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Comment Re:Meta reflects Zuckerberg (Score 2) 28

Bingo, think about their incentives; the government isn't going to care as of late 2024, they are probably not seeing customers leave at an amount to be concerned about, not anywhere near enough to counter the money. The markets don't care and then the shareholders obviously love it, maybe these employees feel a tinge of concern but you know then they look at their portfolio.

So what's the incentive for Meta to stop this? It's overall probably bad for society and the economy and consumers and even national security but there's no incentive for Meta to care about those.

Companies choosing to care about the greater social impact they have is very old fashioned and even when they were kinda trying to pretend to care half the country and media excoriated them and made ESG a slur. So what's left?

Comment Re:Story checks out. (Score 2) 83

"Caused" is a weasel word you are using. I said helped or contributed.

Theres no escaping the fact that measles has been a solved problem, if those people were vaccinated its 98% likely they would be alive, full stop.

We restrict people from making their own decision all the time. You are not allowed the maximum freedom to punch me in my face unprovoked. Your freedome will be taken from you for that action.

You can maximum freedom or you can have functioning society. The US, in my opinion, has done a good job balancing those two. Same as the punch as soon as you can get me sick with something that can kill me and that is a result of your choice then you are in the same boat. Every freedom carries some responbility.

You want to walk around the rest of us/? Gonna have to get vaxxed. If that's too much then youre gonna have to excise from society. Its the same as the dopes who say taxation is theft, if you really are that strong about it then by all means, go deep in the woods and you wont get taxed and you wont have to get vaxed.

Comment Re:Story checks out. (Score 2) 83

The fact you are quoting Prasad is already suspect for reasons I don't have the time to get into but to say he's conflicted is an understatement. Antivax crank.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Finsidemedicine.substac...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.beckershospitalrev...

Also are you suggesting RFK didn't do all the stuff he did in Samoa? Did he not go there and preach against vaccines? Are you denying he did that? That he continues to do so?

Comment Re:Great...let's pile on.... (Score 1) 74

It's the powerful elite who control the media and use it to marionette people like you into wasting your energy

Who did you vote for before I take any accusations that I am marionette by the elites because those sideways people put in power the most elite corrupted admin in my lifetime, there are like over 10 billionaires in this admin.

Then you can tell me how I can look up while the people sideways to me keep punching me in the dick every-time I do. I gotta stop that first before I can "look up".

Kamala put the barest suggestion of a wealth tax and elites went into overdrive to get folks like you to do the very thing youre doing now so pardon me if I am remain skeptical.

Comment Re:Story checks out. (Score 1) 83

Nobody and I mean NOBODY is opposed to "fixing" these health concerns. That's a bad faith distracting argument RFK apologists continue to use to cover for the fact you chose liars and obvious hucksters to do it and for some reason expected them to suddenly become effective public advocates while everyone was screaming at you to realize they have no intention of doing that.

But let's not pretend RFK Jr is uniquely bad because he isnt doing what no one has done for 70 years.

RFK is uniquely bad because he helped kill 83 kids in Samoa, he rejects 70 years of immunology research and breakthroughs, he has created conditions to where we now have like 2000 measles cases versus like 25 in 2025

It was your choice to believe the man in that video over the doctors and any amount of actual research and critical thinking, the fact hes popular is just further evidence that you are purposefully ignorant. You got huckstered by slick presentation and persuasive words from a guy who sounds like a literal cartoon monster.

You own this, stop trying to blame the rest of us for your purposeful lack of critical thinking.

Comment Re:Great...let's pile on.... (Score 1) 74

It would've taken less words to prove my assumptions about conservatives, their media diet and their generally selfish and myopic outlook on society so just say "you are 100% correct"

Exemplary stuff, you couldn't have made my case better and confirmed my position.

If I didn't know better I'd think this was satire it's so on the nose.

Comment Re:Story checks out. (Score 2) 83

I don't trust RFK for many reasons, the turkey photo op is just exemplary of the fact that hes a fucking liar and nothing more than an overprivileged and spoiled waste of human potential who if he didn't have the Kennedy name attached to him he would have zero notoriety. My disrespect is the very least of what he should get.

One example:

A stark example of the devastating impact of vaccine misinformation is Samoa's 2019 measles outbreak. In this island nation of 200000, more than 5700 people were infected and 83 people died, most of whom were young children. Samoa's Ministry of Health cited Kennedy's visit and his rhetoric as exacerbating vaccine hesitancy at a crucial moment. Kennedy's non-profit, Children's Health Defense, contributed to this atmosphere of mistrust just months before the outbreak.

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Comment Re:Story checks out. (Score 2) 83

Sorry but no you were purposefully ignorant, people were screaming from the rooftops about RFK for months and months about his flawed reasoning, obvious conflicts of interest and questionable grasp of science. Thousands of doctors and scientists wrote and made clear how dangerous he would be.

That you didn't want to listen to them and lump it altogether as "they all do it" is blinding nihilism and ulterior motives.

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https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apha.org%2Fgetconten...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.citizen.org%2Farticl...

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