This is my (basic) understanding of capitalism. I’m no economist, but it seems to me that if we had a government that wasn’t owned by corporations, but that instead looked out for the rights and protections of the little guy while the economically elite did their thing, we wouldn’t have a perfect system but at least a better system than we do currently. I think a lot of people balk at socialist / communist ideas because of the idea of putting the economic power of redistributing wealth into the hands of corrupt government officials seems like an easy way to drive the wealth gap even bigger than it already is. Or maybe I’m just talking out of my ass lol

Lmaoooooo, so in other words…

The only reason you won’t give one is cuz you can’t

Lmao, the left are the ones spreading lies, yet you don’t hear conservatives calling for the dismantling of free speech

As for Dr. Malone, my whole argument is just that he spearheaded the invention of mRNA tech so when he comes out and says that we should slow down on the roll out of the covid vax, I don’t think that should be treated as some massive conspiracy theory

My brother in Christ if you were paying attention you would already know about the side effects

Lmao, so in other words…

The only reason you won’t give one is cuz you can’t

OP is going to die of covid

Damn straight

So in other words…

The only reason you won’t give one is cuz you can’t

Here’s your tinfoil hat.

Thanks, it’s quite comfy

hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin

These have been shown to be effective against covid as part of a larger treatment plan. No one was telling people to go buy ivermectin at the feed store. Btw, the ivermectin is FDA approved for human use as an antifungal, antiviral, and antibacterial. It’s on the WHO’s list of essential medicines, and I even remember a video that made the rounds a couple of years ago where Dr. Fauci himself let slip that ivermectin is part of an effective treatment against covid.

The people who are discredited over COVID are not discredited for holding controversial professional views, but for going batshit fucking insane across the board.

Down right false.

You’re just trolling

👏👏👏

Do you enjoy embarrassing yourself?

Yeah

I have numbers

…from the NIH, the organization Dr. Fauci, with all his monetary incentives to push the vax, is in charge of. Nice try glowie

we basically eradicated most of those illnesses

Yeah, with traditional vaccines that have years or even decades of long-term safety data, not with mRNA gene therapies that have only been around for 3 years.

It’s funny cuz when Trump first started Operation Warpspeed and was talking about how he was pushing the vax through with all the FDA tests, I seem to remember all the lefties being against it. But the moment it became Biden’s vaccine, all this sketchy stuff was suddenly fine

Flat-out wrong

Oh no, you got me on a spelling error, what ever will I do?

dogwhistle of far right anti-intellectualism

Absolutely false

flat-earthers

I never mentioned flat earth, and J don’t believe in the flat earth. There is tons more evidence for the inefficacy of the covid vax than there is evidence for flat earth. Don’t pull out the craziest sounding stuff to try and disprove something else. The umbrella retort of pointing at somebody and screaming “conspiracy theorist!1!!!1!!” as if everything you don’t agree with falls into the exact same category as flat earth and the like is piss poor way to make your point and only gains you brownie points with like-minded individuals (although I know brownie points with like-minded individuals - aka fake internet points on a reddit knock-off - is all anyone here cares about)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103688/coronavirus-covid19-deaths-us-by-state/#:~:text=There have been 101%2C159 deaths,number of COVID-19 cases.

Some of what you said was partially correct, but most of it was not.

the death rate of Republicans was comfortably higher than of Democrats

This is just part of the narrative that gets pushed around the pandemic, I doubt its actually true. Even if it is, what your comparing here is those extremely stupid few who did take it too far, as another user has mentioned, throwing “spread covid” parties and things like that, which have no real bearing in terms of how the virus normally spreads. Things like that wouldn’t even be an issue if the pandemic hadn’t been politicized in the first place.

As far as Trump telling people to drink bleach, that was actually a misunderstanding between Trump and some doctor he was talking to. I believe it was Dr. McCullough that told that story on the rogan podcast. More the product of Trump’s inability to communicate effectively. And for your claim that people took that advice, I again doubt how true that is, but even so you’d be talking about a small minority of republicans who were stupid enough to try it who are not representative of conservatives as a whole. In case you were unaware, there are extremely stupid people all over the political compass

If by “right of women to make decision for their own bodies” you mean “making irresponsible sexual decisions and then killing the resulting child”, that’s a pretty poor excuse for a right. What about that child’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Most lefties wanna take that away from a child before the child is even born. And sure, we could argue at what point a human life is a human life, but we both know we’re not gonna change each other’s minds on that, so let’s skip that part please. I would also like to remind you that the majority of abortions are elective. Doesn’t seem right to me to take away the life of a child for the bad decisions of the mother

The right for trans people to exist

The argument against trans identity from the right is three fold: first, most right wingers don’t want to be told what we are and aren’t allowed to say on the topic. Especially those of us that are religious, because trans identity conflicts with our religious identity, and there is no getting around that. Most of us are happy enough to agree to disagree and go on our way. Its when lgbt activist behind screaming that we’re hateful bigots and somehow contributing to a trans genocide simply by being ourselves and believing what we believe that we begin to feel attacks ourselves and speak out against gender ideology. Secondly, there’s the issue of medical malpractice. This is usually the stance of the righties who don’t subscribe to the “live and let live” mentality surrounding gender transitioning. You can lookup countless stories of detransitioners who experienced this medical malpractice. You’d literally have to bury your head in the sand to not see this. And the third and biggest part of the issue is that lgbt activists are targeting children with this ideology. Just look up the actual effects that puberty blockers have on kids and you’ll get an idea of why this is a problem to most righties. Cuz children walk away from that treatment with brittle bone syndrome, micropenises, their growth stunted, and their depression excaserbated by the time their 18. And all of that actually starts even before treatment with parents who push gender ideology on their kids from a young age, practically insuring this fate for their children and then saying “no, it was their choice!” just because their son played with a barbie once when he was 2.

Inb4 “but Christians do the same thing to their children!!!”

Yeah, whatever. Never been true, never will be.

drag queens

Most righties don’t care about drag queens. I mean, we think those dudes are weirdos, but whatever, as long as you don’t bring that stuff around me or my family, its not an issue. All the red states that are passing laws against drag shows right now are passing laws against st drag performances in front of kids. If you’re telling me your identity is under attack simply because you can’t do weird sexual stuff in front of children, that says more about you than it does about me

having to wear protection during a pandemic

As I’ve said, no one is telling you that you can’t masks, vax, get boosters, lock yourself away, whatever you wanna do to make yourself feel safe. There are simply those of us who are saying that we don’t want to do those things to our own bodies and don’t want to be forced or coerced into doing those things with our own bodies. That’s all. And I guess we’re also saying that there’s plenty of evidence out there to show that those measures aren’t all that effective anyways, but we’ve also figured out by now that lefties don’t wanna listen to that anyways

The “ones with an actual education”, who had monetary incentives to do so, were the ones regurgitating narratives. Except for the likes of Dr. Malone, Dr. McCullough, etc., who, despite their educations, were dismissed immediately for there noncompliance with the narrative.

And not wanting to wear masks was never about being unable to breath. Yes, it was a complaint you would hear from people on the right pretty commonly, but it was not the root reason for opposing masks

You realize the covid response was global right? The same lies were being spread globally. Therefore, the same response to those lies was found globally. Even if you don’t believe in a global cabal of elites running the world from behind the scenes, even if didn’t think leaders from all countries were communicating with each other about covid response (and many other things), you should at least be able to see that with your own two eyes

Except that’s not true at all and if you were capable of getting out of your own echo chamber you would realize that. The only way the masks would have had any real effect is of we were all running around wearing N95s, but we weren’t. People were running around in cloth masks because its easier to make fashion statements out of them. And natural immunity has been shown multiple times to give far better immunity than the vax. Even early on, studies coming out of Israel and Ireland showed that

Doing you’re own research and learning to filter out bs is more childish than following narratives pushed by MSM like sheep and responding with pictures of feces when presented with an opposing point of view? Says more about you than it does about me

You do know it was only a <2℅ death rate because of the pandemic response, right?

Flat out false, read something other than CNN

The only reason you won’t give one is cuz you can’t

“having to wear a mask that gets my face a little sweaty” as fascism, and “eye strain” as a response to mass deaths.

Cherry picked and taken out of context