Took long enough.
Wouldnât have minded if it took another month.
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Do you have any more contentful criticism?
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Yes: Everyone ITT gloating over the agonising deaths of other people needs to have a fucking word with themselves.
He killed other people. Purposefully. And he didnt have to die. That was his fucking choice.
Fuck him
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All of that can be literally true (as opposed to maybe-sorta kinda defensible as a judgement, which I suspect is the case) and it doesnât change the fact that bruiting a more protracted, more agonising death for faves on a message board is contemptible behaviour.
We are at war here in an existential crisis. Being nice to anti-vaxxers is just another form of Joe Manchinâs bipartisanship and needs to be consigned to a bin.
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Fair enough. I have no sympathy for his death. I have empathy for the people who lost him, but he wasnt a good person. I dont hope that he suffered. But there is no harm saying that he made a concious choice to poasibly get this and die and his chickens came home to roost. Hopefully it leads to his listeners getting vaccinated.
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Refraining from salivating over their suffering is not âbeing nice to themâ, itâs ânot debasing yourself to no meaningful endâ. You spend an awful lot of time behaving in ways that wildly overstate the potential impact of posting on this backwater forum. Your concerns are global etc. I donât suffer from that particular delusion and Iâd very much like you people to stop embarrassing yourselves like this.
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Thatâs all fine and very much removed from:
Some people get free furniture, and some people get Bubonic Plague.
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Sometimes, being unkind is called for.
And sometimes it serves no purpose whatsoever and makes you look like a pathetic tryhard. I wonder which of those two this is?
No one is in here salivating if these people get hit by a car, or die of cancer, or get murdered in a home invasion. What is compelling about these cases is that they are an appropriate consequence of their own choices. Theyâre a comeuppance for villainy, something people enjoy in, what would you say, something like 10% of stories ever recorded in human history (not to mention something that is astonishingly rare in human realities)? At this point in the pandemic, anti-vaxxers seeing their heroes and family members who âdidnât need the vaccineâ getting got by exactly what they said they wouldnât get is about the only thing that can change hearts and minds.
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It seems at least theoretically possible the longer and more agonizing the death is, the more likely it is that some anti-vaxxer will be persuaded into getting vaxxed. Maybe another month of agony would have netted another 500 Sklansky vaccinations.
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Yep, thatâs all true and great and entirely orthogonal to what Iâm saying.
What changed in the past year Flynn? You seemed happy to celebrate Darwin Awards then.
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Hmmmm seems like something changed more recently.
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Cant think of any other reason for the increase in vaccinations recently.