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May 3, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Top notch. Every day I become more and more convinced these people don’t believe their own bullshit.

My absolute favorite vaccine conspiracy theory is the allegation that non-vaccinated women experience menstrual irregularities after they spend time in close proximity to a person who has been vaccinated. So that’s really a twofer: it not only attributes such evil superpowers to the vaccine itself that it negatively impacts people who haven’t even received the shot, but it targets women’s reproductive cycles – and the functioning of ladyparts has been an obsessive fetish of conservatives since forever.

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May 3, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Well:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/health/covid-heard-immunity-vaccine.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

Thanks, fine people from the heartland of the homeland.

And what's really fucked up here is that we're much better than most. But a global crisis requires a global solution and coordination and that's not happening, not when the ruling class puts extraction before everything and, at least here, we keep electing unfit, unqualified leaders.

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(They have to know by now that they're being used to catapult propaganda. I wonder how many of them *believe* what they're being told?)

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This is why Rick woke up to find all of Georgia had been infected with the zombie virus. If “Walking Dead” had ended there, it would’ve approached documentary-level verisimilitude.

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These people have questions. They are just looking for answers. They seek the truth. And this is America after all - there's a Seeker born every minute.

Everything I know I learned off of a Firesign Theatre album in the mid 70's.

White people have too much free time.

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To be fair to the "Times", a true and just report consisting in merely repeating the dialogue in "Blazing Saddles" between Bart and The Kid as to the nature of the inhabitants of Rock Ridge would get boring after the third or fourth time.

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