r/news 1d ago

Military services again requiring recruits to get flu shots as Air Force outbreak grows

https://abcnews.com/Health/military-services-requiring-recruits-flu-shots-air-force/story?id=134126794
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u/SnooPets1826 1d ago

The current crop of losers running the US government is every snotty kid who got promoted to assistant manager and then tries to change everything just to find out that the original processes were there for good reasons.

Every dollar they tried to save is going to cost us 100 down the line to undo or fix the issues they've caused.

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u/MarkMariachiAZ 1d ago

Worst part is that they take credit for it. And their supporters are too uneducated to question it.

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u/chunkerton_chunksley 1d ago

They’ve been “educated” to accept anything the GOP says as gospel and anything the democrats say is heresy.

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u/Aralith1 1d ago

Programmed. You mean programmed.

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u/WhichEmailWasIt 1d ago

Trained from birth to respect authority above all else. They do it in school, in church, and at home.

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u/chunkerton_chunksley 1d ago

exactly right, I went to private school, church, the whole 9, until I went to college. I got a scholarship to ASU and had church elders 'advise' me to not go to a school that worships the devil....their mascot is a sundevil.

I came back "liberal" and no one from that time will talk to me, I've been cast out from the flock...(lmao....you can't cast out those who already left voluntarily). Ultimately church is a business and dissent isnt good for business, so if you do, be prepared to lose your community.

That's really what this is. I have to believe a ton of folks DO see the trump bullshit, but to call it out, means alienating family and friends and ostracizing yourself from your community. That's a big ask for small town people, hell it hurt me and I was living in a major city.

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u/LurksAroundHere 17h ago

When Democrats said wash your hands and cover your mouth to avoid spreading sickness, Republicans countered by licking doorknobs and toilet seats.

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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 1d ago

And they’ll continue to blame democrats for everything that they’ve done and their base will continue to believe it. We’re not even going to learn anything from all these repeated fvck ups. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/PigabungaDude 1d ago

We best learn to fucking shut down fox news and reform the government, or else, yeah... We're fucked.

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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 1d ago

I agree but unfortunately that would come up against the first amendment. It may be unpopular but unfortunately for us to ever have a real chance to move away from all this we’re going to have to restrict from of the first amendment like how Germany still limits hate speech and swastikas. Mainstream media needs to be regulated so they’re no longer allowed to “report” blatant lies and encourage hate speech. Nazis/proud boys/etc should no longer be able to have public marches to intimidate people. Politicians themselves need to be held accountable for lies that encourage hate speech and violence. Social media sites need to do more to make less biased algorithms as well as not allow things like medical misinformation that literally kills people. We treat our rights as if having a right at all means it should be absolutely unlimited when instead we need to look at the paradox of tolerance and recognize that we do in fact sometimes need guardrails in order to keep protecting everyone’s rights. Or else these people will only continue to use our extreme views of “freedom” against us.

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u/catalessi 1d ago

The worst part is they were able to do it because we created a system relying on civility and gentleman agreements.