This is going to be fun watching over the next four years. LOL. You just gotta laugh.

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[–] 208 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

Okay so they're not getting vaccinated and now they're guzzling unpasteurised milk whilst cattle all over the US are dying of this latest bird flu?

I'm starting to think this right-wing shift might sort itself out

(Before anyone says, I know this is very bad for avoiding another pandemic which won't care about how you vote)

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  • [–] 116 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That's what people said during Covid. The strongest dumbs still survived.

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, we made the mistake of doing everything thing we could to make them get vaccinated.

    Next time we know better.

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    New ad campaign:

    "You survived COVID, even though the liberals tried to get you to vaccinate. You haven't vaccinated to this day because you have an immune system. You're conservative and strong. So when the liberals try again with bird flu, monkey pox, or whatever animal disease they come up with next, just tell them, 'No thank you.'" Make sure the video playing along with the words shows strong manly men - white, of course - with rugged good looks, wearing outdoorsy clothes, doing manly stuff. Guaranteed to convince a bunch of insecure conservative douchebags not to vaccinate. Again.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Waaay too many words. Keep it simple.

    Drink America Milk Agian!

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You don't really need the bird flu in that mix, even. Pasteurization was a huge public health win.

    What next, fridges are woke nanny state inventions and real red-blooded Americans store all their food in room temperature, especially their raw milk and meat?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Nah, fridges are convenient. That's what makes the beer taste good!

    There is a definite interest in learning older preservation techniques. I'm not sure how it lines up with political beliefs, though. For any that do, the big trick was salt - lots of salt. If they are above a certain age, it's likely to do some damage based on the rest of our modern lifestyle.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    There are some more ways, usually involving fermentation. Us arctic types know some methods. But I get the impression rakfisk, lutefisk, hákarl, surströmming and kiviak would have caught on as exports by now if they were actually something humans in general were interested in eating, rather than the descendants of very specific kinds of desperate people.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    [...]would have caught on as exports by now if they were actually something humans in general were interested in eating, rather than the descendants of very specific kinds of desperate people.

    That's the most eloquent thing I've read this week.

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    [–] 120 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    It's obvious why they're suddenly obsessed with Raw Milk. It's the same reason they were suddenly Anti-Vax, anti-Mask, and anti-plague-control.

    Democrats said a thing, Republicans immediately reply with the opposite.

    Democrats said Vaccines prevent disease, Republicans declared vaccines are poison. Democrats said wearing a mask can reduce the transmission of airborne pathogens, Republicans said masks will kill you and are illegal now. Democrats said "Don't drink raw milk, it can transmit deadly diseases." Republicans declare "You can take the raw milk from my cold dead hands."

    I honestly expect that if Democrats released a PSA against jumping off cliffs onto jagged rocks, because the fall could be dangerous, Republicans would immediately start taking picture standing on the edges of cliffs with the caption of "Don't tell me what to do."

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Imagine being so vapid that the extent of your understanding of the world boils down to just being contrarian.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's much easier than thinking.

    Don't get involved with people who enthusiastically shit on others' ideas, while having none of their own. Can't count how many times I've countered a complaint with "Ok, what would you do?" only to be met with those empty eyes that tell you there's nothing happening behind them.

    Some people just think conversation is defined as bitching.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Humans are famously garbage at comprehending statistics, and most Darwin Award winning conservative behaviors are born of it.

    Take any mundane thing that was part of a status quo of a previous era in recent memory. Anything at all. Research comes out suggesting that thing has a small, but non-negligible risk to be quite harmful. So we collectively shift to a new behavior that tries to eliminate the risk. A shift that, in most sane and civil peoples' opinions, is so unobtrusively small that any theoretical benefit we're trading away is probably well worth the risk elimination.

    But oh, a certain group of people will bitch and moan and scream and piss all over themselves in rage over how you dared to take away something so integral to their culture and lifestyle! The risk aversion is never worth the vain fringe benefit of whatever perceived quality was lost because the risk is completely invisible until it actually hits them personally.

    Milk used to taste so great! God's gift to the world! Then we all started boiling it and now it tastes worse! And for what? Because a couple of weak-bodied cosmic lottery losers were getting a few tummy aches? The vast majority of us are all suffering over nothing! Life was so much better when we weren't all scared of things that won't happen! We did it for millennia and we turned out just fine!

    Then you point out all the people actually getting hospitalized from pathogens in raw milk, the very thing we were trying to avoid in the first place, and if they even believe you at all they simply consider it an acceptable price to pay. Better to live in a rich and interesting society where you're free to risk harming yourself and others than a milquetoast one where imperceptible threats have been preemptively eliminated at great cost.

    And then they turn around and work to ban books that mention trans people or ban porn websites to save the children or some other dumb shit.

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    [–] 54 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Gullible fucks. How many of them would die if they were told that they can boost their immunity by sticking their house keys in a power outlet.

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    [–] 43 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It's because the gubmint told them they can't have it and, like petulant children, they just wanna do what they've been told they shouldn't.

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Maybe we can speed the process up by convincing them to eat raw chicken, too.

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    [–] [B] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They complain so much even when they have exactly what they claim they wanted. They wanted raw milk, they got it. But somehow all the non-raw milk drinkers are "ruining" something for them? Weird.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Go ahead, drink it ya dummies! Anything to own the libs!

    Edit - I'm being sarcastic!

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    If they catch bird flu, we all catch bird flu. This idiocy should still be discouraged.

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    We should have a weekly celebration where conservatives drink raw milk together. Just guzzle it all down you idiots.

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    So is there a bird flu vaccine I can get yet or what?

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    There might be one or two far leftists here. Seriously curious, does anyone here think drinking raw cow's milk is a good idea? Why?

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I hear the "deep state" wants to stop you from eating rotting food. You're not going to let a bunch of scientists and health department officials tell you what to eat, are you?

    /s just in case.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I've noticed lately around me too that "conservatives" will pull out a cig and start smoking it (as a "defense" mode or something...or maybe because I have a mask) & it feels like it's to take a side in some kind of "culture war". Killing themselves to "own the libs". Brilliant.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They think raw milk is natural, but would they still feel that way if they knew how selectively bred all dairy cows are at this point? The DNA of the dairy cow is where the milk manufacturing pipeline begins. We didn't select for sanitary milk from the udder because we knew it could be pasturized later in the pipeline.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    I for one welcome the new natural selection process. Can we do more of these?

    "only eat mushrooms with redcaps for a week to detox your body" "building up infection immunity by sitting in an ice bath of shit"

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Dr: Are you vaccinated?

    Pat: No!

    Dr: Do you drink raw milk?

    Pat: Every day for breakfast!

    Dr: Ok then we have a diagnosis, a severe case of stupid!

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    At least with this one they're only killing themselves and their own kids.

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