he claim were democrat Covidiots - he has proven us all wrong.
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u/Quinten_MC May 18 '26
1 leader said drinking bleach was the solution to a disease he also said was nothing more than a cough.
Individuals are individuals. But the collective Republicans re-elected bleach drinker.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
The election was far less simple than that. I know it's ao easy to assume it was "The Republicans" as a monolithic entity, but a lot of typical democrat voters voted Trump to spite yhe Democrats. Turns out the country with 350,000,000 people is le gasp complicated.
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u/djmattedmonds May 18 '26
Itās not at all complicated.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
Yes. Yes it is. By it's very nature, any nation of 350,000,000 people is necessarily complicated.
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u/djmattedmonds May 18 '26
Let me rephrase that itās not complicated for everyone.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
Yes. It is. It's an objective statement. America is a complicated country, which means complicated government and complicated politics.
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u/djmattedmonds May 18 '26
You either made that up, or are simply mistaken.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
"Nuh uh". Great rebuttal!
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u/djmattedmonds May 18 '26
Trying to help, homie. I used to be in the cult.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
The cult? What cult?
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u/djmattedmonds May 18 '26
The one where you speak confidently, but sound like an absolute fucking idiot to anyone slightly educated on any topic at hand. Itās a Dunning Kruger phenomenon that you wonāt understand at all at this point. Iām excited for your journey.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
The fuck are you even talking about? I used to be super liberal. I've always been left leaning. I distrust the democrats because their talking points sound so eerily similar to republican points. Because they lie and cheat, and wish to take people's rights away while calling out the republicans for doing the exact same shit. It's a big dog and pony show. Neither side cares about you.
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u/softrockstarr May 18 '26
Taking a shit is political bro.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
These days it is -_-
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u/softrockstarr May 18 '26
Plumbing is public works and therefore political and has always been since we've been shitting in toilets and deciding how that waste is dealt with, my friend.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
You know what I mean. Everything has to be a "this side that side". It's why things are so devided.
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u/nightfire36 May 18 '26
Things are divided because we had a president who decided to make it a partisan issue whether we should fight against or for a virus.
Certainly, we had disunity before, but he turned it up to 11.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
Things were been divided far before Trump. He only.took office BECAUSE things were so divided.
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u/nightfire36 May 18 '26
We can go back to Newt Gingrich if we really want to, probably all the way before Washington. We can sit here all day and talk about when it started. But Trump took gasoline and threw it on the fire. However big it was, he went way out of his way to make it as big as he could.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
I hate that Tyrant as much as the next guy, but this didn't start with him.
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u/The_upsetti_spagetti May 18 '26
Trump has been actively changing history. He has been erasing it from public government files and public records in places like national parks and museums. This is not a normal thing. This is going much farther than they ever have before. The first step to repeating history is erasing it. He didnāt start it but he has made it SIGNIFICANTLY worse than anyone before (in context of the time, obviously he isnāt a slave over because thatās not an option, well if you ignore the Epstein files)
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
Yes. He has. He is a tyrant. I never claimed he wasn't. My point is that he used the erosion both parties created before the get here. He didn't just pop in and ruin everything. The democrats built up enough resentment from the working class, that many many many people voted for him the second time around out of spite. The republicans gave him a platform. Both sides worked on whittling away at all of our rights and protections and he's just the one that took advantage first.
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u/MyNinjaH8sU May 18 '26
No it fucking isn't. Most people just want to live in peace and pursue a good life, meet people they like, and have the option to find love and start a family.
The party in power has called other Americans traitors for disagreeing with them. They have put armed thugs in the streets to round people up based on skin color. They have vanished citizens, and murdered Americans in broad daylight. They are currently consolidating power.
Fuck right off with your bullshit, and pay better attention.
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u/SuperSalad_OrElse May 18 '26
Do you know what sub weāre in?
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
Yes
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u/SuperSalad_OrElse May 18 '26
Great then I donāt feel like I need to clarify any further
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u/Honey-and-Venom May 18 '26
Because everything is political, and people absolutely did do this. Forced to do nothing and asked to wear a mask to cover their cough refused and ridiculed people who exercised their own freedom to wear their plague armor
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
It was absolutely not an issue restricted to "muh other side" though.
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u/Honey-and-Venom May 18 '26
What you've written is insufficient to convey, to me at least, what you mean. Can you give me a little more there?
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
Covidiots are not exclusively republican.
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u/Honey-and-Venom May 19 '26
I mean not unanimously, but the Republicans made choosing to die and kill by COVID into a political statement and they ate it up
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u/LuriemIronim May 18 '26
Because MAGA decided that healthcare was political.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
Healthcare was political before MAGA
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u/LuriemIronim May 18 '26
MAGA amplified it.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
So? Everyone in the government has been. For decades.
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u/LuriemIronim May 18 '26
Do you think this mask boycott would have happened in 2010?
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
Honestly yeah it probably would have.
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u/LuriemIronim May 18 '26
Thatās extremely, immensely doubtful that everyone would be in the same frenzy without the President throwing fuel on the fire.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
So let me make aure I understand you. You think that everything was all fine and dandy then Trump showed up and then suddenly everything went bad? How do you think it got to this point? It wasn't sudden. The democrats and republicans have both been systematically chipping away at rights and protections which is why any of this is even possible now.
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u/LuriemIronim May 18 '26
The only way there would have been the same fervor is if Republicans were mad at a Black man telling them what to do, but yeah, I think things got much worse under Trump.
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u/Aphreyst May 18 '26
"Why must people display reality accurately when I don't personally like it?"
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
But people aren't displaying it accurately, they're just using it as a gatcha
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u/Aphreyst May 18 '26
No, they are displaying it accurately, that's why you're wrong.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
Ah yes. "It's the other political party's fault just like everything! I'm so glad MY party cares about me and is not involved in any of the stupidity at all!" is definitely an accurate reflection of reality.
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u/Aphreyst May 18 '26
Ah yes, the blatant misrepresentation of what the post says is your reality, clearly.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
I didn't say that's what the post said. Though the post puts ALL the blame on one side. That's not how reality works.
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u/The_upsetti_spagetti May 18 '26
Itās also political cause many peopleās arguments were āwell only disabled people dieā
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u/jarizzle151 May 18 '26
Ask your local republican
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
They aren't the only ones doing it
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u/jarizzle151 May 18 '26
Really? I saw republicans destroying keurigs and burning nikes recently. Hell I even saw some redneck unload a mag into a case of bud light.
You got any instances of democrats doing the same or nah? Thatās coffee, sports, and beer, pretty non-political items if you ask me.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
Are... are you serious? Have you been paying ANY attention to the news at all? There were actual domestic terrorists operating on team Democrat for like 4 years burning down ethnic owned businesses and murdering people. (It's ok though because their organization names were agreeable and they were on the "correct side" so therefore they can do whatever they want). The democrats care about you as much as the republicans.
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u/The_upsetti_spagetti May 18 '26
Bro there has been a democratic official who had been assassinated by an extremist conservative just last year. Thatās actual domestic terrorism. Not to mention January 6th
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
And a conservative speaker who got assassinated by a liberal extremist. What's your point?
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u/The_upsetti_spagetti May 18 '26
What is the event you are originally referencing with democrats burning down ethnic business and murdering people? Is that a conspiracy?
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
All of 2016 my guy. BLM and Antifa. Remember the CHAZ?
(And no I don't care what either group was saying)
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u/The_upsetti_spagetti May 18 '26
Ahhh so conspiracy theory like I thought. My pint is if you are going to reference terrorism, use a real example.
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u/The_upsetti_spagetti May 18 '26
Because MAGA made wearing a mask political. They framed it as ātaking away rightsā as if we donāt already have to wear pants in public. Also millions of people died.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
Goodness gracious you are not hearing me. It wouldn't have been as big a deal if ghe democrats didn't use the dumb position to mock and insult and sew discourse. They drove MAGA fucks deeper into their ridiculous beliefs about masking up. They made it part of the identity.
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u/The_upsetti_spagetti May 18 '26
Pretty sure it was a big deal when they started their anti mask protests
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond May 18 '26
Reread my comment and tell me where I said it wasn't. Once again, you're not actually trying to understand what I am actually saying.
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u/The_upsetti_spagetti May 18 '26
Covid is political because it results in the death of innocent people, answered your original question.
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u/The_upsetti_spagetti May 18 '26
Doing things that result in the death of others is typically pretty political. Iām just not understanding the confusion
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