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Simple enough:
Religion primed them to believe nonsense while removing their ability to parse fact from fiction. So now they're both rubes and willing targets for any grifter that has the right blend of charisma and hate that they associate with their religious upbringing.
It's no great achievement to believe facts. Believing flagrant bullshit takes far more effort, and therefore can be used as a sign of loyalty.
Anyway, they're too stupid to tell truth from lies.
So most of ivermectin followers came from Rogan being an unintelligentual influencer with followers. I'm curious now that he has finally started finally breaking from Trump's suck my cock like a proper republican rhetoric, if maybe he'll start to recognize and bash these 1/100 fake science bullshitrrs they've gone out of their way to promote their ludicrousness we will be better off. It's sad to say, but America can be saved by ~10 influencers or Rupert Murdock not being a murderous piece of shit for 1 day. That said. If you know Murdoch's family, tell them they should all hang for me. Every member of that family is guilty of murder. Not just 1 murder either. Millions. If they want their freedom, they need to do the right thing.
Just because they didn't fire the gun, doesn't mean they were not behind it. Just about every hate crime in America in the past 15 years is Fox's fault. If Murdoch cared about his family he'd shut down Fox and never set foot in America again.
9/10 school shootings, I can safely say. Murdoch. Hang the fucker
If anyone’s pinning their hopes on Rogan doing anything sensible… well, have fun with that.
Oh definitely not, the hope was beaten out of me a long time ago.
Same reason they're still hung up on Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton: the nazi grifters keep recycling the same material.
If anything, they're going further and further back, reviving fringe conspiracies, so that it seems like the plot to oppress them has continuity throughout history, even since ancient times. (Of course, the problem with that is having to skirt around the OG nazis, who did the same thing with essentially the same conspiracies.)
To them nothing exists before Reagan, except when they want to bash Carter as the caveman that Reagan took America from.
Go back any further, and they have the only president who was never elected (Ford) or the first president to resign in disgrace (Nixon), although every Republican president since Nixon should have resigned, or in the case of one, arrested, tried, and executed.
Oh yeah, I was saying more broadly, but you're right.
Also, reading your reply made me realize something: this existential apocalyptic danger that they use to justify their extremism, it's both a recent emergency that will destroy society if we don't act now and an ancient Satanic plot that has existed since time immemorial.
You reference to a societal emergency reminded me of Skum's recent Cheesehsed Speech, in which he claimed the the Wisconsin Supreme Court election was important to the entire world. His propaganda starts at about 1:20.
I've heard that this mess started because Ivermectin was tested in the developing world as a treatment for Covid, and that some of those who took it reported "feeling better."
Except in those parts of the world, many many people have untreated, festering parasite infestations like hookworm and many others. So yeah, when they take an antiparasitic compound, they start "feeling better," whether they have Covid or not.
That doesn't explain why Americans bought into it.
Americans have education levels of the developing world. Probably worse, since many worship ignorance.
Social media circus got a hold of the "results," doctors said "No, that's dumb," and then the terminally contrarian went off the deep end with "what are they hiding from us!?!?" As they do every single time a quick and cheap "cure" is debunked.
Well the right wing is pretty wormy so
Maybe that's what killed RFK Jr's brain worm.
It probably starved to death
One of the reasons I hate that fucker is that I can't listen to Maggot Brain anymore without thinking of him. That incredible Eddie Hazel solo is now lost to me.
Someone should photoshop the Maggot Brain cover with RFK,Jrs head on it. I cant do it, my graphic design skills suck, but I know there are people that could do it.
Please do it, the world needs it.
Depends on the timeline, but coincidentally, yes it could have. He's out there eating festering roadkill and carving the heads off of bloated whales, he realistically probably did have parasites, and ivermectin should be routine for him. Not for COVID, of course.
I would like to point out that I absolutely believe people on their 4th day of COVID might take an anti-parasitical and start feeling better than they have in years.
One, they naturally got over covid.
Two, their rural ass did in fact have some worms.
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Because they’re fucking stupid. Let them shovel it in their faces and improve the gene pool. who the fuck cares?
Let them eat that stuff by the spoonful. You cannot convince them otherwise, anyway. If they survive, good for them, if not, they just claim it was gods will.
If not, good for humanity.
I'm fine with the "let them destroy themselves“ angle but they're also in power. Lawsuits are currently in motion that would revoke FDA approval for common vaccines. Revocation means nobody (except the rich) gets them.
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My mother, born and raised in Norway, fucking believes this shit about Ivermectin. Line... Why???
Its a cancer that is spreading across the world. My dad thinks covid isn't real but also ivermectin is a wonder drug that the government tried to hide for some reason.
I think it's, at least partly, related to lead, and the amount of lead they inhaled in the 70's and 80's.
I also remember my mother telling me "don't believe everything you read on the internet"-talk all throughout the 90's. I tell her this now, and she literally told me last week that I must stop reading anti-propaganda...... 🤣🤣 I asked her what that is, and she has no way of describing it, just talking about anti-propaganda. So, facts?
My mother passed away last summer. While cleaning out her house we found a half used bottle of ivermectin injectable solution. Like I’m pretty sure my mother bought vet supplies and was injecting herself.
They've forgotten all the things they chanted to us aa kids; "don't believe everything you read online."
Especially if she can sort of read English but isn't too proficient, I've noticed that type goes harder for all the shit.
And like someone pointed out, there's a pretty well established pipeline from woowoo spirituality into right wing garbage.
My mom reads clickbait titles and thinks she knows the entire story.
A few years ago there was a clickbait title that Cracker Barrel was closing their restaurants, and she told me they were going out of business. I found the story, and it said that they were closing a few stores, but they were opening up a whole lot more. Cracker Barrell wasn't going out of business. All she had read was the title, and concluded they were completely going out of business.
To this day, whenever we pass a Cracker Barrell, she either repeats that she read they were going out of business, or she wonders aloud when they be closing that location, since they are going out of business. When I try to correct her, she says she read it, and "You think you know everything."
No, Mom, I don't know everything, but I know not to believe clickbait headlines.
On the positive side, she has always despised HitlerPig with a white-hot passion. She hated him long before he ran for president anyway, but she became really serious after the Pussy-Grabber tape. After that, for a couple of years, just the mention of his name would bring on a 20 minute rant, starting with "I dont know how any woman could vote for that man..."
It's because they're the kind of stupid that follows in-group beliefs more than verifiable reality. We're all susceptible to overly weighing what our in-group says, but some people take it to dangerous levels.
And also there are grifters taking advantage of them.
That's one reason these giant protest demonstrations are so important. These people are cowards at their core, and they want to be on the strongest side, so seeing millions of people demonstrating sends the message that anti-MAGA forces arent just some anti-American media jerks, there are millions of real people on their side. Many will see that, and conclude that they should get on the side with the numbers.
Thats how HitlerPig built his following in the first place. The big crowds at his early rallies worked the same way to attract malleable followers to his side. Democrats can do the same thing with demonstrations that attract much larger crowds than his rallies.
This is an interesting thought. It's worrisome if they'd look like allies but don't have any actual convictions, but I guess those people will always be with us.
All we need is their votes, and barring that, their apathy, so they wont interfere when it kicks off.
I'm happy my in-group has an actual doctor. I love being able to ask her random questions and verifying things I've heard.
My formerly happy in-group had a former army medic and current RN that fully supported all the crazy Republican COVID bullshit, while actively seeing those "treatments" do absolutely nothing at her job every fucking day.
Not all doctors and nurses are smart just because they graduated. Like with any job that requires a lot of memorization, some people memorize well but can't actually problem solve in the real world beyond it. You'd think a former Army Medic and Trauma RN wouldn't fall for that shit, yet there she is to this day still.
I can never understand how truly intelligent people buy into imaginary concepts.
The other day there was a Jeopardy champ who had won 4 games. One more win, and he would qualify for the Tournament of Champions, and come back to play again, where even the losing prize money was significant.
In his personal anecdote piece, he thanked his lord and savior Jesus Christ, who has done so much for him, THEN he thanked his family. Here's a guy who had demonstrated how intelligent he was by tearing through 4 Jeopardy wins, and yet he was putting an imaginary ancient religious construct ahead of his family.
He went on to lose the 5th game, and his chance at the Tournament. The deer-in-the-headlights look at the end, as he realized that his lord and savior had forsaken him in his hour of need, was priceless.
Obligatory old joke:
Q: What do you call the student who graduated last in their class at med school?
A: "doctor"
My experience is that nurses are not particularly intelligent or even that well-educated. Which isn't to say that they are less intelligent or less educated than the average person--moreso that they are very much the average person.
Doctors are very hit or miss.
from what ive gathered, nurses in many areas have a huge shortage, so they waive some certain programs for them to get an RN license asap. so many fall through the cracks, especially in rural and red areas. i think more blue areas have more stringent rules. also the smart ones are doing travelling nursing anyways.
Doctors, is probably harder to tell, probably dont want a passing grade average doctor, over one that top grades and successful clinical experience, or research(if they done that). additionally ones from elitist colleges, like harvard, stanford, yale? etc, produce elitist doctors, and many of them have that attitude, i have heard some employers wont hire some of these graduates either. i remember an article where someone complained about a yale.harvard doctor on yelp about his shady pratices, and he decided to sue the reviewer. some doctors are extremely jaded to thier patients, they ignore thier concerns.
Why the long face?
Because they're incredibly ignorant
Willfully. They don't have to be so stupid, they choose it.
They simply don't die fast enough from their medical idiocy to suit me.
Darwinism is a slow process, but it always wins in the end...until the meteor arrives with a better idea.
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