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- Thread starter Wenche
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Twitter thread you linked is 95% people mocking a dead person. You can post what you like but it’s not what I’m into.
JRP3
Hyperactive Member
Why shouldn't they, the dead don't care and dying doesn't absolve them of their horrible actions.
I have always found the Herman Cain award subreddit to be in poor taste. I doubt anyone would start a subreddit about people who were conned out of their life savings and starved to death because that’s off-putting. The two are similar, though.
Some useful context about the numbers in the newly published Kaiser SoCal Covid vaccine effectiveness study:
Put aside for a second whether or not it is in good taste to have a thread mocking a dead person and ask yourself if this forum is enhanced in any way by linking that thread. It detracts from the useful information that is posted here and it comes across as a petty and mean spirited way to take partisan shots at some fringe conspiracy theorist who happened to die from the virus. That’s not how I chose to spend my free time and it makes me less likely to want to come to this forum.
Yes that's been my exact experience with idiots on the internet. You mock them or people like them on a car forum, they see it on the car forum (they don't), have a moment of self-reflection (they don't), then change their ways (they don't).
I get it... It is like mocking a fat person that advocates against fat shaming and then has a heart attack. You didn't want them to die necessarily, but they really weren't helping their cause by telling people it is OK to be obese and eat all kinds of crappy food and you feel like on some level it is cosmic justice when they die from the very thing they were actively increasing the odds of happening. So you post it on a car forum to make fun of them in case some fat people on the forum might see it and decide to cut down on the saturated fats.
I'd respect you more if you just admitted that you take pleasure in seeing this person get some karma sent their way (even though you probably don't really believe in karma) because getting the vaccine would have reduced their chance of having this outcome by an order of magnitude and they openly opposed that very vaccine. Because I think that is what posts like that are really about.
JRP3
Hyperactive Member
Big difference, the one conned out of their savings hurt only themselves.
JRP3
Hyperactive Member
I do approve of people who try and harm others getting what they deserve, as do most people.
The thing about mocking dead people for bad decisions is that everyone has loved ones and friends. Chances may be slim any of them are reading this forum. But I believe if we all post with the thought of being kind it will be a better forum. As for those who die from bad decisions even when presented with evidence, they deserve our compassion, not deirison.
And prosecute the hell out of the people who spread that misinformation to begin with.
JRP3
Hyperactive Member
If their actions only affected themselves I'd agree, however in this case they do not.
Like this guy?
Beware of claims that vaccinated can’t spread COVID-19
As President Joe Biden heads toward his second year in office of leading the country through a pandemic, he faces the ch
www.politifact.com
Science is an ongoing iterative process. I’m not sure what you’re suggesting is as simple as you’d like or if it would work out quite how you imagine it would. But I’m relatively anti-authoritarian so we may disagree.
Oof, yeah, that was stupid.Like this guy?
Beware of claims that vaccinated can’t spread COVID-19
As President Joe Biden heads toward his second year in office of leading the country through a pandemic, he faces the ch
Science is an ongoing iterative process. I’m not sure what you’re suggesting is as simple as you’d like or if it would work out quite how you imagine it would. But I’m relatively anti-authoritarian so we may disagree.
Agree scientific truth is an evolving target.
OT but will be interesting to see how Twitter ends up handling this.
Daniel in SD
(supervised)
In Biden's defense he did say this a week later:Like this guy?
Beware of claims that vaccinated can’t spread COVID-19
As President Joe Biden heads toward his second year in office of leading the country through a pandemic, he faces the ch
Science is an ongoing iterative process. I’m not sure what you’re suggesting is as simple as you’d like or if it would work out quite how you imagine it would. But I’m relatively anti-authoritarian so we may disagree.
Remarks by President Biden on the Fight Against COVID-19 | The White House
State Dining Room 2:42 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. I promised when I got elected that I’d always give it to you straight from the shoulder — the good, the bad, the truth. So, as we head into Christmas weekend, I want to answer your questions about the rising number of COVID cases —…
Not the point of my comment but I agree it likely wasn’t malicious. Hopefully for his sake the wrongthink bureaucracy moved slow enough that he corrected himself before prosecutionIn Biden's defense he did say this a week later:
Remarks by President Biden on the Fight Against COVID-19 | The White House
State Dining Room 2:42 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. I promised when I got elected that I’d always give it to you straight from the shoulder — the good, the bad, the truth. So, as we head into Christmas weekend, I want to answer your questions about the rising number of COVID cases —…www.whitehouse.gov
EVNow
Well-Known Member
The problem is in figuring out what is "misinformation".
Good info, thanks.
Looking forward to seeing some new quadruple-vaxxed data in the future.
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