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 No.16227[Reply]

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One of the main reasons for appointing Kennedy as the Secretary of Health was so that he could launch mRNA vaccine studies to see if DNA fragments created in the production of mRNA vaccines integrate into human cells, potentially causing cancer. Yet, this hasn't been done yet despite all the other things that have been done already. It also seems like Republicans in general are now actively against mRNA vaccines, withdrawing research funding, including (apparently) not providing funds for research that would prove they are harmful.

I'm starting to think that Republicans never really cared about whether mRNA vaccines were safe to begin with and are simply against anything that is new.

Thoughts or any news that these studies are still going to be done? Or are they never going to be done because they know doing them would prove that they are safe?

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Of course, the freak out over mRNA vaccines wasn't sincere. It was all part of a grand conspiracy theory that absolved Trump of handling the pandemic with incompetence, and that federal employees were mandated to take it after Biden took office.

Never trust politician or media pundits to be sincere about anything. In fact never take at face value anything anyone says if they're asking you to help them gain power or a large amount of money.

 No.16230

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyge27y2g9o

From the news going around and the special cause for autism that is being researched, it seems like current MAHA is not friendly to vaccines full stop.

We're going find that effective vaccines are a myth of the past and that the only way to keep yourself safe from illnesses is by building a strong immune system by exercise and a diet of whatever supplements being peddled. Oh, and healthy genetics.
Otherwise,, if you die, you die.


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Are we currently witnessing one of the biggest and most blatant and obvious government coverups of all time?

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>>16224
I haven't been keeping up with the news, but the last I heard months ago, their excuse was that they were just dragged along by the bad guys and didn't know what was going on until they got there -- or were just going there to observe and to try to stop the bad guys or something. In other words, being on the list would probably actually make them heroes for risking their reputations to save the children.

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How could the Empire have been better off?
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>>16210
Catgirls?
>use claws for advanced slashing as well as climbing, jumping up, and leaping down
>use ears for advanced hearing
>less need for eating and drinking to replenish their bodies, maybe
>less need for sleep, maybe
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

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Overweight anime girls.

No, I will not elaborate.

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Why even bother if the government wants us all dead, zombies, or in a military cult?

https://www.kff.org/tracking-the-medicaid-provisions-in-the-2025-budget-bill/

of particular note ...work/education requirements have been enabled unless you can prove your mental illness to a government official, which is sadistic, and if you happen to get cancer without being on medicaid, if you don't somehow get a job or go to school immediately (they will only pay 30 days prior to coverage instead of 90 now, and you have to have worked 30 days prior to the application), you're not covered, which is also sadistic.

(also if a state that hasn't enrolled yet in medicaid expansion, the very good cost-sharing incentive is now gone, meaning they probably won't)

How is this supposed to motivate people to be proud of their country and participate in society, again?
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>>16211
The American people are chickens. And they vote for Colonel Sanders. That's really all there is to it.

We want Social Security abolished. We want Medicare abolished. We want Medicaid abolished. We want minimum wage laws abolished. We want labor unions exterminated. We want more pollution. We want more inflation. We want lower wages. We want fewer options in terms of housing. It goes on and on. We want any restrictions on the power of government and business control over our lives ended.

We want this. And we're getting it. Good and hard. We're getting it.

Like the homosexuals, the feminists, the Jews, the transgender people, and the rest of Iran who marched in favor of the Islamic extremists taking over that country's government from the Shah and fervently wanting the Ayatollah-led revolution, with gay men kissing each other as they waved green flags covered with the Muslim crescent symbols, we really hate ourselves. Passionately. And we want an elite in power to show us "who's boss".

Like the Austrians, Czechs, Poles, and the rest who cheered on for the Nazis as they invaded. Like the Rwandan population that screamed in favor for the genocide. Like the Mongolians who would do anything for Genghis Khan.

We want a daddy. And Trump is our national daddy. Daddy. Not a President. Not a leader. Not anything else. Daddy. He's your daddy. He's my daddy. He's America's daddy.

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Don't get fooled next year


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Why is is that majority black owned regions have the most crime?
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If we're being honest, then I would speculate that masculinity is inherently illogical and violent, and the more masculine somebody is the more of a chance of them not just being a criminal but also being a violent predator.

Blacks are more manly than whites. Gays and bis are also less manly than heterosexuals. Jews are less manly than Christians, but both are far less manly than Muslims. And so on.

Prisons are full of not just men, but manly men. Atheists aren't in prisons. People with autism aren't in prisons. White women aren't in prisons. Socially progressive bisexual types arent in prisons. Nor are, say, small, skinny, and pale feminine men. And so on. Macho buff gigachad manly heterosexual traditionalist guys make up prison.

The more biologically feminine you are, in terms of how your brain functions and other parts of your inherent anatomy, the more intelligent, more compassionate, more empathic, more rational, and more ethical you'll be. The more manly you are, the stupider, eviler, and more violent you are.

I don't actually believe this line of thinking, or even want to believe it, but this is what all objective science seems to indicate, at least that I've seen. There are a lot of flaws with the arguments. And I'd push back hard, if used openly in political discussion in terms of the law, but I guess that all frames the debate.

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if we're being honestly godly and patriotic right now in this great country here right now in this moment as i speak and continue to do so because i am a manly man, then i would surmise that it's because of the resulting equation from the intersection of the manosphere and raceosphere.

The delta point is of particular interest because it's the only point that doesn't coincide with an alpha, beta, zeta, or even centurion sector. The delta point synchronizes at 20% with alpha-quadrant raceospheres, 30% with beta raceospheres, and 90% with zeta raceospheres, and 62.5% with centurions.

As synchronization of timelines synchronizes with delta particles, meta-destabilization occurs.

This process is often confused with things like biology, history, inherentness, or even rationality. Karmicular entanglementatides are revealed.

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Cause using crime statistics to determine where law enforcement must spend it's resources tends to lead to an algorithm that shits where it eats. Crime statistics are not a truly random sample of crimes commited. When you focus all your resources on patrolling black communities, then of course most of the crime data is going to reflect that.

And this actually makes it easier to get away with crimes, and thus not contribute to the crime data, if one is white cause most of law enforcement resources are spent on watching black communities.


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Donald Trump owned casinos, which exploited people's gambling addictions, and he filed for bankruptcy six times in order to try to game the system. He is now considered by a subset of America to be the greatest President of the modern era because of these skills and capabilities. The Republican party either generally supports this or is merely using him as a means to advance their own agenda -- each possibility distasteful. Republicans promote opposite values in their campaigns.
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>>16197
>Which is still just as meaningless as the first bundle.
An opportunist is someone who lacks moral and ethical concern, instead focusing on getting what they want -- see Kohlberg's Levels of Moarlity - level 2, self-interest, for further reading.

>That makes the context even more confusing.
I mean I never heard Ramsey suggest to his callers that they should game the system, as Trump has done, in order to improve their finances. Yet, this is considered OK by Trump supporters. In other words, there is a double standard -- Trump is allowed to do it because he's rich and he's Trump, but regular people are still discouraged away from doing it.

>That still appears to have nothing to do with what was discussed at hand.
The relevance is that Fundamentalist Christians say people should be moral, yet many appear unable to tell when their moral inclinations are being manipulated, don't care, or supports such manipulation. This leads them to voting against their interests.

>Which seems to be your assumption, and not something you've spent any time even backing up, at this stage.
This would require research, but I'm pretty sure the idea came out of a populist social reform movement. Money only exists as a tool to the wealthy. For the middle, working, and lower classes, it has cultural significance. For them, bankruptcy was meant to remove the social stigma of being in debt and give someone a fresh start at the house, wife, and pension.

>>16198
the magazine article does raise some questions, such as -- was trump originally embarrassed and trying to hide his first bankruptcies? Then after a while, he just got used to them so changed his story?

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>>16199
>An opportunist is someone who lacks moral and ethical concern
Which again, still leaves absolutely nothing for me to go off of in the original context.
He's an opportunist because... What? He just is?

>I mean I never heard Ramsey suggest to his callers that they should game the system, as Trump has done,
Assuming you are correct that he's "gamed" the system, is Donald Trump this Ramsey character?
From what you've described, seeing as you've labeled him an "opportunist" with an explicit moral derision, I would think it pretty irrelevant what he thinks.
Certainly he is not the entirety of Trump supporters either.

Why must Donald Trump, and anyone who supports him, abide by the divine will of Ramsey as though his word comes straight from the heavens themselves?
Seems rather absurd to me. Near as I can tell, there's nothing to justify such a thing, beyond perhaps a conflation of two individuals as the same because they're on the same 'side' politically, which even itself might be a stretch.

>The relevance is that Fundamentalist Christians say people should be moral, yet many appear unable to tell when their moral inclinations are being manipulated, don't care, or supports such manipulation.
Okay, but based on what?
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My politics


 No.16201[Reply]

Conventional economics is brain damage


 No.16186[Reply]

Elon Musk alone has caused more harm to people than the entirety of the left


 No.16181[Reply]

Non-MAGA evangelical takes down MAGA evangelical's bullshit dishonest representation of the Bible to justify ICE raids.

 No.16185

Slightly old, but a good breakdown of the role disgust plays in twisting Christianity for the sake of "Christian" nationalism.


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>>16159

This is the weakest criticism I've ever seen anywhere online. Utterly lacking in self awareness.

>>16162

>editorial content
>serious political philosophy
>pretending political cartoons aren't traditional

>>16164

>Fundamentally they only ever consider, let alone show, one side.

Editorial content has no obligation to be 'balanced'. It's literally a way of expressing an opinion, and if that's in reference to current events then of cpurse their going to reference the news their commenting on, of course their presenting their opinion alone. You consume other people's editorial content to get their opinions in response. Frankly this seems like a real stretch to try and play the victim over something that's been a well established practice in media for literally centuries. Editorial content is not reporting, is expressing opinions, thats what an editorial section of a newspaper fundamentally is, and the vast majority of content about politics posted on YouTube is editorial in nature, as well as the majority of content on cable news channels.

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>>16168
Political cartoons are and have always been simple propaganda.
The default state for them is strawmanning the opposition.
You are right they have no obligation to be balanced; they are within their rights to be propaganda.
But acting as though it's consequently anything but propaganda is asinine at best.

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If you ever believed a word this man said, you were only ever telling everyone else how fucking gullible you are
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 No.16183

Oh I know, I know... the Democrats just need more Superdelegates to make sure the vote comes out properly. Can't have the people getting their way unless their choice is pre-approved by the party commissars.


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this is beyond words. deeply fucking stupid people.
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>>16078
Lol, this aged poorly.  Iran lobbed a few missiles at a US base in Qatar, and now both sides are done with each other.  No ongoing war.

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Say what you like about Israel but they do have a sense of humor I'll give them that


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America should be at war with the China-x-Iran-x-Russian-x-North-Korean alliance (which I've seen sometimes called the 'CRINK' alliance).

This is very obviously the right thing to do. This is a completely ethically justified conflict. These are thoroughly evil regimes that're absolute dictatorships that engage in not just brutal violence against innocents domestically on the basis of bloodthirsty ultranationalist authoritarianism, with ethnic, religious, and racial hatred being let loose, but also against innocents in other nations. They're supporting organized crime. They're supporting terrorism. They're fueling everything from homophobia to religious prejudice to transphobia and more. They're making the world a worse place.

I support Donald Trump's invasion of Iran. I totally do. This is likely the singular first time in my entire life that I've ever seen him say or do anything that's correct, with him being so predicably wrong for multiple decades now that you can almost metaphysically set your watch to him in opposition, but "better late than never".

As somebody who's voted against Trump multiple times over the past several years and am extremely glad since Hillary Clinton very obviously would've been a better President (this is an objective fact) and Joe Biden very obviously was a better President (this is an objective fact), I'm saying this without any regret, let alone any irony: Thank You President Trump.

Down with China. Down with Iran. Down with Russia. Down with North Korea.

And, well, up with Trump.

Who's with me? Who has courage? Who has intelligence? Who is willing to stand against fascism?
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>>16147
Democrats and their liberal supporters have always been much more inclined towards wars than the left. OP is clearly not leftist.

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Feels good to get off your chest doesn't it? Seriously. Every single country you listed off as a government does not have the US' best interest in mind what so ever.

>>16117
Wanting to remain on 'peaceful terms with world powers while standing your ground are two things that aren't mutually exclusive.

The world powers are and have always been fake friends


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