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[–] [email protected] 76 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Chuds stop dreaming about a zombie apocalypse challenge difficulty level impossible.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They just want to kill "zombies", what's wrong with that? (Ignore the fact that chuds have started referring to homeless people, people struggling with addiction, and other marginalized groups as zombies, I'm sure that level of dehumanization won't lead anywhere horrific)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Boom! Brains everywhere! It's politically correct if you shoot a zombie in the face Boom! Make it explode! Relieve your working routine stress to the bloody bone

They used to be human That's why we like them so much We can go cannibal with no sense of shame!

We are no savage We no pay To see gladiators kill We are more human than that We are different We shoot zombies in the face! Shoot zombies in the face!

Zombies are slow, predictable, old-fashioned We ain't scared or surprised watching them in action A creative dead end Why are they still a trend?

They're our ex-neighbour! They're that fucking pretentious bitch and your stupid bully boss They preserve your traits! Semi-human so we can hate them as much as you can

They are all that we are afraid to be Anti-human Anti-human

We are justified We have permission We are licensed cannibals By killing them, we declare We are different We are better I fear, I hate, I need my green neighbor!

The more brutal you go The more relieved you'll be It's tolerated to go ape on them They're filthy former human beings

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If this is original then bravo

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

unfortunately not, it's by an Italian metal band Destrage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SOEKCWafsg

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

they call protestors zombies too

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I once heard someone say that zombies in horror movies represent the bourgeoisie's fear of the protletariat in mass revolt.

I don't know how well that analysis holds to all zombie movies but everytime I hear some reactionary calling protestors or homeless people zombies, I remember it.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago (8 children)

This is what a coworker of mine was saying would happen with that recent emergency broadcast ping. He came to me very solemnly and asked if I wanted to go somewhere peaceful to spend my last moments. He was convinced there would be a radio wave that activated a zombie virus inside every vaccinated person.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That's just Acceptable Polite Discourse. It's not like he said genocide is bad, or something equally career-ending.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

One time he asked me very seriously if I wanted his help reporting my mother to the police because she had an abortion 37 years ago. Like he said it in a concerned, helpful way

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This has to be the most confusing person I've heard of. Seems deeply compassionate, yet falls for the most unhinged of chud rhetoric.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

he grew up poor and ethnically mixed, one side of his family Latino and the other side white. Told me he never quite fit in anywhere, was rebellious as a kid and joined gangs. Got an assault charge or something at 18, spent some time in jail, found Christianity. Once he came out he became obsessively fixated on UFOs and something in his head clicked regarding UFOs, treatment of Latino people, and American enforcement of poverty. He's apparently come to a conclusion that UFOs are a government program to distract people away from Christianity, and this is why poverty and hatred are widespread. Says the only solution to that is love for everyone, and I do believe he means it, not in a cynical way. He just doesn't fully understand what he's saying. He also fell deep into Qanon and believes there are Satanic pedophiles everywhere who snatch kids out of parking lots to harvest adrenochrome

He's one of the most deranged people I've ever met and yet you're right, he's deeply compassionate and nice. He'll give anyone a ride in his truck, he donates food to his church. He's pleasant and friendly in conversation. He even has a few trans friends?

Believe me, I am a little scared of the guy though, because there are some weird cogs moving around in his skull

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That must have been terrifying at first what a deranged thing to say

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No it's not terrifying anymore, I'm used to him saying deranged things. He tells us a military coup will occur any day now, but he means it in a positive way. "patriots will soon be in control" is a phrase he throws around.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That kind of behavior is always the thing that throws me. Like, they believe this shit clearly designed to make you hate people and view them as enemies, but somehow are still nice about it. It is very rare, but people like that feel like they're just misguided. They could be comrades if we could make them think a little better, but that's really hard to do

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They could be comrades if we could make them think a little better

There had never been a more accurate description of the leftist struggle

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Yeah he's often very close. He's deeply into Qanon, but is somehow not bigoted. He just buys into bigoted stuff without realizing it, like he blames half the world's problems on George Soros.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

So wait.

Are you unvaccinated and he figured you would go along with it?

Are you vaccinated and he doesn’t know, so he figured you would go along with it?

Or are you vaccinated, he knows and wanted to live out the fantasy? Give you the old double tap?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I'm vaccinated and he thought I was gonna die of zombie plague. It's not a fantasy to him, he believes this stuff to be true.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

More so the fantasy of many conservatives to be the gritty survivor of an apocalyptic event.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ngl, I’m low key jealous of you guys who know these people personally. All I have is fundies and they’re the boring kinda of cranks :(

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

i mean, at least with fundies you don't have to be afraid of them suddenly pulling out a handgun. That's the price of knowing interesting reactionary cranks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

..."okay, see you on Monday, Ted."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Huh, guess that coworker cared in some fucked up chud way.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago

The past uh

checks timestamp

checks calendar

Two and a quarter years sure’ve been tough huh

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Lol @ how they assume that everyone else's first response to being scared and confused would also be started-blasting, some real psychology happening here

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Everything bad happening in USA society is actually because of vaccines! (or cultural marxism or trans people or ...)

galaxy-brain smuglord

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's actually uhhh *checks recent events* Hamas's fault. This time for sure!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You know, in a real apocralypse, I think these larpers would be surprised at how many people don't go full Fallout-scavenger and instead work together to ensure a better outcome for everyone involved. Even with all the yankee brainworms, I still think the drive to do right by others is more powerful for most people.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Look at Gaza where a real apocalypse is happening right now. The people aren't turning into zombies and preppers and killing each other in a darwinian struggle. They aren't selfishly hoarding food and water and medical supplies and holing up isolated in bunkers. They are on the street, helping provide medical attention and transport, making huge batches of broth and soup to hand out to the population, praying in their mosques and churches, etc.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nuh-uh, human nature is wicked because I made up a story where it is

-William Golding

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That’s because they watch too much bad TV.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"I'd be just like Daryl!"

Gets shot immediately because he tried to attack a large group of people peacefully cohabitating

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Frankly, people should have just been savagely, viciously mocking these crazies from the moment their nonsense started to pick up an audience. As someone who studied biochem at the masters level, the things these people say are so far removed from any of the accepted science and so far down the rabbit hole of looney, sensationalist Hollywood nonsense that it genuinely puzzles me that more people didn't simply bully these people for having such a tenuous grasp of reality. If I made claims half as outlandish as these people, I'd have been rightly made fun of and become a public laughing stock.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

The funny thing is they're still saying this two years later, we've been 3 weeks from all the vaccines kicking in at once for years now.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

The idea that the mRNA vaccine that could get translated into protein and then never degrade and keep making spike protein is (more ridiculous than believing a virus would do that) is more ridiculous than believing HIV would link up with COVID and become airborne+attack your immune cells. It's more ridiculous than wanting to kill off all the tax cattle and be stuck with a bunch of angry anti-vaxxers with no military to insulate you. Even on their own terms all they were doing was laughing at people who died who disagreed with them (like us). It was so anti-intellectual because any conventional understanding of immunology includes an understanding of mRNA and a functional understanding of mRNA translation. To the point where if I quoted the top google result for "half life of mRNA" and said "Our estimated median mRNA half-life in human cells is 10 h, a number that scales linearly relative to division time when compared with bacteria and yeast[1]" they'd be like "oh, okay." It's not like there's an alternate germ theory from the Austrian school of economics compared to Marxist immunology. If their only argument was about pharma companies being cartoon villains then we'd agree. They had no response to the first world hoarding vaccines and hiding muh copyright. I never saw anyone demand ELISAs for abundance of spike protein in vaxxed uninfected vs vaxxed infected vs unvaxxed uninfected vs unvaxxed infected because they were never going to do be convinced (especially vaxxed uninfected over time). The results wouldn't matter. They just love to do this shit. It's the same with the hundreds of cryptos that pass through /biz/ where you'd thank me later and I tried to warn you. It's second only to "what's even the point because of my wrist circumference?" in terms of popularity. There's more to life than confidence games. Not a whole lot more, but bits and pieces you might enjoy if you gave it a try.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC403777/

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

They had no response to the first world hoarding vaccines and hiding muh copyright.

Clearly they're trying to kill off the moral, god fearing, patriotic white folk so they can more easily flood the first world with immigrants who will eternally vote democrat.

I would not be surprised if this is the answer some would give.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Anti-vaxxers don't understand how mRNA works, is it any suprise that this is their response?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

06/13/21

so how'd that prediction go

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

Bro I'll scream in the middle of a Wal Mart just because of existential dread, I don't need drugs or memory loss for that

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Jessie, what the fuck are you talking about?!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Ha ha 3 people in my family died of COVID, I love people like this so much.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

this is too lucid and well written, makes me think this guy is deliberately bullshitting for whatever reason

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Poe's law but I honestly hope it's sincere that'd be fucking hilarious

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

hey don't call me nostradamus or nothing, but a year from now, american society will be rife with senseless violence and social alienation. i'm just perceptive i guess.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Just put these people down damn

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I scream, u scream, we all scream for the vaxx!!!!!

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