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"The Real Heroes"

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  • George KG George K

    @renauda said in "The Real Heroes":

    The Kelowna antivaxx demonstration was reminiscent of the Westboro Baptist protests at US servicemen’s funerals during the Iraq War.
    Both are disgusting in their particularly distasteful way.

    Yes, and "disgusting" is an understatement.

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    Renauda
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    @george-k

    Here’s a link to Kelowna incident:

    https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6246356

    You’re right, disgusting is an understatement.

    Elbows up!

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      It could be either vaxxers or anti-vaxxers.

      Or perhaps it’s just people who don’t give a shit about anything and just want to create trouble.

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      • X xenon

        It could be either vaxxers or anti-vaxxers.

        Or perhaps it’s just people who don’t give a shit about anything and just want to create trouble.

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        Horace
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        @xenon said in "The Real Heroes":

        It could be either vaxxers or anti-vaxxers.

        Or perhaps it’s just people who don’t give a shit about anything and just want to create trouble.

        Yeah.

        Education is extremely important.

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        • X xenon

          It could be either vaxxers or anti-vaxxers.

          Or perhaps it’s just people who don’t give a shit about anything and just want to create trouble.

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          George K
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          @xenon said in "The Real Heroes":

          Or perhaps it’s just people who don’t give a shit about anything and just want to create trouble.

          You misspelled "assholes."

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          • George KG George K

            @xenon said in "The Real Heroes":

            Or perhaps it’s just people who don’t give a shit about anything and just want to create trouble.

            You misspelled "assholes."

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            Renauda
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            #9

            @george-k

            Better yet.

            Elbows up!

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              Mik
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              Shameful childish behavior fundamentally created by social media.

              “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                Doctor Phibes
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                The (allegedly) Leninist phrase 'useful idiots' springs to mind.

                I was only joking

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                  Jolly
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                  As a society, we have learned to tolerate too much bullshit. Anger serves a useful purpose. Societal shame is even better.

                  People who do something like this need to be dipped in red stamping ink and then turned loose on the streets for people to point at and ridicule.

                  “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                  Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                    Mik
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                    Agreed.

                    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                      George K
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                      Now, in fairness, CNN didn't post this on Veterans' Day. It's in an op-ed from about 3 years ago.

                      Nevertheless, it speaks to the mentality.

                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                        Jolly
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                        I was listening to Andrew Wilkow the other day talk about the sorry state of journalism in America. His point was that you don't have to be very smart to get a journalism degree. He said his degree was in communications and he slept through most of his classes.

                        His point was that he did commentary and labeled it as such. Other people were doing commentary and labeling it as journalism.

                        “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                          Horace
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                          It is very easy to overestimate how self-aware your average evolved ape is, about how they deploy their received cultural ideas in their own personal pursuit of status and security. You could program a robot to grow up in white middle class America, go through public schools, get a journalism degree, and regurgitate leftist indoctrination to everybody who will listen, while being patted on the head for being a good little soldier for the righteous cause.

                          Education is extremely important.

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                          • JollyJ Jolly

                            As a society, we have learned to tolerate too much bullshit. Anger serves a useful purpose. Societal shame is even better.

                            People who do something like this need to be dipped in red stamping ink and then turned loose on the streets for people to point at and ridicule.

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                            Horace
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                            @jolly said in "The Real Heroes":

                            As a society, we have learned to tolerate too much bullshit. Anger serves a useful purpose. Societal shame is even better.

                            The problem with this is that our culture does have huge amounts of shame built into it - the shame of having an opinion that goes against the race narrative, or other leftist narratives, for instance. The left is fully aware of the power of shame. It's why they want to minimize it for organized shoplifting in San Francisco, while amplifying it for having a Republican-leaning opinion, which marks one as a January 6 sympathizer and probably an anti-vaxxer.

                            Education is extremely important.

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                            • JollyJ Jolly

                              As a society, we have learned to tolerate too much bullshit. Anger serves a useful purpose. Societal shame is even better.

                              People who do something like this need to be dipped in red stamping ink and then turned loose on the streets for people to point at and ridicule.

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                              Renauda
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                              @jolly said in "The Real Heroes":

                              As a society, we have learned to tolerate too much bullshit. Anger serves a useful purpose. Societal shame is even better.

                              People who do something like this need to be dipped in red stamping ink and then turned loose on the streets for people to point at and ridicule.

                              Speaking of bullshit, are your health care workers in the USA also having to cope with this sort of hatefulness:

                              https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/anti-vaxxers-canada-online-hate-healthcare-workers-safety-1.6247682

                              Elbows up!

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                                Jolly
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                                I'm not seeing it.

                                “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                  Mik
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                                  Not seeing it here. Yet.

                                  “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                    brenda
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                                    Wow, Renauda. We're not seeing it here. There are protests against employers mandating vaccination, even Mayo Clinic had some, but not against the nurses, docs, etc.

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                                      Of course anecdotal "news" is instructive mainly of what the purveyor of the news wants others to think and feel.

                                      Education is extremely important.

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