Funny how it became bathroom use and imaginary things drag queens do...
Reminds me of that older Odin meme;
"Odin promised the end of all frost giants, and I don't see any frost giants."
How many children are you ̶m̶u̶r̶d̶e̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ sacrificing to Odin today?
The best thing the vikings did was converting to Christianity
Odin kidnapped children and set them to be chased by wolves for all eternity because of how their father named them.
No hailing Oden, please. He’s a cunt.
Some more than others. Oden is particularly bad.
He’s also co-opted as a symbol for nationalism and white supremacy so there’s that part too.
Aye, I'm fucking amazing, actually.
If you're going to choose a god to praise, why choose an easily insulted one-eyed old fart with a self-confidence problem? Go with someone with more pizzazz, like Freyja. Goddess of love, beauty, sex, war, magic. Is there anything she doesn't do?
Mythology is crazy!
I love the stories about Atalanta, and how it culminates in her and Hippomenes both being transformed into lions as punishment for shagging in a temple, because at the time people believed that lions couldn't have offspring together.
The story of Thor dressing up as and pretending to be Freyja in order to get his hammer back from some giants is also pretty sick.
And Amaterasu forever shunning her brotherhusband for in disgust decapitating a lady who invited them to a party she was too lazy to go to.
There's so many quality stories out there.
"You know why you can't play chess with a pigeon? Because at some point it will just shit on the board and strut around like it won."
Oh, they are still around. Now they are talking about people in their 20s dying from the vaccine. And there have been millions of young people (in Germany alone) who died because of the vaccine. The government just made the bodies disappear and payed their families off.
I wish I was joking, but no. This is the shit they believe. I hate every single amoeba on the right.
Had this one from my grandmother.
Apparently doctors and nurses have been paid off to peddle this and it's all part of a big global hoax.
Meanwhile my sister with $80,000 nursing student loans is like "Wtf where's my money? You mean I nearly died working my butt off for nothing??" - 80 hours "full time" per week.
Also ignoring the fact that if even 0.001% of the global medical community has misgivings about accepting what I assume must have been an enormous bribe that we would have heard about it??
Like at least if they're gonna get bribed it would be enough to pay off student loans and then some.
Because if the story was true, you'd lose your medical license. It's hard to pay off your student debt if you're not a doctor or nurse anymore.
Yeah this one is more than a little irritating. I’ve encountered too many people who know someone who has someone in their life that was adversely affected by the vaccine. Heart attacks, strokes, nerve issues, whatever. But when you press them for the details there’s always something else, like the person has diabetes, had a bunch of age-related diseases, etc. But there’s no way those things had anything to do with their poor health…no, it has to be the vaccine. Or maybe the even got covid, but refused to get tested.
It's the same problem I have with people who want me to fix their computer. Any issues that come up at any time in the future, no matter how much time passed or how unrelated it is, was caused by "whatever I did."
No, Aunt Karen, the malware you downloaded is not from me restarting your Wi-Fi adapter 3 years ago.
And with these people any negative health issues that occur can only be attributed to vaccines.
someone in their life that was adversely affected by the vaccine.
There are rare side effects. When someone brings it up, it's important to acknowledge it but qualify the risk. .0001% of heart problem or .1 % of death. Tell them it's like driving without a seat belt because of the 1 in a million chance you get in an accident where the seatbelt traps you. Meanwhile 77% of all people have been in an accident.
"The COVID-19 age-adjusted death rate for the age 65 and over population was 533.5 per 100,000 standard population."
"the death rate for COVID-19 among adults aged 85 and over (1,645.0 per 100,000)"
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db446.htm
Assuming the relative was somewhere between 65 and 85 puts it at around 1 in a thousand.
I think I misunderstood. I thought you were stating that the vaccine caused one in a thousand to die.
I was saying 1 in a thousand to die from COVID vs 1 in a million to have complications from the vaccine.
I don’t deny that there are potential side effects. However, when one person knows multiple people who have suffered some ill effect it’s obviously not about the science. By that same token I could apply my logic that I know zero people who have had any serious side effects.
I actually just suggest that they drive without seatbelts seeing as the odds of getting in a serious accident are so low in their daily life if they want to refuse the vaccine based on potential side effects. Hemming and hawing usually follows.
Conservative movements and religious fundamentalism have a lot in common. When you see it that way it makes more sense.
I genuinely wish they had properly in forced lockdown for around 6 months, maybe then more of my friends who had covid would be alive
Where I live in the UK lockdown seemed to be optional. I went out for my daily exercise and noticed little to no difference in car and foot traffic.
Sad really
When we could watch graphs of country and region rates, the UK was showing good results from lockdown, then skyrocketing rates during the lockdown holidays
You should watch or check up on the inquiry. It was a complete shit show. All the senior people in the government all blaming someone else and Alexander DePfifel Johnson (Big dog) gives evidence tomorrow or later in the week and he'll get ripped apart.
Obama FEMA Boncentration Bamps!
He's coming for yer gunz!
They repeat the same lie over and over and over again, and these one-dimensional simpletons swallow the entire thing, time after time after time.
The problem is, these one-dimensional simpletons vote.
And you know who doesn't vote? The other type of simpleton who swallows that other cherry-picking lie, over and over and over again: bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe.
I would however like to clarify that neither Republicans nor Democrats will solve the systemic issues in any meaningful way, and it's not saying "both sides are the same" to point this out. I literally voted for Biden, but I still have Democrats accuse me of "voting for Trump" when I point out ways the Democrats do things like uphold a capitalist economy, extend the reach of fascist agencies like ICE, take power away from the working class, compromise with right-wing extremists, and observe a hierarchical system.
I can agree that Republicans are far worse, and I can cast my vote, while still being honest about the situation.
I read your “time after time after time” as “time after time” with the Cindy Lauper song. It really threw me off for a minute.
And you know who doesn't vote? The other type of simpleton who swallows that other cherry-picking lie, over and over and over again: bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe.
Well, they are over here... and I do vote, just scratch out everyone.
If you don't vote for anything, you aren't actually voting, just wasting time. No one cares that there's a spoiled ballot. It has 0 impact.
It has 0 impact in the US maybe. Here, my vote might get snatched by one party or the other... I wouldn't like that to happen, thank you very much.
Laugh all you like, it's reality over here. There is vote snatching every election, dead people voting, abroad voters voting here (locally)... this is not the US 🤷.
Not voting signals to politicians that they don’t need to care about your vote or you in general.
Really? I thought it signalled that I don't like either of the choices 🤔... maybe get them thinking about the representatives they select to put on the voting lists.
They only care about appealing to people who they know vote. Your silent protest is very easy to ignore.
If there were more silent potesters, you would think they'd actually wonder why that is happening 🤔.
No they’d just be happy that there’s less people they have to convince to vote for them. Less people voting means it’s easier to pass policies that enrich them. You aren’t doing some meaningful protest, you’ve removed yourself from the conversation.
There’s tons of money in seeding voter apathy and people like you are why. They get you to remove your own voice and make you think you’re hurting them and not yourself.
I am not hurting myself, it doesn't make the slightest difference to me if one party or the other wins. I just don't want my vote stolen, I'd rather it burned.
In the end, it's my vote... the same as the hillbilly with down syndrome. If he can choose, so can I.
Aren't we all supposed to be dead by now from the poisonous vaccine? This has got to be the slowest-working poison I've ever seen.
I'd love to see a breakdown of those who didn't get the jab and those who did for deaths during the first 6 months from covid. Hint: It's already been done and those without the jab died at 3x the rate.
I was promised microchips. I haven't gotten a single brain notification from Elon Musk yet. This some bullshit.
I'm still burning through my massive mask stash. Actually feels like being sick much less frequently compared to life before masks.
I don't understand what these peolple were thinking. The government would never put human lives above the economy. Of course everything was going to reopen once the lives lost wouldn't hurt the bottom line.
I must be bias because I grew up in peak 'war on drugs' times. Being young and impressionable I thought there was no way the government could possibly lose. Then they taught us about prohibtion. Then I found out everyone I knew smoked weed.
End of the day, anarchy already exists in the minds of anarchists. The government is inadequate when comes to policing individuals.
When it comes to changing societal norms, you always have to start at the social contract. Otherwise, all you have is a signed piece of paper.
I also have someone like this in my distant family who thought Corona is a cold, that masks makes you unable to breath, that the WHO will take over the power of all countries, that the World Economic Forum in Davos will reset all financial markets to zero and that the USA will invade Ukraine to secure its bio-weapons laboratories.
You can imagine that family gatherings became fun from then on.
My wife was working at an assisted living facility when those conspiracies were at their peak. She had a coworker who believed in it and tried very hard to convince the residents of the conspiracy too
It's funny that they attacked Drag Queens because they hated Transpeople..
Not only do we have nothing to do with each other, but the Drag Queen community has a history of being highly transphobic.
has a history of being highly transphobic
Just wanted to add that it has gotten better. I mean, now we even have straight queens who damn well know how to serve, sew, and read. Unthinkable back in the day!
Still. I had a dragqueen "friend" who really soured me on the whole group and I found he was the norm not the exception..
Kept trying to get me into drag, stole a wig from me, and claimed being trans was "Just drag being taken too far"
They literally don’t care to know the difference. All that matters is that they have people to attack and demean.
It's good they were wrong and the covid dictatorial bullshit fell out of vogue, though.
I actually believe that this is one thing that Trump/Republicans saved us from. In the very first week of lockdowns I remember a few news stories of police really overstepping by pulling people over and demanding to know that they were doing outside. It didn't last long because the economy obviously comes first over lives. It could have really devolved into extreme facism.
I'm on lemmy for a while now and this is the most American centric comment I have seen so far. There are authoritarian governments that used the pandemic to do shit but all stopped sooner or later. And many governments, left or right or what ever, overreacted at the start.
The cops are fascists because they're also mostly Republicans. Trump is a fascist. You're saying the fascists saved us from extreme fascism? I'm confused lol
grasping the implication here is an extreme challenge. what are you suggesting? that individual cops were trying to go full-fascist and control the population by using the guise of a global pandemic to illegally stop and question citizens? if it wasn't the government currently in power, then who was trying to go full-fascist? what entity between the government and police was it? and why was this only an american symptom when the pandemic was global?
all that to say - this take is complete nonsense and clearly lacks the application of the most basic of critical thought.
ooh one news article for one incident reaaaaaaly proves your point that some unknown entity was trying to go full fascist and trump stopped them!
or did you watch one emotionally charged youtube video and then adopt this logically bankrupt theory ever since?
