I don’t think this is quite true. It might change some minds, but a great many are not going to change unless someone puts a gun to their head, either economically or literally.
We must motivate the normal people to be willing to not only unholster the gun but also to pull the trigger against anti-vaxxers if they don’t comply. This requires an emotional rather than rational argument. We ought to normalize the Othering of these recalcitrant fools towards this end.
And maybe this is some minor internet backwater that will never affect anything, but maybe it can be an experimental lab for figuring out a message that can be used elsewhere.
One of those is a discussion with bobman about tax policy, another is questioning whether it’s OK to zing a dead comedian by making unnecessary reference to his ethnicity. Absolute and total failure. Pathetic.
And predictably one of them is you reacting to a Darwin Award with celebration, which you conveniently don’t acknowledge here. Guillotine jokes and jumping in on another persons death without any reprimands for people celebrating it was fine then for some reason.
then I don’t know what to tell you (I joke, of course - you know the difference and are pretending not to because, well, that’s just the kind of shit you’ve always done and you haven’t changed a whit in the last decade).
I’m actually just wilding out that ikes must’ve spent the guts of an hour digging through my post history and that’s all he could come up with. Fun, fun, fun on a Saturday night.
I’m not even asking you to be sorry they died. I’m asking you not to participate in a race to the bottom of celebrating their deaths and people egging each other on to demonstrate ever-more intense joy that they died and performative regret that they didn’t suffer even more before they died.
‘Live by the sword, die by the sword’ is one thing. ‘Live by the sword, die in agony over a period of weeks and hey maybe also your loved ones do that too, idk maybe your kids could die by scaphism pour encourager les autres’ is something else. I think it wouldn’t be a bad thing if people would refrain from the latter, that’s all.
There is a term for shaming your opponents for engaging in behavior you happily and shamelessly engage in yourself. No one buys that this is a principled stand instead of pwrformative bullshit.
So your point is its ok to tell tens of thousands to millions of people through your platform, as someone they trust that a very safe vaccine is actually super dangerous during a global pandemic that has killed millions and continues to claim thousands of victims a day as long as you can’t directly tie specific deaths to their actions?
I thought this was settled when ikes stepped on a bunch of rakes earlier ITT. Feel free to cite, or just make up a bunch of convenient lies to avoid making a minor concession on a message board (the greatest dishonour imaginable, seemingly).
I’ll give you some hints, though it won’t do you any good: Johnson pozzed, Trump pozzed, McCain dying. Go see what you can find. I’ll be waiting.
