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[–] [email protected] 307 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha This guy just discredit any future movie involving an FBI agent for the next 75 years. We knew america had a under-education problem, but man you guys are something.

[–] [email protected] 111 points 3 weeks ago (24 children)

Germany just had a sweeping far right election, and Argentina has had a libertarian at the helms for a bit now. A ton of south Asian countries have had hardcore conservative views for a while now, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Canada shifts right next election. There are basically few corners of the earth where populism/right wing ideology isn’t growing and expanding. This isn’t an American education system problem, it’s world wide. The political elites in your country just have you convinced that it’s America that’s now the problem, which then creates a new wave of populism in your country. It’s a self eating snake.

Not that I’m disagreeing that our slapping of allies isn’t problematic. This is just something that is clearly growing everywhere and the people of Lemmy love saying “America bad” as the same exact shit is happening in your country. If you’re an American expand your news beyond our shores. The grass is unfortunately turning to shit everywhere. We’re in for a rough decade together.

[–] [email protected] 118 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Germany just had a sweeping far right election

you can't say 20% a 'sweeping'. The situation is worse at other places. And thanks to true multi party democracy, AfD probably won't be in government anyway.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope so for Germanys sake. A 9% increase from the last election, for a party that’s 12 years old… that’s pretty sweeping to me. Not to mention that it’s more so the southern parts of Germany that have an even stronger percentage of AfD support.

Again, I’m not wanting a right shift for these countries, but it’s become clear that things are. We could stick our head in the dirt and say it’s only America, but that wouldn’t be true, and that’s what I was getting at with my comment.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago

Party is new, ideology is old.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The US is literally in control of fascist now, it's not nearly as bad in Germany, not that it's good but there is a big difference

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Let's be clear here, the right extremist party got over 20% which is really bad for sure, but the mid-right party rules out working with them in a coalition no matter what. That's rather different from where the rest of the republicans and many democrats fall over themselves to do whatever the lunatic fringe says. Further, the American billionaires are strong influencers of these trends in other countries. The core of the disease is the USA even when there are symptoms everywhere.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I guarantee he doesn't actually believe this shit. He's just a grifter grifting just like the rest of the Whitehouse circus cast. The only exception might be Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That freak show might actually believe the shit he spews.

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[–] [email protected] 129 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

“you believed my medical lies once. you’ll fall for it again!”

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Gotta love people who don’t want to take a vaccine that was designed by the absolute top experts in the field and extensively tested, but have no problem popping pills some grifter on the interweb sold them.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We're fucked. This guy is now in charge of the FBI and now has the power to investigate and charge people with federal crimes.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 weeks ago

But more important, the power not to investigate people. Wink wink

[–] [email protected] 86 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

"Warrior Essentials"

"Spike Gangsters"

Do the incels he's trying so hard to market to understand how stupid these names are?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Using several of them at once is even funnier - they didn't feel confident enough with just one, and got "Manly man's sigma razor spike gamgster king warrior essential basics"

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Shedders? Do these people think vaccines are contagious?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, pay attention to mention of "shedding". They think that vaccination causes the PT in question to shuck it off as though they were Pigpen from Charlie Brown cartoon.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

they should wear a mask, so they don't catch it

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not even applicable to most vaccines.

Basically polio spreads through poop, and this is your shedding. Oral Polio Vaccine does this as it's a weakened form of the polio virus and exhibits the same spread and provides vaccination indirectly to others. The US uses E-IPV, which is inactive and harmless and doesn't have this spread.

You'll only find OPV being used in countries with very inadequate medical access as it can be administered orally(hence the name). Only downside is that if you are very immunocompromised, there is a non zero chance you get polio and a chance you suffer from paralysis.

Flu vaccines, covid vaccine, literally anything else doesn't have this "shedding". It's literally one vaccine that isn't even administered in the united states.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I don't like being alive, I already didn't, but I like it less now. I crave the afterlife.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I also choose that guy's dead wife

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

These people literally don't know what mRNA is, they believe it's the same thing as DNA because it sounds vaguely similar. It's good to see actual experts calling him out though! We really need more of this.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, I read one of their scientific studies on the website. The first one I read was a literature review (no tests were actually done) that said "one study says the supplement does nothing and another two sources say the study was done wrong so it could maybe be beneficial???" Wow. Such strong evidence.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I wish I could set aside my convictions and care for others to make money this easily.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

I feel like this is the key reason why the worst people are the most successful. I cannot count the number of opportunities I've passed over in life that would have just required me to lie to someone, to inflate my worth, to take something that I haven't earned, and so on. It's so natural for me to think in terms of morality and equity behind my decision making that I don't even consider alternatives.

And thus I'm over 40 and broke and will die working.

edit: just in retrospect, I figured I would mention my father. He was a man who was remarkably similar to our current president/king. Same hair and everything, the only difference was he drank like a fish. He had ZERO qualms about lying, he carried bizarre lies to his grave just to keep anyone the satisfaction of calling him out on even the smallest things. Lying came so easily to him that he built a multi-million dollar empire on lies, on borrowing money from one lender to pay another, of drug dealers and gangs and organized crime, of the very worst people in the world following him around like scavenger jackals hoping to catch a shred or crumb from the waste and excess my father surrounded himself with. I watched millions of dollars pass through his hands (and up his nose) and he never felt anything about it, he felt like it was never enough, that he deserved more and the people who suffered for it deserved their pain. I am telling this story because a lot of people think it's not real, that there are not truly dishonest people in the world, and everything we're all so contentious about is just misunderstandings and differences of perspective.

NO. There are lying liars who will look you in the face and tell complete falsehoods to you and smile as they do so, and they will delight in it. You are not aware of human darkness and you need to get it together. You NEED to understand how bad people can be, and how much people really LIE.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait until he finds about the big room full of brass pipes feeding oxygen and nutrients to the brain of J Edgar Hoover, from where he is still running absolutely everything.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Elon enters the FBI's inner sanctum and must solve the Vat's riddles three in order to prove he's not a gay communist

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Of course the URL has to appeal to the wannabe driving his lifted pickup truck, it has the word warrior in it. You get all these meatheads with delusions of being some sort of Spartan badass because they took 300 as a documentary.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

And ironically enough they have more in common with the Persian "soldiers" which are just fodder for their God King.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Is their logo "uwu" or is it the shrug emoticon?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Looks like udders to me. The deep state has been cows all along!

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

a part of me hopes this is dangerous/lethal. then maybe we can darwin ourselves out of this nightmare

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Does anyone else see a limp dicknballs as the logo on the pill?

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago

Seems like something the Ninja Turtles would need.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is that actually him? Just yesterday I fell for "Kash Patel News" on Twitter, and found his right handle there is Kash_Patel, but this seems to be a different platform.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

seems like the platform is called truthsocial, there are links in here:

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trump-fbi-director-kash-patel-vaccine-detox-supplements-rcna182434

I would assume if this account was not real he would have sued them for using his name for commercial purposes

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago

Vaccines are evolution at work. So long as they work, you live longer and have a higher chance of reproducing. This is not a difficult concept. My genetic line is going on as long as I can throw it.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Looked at the site. It is vitamins, salt, food extracts, and Spermidine. Spermidine is a polyamine. I remember the first time I resuspended some in lab, it became clear from the smell why it is called SPERMidine. Wonder if the customers know there is a cheaper way to get a daily oral dose of Spermidine.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

peak scammer performance

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Alright I'm not sure how its even possible this is a product, there is absolutely no mechanism where this is even remotely possible. This is just straight up fraud.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

This guy should be, at the very least, removed from office. I don't care if it's handcuffs or a body bag.

Fuck. I just want to thanos snap away all the republicans. The absolute worst people.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

If anyone is calling you a warrior they're scamming you. It's bizarre to me how many people don't get that.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Ah, the USA is so fucking doomed unless as a people we push these facists and grifters out of office.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I was planning on starting a website that will "use your device's wifi to purge any 5g nanitesfrom your body" with a "cleansing signal" for only $19.99. (For entertainment purposes only - there are no health benefits guaranteed or claimed by this site)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

You forgot to mention AI somewhere in there.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Being a criminal is practically a requirement for a post in this administration.

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