• kamenLady.@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    They even stated the correct reason to wear a mask: to trap the germs against my face, so others don’t get infected

    It’s like they don’t compute the idea behind it, it stops at me me me

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      4 months ago

      My favorite reply to them is that it’s America and I can do whatever I want, I’ll call them snowflakes too whenever appropriate. They get pissed when you insinuate they’re anti American lul.

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        4 months ago

        i’ve just recently seen the same with pro 2a people. It was on a video about inclusive gun safety training, because the 2a is quite literally, for everyone. SO many people in the comments were saying something along the lines of “well if we trained them, then they might kill us”

        Yeah no shit. What do you think they thought of you prior to this moment huh? Just utter fucking ignorance for anything more than a mere shred of intellectual thought being put into whatever they say. Not to mention that this is borderline authoritarian policy by nature but that’s the other funny part.

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          4 months ago

          Didn’t gun control ramp up when the Black Panthers started exercising their rights to bear arms? Funny thing is the Panthers seem much more like a “well-regulated militia” than this Wild West, permitless carry, anything goes BS.

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            exactly. gun control only started when minorities started exercising their right to bear arms. The right don’t want gun control laws until the groups they are trying to oppress start exercising their second amendment rights.

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            4 months ago

            i mean, that’s also perfectly legal under 2A, 90% of the time gun control is related to regulation in regards to owning, rather than the ability to the own it period. Which is another argument all together tbh.

            I wouldnt know much about the specifics of that group though, only that it has to do with civil rights from memory lol.

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      I think they actually do understand but don’t have enough empathy with other people to see it as their responsibility to protect other people from their viruses.

      Not that someone as perfect as them would ever sick enough to potentially infect others…

      • FilterItOut@thelemmy.club
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        This. So much of this. I can’t even convince family members to not go and socialize with dozens of others while they are sick! Five years ago, I would have bet my life’s savings and every appendage I have that I would get the correct answer if I asked someone whether illnesses spread through contact with or being near a sick person.

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      Claims are not evaluated, in the loyalist worldview. They’re not arguments. They’re slogans. You shuffle your cards and say whatever might justify the ingroup being fundamentally superior to the outgroup. Because of course, it is impossible for someone to simply be wrong. That would require evaluating claims. No: truth is dictated by people above you. They must be right and smart and handsome, or they wouldn’t be above you. Any challenge, any criticism, any disagreement, is a personal attack. You are calling someone lesser.

      And I say “you” because these people think this is all we’re doing. They think that’s all there is. It’s reality as a team sport.

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      4 months ago

      Or, more likely, they’re selfish jerks who don’t care about anyone else. “The greater good? What’s that?”