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[–] Jay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

WeLl tHe GoVeRnMeNt cHaNgEd ThE pLaN BeCaUsE tHe TrUtH WaS uNcOvErEd.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 11 months ago

Me: "What about all of the other governments? Europe, Africa, Australia, Russia, they're all in total agreement and doing it together?"

Them: processing that there are other countries and governments outside of the US's control

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Or that everyone who got a vaccine would be dead in a year

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was literally told that I was in danger of being "liquified" within 2 years. Literal melting in my skin Indiana Jones style

[–] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 1 points 11 months ago

I saw someone spreading the idea that it would turn people into bioweapons, Resident Evil style.

[–] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

And yet, I'm still paying taxes, wtf.

[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Everybody who got the vaccine was supposed to be dead by now, too. This is has gotta be the slowest-acting poison in history!

[–] supercriticalcheese@feddit.it 1 points 11 months ago

Within the next 100 years it's a nearly 100% mortality thanks to the 5G receiver by Bill Gates, checkmate!

/s

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I had like four shots now, so it’s possible it killed me so hard that I came back to life again.

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Coved vaccine, so deadly it will save your life!

[–] Nails@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No time to talk about that now. Busy moving the goal posts.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Moving the goalposts suggests that they're still talking about the same thing. Instead they've moved on to a new conspiracy and don't even remember claiming the lockdowns were going to be permanent.

In other words:

"Who cares about lockdowns, that was 2 years ago. What matters is the Biden Crime Family!"

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Being a republican means you never have to admit you're wrong. You just live in a whole other universe where chemtrails turn the frogs gay, and Trump is an innocent, Christ-like patriot.

[–] spikespaz@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dude that's a generalization and is just not true.

[–] Twelve20two@slrpnk.net 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

While it is a generalization, it accurately covers the majority of Republicans who have been vocal online over the last few years.

[–] spikespaz@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As far as I'm concerned each side has been just as annoying and incorrect as the other. Have you seen some of the stupid and objectively false things people say? It's not just conservatives.

[–] Twelve20two@slrpnk.net -1 points 11 months ago

One side wants to advance and protect human rights, and the other side wants to ensure some people never have those rights. While there are boneheads on both sides, the core arguments aren't same-same-but-different. And there seem to be way more people on the far right who are coal and in greater numbers than there are radical leftists.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wish. They still protest against the lockdowns every saturday down here in Melbs. You know, the lockdowns that are long over. But they want those freedoms that aren't being restricted in any way, shape or form, dammit!

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I’ve seen the anti-vaxxers out and about. They have all these photos of people on little sticks and you think it’s going to be people who allegedly died of vaccines, but when you get up close it’s all stuff like “Marie had the Moderna vaccine. A day later she sprained her ankle climbing down off a horse.” “John had a sniffly nose a few weeks after Pfizer.”

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

"I know people who got the vaccine and died right after"

Ok. And I know 1,000,000x more people that didn't get the vaccine and died from COVID. Even if they died from the vaccine (they didn't), the vaccine is safer.

[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"any moment now anyone who got the vax is gonna flop over and start foaming at the mouth, I heard it on the My Pillow Guy show."

I can't decide which is more depressing, people stupid enough to believe the shit, or the absurd lack of credibility their sources provide - fucking rubes and idiotic liars deserve each other I guess.

[–] Misconduct@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When you point out its been a long time, and you're fine, so they say, "Give it 10 more years" lmao wtf just shut up and crawl back under your rock you science denying turnips

[–] Jay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And then when you die in 50 years after a long and healthy life: "I told you so!"

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If the government wanted to kill people, they'd kill those who refused to comply.

So the thing that would make more sense, is that the COVID vaccine was an antidote, and the government was going to release a toxic gas to kill everyone who didn't take it.

But nah, their argument is that the government is killing those who comply. Ya, because that makes sense.

[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 1 points 11 months ago

That's one of the things that bugs me about conspiracy theories. So many of them don't even have a point.

How can so many be people be so wrapped up in conspiracism, but never once have the though, "Oh, wait, why would anyone do this? It'd be pointless."

[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Someone straight up told me its because the elites only want those they can respect to survive.

It's a wierd form of hating them but desperately wanting their approval. I think they all just have daddy issues that aren't the kinky fun kind.

[–] ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Especially since there are people in places of the world that would kill for a vaccine

[–] bquintb@midwest.social 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

MAGA: wrong about everything

[–] PatFussy@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Operation warpspeed? Never heard of her

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They still won't admit they were wrong. They don't possess the willingness to self reflect whatsoever. Imagine living such an empty husk of an existence.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It wouldn't really be self reflection, because these people don't really believe the nonsense they say.

When they say the government is going to stay locked down forever, they don't mean it literally. To them "lock down" is a vibe and "government" is a vague Them that controls the world. As long as the vibes are fucked and They are in charge, it feels correct.