I really think we need to start treating people who vote for Republicans as if they were the sort of people who come over to your house and leave a shit in the sink.
Oh how sad that you would shun a friend over a small political difference like taking a shit in your sink and leaving it there.
Oh so you just call people who shit in your sink “sink shitters” over politics, very divisive, you’re the real problem.
You’ll never convince people who shit in your sink to stop shitting in your sink if you disrespect them by pointing out that they have taken a shit in your sink.
The people who smell shits in their sinks are the reason that people shit in their sinks under the case of Smelt It vs. Dealt It.
Many of them work hard and resent being pigeonholed as “sink-shitters” because of their rich heritage of shitting in other people’s sinks.
This isn't "darwinism in action." These are people, and they're being murdered by selfish assholes spreading misinformation and selfish assholes who decide to believe it.
But even the selfish assholes are people, and their health impacts all of ours.
We are a society.
This idea permeating modern thought that's as much a virus as covid: that we are nothing but an association of individuals.
But we're a society. We're connected. It's not optional. The virus knows even if we don't.
A decision to not get vaccinated isn't a personal decision.
Maybe the most pernicious thing to happen to modern society is letting people think “doing your own research” into complex subjects equates to “critical thinking.”
Every aviators baseball hat goatee whiteboy discovered flat earth theory videos and thinks he’s the new Galileo.
It isn’t the hidden menu at in and out, it’s global viral epidemiology, Chad, maybe just eat your fries animal style and listen to the smart people and shut the fuck up, you haven’t discovered a new truth you’re just experiencing gas.
You aren’t Leonardo Da Vinci, Bryce. You run marketing for your dad’s landscaping company. You haven’t thought of something that Dr. Fauci hasn’t. Consider getting stuck underneath something heavy for a few months.
If what Fox News, Tucker Carlson, Alex Berenson, and others are doing is free speech then me altering road signs into optical illusions that make people drive off of cliffs is free speech.
If what Fox News, Tucker Carlson, Alex Berenson, and others are doing is free speech then me putting Kool-Aide labels on antifreeze containers and leaving them in elementary schools is free speech.
I have family members all the way up the Fox News Facebook misinformation hole, and they didn’t get vaccinated because they felt respected; they got vaccinated because their children told them they wouldn’t get to see their grandchildren until they got vaccinated.
Republicans really want us to believe Martin Luther King Jr. only ever said one thing, and that one thing is “you can’t criticize white people, because white is a skin color, and acknowledging skin color is the one and only definition of racism.”
Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t critical race theory, he was critical race praxis, and he was murdered for it, and the Kevin McCarthys of 1968 celebrated joyfully and openly.
White people turning Martin Luther King Jr into their “get out of racism free” card after murdering him is one of the most racist things that’s happened in my life time.