• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I just don’t understand how not stopping people from easily preventing deadly diseases helps Republicans. It’s their people getting the diseases and dying.

    I really don’t get them sometimes.

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      11 months ago

      Reality is a threat to conservatives. Denying reality, in any form, weakens the arguments against conservativism. Claiming untruths is a quick and dirty way to determining who is in and who is out.

      Anyone out is the enemy, and therefore evil. Anything they do, say, or believe is evil because they did, said, or believed it.

      Anyone who is in is good. Anything they do, say, or believe is good because they did, said, or believed it.

      Some may die of preventable diseases, but that’s a sacrifice the conservative doesn’t even acknowledge because fuck anyone who isn’t me.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, but it’s a loss in terms of votes. You aren’t going to win elections if the people who vote for you are dying out because of what you are telling them to avoid doing.

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      11 months ago

      If you’re being nice, you’d say they’re contrarians.

      If you’re being not nice, you’d say they all suffer from oppositional-defiance disorder from decades of right-wing propaganda rotting their brains. Democrats say vaccines are good, therefore they must really be tools of the satanic child molesting one world government globalist cabal to steal our vital fluids and turn all of us into gay transgendered purple-haired soy-latte-drinking they/thems.