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"Progressivism" isn't a march toward the future, it's a full sprint back to the Stone Age.

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"Progressivism" isn't a march toward the future, it's a full sprint back to the Stone Age.

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Level-Opportunity-59@reddit

This too shall pass
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Weenoman123@reddit

>overly vague philosophy tripe >most likely came from some anti social parasite Yawn, next
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LiteVisiion@reddit

No but it's a general warning about dismissing traditions too fast as antiquated gimmicks when sometimes we have to realize the people before us weren't absolute complete retards.
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TheBROinBROHIO@reddit

"traditions" like what? I'm pretty sure we dont need to be sacrificing people to appease the harvest gods anymore.
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Responsible-Onion860@reddit

Traditions like monogamy and limiting or eliminating premarital relations.
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Think_Monk_9879@reddit

How far back does it go. Traditionally you could have as many wives as you want. Or like Greece you Rape as many boys you want before marriage
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TheBROinBROHIO@reddit

But why those traditions, and not others? And how do they apply to my traditional harem of concubines? Or my slaves?
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BackForPathfinder@reddit

Just to inform you, this is referred to as Chesterton's fence. Essentially, it tells us to ask the same question you're asking, "what is the purpose of this tradition?" before reforming it. In the case of monogamy, there's plenty of evidence that shows children are more successful in general when raised by the typical nuclear family with loving parents. However, we can see that a harem of concubines or owning slaves is dehumanizing, therefore, any "benefits" gained from it are unethical.
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TheBROinBROHIO@reddit

If we're talking about evidence and ethics, then it isn't really about "tradition" anymore is it? Sure it's worth asking why some traditions began and continued, but they arent static across time and place, otherwise we'd never come up with new ones. If you want to talk about them as 'problem solvers,' well, you generally start by defining the problem and considering the solutions rather than the other way around. You're also conflating monogamy with "the typical nuclear family with loving parents," which is much more contemporary. 'Traditionally' marriage was more transactional and children were meant more for labor, but culture and material conditions have changed such that this now seems dehumanizing as well.
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BackForPathfinder@reddit

You're right about the problem solving aspect, but the point of Chesterton's Fence is that people often don't consider what the tradition is a solution to in the first place before rejecting it. There may be other valid solutions, but recklessly rejecting tradition can lead to problems returning without a solution in place for it.  Even monogamous traditional (as in truly traditional or transactional) families provide stability. Also, maybe I'm just an optimist and not a cynic, but my understanding and interpretation is that a large number of those transactional relationships would also fit our typical loving family, especially when those transactional ones were less common in the lower classes of society. Also, I can tell you that most parents do feel strong emotional connections to their children and don't just see them as labor and there's no way that's just a modern trend. The labor benefits come later; many, many years later.
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TheBROinBROHIO@reddit

I think we can agree that parents being invested in their children's well being is good, but if that's the 'problem' that monogamy 'solves,' then that seems like a bit of a myopic way to look at it. We also used to have a lot more extended family and community involvement in raising children- why did we go from that to the 'nuclear family' model? Was there some pressing problem that this solved, or could it be more a response to material conditions and cultural emphasis on individualism? Or the value in monogamy is in providing the most loving and stable lives for children, what does tradition make of the people who cant or dont want to have children? Are divorced but amicable parents not preferable to ones that hate each other but refuse to separate?
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ElkImpossible3535@reddit

> traditional harem of concubines this was never a tradition. even in islamic societies only very rich people had multiple wives.
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TheBROinBROHIO@reddit

Is rich people bending the rules a tradition too?
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ElkImpossible3535@reddit

Sometimes. Monogamy is much older than rich people. If anything rich people created exceptions like the frankist order.
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Krunkbuster@reddit

Most people didn’t have concubines or slaves. That shit was for the elites.
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Leozito42@reddit

It... it only applies to things that I think are weird! Ok?? Don't think too much about it!!
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vmpafq@reddit

Traditions like locking up all the mentally ill and homeless in asylums. Bleeding heart liberals let them out and shut those places down. Look at the streets of America now.
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D1RTYBACON@reddit

Traditions like a court wizard to cast a spell of protection over the realm
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SilliusS0ddus@reddit

those damn libs stole our magic man
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TalosSquancher@reddit

That's just an Arcane tradition my man, no need to worry.
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Firecoso@reddit

You don’t understand it is necessary that you abide by provenly ineffective shit debunked by modern science because my old illiterate great grandmother used to cure diarrhoea by praying to God and sniffing powdered lemon zest
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BarrelStrawberry@reddit

To be a progressive, you have to first believe you are a better person than every one of your ancestors. And then believe you are better than anyone who questions your plans.
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mnimatt@reddit

Our ancestors put a lot of work into putting us in a better position than them. Of course we're smarter than they were.
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BarrelStrawberry@reddit

Take the 1900 harvard entrance exam and let me know how much smarter harvard students are today. https://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/harvardexam.pdf
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shadofx@reddit

That's the exam for top-percentile high schoolers (going to Harvard) Modern top-percentile high schoolers are solving questions like these [https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2025\_AIME\_I\_Problems](https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2025_AIME_I_Problems) which are much more difficult
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Leozito42@reddit

Lmaooo this whole thread is conservatives getting clowned on and finding out their whole worldview is based on vibes
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Paradox@reddit

bruh ong fr fr fr conservatives finna take big Ls bruh ngl
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mnimatt@reddit

You do realize this only shows the difference between the standards of Harvard between then and now? And absolutely nothing, and I truly mean nothing, about the intellect of the average person then versus the intellect of the average person now.
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BarrelStrawberry@reddit

[College in general as dropped over 10 IQ points just since the 1970s.](https://i.imgur.com/3NDVxDn.jpeg) If you think the average person is smarter today than a hundred years ago, you are wrong, but go ahead and demonstrate that.
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mnimatt@reddit

Again, this is showing the standards for college, not the general population. The number of college attendees has grown significantly in that time. Are you really too stupid to understand that? Google Flynn effect. You're an idiot.
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opeboyal@reddit

Lol, I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or truly believe this.
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vmpafq@reddit

>overly vague comment not addressing the point >most likely a cuck with 13 year old reddit account
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SorryWhatsYourName@reddit

The Pasta Warrior thinks that tradition is for survival. Tradition in question: Take your hat off when you enter a church.
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Mama_Mega@reddit

* No elbows on the table * Threaten to beat our sons if they start to cry * Lie about holiday spirits that give kids free stuff the parents actually pay for * Commentate on people sneezing * Give the church 10% of your income Truly, all essential life skills we've forgotten the deeper value of😫
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death_is_acquittance@reddit

take your estrogen and have a nap buddy
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Mama_Mega@reddit

Go ahead then, explain the deep life-saving importance of why people shouldn't put their elbows on top of the table.
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SadSwimmer9999@reddit

It's a holdover from medieval times when tables weren't fixed to their legs. There were basically a big board put on top of a tall bench. So if you put your elbows on the table, you would push down the table and cause it to fall over and all the food would fall on the floor. Then everyone would hate you for ruining all the food.
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tomatoswoop@reddit

... So... exactly proving the point that some traditions get antiquated because they're actually just antiquated?
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SadSwimmer9999@reddit

If I could find it, I would post the gif of the robot from my robot saying, "yeah."
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BenchyLove@reddit

Not really life saving, but there were some studies on “silly rules” that discovered that they may serve a purpose in regularly “training” people in how to properly speak up and shame others, so that when someone breaks the rules and it’s actually wrong, everyone is prepared to properly shame them. Of course, it focused on tribes rather than modern society, so things might work out a little different now.
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Shvingy@reddit

Could be a scorpion hiding underneath the raised edge of a dish. Elbows down, scorpion gets you. Elbows up, and you can quickly react to counter-melee the scorpion.
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The_Queef_Chief@reddit

Shared propriety and decorum, which aids in social cohesion. At the very least it aids in maintaining norms in your social strata and helps distinguish it from lower castes. Significantly less important in our post-industrial era, but aids in K-selected castes.
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NouLaPoussa@reddit

In all seriousness no elbow on the table are meant to protect the long sleeve wich get used, yes people did not change clothe often.
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Batrachus@reddit

Elbows on the table are pretty rude tho if it's crowded and there isn't enough space on the table.
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-SKYMEAT-@reddit

*sailors did that to keep their bowls from sliding around, and wealthy families would align cutlery to the left and right of the plate where your elbows would sit, parents want their families to emulate wealth and not dirty sailors. *Pussy 🥷s don't get bitches *Keeps kid from asking for more presents from the parents because what Santa gives is what you get. *Tradition started because frequent sneezing was an early indicator of pneumonic (no I don't mean bubonic) plague and the other person was praying that it wasn't * Sometimes necessary to help keep small local churches from shutting down due to financial strain which does happen frequently, obviously no longer necessary once the church gets big enough but the church isn't going to say no to their parishioners still wanting to give them money.
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Mama_Mega@reddit

So, all these traditions can and should die, as I already asserted. Thank you.
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bunker_man@reddit

>claims we need Christianity. >is an atheist who posts crusader memes sometimes.
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OscarMMG@reddit

This is just a simple rephrasing of Chesterton’s Fence.
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tomatoswoop@reddit

and not even a good one lol
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nullv@reddit

OP targeting progressives when this is exactly what conservatives do to functioning government programs while crying about socialism.
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eelikay@reddit

Come on anon, functioning and government dont belong in the same sentence.
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tomatoswoop@reddit

Uncritically demonstrating exactly the mentality being pilloried lol, look at yourself
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BarrelStrawberry@reddit

> this is exactly what conservatives do to functioning government programs They aren't functional, they are 40 trillion dollars in debt. Bill Clinton cut 250,000 federal jobs in 1993 back when the government was nearly as bloated as today (and it passed 391-17 in the House and 99-1 in the Senate.) Let me guess, Clinton was a conservative. Federal programs are the most dysfunctional organization of people you can assemble, they are nearly all unconstitutional to begin with.
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United_States_ClA@reddit

Only the feeblest of men take jobs in the *government*
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Starbonius@reddit

We're in national debt because republicans are terrible fucking leaders. The debt was set to be destroyed by like 2018 but nooooooo... Also the debt literally didnt fucking matter because every country on the planet used the United States dollar but once again, republicans! "So what if we are the biggest trade economy on the planet? Deficit is a bad thing i think, so i will destroy the stand of the YS with every single ally we have on the planet." "Except Isreal of course. They were promised the ability to line my pockets directly 3000 years ago."
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anormalgeek@reddit

> They aren't functional, they are 40 trillion dollars in debt. And who is that money owed to? Government has two options. 1. Print more money, which increased "national debt". This slightly decreases the value of existing money by causing inflation. They use this money to pay for government services. Functionally a tax. 2. Have a balanced budget, which is funded by taxes. Both are essentially the same thing. A way to extract monetary value from general population to pay for government services like a military, or education, or healthcare, or scientific research. So who pays them? With the second option, it is paid by American citizens and American corporations. With the first option, it is "paid" by people that hold USD. So who holds them? US Citizens of course, but also foreign governments. #2 is a way to spread the tax burden to MORE people that just US Citizens. To stop that and still maintain the same service would mean you paying more taxes.
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dulockwood@reddit

Get a load of this guy. Probably thinks having a debt at all is a bad thing. Yes, Clinton was a Third Way Democrat. He was successful because he did a lot of shit that Republicans wanted. Cutting the government and being tough on crime are both (idiotic and short-sighted) conservative positions.
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14domino@reddit

Actually, yes, he was
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ComfortableTwo80085@reddit

It's on full display regarding FEMA and Texas floods. Fire a bunch of FEMA employees, modify/break standard processes of how the dept functions, efficiency in its function decreases significantly, then publicly blame the government itself is inefficient and should do away with FEMA.
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BarrelStrawberry@reddit

When FEMA colossally fucked up hurricane katrina in 2005, was that Trump's fault too?
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Grandmaster_Invoker@reddit

I wonder who was president in 04?... Oh shit, it was another Republican.
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BarrelStrawberry@reddit

Ok, when FEMA fucked up Hurricane Sandy... was the Obama's fault? FEMA is just another fucked up federal bureaucracy paying tens of thousands of people to jerk off all day.
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maxwellsearcy@reddit

FEMA builds levees, fixes bridges, digs drainage systems, trains municipal leaders, retrofits aging buildings, builds homes, elevates homes in floodplains, manages millions in grants to give people food and housing and transport assistance for the weeks and months after their communities are destroyed... should I go on?
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DrCur@reddit

Soooo instead of putting more money into that agency to make it better, we should just throw more of our money into billionaires pockets, right?
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Starbonius@reddit

"1000 people die in landslide during storm that could have been predicted and avoided if our agencies weren't being defunded and destroyed." "1 billion dollars to isreal!"
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DrCur@reddit

There's literally so much money being burned on stupid stuff like foreign wars and lining the pockets of Soros and Zuckerberg. Imagine if that money went into fixing potholes...
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Na-na-na-na-na-na@reddit

We should get rid of the fire department as well, it’s a totale waste of money when there aren’t any fires.
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BarrelStrawberry@reddit

Staring salary for an LA fire fighter is over $80,000... I bet a private company could do it cheaper with some illegal immigrants.
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Starbonius@reddit

"Damn, my house is on fire but it costs 6000$ for a single fire truck to come and help me. Guess I'm fucked since my insurance will partially cover fire damage, but won't touch fire engine expenses."
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Starbonius@reddit

I live near the tropics and it rains all the time! Why do we need to waste money on a fire department? Honestly we should just privatize it tbh.
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Grandmaster_Invoker@reddit

I'm glad you picked up the goalpost you set. Obama also supported the states affected by Sandy. Sadly, I'm old enough to remember that they then crucified Chris Christie at the time for taking a photo and aid from him. Again, Republicans don't want to help in natural disasters. They'd rather pray because that's free.
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The_Third_Molar@reddit

I remember Christie getting so much heat for praising Obama for his help.
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PartyLettuce@reddit

Two decades ago was the uniparty though
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curious_Jo@reddit

That was, in fact, Bush's fault. Apparently, it doesn't matter.
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arbiter12@reddit

A lot of the govt is probably due for a shake-up tbh. If it means destroying to rebuild (hopefully better), then so be it. Bureaucracies in general should be torn down every few generations: They start off well, solving immediate problems, but soon they struggle to make micro solutions fit with the existing codexes. Very soon, nothing can be solved because the historical debt is too high to be moved at all. You try to solve X, but the rest of the alphabet comes running at you because it would disturb their balance in any way. You can't eternally add new floors to the same foundations, no matter how well they are built, and the foundations never really get changed. You mostly get cosmetic updates here and there. I'm not saying Trump should be the one spearheading this (he doesn't strike me as a particularly careful or visionary politician), but if he does the destroying part, we can hope a true visionary can rebuild after him, without getting the blame for destroying. Anything that gives extra work to future politicians is good in the long run. When they get too comfy on top, they lose the drive to improve.
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neriad200@reddit

nice moving of the goalpost bro, but when your mo is to take a working thing, break it to the point it's failing, then use that failure as an argument for getting rid of the thing without proposing anything palpable in return, you're not "shaking up" or "destroying to rebuild", you're just an idiot
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xinorez1@reddit

The replacement is privatized services that are many times more expensive while being tremendously inferior and somehow less accountable. But good news op can probably get in on the ground floor and as long as he can keep pesky regulations at bay, such public private services can be extremely profitable, especially if they are deemed necessary...
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Starbonius@reddit

I saw somebody genuinely say privatizing the police would be a good idea to help with police brutality a few days ago since they'd be "beholden to share holders"
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neriad200@reddit

it's the american way!
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Paradox@reddit

Because they did such a bang up job in the Carolinas last year, right?
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pjarkaghe_fjlartener@reddit

Please explain what it is you think FEMA does.
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Equivalent-Lab8655@reddit

True, and progressives do the same as well.
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Equivalent-Lab8655@reddit

True, and progressives do the same as well.
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idlesn0w@reddit

“Guys stop taxing billionaires you’re *LITERALLY* sending us back to the stone age!”
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exusiai_alt@reddit

Trust redditards to always reduce any and all political discussions down to "but whadabau trump!!1!" How small is your IQ that you can't differentiate between actual conservatism and american republicanism? Or are you just so dishonest that you must construct that strawman immediately or else your entire worldview crumbles before you? I don't care about trump and the american republicans. I don't support them either. If anything, reddit discourse is one of the biggest supporter of trump because it pushes literally **everyone** except extremist liberals to the right. Take this thread for example. The mere mention of tradition and suddenly redditards crawl out of the woodworks and start screaming about trump, epstein, american healthcare, and all the other tired old talking points that have barely any relevance to the current discussion. Why, you ask? Because they all know that traditional views do in fact have value and relevance in modern society. But in their heads, agreeing with anything remotely conservative equals trump support and so they must lie and twist the discussion their way. But what's extra funny is that in the real world (and not reddit fantasy land) it's actually the liberals who have started to have more and more conservative views on things. Even the more extremist libs have started getting more and more anti-immigration as of late. They have started to notice that modern movies use inclusivity as a weapon to manipulate liberals into watching their garbage movies with poor animation. Irl men have started to realize that modern women have completely abused the modern feminism movement and that the dating scene is indeed grim. Hell, they've even gotten more hawkish on war, lmao. There's your traditional values for you. Read it and weep. Or you can be an ignorant numpty and scream "trump bad so everyone who disagrees with my worldview must be a naht-zhee!!1!"
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dulockwood@reddit

So angy and so wrong
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

Nobody said anything about trump
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exusiai_alt@reddit

trump isn't a conservative now? thanks for proving how you people have to twist the truth. I was starting to worry that reddditards might actually start telling the truth for once and make me look foolish. I guess I was just foolish in thinking that that is a possibility. All the comments are obviously about american liberal vs conservative ideologies so trump is always implied, as he is the clear leader of the american conservatices. You are either being pedantic, disingenuous, and/or just plain stupid if you think otherwise. Not to mention that one of the comment chains is actually just directly about trump so you're just flat out incorrect. I have productive discussions with moderate liberal friends all the time and it is always eye opening to see the raw insanity of redditors. But seriously tho, you thinking that trump isn't a conservative is particularly unhinged even for reddit standards.
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

Trump is a conservative sure, I’m just saying that OP was talking about conservatives in general, not just trump. Other comment chains being explicitly about trump doesn’t mean this one is. Idk about OP but I personally am not American and the conservatives here do the exact same shit of crying socialism whenever the government does any kind of welfare program.
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exusiai_alt@reddit

And once again, trump is the leader of the conservative party. What world do you live in where the leader isn't included when making blanket statements about a group? And even if it isn't even america specific, it's obvious that american conservatives are the most representative conservative party in the world and in fact, a lot of conservative parties in the world are actually modeling themselves off of the american one. A thread full of trump references and I am support to interpret a comment about conservatives as having absolutely nothing to do with trump or the american conservative party? Quit it with the excuses and the "ummm, aksualy"s. It just serves to make you even more dishonest. Not to mention that my point of not being able to differentiate between the ideology and the party went way over your head.
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Dereklewis930@reddit

Bro why are you sending these paragraphs, you were the first one to bring up trump in this chain
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exusiai_alt@reddit

Real talk, are you genuinely stupid? Did tiktok brainrot erase what the word "implied" means in your brain? Whole thread is just discussions about trump and the chain started with a direct mention of the conservatives. Given your word choice, this seems to be very much a zoomer literacy moment on your part.
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PersonaHumana75@reddit

> "Trust redditards to always reduce any and all political discussions down to "but whadabau trump!!1!" Proceeds to talk about Trump in the only fucking thread where he wasnt mentioned. You have to have a keen eye in doing stupid shit like this, you seem a natural.
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exusiai_alt@reddit

>dumbass doesn't know what a thread is you're dishonest and an idiot. plain and simple. post doesn't mention conservatives and yet you don't bat an eyelash when conservatives are immediately mentioned. then you squeal and squawk that "conservative" and "trump" have absolutely nothing in common. just projection and lies with you. classic redditard behavior, lmao.
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PersonaHumana75@reddit

Yeah who would have thought that a premise used for the "progressives" in the meme would then be used against "conservatives", i'm _shocked_ i'll tell you. But is hella funny how i have seen "Trump" like in other four threads (i don't know another word i'm not English) and you raged just in the one Trump wasnt mentioned and you began tellling on yourself in the very fucking first sentence like "uhhh fucking progressives always talking about Trump"
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Dereklewis930@reddit

No one said that they didn’t have anything in common, they just said that not every conversation about conservatives has to be about trump
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Dereklewis930@reddit

I’m British, the tories are called the conservatives and they do the same, in Canada they are called the conservatives and they do the same. Not everything about conservatives is just about trump
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exusiai_alt@reddit

There's really no need to be vulgar. I did not need to know that you were bri*tish. That is just repulsive and unnecessary to mention. Ever. And if you went on a thread where everyone is talking about trump and making american conservative references, happened upon a chain that started with talking about conservatives, and then your so called "brain" went straight to br*tain and canada, then all I have to say is that your brainrot runs deep indeed.
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Dereklewis930@reddit

Why not use the opportunity to have a thread that isn’t about trump then instead of bringing him up where no one else has. You are the one bringing up trump everywhere
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

What? I literally said trump is a conservative. He’s just not the only conservative out there.
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exusiai_alt@reddit

Saying he's not the only conservative is dumb when he is literally the most representative conservative on the planet right now. at least in terms of political parties. You're losing the plot. Answer this question, then. did the commenter not imply trump at all? Is being anti-socialist totally not something that trump would do at all?
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

Could they have been implying trump? Sure. But it could well have been any other conservative politician, or just a general sentiment. You were the one getting mad that they brought trump into it, when they did not explicitly do that.
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Oaker_at@reddit

Could we change the situation to some reproductive discussion instead? That’s boring.
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DellOptiplexGX240@reddit

no one is going to read all that. cope and seethe.
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Sgt_major_dodgy@reddit

The regard REEEEEs into the void
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king_of_the_potato_p@reddit

Fun fact, throughout human history when civilizations collapse the more liberal they were the more they fully collapsed with a garder time rebuding.
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That_Guy381@reddit

You can really convince idiots of anything, huh.
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Cosmonate@reddit

What the fuck are you even talking about, liberalism isn't even the same country to country, much less across ancient civilizations
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Holiday-Proof9819@reddit

This right here
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MentokTehMindTaker@reddit

THIS!!!! A THOUSAND TIMES THIS!!!!
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Heroic_Sheperd@reddit

💯💯💯💯💯LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN BACK! Slay queen!
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Johnkovan_Jones@reddit

Literally Vaccines
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Robocop71@reddit

My uncle got vaxxed and lost his foot afterwards. The retard doctor kept blaming it because of his high sugar blood level but that is BS, he was just trying to twist the blame on my uncle's lifestyle decision than own up to the fact the hospital gave lethal COVID vaccination. He is looking for a lawyer now, I think he has a good case
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Starbonius@reddit

Genuinely cannot tell if this is bait.
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Starbonius@reddit

Ehhh nah it's too perfect, bait it is
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tomatoswoop@reddit

still wrong, it's what the socially well-adjusted call "a joke", lol
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warfighter187@reddit

Your anecdote vs hundreds of millions of successful vaccine recipients that are immune to diseases they have been vaccinated against 
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Agreeable-Buffalo-54@reddit

He was joking, but you do raise a good point. At what rate does it become unethical to tell a population to get a drug? Obviously with virtually any treatment you will have a small population that has an allergic reaction, often fatal. So where’s the line? 1/100,000? 1/10,000? And does the line change based on the severity of the thing the drug is treating?
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ykzdropdead@reddit

I think hes talking specifically about covid19 vaccines, with which id agree. Vaccines in general are a good thing and yes youd be stupid to distrust or not take them. But the orthodox way of patenting a vaccine and putting it on the market requires years if not dozens of years to test in a lab, to properly refine the content and the dosage. What happened to specifically vaccines like the Pfizer one is that they rushed that shit to comercial status, did not AT ALL announced the life changing possible dangerous side effects like myocarditis, and is not even a vaccine, its a damn RNA treatment. The worst of all this is that if you slightly questioned it, youd not only be labeled as a lunatic right wing redneck conspiracy theorist bozo nazi, youd also lose access to most if not all public services, and in most cases, lost your fucking job and livelihood amidst a time of global crisis. But having nuance in this topic is impossible because science is the newest religion. "Believe science" is a phrase nowadays, for fucks sake. And i bet you didnt read this far without labeling me too so you can go fuck yourself
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SilliusS0ddus@reddit

it was a joke making fun of antivaxxers with an unhealthy lifestyle
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TorfriedGiantsfraud@reddit

Completely unapplicable to any unhealthy covidcels...
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Frostwolvern@reddit

You're not very bright are you?
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warfighter187@reddit

It’s hard to notice sarcasm from genuine antivax these days /shrug 
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The_Third_Molar@reddit

B-b-but there was no le slash s!!
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Starbonius@reddit

Are we slash j or slash srs right now?
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DellOptiplexGX240@reddit

right?
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jackedcatman@reddit

Smartest pro vaxxer
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jathhilt@reddit

Yeah not in this case, bud
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Nasapigs@reddit

Not if you have any level of reading comprehension
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uokqt@reddit

i think the joke is that the beetus took his leg
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Interesting-Fox9764@reddit

I think the joke is he doesn't get the joke even though he really does get the joke. /ragebait
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uokqt@reddit

would that the beetus could take my shame as i have taken the bait
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chomkney@reddit

No no no. You taking the bait was the joke the whole time.
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dekkerson@reddit

he's joking. no one is so retrakted
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Starbonius@reddit

I wouldnt say no one. Antivaxxers are usually this braindead
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WendyLRogers3@reddit

True, for *real* vaccines. However, the widely varying Covid "vaccines" were not only *not* real vaccines, because they didn't do what real vaccines do, but they also contained lots of conjectural ingredients that did and do bad, sometimes lethal, side effects for some of those who were injected with them. And all of it was rushed, pushed through the system with minimal testing and evaluation. It wasn't just bad science and medical quackery, but it was *evil* science designed to hurt people. Its goals were anti-human. Eugenics for the elderly, permanent birth control for the fertile, and the culling of undesirable minorities. As far fetched as it sounds, there are advocates for these things in some academic settings, colleges and universities. They thrive in the shadows. A great example is the late, lauded [Dr. Eric R. Pianka](https://reason.com/2006/04/03/to-save-the-planet-kill-90-per/). People like him enthusiastically support "gain of function" research on pathogens, and they do so in front of fellow academics who support these ideas.
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WendyLRogers3@reddit

[Japan Confirms Covid ‘Vaccines’ Have Now Killed Over 600,000 Citizens](https://slaynews.com/news/japan-confirms-covid-vaccines-now-killed-over-600000-citizens/)
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pjarkaghe_fjlartener@reddit

It's not that the concept of vaccination is unsound you actual retard, it's that poor product control + unsafe secondary ingredients in modern vaccines produce an unacceptable level of negative side effects, studies of which are then suppressed by a media that's been functionally purchased by pharma corps. Stop taking claims at face value from an industry that's paid the largest corporate fines in history for misleading customers.
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BajingoWhisperer@reddit

Your anecdote vs hundreds of millions of successful vaccine recipients that are immune to diseases they have been vaccinated against >are immune to diseases they have been vaccinated against  You know there was recently a "vaccine" that didn't make you immune.
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EvaUnit_03@reddit

Technically, no vaccine makes you 'immune'. It just gives your body a better fighting chance. And they are typically only good for like a decade. Its why you have to get re-vaxxed for certain things. A lot of vaccines you dont re up on because they aren't as big as threat once you are over 15, until you are like 70. Tetnis shots are only good for a decade. Same with Hep. And you change to shingles vax in old age.
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BajingoWhisperer@reddit

Covid "vaccine" isn't even arguable, it hardly does anything. Putting it the same category as actual tested, effective vaccines. Is only pushing people into distrusting all of them.
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EvaUnit_03@reddit

Its om par with the flu vaccine. Unless you inoculate for the strain, it's useless.
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D1RTYBACON@reddit

They’re making a joke about diabetes you fucking moron
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janekfan@reddit

I LITERALLY cannot tell if this is a joke or real stupidity
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I_cut_my_own_jib@reddit

Yuri Tarded
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mikeysof@reddit

Back to the lab Robo. Your core programming needs a tweak.
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dagobert-dogburglar@reddit

Holy fuck this is hilarious Your uncles foot fucking ulcerated from his lack of care about this diabetes and this is your takeaway? Do you know how long you have to be fucking around to get foot ulcers to the point of amputation? And you are in full seriousness blaming this on the vaccine? It is actually a shame modern society holds back natural selection because we have so many specimens like you allowed to reproduce. At the very least you dumb motherfuckers voted out your own medicaid so now the government wont help you anymore, so you could argue you guys are trying to vote natural selection back in.
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12pixels@reddit

You should look up what a joke is, maybe
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SabreToothSandHopper@reddit

👍🏻
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mrbrick@reddit

But your uncle is dead because the dose was lethal.
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jjjosiah@reddit

/s?
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Liberty_PrimeIsWise@reddit

If you need "/s" to detect sarcasm, I'm sorry to inform you, but you are profoundly mentally retarded.
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Darthblaker7474@reddit

Did he try looking for it in his shoe?
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TechnicoloMonochrome@reddit

Or at the end of his leg.
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simiaki@reddit

How is that a good case? He doesn’t have a leg to stand on
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AlphaMassDeBeta@reddit

\>High blood sugar Stop injecting sugar into your blood.
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ChocoOranges@reddit

The fact that this obvious joke is being downvoted just goes to show that this sub has been overrun by insufferable self-righteous libs.
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Silenceisgrey@reddit

>makes shit joke and gets downvoted >damn libs why are you like this
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karamanshaman@reddit

They downvoted not because they the joke was bad but because they were too stupid to understand it.
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Silenceisgrey@reddit

>Am i out of touch? >No, it is the children who are wrong
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Firecoso@reddit

Are you really surprised about autistic traits in the 4chan sub? And you think it’s about libs? Lmao
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WaifuHunterActual@reddit

*obvious joke* To who? There are literally people who believe this and shout it from the rooftops I wouldn't be surprised if memes like this convinced some burnt out loser that it's THE JAB that caused them to be regarded, ignoring the fact they were regarded long before COVID.
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wordjedi@reddit

Multiple mild covids are [making us more regarded](https://www.cognitivefxusa.com/blog/mild-covid-linked-to-brain-damage) year to year
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IntergalacticTire@reddit

the joke could not be any more obvious, anyone who cannot distinguish sarcasm is a lost cause anyway
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AntiProtonBoy@reddit

I found out long ago, people struggle with sarcasm. They just don't have the mental faculties to play out the exaggerated hypothetical scenario others might kabuki play in front of them.
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xelleseittaneu@reddit

When you're on /pol/ long enough it becomes impossible to tell
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BasicBanter@reddit

Eh, not in this day and age
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EHStormcrow@reddit

the problem is Poe's law has a limit (like Moore's law), there *are* people that are regarded enough to think that.
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Tz33ntch@reddit

>n-no that's not what i meant
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oni_no_onii-chan@reddit

Vaccines? Vaccines?? Lol you guys not following the current conservatosphere. They conquered being against vaccines, they know promote anti pasteurization! Drinking raw milk! As a medical student, I honestly start to think american conservative movement controlled by foreign agents. Because this is the easiest way to destroy a nation biologically.  Stupids will fill the hospitals with salmonella, brucella and stomach tuberculosis infections! And since they already don't believe doctors unlike 3rd world country people who get these diseases by actual unsanitation, things will go shit so much harder.
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Infamous-Restaurant0@reddit

No hate but holy hell I wish I could say some things about vaccines, especially covids, considering my parents literally were in charge of developing and synthesizing vaccines without getting into hot water irl. Maybe American ones are different? Not even upset just concerned :(
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misatopsyop@reddit

There’s nothing wrong with drinking raw milk from a healthy, pasture raised cow. Especially with modern amnesties like fridges which prevent spoilage and increase shelf life, you’d have to be very regarded about food safety to get poisoned from it. Calves drink it, barn cats who catch mice drink it, most ruralites who grow up in a farm even drink it… but when some city slicker wants to suddenly it’s bad and salmonella and E. coli…
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thischaracterX@reddit

The dangers aren't from drinking raw from the farm. It's from the transport. Vast majority of people live in an urban environment, which means they buy milk that was collected somewhere else, probably far away, transported, processed, stored, transported again then sold. All this gives a lot of risk for bacteria to grow and become an food born illness. Pasteurized milk helps lower this risk by heating the milk up enough to kill said bacteria before it can grow during all the steps mentioned above. It's like tap water. "Why does government treat it when I've drank from waterfalls into be mountains and I was fine?" Cause from the time the water gets from the glacier in the Rockies to your local reservoir its probably picked up some harmful bacteria and the government has a legitimate interest in not letting a bunch of people get sick. If you think the argument is against raw milk as in "straight from the cow" then you're misreading basically everything on the topic.
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RawketPropelled40@reddit

> as a... student Opinion discarded
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FreshFromNowhere@reddit

>raw milk, which has carried european people for millenia, will now suddenly kill you, the science is SETTLED lol, lmao even
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snrup1@reddit

As someone who used to be conservative and now have no idea what that label means, yeah, I think both the left and the right are captured by propaganda, but especially the right.
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Krunkbuster@reddit

Nobody is immune to propaganda.
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Babki123@reddit

Most educated people knows why vaccines exist tho.
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Skrivz@reddit

Have you met college graduates ? Regards
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TomaszA3@reddit

Most people aren't educated.
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Hawt_Dawg_II@reddit

You might get this impression depending on where you live but, in most first world counties, the majority of people is educated to an above average level. And don't come at me with "but there's a lot of people in underdeveloped countries bringing the average down" I'm aware, i just don't care as in don't count them to be part of the civilised world.
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jjjosiah@reddit

"most people are above average" We should all step back and admire this
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Stoic_Breeze@reddit

I mean, it sounds hella dumb but it is technically mathematically feasible.
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jjjosiah@reddit

Yeah the mean can be above the median or the median can be above the mean, but the mean can't be above the mean
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201720182019@reddit

they didn't say that the average person is above average, they said most people are above average. This is possible. Take a set of values 1, 1000, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004. The average here is roughly 835 which the majority (5 out of 6) are above.
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jjjosiah@reddit

Ah I guess I was taking a way larger data set for granted, but you are correct
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AcanthaceaePrize1435@reddit

ok who is the statistical outlier with negative education then?
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JACOB_WOLFRAM@reddit

Didn't know the US was a part of the uncivilized world
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Hawt_Dawg_II@reddit

Yup. Third world country bud, sorry. Being good at capitalism and having disproportionately rich people aren't the only requirements to join the club, you're like india with a weirder government.
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The_Third_Molar@reddit

Jesus you're living up to the smug European stereotype.
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Liberty_PrimeIsWise@reddit

...You do know what the time first world, second world, and third world actually mean, right? First world is aligned with NATO, i.e the US. It is impossible for the US not to be a first world country lmao Second world is aligned with the Soviet Union, so essentially the eastern block and some others. Third world is unaffiliated; countries no one cares enough about to make them pick a side because they're too busy fighting each other over who has the best mud hut or whatever.
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JACOB_WOLFRAM@reddit

Real but I'm not an American though
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sthegreT@reddit

well now you do!
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Stoic_Breeze@reddit

Do you consider yourself to be educated above an average level? Because I gotta say it says a lot about that average.
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Hawt_Dawg_II@reddit

I see now that my hypocrisy lies in considering the average intellect to be the actual average, including less educated countries, yet also claiming not to recognise them as part of civilised society. So yes, i think I'm of above average intelligence in comparison to the entire planet, i don't think I'm of above average intelligence if we're just counting developed countries. Although, due to confirmation bias and the fact that i work in trades, i forget to feel that way quite often.
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Stoic_Breeze@reddit

So are you talking about intellect, intelligence or education? Pick a lane bro
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Hawt_Dawg_II@reddit

Lmao get pedantic hell yeah. You know full well what i mean. Intelligence isn't actually location based so why the fuck would it be that? Intellect is actually a product of your surroundings so that could be it to be honest. Education, on the other hand, is the exact thing we've been talking about here so of fucking course it's that. You could also argue that intelligence and intellect can be taught with good education, making your comment even more pointless
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Stoic_Breeze@reddit

How is my comment pointless if you yourself differentiated between the three? Anyway I'm just fucking with you to show you that you're probably not as above average as you believe.
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robb1519@reddit

What are you doing with your self proclaimed "above average" intelligence?
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darkartjom@reddit

This claim stands only if we compare averages from today and say 1800's
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helendill99@reddit

if you consider a high school level to be educated, sure. And technically high school level biology is enough to understand vaccines. However a lot of people either slogged through high school without understanding half of it, or simply didn't get their knowledge reinforced over time so ten years down the line they believe vaccines cause autism.
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xpdx@reddit

wow you is educated
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LeapYearBoy@reddit

and shiet
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Konfused@reddit

Dunno why this made me chuckle so much
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bittercripple6969@reddit

Coaxed into unhygienic farming conditions.
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DEEP_SEA_MAX@reddit

Pasteurization saves lives Fox News tells me pasteurization will turn me gay Now only drink raw milk Die, but also own the libs
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LeapYearBoy@reddit

Stick newborns with hepatitis B vaccine as soon as they are born. Hepatitis B is only transmitted via sexual intercourse and/or dirty needles. The heptitis B vaccine has heavy metals added into it and the CDC just came out with a report that says the shot gives a 1153% increase in autism. "BuT MaH VaCcInEs"
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DEEP_SEA_MAX@reddit

The CDC run by an anti-vaxxer with a literal brain worm said this? Well it must be true then.
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LeapYearBoy@reddit

Study was conducted before Kennedy took office, and suppressed. Kennedy just release the results (Which btw were readily available as early as 2021). Your move, bundle of sticks.
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DEEP_SEA_MAX@reddit

Bet you believe Trump didn't fuck kids either huh?
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LeapYearBoy@reddit

Then why every single case against him has been dropped, or won on appeal? Why is it that Trump's agenda betters the US instead of just continue destroying it like biden did? Didn't biden have alphabet people/pretend women flashing fake boobs in the lawn of the White House while you call his presidency "common sense"? Seethe harder, communist.
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Magicruiser@reddit

BETTERS THE US? You sure about that?
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LeapYearBoy@reddit

Trump: Lowest gas prices in 5 years, unemployment lowest in decades, 15 trillion in investments from outside of the US, No tax on overtime, ICE cleaning up and enforcing the LAW. biden: over 11 million illegals (https://homeland.house.gov/2024/10/24/startling-stats-factsheet-fiscal-year-2024-ends-with-nearly-3-million-inadmissible-encounters-10-8-million-total-encounters-since-fy2021/), inflation peaked at a 40-year high of 9.1% in June 2022. (https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/consumer-prices-up-9-1-percent-over-the-year-ended-june-2022-largest-increase-in-40-years.htm) And that is just naming a few. biden was a disaster and made America worst. End of story.
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Magicruiser@reddit

ICE easily is one of the most controversial , Trump has easily not only had some of the worst campaign promises to run on, especially the Epstein files, which he quite literally ran on, only to back out of it. Also, I’m not sure why gas prices are considered, mainly because the global economy was in a pandemic, making ALL prices higher. Some of which are still at extreme highs, which Trump promised also to make at all time lows. Again inflation peaking near PANDEMIC TIMES is expected, which fell drastically after that time period. Also where are you getting these facts that Trump had the lowest unemployment? According to Econfact, as well as the US department of commerce stating that the period during 21-24, had the highest record of unemployment, as well as the highest streak of sub 4% unemployment in recent memory since the 60s. Investopedia records a 3.5% unemployment rate, even lower than the “Goldilocks” economy listed under Trump, which was 3.6%, and mainly a factor from the legislation of the previous administration. The US Bureau of Labor statistics list unemployment at 4.1% currently, which is higher than what Biden left office with. The stock market was the worst since Nixon when Trump took office. And he campaigned on ending the wars, which he has still FAILED. Honestly, did you at least bother to fact check your claims other than the last two? You’re just flat out wrong.
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LeapYearBoy@reddit

> ICE easily is one of the most controversial , Trump has easily not only had some of the worst campaign promises to run on, especially the Epstein files, which he quite literally ran on, only to back out of it. Still the majority voted for him to do just that. You are just the loud minority. Also the Supreme Court just keep giving Trump a win after win because? Trump is following the LAW AS IT IS WRITTEN. Cope harder, communist. > Also, I’m not sure why gas prices are considered, mainly because the global economy was in a pandemic, making ALL prices higher. Some of which are still at extreme highs, which Trump promised also to make at all time lows. Trump was president when the pandemic started, did your brain forgot that? 5 years ago was DURING Trump's first term and the gas was the lowest I've seen in YEARS. **(Yet another point you fail on, spectacularly).** > Again inflation peaking near PANDEMIC TIMES is expected, which fell drastically after that time period. Check response above. Trump was President during the start of the pandemic AND inflation didn't run rampant like with your Manchurian, comatose leader biden. > Also where are you getting these facts that Trump had the lowest unemployment? According to Econfact, as well as the US department of commerce stating that the period during 21-24, had the highest record of unemployment, as well as the highest streak of sub 4% unemployment in recent memory since the 60s. https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/june-boom-jobs-report-shows-the-economy-continues-to-soar-under-president-trump/ suck on this fact. Also biden: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm **biden manufactured 800,000 jobs from thin air not to look incompetent. Third rectal destruction to you, bucko** > Investopedia records a 3.5% unemployment rate, even lower than the “Goldilocks” economy listed under Trump, which was 3.6%, and mainly a factor from the legislation of the previous administration. You still mad Trump won and the Country is going in the right direction. > The US Bureau of Labor statistics list unemployment at 4.1% currently, which is higher than what Biden left office with. https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-unemployment-rate.htm percentage of a point. It's not the flex you think it is... > The stock market was the worst since Nixon when Trump took office. **Because he inherited it from biden. Hence "when Trump took office". And since Trump took office, where is the stock market now? Fourth down, zero yards for you** > And he campaigned on ending the wars, which he has still FAILED. How many service members dies under Trump? Zero. Under biden? https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/getting-answers-on-afghanistan-withdrawal/ biden destroyed our credibility overseas, making easy pickings for our enemies. Also the open border brought Chinese, Russian, Talibans, etc. Your defacto socialist warn body destroyed the Country. > Honestly, did you at least bother to fact check your claims other than the last two? You’re just flat out wrong. It looks like the bundle of sticks that forgot to check is you. **TL;DR Cope harder, communist**
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Magicruiser@reddit

Unemployment literally soared at the end of his term due to the pandemic ON YOUR OWN SOURCES, and GAS WAS QUITE LITERALLY SOARING DURING THE TUME BEFORE HIS TERM. Inflation also started to take a sharp rise during the end of his term. The inflation is not gonna be at its peak since the pandemic if you are hopefully aware, was nowhere NEAR over. Whining about a sitting president creating jobs, which is quite literally what happens yes. And again unemployment is higher than Biden’s term post pandemic. Also, the stock market situation was nowhere near as volatile. The stock market falling drastically was quite literally due to his announcement of tariffs. Cant exactly inherit something mainly caused by your policies. The debacle happened months after he became president, not sure how that’s Biden’s fault but alright. One thing you miraculously got right was that Biden had a bad withdrawal and wasn’t the best at it. In the same vein, I’ve never seen Biden threaten to withdraw money away from Ukraine because of not getting what he wanted. What about the Epstein List? He campaigned off that, and covered it up like the rest. You trust a man that can’t keep his promises or a straight coherent narrative. Hell, he can’t go a few meetings without falling asleep on the job. In that regard, Trump and Biden might be the same.
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LeapYearBoy@reddit

tl;dr. Go touch grass socialist. You posted not a single source from your marxist rant. This is exactly why Trump won. Being loud and obnoxious got you exactly what you deserved.
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DEEP_SEA_MAX@reddit

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LeapYearBoy@reddit

ayyyy lmao You mad.
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DEEP_SEA_MAX@reddit

You dumb
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LeapYearBoy@reddit

You didn't refute the communist comment. Instead, you took it on the chin like a good communist bottom.
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DEEP_SEA_MAX@reddit

You support pedophiles. I don't really give a shit what you think.
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gandhi_theft@reddit

Seems a bit inaccurate
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aoskunk@reddit

I occasionally meet older people with a bad leg from polio. But they’ll pass and people will deny polio ever existed.
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ThirdHoleHank92@reddit

50% of all FDA approved medications are taken off the market post approval due to dangers associated with use.  Is not okay to say that vaccines have benefitted humanity greatly however there may be some harmful ones out there that require re-examining as they came from a time when investigation into big pharmaceutical companies wasn't common? Companies that are are the most corrupt and most fined sections of business.
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Iron-Fist@reddit

>50% taken off the market due to dangers What you mean we keep studying things and changing our actions based on new data and circumstances? Cray >Why are vaccines a sacred cow I mean they aren't. They're the most studied medicine on earth with both the products and the regimens undergoing constant examination and change... For instance, the HPV vaccine (prevents 90% of cervical cancer) used to be only for young female children but was found to be safe and effective so it was expanded to older populations of both sexes (for boys and men it prevents symptoms and reservoir). Or look at the Tb vaccine; my parents and grandparents got the vaccine but neither me or my children did due to Tb being effectively contained in my country. Same for polio. And we were soooo close to measles... Or small pox, where vaccination actually eradicated the disease (which had stalked humanity for at least 5000 years, with evidence being found in Egyptian mummies); my grandparents got the vaccine, my dad got it but my mom didn't due to their area growing up, and neither me nor my kids got it.
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ThirdHoleHank92@reddit

My point is you go through a rigorous approval process for putting a medication out that is then deemed "safe" and then retracted as unsafe later. It's good that they pull it and try to make better, I'm not criticizing that, I'm simply stating treatments approved to be safe sometimes aren't and we should be looking at vaccines the same way. Pull the bad ones and change actions based on new data like you stated!
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Iron-Fist@reddit

The data at the time, and still currently years later, was that these vaccines were safe and effective at preventing severe symptoms, hospitalizations, and deaths. This enabled the economy to open back up, which also saved lives. In medicine like anything else nothing is guaranteed but you have to take the data you have and take action based on that.
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ThirdHoleHank92@reddit

Yes, I'm sure thats still the narrative the large pharmaceutical companies and the media conglomerates or politicians they pay to keep that falsity going continue to say
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Iron-Fist@reddit

My dude... Look all of this is publicly available and has been reinforced over and over with research from around the globe. Your position isnt based on evidence, it's based on conspiratorial fantasy.
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ThirdHoleHank92@reddit

Reinforced by pharmaceutical shills and corrupt news organizations. Sorry if you believe the common narrative you've been manipulated 
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Iron-Fist@reddit

Ok so you're just going on gut feeling then lol
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yellowpacman@reddit

Because vaccines aren't even remotely similar to conventional medications. If you weren't so regarded and knew the slightest bit about biochemistry, you wouldn't be spewing your ignorant shit. Also good job pulling that 50% number completely out of your ass (hint, the number of meds taken off market for safety reasons isnt even remotely close to that)
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ThirdHoleHank92@reddit

You're right , I misheard the statistic, it's actually closer to 1/3 or 32%, which is still way higher than it should be. Vaccines are tested for safety in humans like medications. No duh they aren't the same buy still need testing for safety.
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Anti-social_Hermit@reddit

Most vaccines are good, but there happens to be a recent one that not only does nothing, but most likely causes harm.
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shinra10sei@reddit

Genuine question; what pieces of evidence make you feel convinced that the recent vaccines are likely harmful? I'm curious to read what's set your mind on this idea, not trying to argue or dissuade you on your stance 
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ThirdHoleHank92@reddit

Because there was 8 months of development and testing prior to release when most vaccines get 5-10 years of testing to prove safety and efficacy. The fastest vaccine release prior to covid was the measles vaccine which was 4 years, and that was in the middle of an epidemic too. There are serious issues with myocarditas that were suppressed and even lied about, which goes against a patient's right to informed consent. There was also lots that had graphene in them which lead to blood clots in healthy individuals.  All for a vaccine that didn't prevent you from getting covid. Didn't prevent you from transmitting it (there's evidence to assume made transmission worse) and didn't even lessen the effects of covid.
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shinra10sei@reddit

Would you mind linking/suggesting some sources? I'm impressed by how quickly tanks were built in WW2 by various nations but wouldn't instantly trust an argument that one was built too fast to be safe without hearing from people with more experience in manufacturing tanks/combat vehicles or from historians who've analysed the safety statistics compared to prior tanks that were developed over longer periods of time
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ThirdHoleHank92@reddit

The vast majority of the time it takes to develop a medication is safety testing over long periods of time to study possible long term effects. Normally this is a 5-10 years process.  While tanks are rapidly built during times of war, tanks rapidly build won't just spontaneously kill you or give you cancer 10 years later. Less than 8 months was not enough time to determine long term effects of something injected into your body and all the possible reactions it could have.
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shinra10sei@reddit

Again, I'm not trying to call you a liar or idiot, I just don't think either of us is an expert on this matter and would appreciate you pointing me to the people that you trust to know more about these things so I can hear them explain it
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ThirdHoleHank92@reddit

Look up Dr. Peter McCullough l. The most published cardiologist in his field and Dr. Robert Malone the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology.  They are where I got most of my information from
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shinra10sei@reddit

Thanks, I'll look them up
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qwertyalguien@reddit

>All for a vaccine that didn't prevent you from getting covid. Didn't prevent you from transmitting it (there's evidence to assume made transmission worse) and didn't even lessen the effects of covid Don't fucking lie. I was actually on my internship during that time and it was night and day regarding COVID. The respiratory ward turned from a WW1 field hospital scenario to moderate flu season in a matter of weeks. >Because there was 8 months of development and testing prior to release when most vaccines get 5-10 years of testing to prove safety and efficacy Risk vs benefit. The benefits from stopping COVID far surpassed the potential risks. Life returned to normalcy quite soon after widespread adoption.
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ThirdHoleHank92@reddit

That's because  everyone eventually got COVID and developed a natural immunity which studies show to be far more effective than the vaccine. You have survivor bias here. The risk didn't outweigh the benefit. Covid had a .3% mortality rate, and if you believe the statistic that 85% of people never knew they had it, that mortality rate drops significantly 
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qwertyalguien@reddit

>That's because  everyone eventually got COVID and developed a natural immunity which studies show to be far more effective than the vaccine. You have survivor bias here Yeah, I'm just gonna believe in conjecture instead of the evidence that showed the vaccine working. >The risk didn't outweigh the benefit. Covid had a .3% mortality rate, and if you believe the statistic that 85% of people never knew they had it, that mortality rate drops significantly FFS not this shit again. My man, that .3 becomes HUGE when you consider how contagious it was. Whenever people say it's "just a worse flu" i can tell they have zero clue about how fucking awful flu season is and how hospitals are often on the verge during that time. That "slightly worse" is enough to surpass the healthcare system and start detonating unrelated preventable deaths (people who didn't die due to COVID, but who died due to the degraded quality due to the healthcare system collapsing). High mortality pathogens are actually a blessing because they self contain, like ebola. But high contagion with slightly worse mortality than the flu are the ones that absolutely fuck up things because .3 of a million is still 3000, with a fuckton more that don't die but stay in the hospital for prolonged times using up all the beds.
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Iron-Fist@reddit

Right? Like people don't remember the refrigerator truck morgues across the country? The hospitals setting up tents all over the parking lot?
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The_Third_Molar@reddit

Liberal propaganda!
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

Hm I do wonder what could have possibly caused them to develop the covid vaccine in 8 months. Definitely couldn’t’ve been the fact that it was the biggest global pandemic in a century. The point of the covid vaccine is not to prevent you from getting it, it’s to prevent you from getting it badly enough to hospitalise or kill you. They’re pretty similar to flu shots in that regard (at this point covid is kind of just the flu but a bit worse tbh)
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ThirdHoleHank92@reddit

8 month development wasn't the issue, the 5-10 years safety testing boiled down to less than 8 months is the issue. As a result were seeing a lot of long term effects that are possibly due to vaccine related injuries.
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Hunriette@reddit

The mass harm will come any day now guys, and day now
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stridernfs@reddit

Which cannot be criticized ever, no matter how many infants die from SIDS, or how many children develop autism and pancreatic cancer.
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BarrelStrawberry@reddit

[Compare the child 1995 vaccine schedule to 2025.](https://i.imgur.com/DzZFxsv.png) and ask if children are healthier. So yes, vaccines are a solution that became a tradition. But vaccines say the problem are measles and HPV. The problem is actually health. [Epilepsy, gender dysphoria, autism, asthma, obesity, myocarditis, estrogen levels, depression, diabetes, anxiety](https://i.imgur.com/3gbfywH.png) are all skyrocketing. Guess we just need vaccines for those too.
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farinasa@reddit

You're saying viral infections aren't "health"? All these things are part of the same field. The things you're blaming are often a result of lifestyle choices and capitalism.
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BarrelStrawberry@reddit

I'm saying we aren't healthier despite taking dozens of vaccines as an infant.
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farinasa@reddit

We are healthier because of vaccines. Vaccines don't make people healthier in a general sense. They prevent viral infections and some viruses have literally been eliminated from humanity. You're just making a false equivalence between an overall health score and vaccines. Why?
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derp0815@reddit

Nah, vaccines are constantly changing, research is going on, old vaccines are being questioned as new knowledge is created. Vaccines aren't a tradition.
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xternal7@reddit

I'm gonna skip the low-hanging vaccine/autism joke, but vaccines fit the above story to a T if you don't get hung up on the word tradition. * we had a problem * vaccines solved the problem * we kept vaccinating kids even though the problem was solved (you could say this is _sorta_ tradition) * people forgot about the diseases vaccines prevented, and some people started to refuse to vaccinate themselves (or their kids) *measels started to have a bit of a comeback lately
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failedsatan@reddit

I don't even think it's sorta tradition, I think it is exactly tradition. that's the entire point of that caliber of laws (take care of yourself for everyone's health, government sponsored and required for school and shit). nobody would do it if the law (tradition) wasn't there, we just do it because we already were doing it (in our current state)
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isuxirl@reddit

That's not true. Talk to boomers about polio and vaccines circa the mid-50s. People were clamoring for vaccines when they understood what these otherwise preventable diseases would do to you and your children.
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failedsatan@reddit

because we hadn't had enough time to forget. you touched on exactly the problem- "they understood what these otherwise preventable diseases would do". I don't think you could ask a millennial about polio and get a fear response, but I'm sure a boomer could give you one.
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isuxirl@reddit

I get you.
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curious_Jo@reddit

Polio got almost eradicated, it's coming back with a few cases in the US. So we even still vaccinate for smallpox?
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derp0815@reddit

> sorta That's precisely what it's not. This shitty ass post is about Chesterton's Fence. It describes tradition as doing what has solved a problem after forgetting what the problem was in the first place, then changing what is being done without understanding why it came to be done. This is only bad if the problem persists and now the solution is gone. Now there are still plenty of illnesses against which vaccines are being used. They're not obscure forefather's knowledge, they're just in different parts of the world now. A world wildly interconnected. And there are still plenty of new illnesses against which vaccines get developed, so they very concept of vaccination isn't obscure, yet done out of tradition. This is how science works, you build on established knowledge, sometimes question it, sometimes extend it. Literally absolutely not "literally vaccines". Without establishing whether there was a tradition to begin with, it doesn't apply. Why are vaccination rates down? Is it that people have forgotten why vaccines exist, is it because funding is down and they would if they could?
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Eretnek@reddit

Rates are lower now because of misinformation pushed by the largest and alternative media networks, so the funding is there just in the opposite direction
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Omegastar19@reddit

Irrelevant, old vaccines are vaccines, new vaccines are vaccines. Your distinction is arbitrary.
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jathhilt@reddit

Vaccines, space travel, dinosaurs, evolution, flat earth... I wonder which political movement distrusts these things more... ah. Yes, Progressives!
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vmpafq@reddit

It's also progressives who are quick to abandon tradition
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jathhilt@reddit

Abandoning traditions isn't necessarily a bad thing. Slavery and beating your wife were "traditions" The issue that this post is talking about is abandoning tried and true positions that have justifications for their efficacy because people are too stupid or lazy to understand why they are a thing. Are there a couple of progressive positions you could maybe point to? Perhaps, yeah. But the vast majority of the anti science and anti institutional rhetoric is coming from MAGA, and it's not particularly close.
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vmpafq@reddit

Leftists are the ones lying about science to fit their worldview. You're just used to ignoring it. Being gay was medically classified as a mental illness until the 80s when leftists decided to accept gays and just lie about the science. It's leftists who lie about the differences between men and women. It is leftists who push for lower standards so women can be cops and firefighters. It's leftists who don't allow the publications of research on blacks showing they are inherently more violent and low iq. It is leftists who try to censor crime statistics about muslim immigrants. The whole leftist machine is anti-science and anti-logic. You'd rather force a desired "progressive" worldview where everyone is equal than be scientific about the real one.
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Nevek_Green@reddit

Any examination of data on disease decline shows improvements in medications alongside cleaner environments, which have brought disease frequency and lethality down. Vaccine introduction has had no or virtually no impact on the decline of any disease other than Rabies. In truth, most diseases you are vaccinated against are no longer lethal in the modern age, thanks to newer medications.
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rgtong@reddit

Polio? Mumps? Measles? Rubella? Theres been loads of diseases that have become rare due to herd immunity. You think that the recent return of measles coinciding with the surge in antivax sentiment is a coincidence? >Any examination of data on disease decline shows improvements in medications alongside cleaner environment Lol this statement is so full of shit. I bet you you cant link even a single research article about this.
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Nevek_Green@reddit

It is astonishing how many people don't know what Penicillin is.
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DeadlyPear@reddit

/>guy lists a bunch of viruses /b-but what about this antibiotic!! you cant be serious
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Nevek_Green@reddit

Polio was treated with Penicillin. Penicillin's fame came from endint Polio.
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The_Third_Molar@reddit

what
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Hunriette@reddit

>Penicillin Genuinely how did you get to this point
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Tz33ntch@reddit

Yeah penicillin really helped with viral diseases holy kek lmao what an utter retard
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rgtong@reddit

How about not changing the subject. You claim that there is no evidence of reduction in diseases such as smallpox or polio after the introduction of the vaccines. This is bullshit.
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bunker_man@reddit

Grok, is this true?
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real_Grok@reddit

antivaxxer spotted opinion discraded
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snizarsnarfsnarf@reddit

Guts I get we like to LARP as literal retards around here, but there has to be a limit, right?....
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

mfw smallpox just disappeared on its own
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BudgetThat2096@reddit

6/10 decent attempt, you'll definitely get a few bites
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Johnkovan_Jones@reddit

Nice examination. However the nurses give me lolipop everytime I take a shot.
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MikeyGamesRex@reddit

Literally the only decent comment here.
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Iron-Fist@reddit

I was expecting at least one person to mention that conditions, challenges, and available tools change over time, necessitating change in traditions... But nope lol
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Nasapigs@reddit

>This is the only comment that affirms my worldview
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LeapYearBoy@reddit

Im surprised the bundle of sticks mods didn't permabanned the user and deleted the comment.
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Ciderglove@reddit

'Vaccines' are not a monolith.
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notapencil@reddit

OP BTFO in 2 words lmao
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ApXv@reddit

Just don't rush those fuckers and then force it upon us
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Johnkovan_Jones@reddit

I agree with your right to not take a vaccine you do not feel safe.
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ApXv@reddit

I've taken a bunch of vaccines. Why would I be unsafe if I haven't taken one for an illness that has spread like a wildfire.
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Johnkovan_Jones@reddit

I meant " the vaccine that you do not feel safe to take"
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AegisT_@reddit

The worst thing that came out of covid Vax conspiracy was it giving more people to the belief that vaccines cause autism, these people are so fucking dumb
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DillohWavern@reddit

I don't care if drinking the vaccine juice is against tradition, you can't stop me.
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Siriann@reddit

What problem anon?
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GrImPiL_Sama@reddit

Give women voting rights
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Nevek_Green@reddit

Historically, no nation has survived doing so. If not for deficit spending, no nation on Earth today that does so would be in any other stage other than collapse or failed state.
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

Idk man my nation’s doing pretty well rn
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Nevek_Green@reddit

America is about to default on its debt. Hardly doing well.
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

I’m not American
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Nevek_Green@reddit

America is not unique in begin near bankrupt. Europe is toast as well. It is a miracle of some dark god that China hasn't completely imploded yet. There are few nations that will survive the coming collapse, not many.
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

I’m not European either. My country is in a lot less debt than America and we’ve had budget surpluses these past two years.
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Vospader998@reddit

Australia?
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

Correct.
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Nevek_Green@reddit

Rising inflation, stagnant growth, debt, reliance on nations about to collapse, wages not keeping up with inflation.
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

Inflation is the lowest it’s been since 2020, real wage growth is at 1%. As a proportion of gdp, we have a third of the debt America has, and we’ve actually been paying some of it off in recent years. Try again.
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Nevek_Green@reddit

Two things 1) Actual inflation is not low; it remains high. Inflation statistics often overlook food and other essential items that are subject to price increases, creating the impression that fiscal policy is effective when it is not. 2) When they say lowest it's been, they mean you're still losing value on your dollar, just slower than other times. Is that wage growth across the entire economy, or is it once again for the top earners?
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

The optimal inflation range set out by the reserve bank is 2-3%, and inflation is currently at 2.4%. The overall wage growth was 3.4%, with a specific growth of 3.8% for workers covered by union agreements, and the minimum wage was increased by 3.7% at the start of the last fiscal year (it’s just been increased by 3.8% again). Based off that I’d say wage growth this year probably favoured lower income workers, not the ones at the top. Fiscal policy in the past few years in this country has been primarily focused on benefitting those at the bottom and in the middle (tax changes also have done this).
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Nevek_Green@reddit

Optimal? B\*\*\*\* I don't want to have wealth taken from me through inflation. There is no optimal inflation. Inflation, as calculated in the 90s, which is weak compared to how it was calculated in the 70s, had inflation over 6% in 2023. It's not as low as you think because inflation doesn't count energy or food. In the 70s both of these were counted.
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

I’m not an economist so I can’t properly explain to you why a small amount of inflation is considered optimal. However, a quick google search says that it: - encourages investment - avoids deflation - allows for flexibility in government monetary policy during recessions The inflation measure that is used in Australia includes both food and energy prices, and has been in use since 1960 (with a few changes since then).
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Nevek_Green@reddit

Inflation does not encourage investment, the government causes recessions and then makes them worse with thay "flexibility", and deflation after periods of inflation is a good thing. A deflationary spiral is dangerous as a macro economic trend. What you are trying to say is liquidity. When there is not enough cash in the market, investment and spending can grind to a halt. This causes economic issues. It is solved by printing more money and this results in minor inflation. There are other methods to free up capital that do not cause inflation. Inflation is a tax on the poor.
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

Idk man, I don’t think governments are responsible for every recession. Maybe that’s true with your government, but it was almost solely because of the government’s financial management that we dodged a recession during the gfc down here. As I said, I’m not an economist. Are you?
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Nevek_Green@reddit

The people who manage the economy are always responsible for it. I've studied economics, yes.
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

Were the governments in nearly every western nation responsible for their recessions during the gfc?
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Nevek_Green@reddit

Yes! They caused it through deregulating the banks and not doing their regulatory oversight. Then they bailed out the banks and not the people while allowing the banks to continue doing the same shenanigans. Look into unrealized losses and the upcoming banking crisis that will kick off in the next couple years. Get ready for round two of the GFC.
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born_2_be_a_bachelor@reddit

That’s because you’re funded by american debt. When we go, you’ll be even worse off than us
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pixeliner@reddit

sanest american
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

How so? I haven’t heard of my country being funded by American debt before.
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death_is_acquittance@reddit

![gif](giphy|qNim5n3m3uU9QzAWO4|downsized)
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

Mfs have been saying China is on the verge of collapse for as long as I can remember. I’ll believe it when I see it.
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Babki123@reddit

Can you give me the list of nation that gave women's right and failed as well as the list of nation that did not and failed?
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MooseOC@reddit

Palestine
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Babki123@reddit

While there is no doubt to your mental deficiency I do wonder what you tried to mean by this.
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MooseOC@reddit

Yeah me neither
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rcgarcia@reddit

You came to the putrid heart of the internet for answers. What u expect.
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Babki123@reddit

Even the most deranged individual works within his own logic. I do not show surprise, but I am curious 
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AdNorth3796@reddit

You realise some nations are in surplus right? 
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Nevek_Green@reddit

And you realize that surplus is based on trade with nations that are not doing well, right?
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AdNorth3796@reddit

You seem to have confused trade surplus with fiscal surplus lmao
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Nevek_Green@reddit

Name the ultra-isolationist nation you are referring to. I am not aware of any ultra-isolationist nations.
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Starbonius@reddit

This just in, every single person who breathed air has and will die.
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a-dino123@reddit

This cannot possibly not be bait
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Dragon-Porn-Expert@reddit

Everyone who died drank water.
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Robocop71@reddit

There is a clear reason the founding fathers refused them the right to vote, yet people just forgot why after a couple years and gave them the right to vote again. modern society then went down the toilet
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Oppopity@reddit

Same reason they only gave the vote to those who owned lots of land. They wanted to keep themselves in power.
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Eduardobobys@reddit

If this is the end result of them not being in power, maybe that was the best scenario.
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Oppopity@reddit

What's the end result of letting everyone vote?
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Eduardobobys@reddit

It results in the lowest common denominator(AKA the dumbest lot) being the deciding factor of the direction of a country. Just convince your average dumbass and you are golden, and that is all that they work for, hence the liberal dominance we have seen around the world. The only reason someone like Trump managed to become president again was an incredible level of incompetence by the left which managed to underestimate the intelligence of it's people.
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Oppopity@reddit

Can you give an example of something the majority of people voted for that wouldn't have happened if we didn't let everyone vote?
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Eduardobobys@reddit

I can give you several examples from my own country (unfortunately):the government promised an increase in welfare to the poor(unemployed, which is a massive part of the country) by each extra child, and a new one for high school students until they are formed. Needless to say, the country has no means to match those extra costs, and the economy is taking a massive hit already. Their answer to the lowered popularity? creating a new assistance to get "free" energy to the same people who already hold the most voting power. The reality is that this modern "democracy" only serves to hold the best people hostage to the whims of the least productive.
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Oppopity@reddit

Why can't they afford it?
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Eduardobobys@reddit

Because the government doesn't think of the future and let's inflation run loose due to it's unbridled populism, which ruins everyone's earning power, forcing the lower class into a position where they have to depend on it to survive, therefore securing their votes.
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Oppopity@reddit

Are there really many countries with inflation problems soley due to their spending? It wasn't that long ago people in my country complaining about the government having caused inflation like world events like covid and the russian ukraine war hadn't caused inflation world wide.
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Eduardobobys@reddit

Sure, Covid definitely didn't help anyone, but chalking it all up to extraordinary events like that is just an attempt at hiding the terrible management of the government. Just look at the USA, for example:The most powerful country in the world , arguably the most organized of them all considering it's size, had also been wasting millions of tax payer money on absolutely useless "projects".
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Oppopity@reddit

What useless projects did the US population vote for?
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Eduardobobys@reddit

I'm not sure what you think this is. You are not some majesty that i have to convince, just an everyday thick headed redditor. If you want complex answers, then you better bring a real argument, not some lazy ass one line question.
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Oppopity@reddit

Wow seems like I got you riled up. Maybe you just don't have any examples. That's okay.
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Eduardobobys@reddit

Again, come up with lazy responses, you will get nothing from me. You can keep believing your stupid ideologies forever for all i care.
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AfricanChild52586@reddit

Maybe because people with a stake in the country's future won't vote for it's destruction Same reason why only people with kids or people who served should be allowed to vote.
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VertigoFall@reddit

lmao how naive
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ShotgunCreeper@reddit

Join the mobile infantry today!
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Eduardobobys@reddit

> Same reason why only people with kids or people who served should be allowed to vote. Add some intellectual test to erase the apes that reproduce like crazy and watch any country become at least 50% better overall in 10 years.
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maxwellsearcy@reddit

As long as I get to make and grade the test so that I can fail you, sure!
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here4astolfo@reddit

idiocracy wasn't that deep bro and you didn't even get the point.
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

Idk man I think whether or not your country collapses is gonna affect you regardless of whether you’ve served or have children. I do agree that people over a certain age shouldn’t vote though
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Oppopity@reddit

The problem is they decide that only they can have a stake in the country. If you're a black woman who's interested in the country? Tough shit should've been born a rich white land owner.
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themaniac2@reddit

As soon as you let everyone vote the bottom 90% start voting to take the top 10%'s stuff. Every democracy tends towards socialism and it's bad for everyone long term. If only the top 10% have the vote then they vote for protectionism which keeps themselves in the top 10% and it's bad for everyone long term. Can't win.
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maxwellsearcy@reddit

It's almost like voting is meaningless and direct democracy leads to socialism, which leads to communism, which abolishes all class and hierarchy, which would be worse for the 10% who have a state-endorsed monopoly on violence to prevent any of that from happening. 🤔
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xinorez1@reddit

Maybe the top 10 percent should stop cutting wages and services while charging ever higher rent, all in the name of ever higher profits which will simply be reinvested to grow ever higher profits. Somehow when looking at theft, no one ever looks at wage theft of the theft of working people's leisure time.
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Oppopity@reddit

Why have voting at all. Wouldn't it be easier to just have a king in charge making all the decisions for the peasants?
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Skafandra206@reddit

Countries are like fandoms, they are only enjoyable when they are new, growing and of a relatively small size.
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Specialist_Okra2231@reddit

There is also a reason why the founding fathers were masons but you seethe everyday about "waaa muh jews control ze world waaaaa"
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DEEP_SEA_MAX@reddit

>If chicks can vote, then they'll never date fat slovenly unemployed gamers like me --James Madison, F,ederalist No. 10, 1787
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BarrelStrawberry@reddit

[Life before the 19th amendment.](https://i.imgur.com/Z8pXATw.jpeg) [Life after the 19th amendment.](https://i.imgur.com/WsN6vi7.png)
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AaronRodgersMustache@reddit

You’re right, freedom of liberty and pursuit of happiness is overrated
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vmpafq@reddit

Is that why America is the happiest it's ever been right now?
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AaronRodgersMustache@reddit

Why would people be happy their freedoms are being restricted?
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vmpafq@reddit

They were happy before the 19th amendment
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AaronRodgersMustache@reddit

Oh yeah? Did they tell you that?
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monkstery@reddit

Women get the right to vote Within a century their primary issue becomes “how can I kill my own children”
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miraclewhipbelmont@reddit

what's the deal with rights anyway have you ever seen one in person
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ThirdHoleHank92@reddit

Feminism 
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OctopusFarmer47@reddit

His unyielding attraction to femboys. His ilk used to get bashed but no longer so they have flourished once more.
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EvaUnit_03@reddit

To be fair, it used to be traditional to sleep with and make femboys.
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Sabrac707@reddit

Emperor Hadrian would approve this message.
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OctopusFarmer47@reddit

Alas, the cycle repeats itself
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CeliacPhiliac@reddit

Segregation
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deleted_by_reddit@reddit

[removed]
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king_of_the_potato_p@reddit

I mean, Lilith and Adam read like modern feminism problems we have today. The more you read history the more you will realize weve been doing the same shit over and over. As each civilization cycle has collapsed the next ones religion/philosophy creates rules that are put in place to prevent what caused the previous fall. Time passes, people forget the why, old problems are brought back and rinse repeat.
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Disastrous_Step537@reddit

did....did you just start a sentence with "Lilith and Adam" as a beginning to your argument about reading and understanding history? jesus christ anon
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king_of_the_potato_p@reddit

Yeah, fictional or not their stories repeat today, same things. If you are unaware it is not uncommon to write fictional stories to teach lessons about real life issues. You may also be unaware how historically relevant many works of fiction there are.
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N64link@reddit

Ugly Reddit polygamists act like monogamy and family units are "outdated traditions they've ascended past", yet they are rife with mental illnesses and STDs 🤔
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Eretnek@reddit

Ask your mother whether she would carry an std or you to term if she could choose again.
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A__Whisper@reddit

Lmao he really struck a nerve with you, huh?
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vmpafq@reddit

Don't project your own mom's disgust for you on others.
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N64link@reddit

Looked at your profile and you're a Destiny fan, no wonder you're a proud cuck lmao
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MegaManZer0@reddit

Is it tradition to protect pedophiles? Is that what the traditional political party is saying?
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Robocop71@reddit

Most of the most powerful politicians are pedos, so if you recently voted for any president, either dem or rep, you helped vote in a pedo for office. Guess you guys don't care what the dude did to children, as you long as you get your tax cut or whatever
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

There’s a substantial difference between “politician who there is actual decent evidence in favour of them being a pedo” and “politician whose only evidence supporting the idea of them being a pedo is the fact that they’re a politician”
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Robocop71@reddit

Guess you want to rationalize away why you voted for the pedo. Whatever gets you asleep bro
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

I didn’t vote for any pedo since I’m not American
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Robocop71@reddit

Sorry to break it to you, but your president goes to the same parties as the American president, it is what they all after they meet for economic shit or whatever
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Sudden_Let9141@reddit

Are you to stupid to see that this isnt an issue of parties? We all agree that it is wrong. No matter the party, stop spreading hate.
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

Don’t have a president in my country I’m afraid. My prime minister hasn’t yet met with trump
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shinra10sei@reddit

The progressives want to out ALL pedos, right wing or left.  Only the right seems intent to protect it's pedos 
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vmpafq@reddit

Only now since they hate Trump so much. All the elites being trafficking kids and was a right wing conspiracy less than 10 years ago according to leftists. Remember Pizzagate?
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shinra10sei@reddit

It was a conspiracy because there was no evidence, not because progressives liked or defended pedos - what absolute crack are you smoking to think that Trump is the point where progressives started disliking pedos??  And Pizzagate? The theory with zero evidence to back it? The crazy idea that some guy's emails had coded messages about child abuse rings and resulted in some lunatic going to a pizzeria with a rifle to look for trafficked kids?? That's the thing you're using to say that right wingers care about stopping pedos?  Next you'll tell me that the flat earth conspiracy is proof that flat earthers care about stopping misinformation in science - grow up man
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vmpafq@reddit

You should have read the emails and decided for yourself instead of regurgitating what you found on wikipedia. I remember looking through them and there was an email where Podestra asked or someone else asked him what they were having for dinner and the reply was just an attachment. The attachment was a picture of a smiling kid. Epstein and the trafficking of white girls by elites is a very old and well known conspiracy among "the right". People even wrote [books](https://www.amazon.com/Filthy-Rich-Billionaires-Scandal-Shocking/dp/1455542644?crid=1N9U9Y8OL8FYH&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wiIhw1pg8VSw2rAt_9jmBA.WUod9kXuefRsOnCX12I_FA6rGDo7Wrrv0qUBQcyHND4&dib_tag=se&keywords=Filthy+Rich%3A+The+Shocking+True+Story+of+Jeffrey+Epstein+%E2%80%93+The+Billionaire%E2%80%99s+Sex+Scandal&qid=1752716038&sprefix=filthy+rich+the+shocking+true+story+of+jeffrey+epstein+the+billionaire+s+sex+scandal%2Caps%2C70&sr=8-1) about it years before he was charged. I knew Epstein was raping girls in 2016. When did you? In 2019 after he was charged? Now it's the left spreading conspiracies like "Epstein didn't kill himself" and "Trump rigged the election". Maybe you guys are finally growing up but I know it's just because Trump made you mad. You never cared about Joe Biden touching kids live on tv.
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shinra10sei@reddit

>regurgitating what you found on wikipedia I'll own up to that, but I only did it because I'm not a loony who thinks RichPedosRunEverything.blog and random websites are a good place to get information on things I know nothing about - I like my info sources to come with citations so I can look up any claims they make >I knew Epstein was raping girls in 2016. When did you? In 2019 after he was charged? I found out that Epstein existed when he became international news, just like every other normal person - I'm not a journalist or anything so why should I have known about this one specific guy before the rest of the world did? There's no prizes for being the first to know something or pretending to be smarter than everyone because you happened to know the info earlier. >Now it's the left spreading conspiracies like "Epstein didn't kill himself" and "Trump rigged the election". Is this conspiratorial left in the room with us now? I don't care if Epstein was given a gulag style execution and it was covered up to look like a suicide or if he actually decided to rope himself because he finally realised what a piece of trash he was, I care that rich and powerful people run every country and we have no way to hold them back because right wing folks keep crying about immigrants or gays instead of focusing on the actually important issues. Trump didn't need to rig the election, whoever won would've been a pedo defender and I want a society where the system isn't built for giving rich elites everything and the rest of us whatever scraps they haven't noticed. Joe Biden should be roasting in a Guantanamo style prison because he's a rich elite that didn't release the files, Obama and every other elected official who've failed to change the system into a better one should too - there's no gotcha here for lefties, only conservative chuds unwilling to discard their politicians (as if sucking them off will help improve things for the average person)
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vmpafq@reddit

If you only know what CNN announces then you're ignorant are you not? >no way to hold them back because right wing folks keep crying about immigrants or gays instead of focusing on the actually important issues. And the left insists on bringing these undesirables along. So who is really slowing things down? The only thing that will fix the corrupt powerful people is directed violence against them. That's the only thing that has ever worked in history The people need to be united for that. But there is too much individualism and a lack of collectivism. People in the cities don't trust the person walking behind them. Too many crazy people let loose out of the asylums by leftists in the 90s. The whole country is addicted to drugs. The country further divided by all the undesirables you want to protect and the politics around them. Go look at the state of their countries and see if they will be of any use taking down corruption. There's a reason their countries are all shit.
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Sudden_Let9141@reddit

Its tradition. Republicans and democrats are doing it for decades now 
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EvaUnit_03@reddit

Yes, actually. Rome loved pedos.
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9k111Killer@reddit

They were, like the ancient Greeks, quite open to this and general homosexuality, that's why they claimed their political opponents were those things 
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NouLaPoussa@reddit

Yes in france aka pedoland the crime for pedophilia rape is slap on the wrist for a reason, we are lucky most people in jail can still use common sense.
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BingBongFyourWife@reddit

It’s tradition to be anti pedophilia what are you saying
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Arrival_Joker@reddit

child marriage would like to have a word with you
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BingBongFyourWife@reddit

Then we should change that one You seem very all or nothing Where’s your nuance brother 🤌
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Arrival_Joker@reddit

Sorry was your comment satire. Autism
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bunker_man@reddit

No its not lol. Pedophilia as a concept is only even a few decades old.
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sln1337@reddit

yes
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superraiden@reddit

Give us an example, anon
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GoblinBreeder@reddit

Police, military, borders, masculinity. All mosernly relevant.
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9k111Killer@reddit

Thanks goblin breeder
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GoblinBreeder@reddit

Yw
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OhFuuuccckkkkk@reddit

This is absolutely hilarious coming from what is most likely a sentient double baked potato festering in his double wide while on a steady diet of government cheese and disability checks. Fuckin parasite.
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AusCro@reddit

Did someone hurt you today?
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9k111Killer@reddit

I don't think anybody cares enough to do it 
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OhFuuuccckkkkk@reddit

Are you feeling personally attacked by my comment?
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SorryWhatsYourName@reddit

Not like he's wrong, though.
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LukeJaywalker0@reddit

\>Hallucinate negative character traits about person I disagree with \>Anyone with these traits can only be wrong \>I am therefore right Redditors out!
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Throwaway18125@reddit

What a useless comment
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OhFuuuccckkkkk@reddit

Awwww what’s wrong?
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vmpafq@reddit

You attack the person not the argument. Average leftist arguing strategy since they can never win the argument.
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OhFuuuccckkkkk@reddit

Average mung-brained response from an 6-chinned Trump supporter that can’t understand subtext or nuance. I won’t spell it out for you because the basic four and five letter words I’ll use will go sailing right over the empty void that is your head. Go back to jerkin your tiny gherkin to loli porn.
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-SKYMEAT-@reddit

Projection
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OhFuuuccckkkkk@reddit

Did I hurt you in your fatty feelings?
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violent_knife_crime@reddit

Humans have problems, Traditions solve the problems, but bring on other problems. Humans have problems
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Eduardobobys@reddit

Just like everything else in life, there are levels to problems as well. Considering the world has been living the "progressive dream" for about 10-15 years by now and been getting progressively worse at an alarming rate, it's safe to say tradition had way less of them.
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violent_knife_crime@reddit

What happens if we replace harmful traditions with helpful traditions? Would you call it progress or going back to tradition?
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Eduardobobys@reddit

Progress, as long as the people deciding what is harmful or not are using actual objectivity, which is sadly the opposite of what has been happening.
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violent_knife_crime@reddit

So your view is that progress is about change for the better, what is happening over the last couple of years shouldnt even count as progress, so we should return to some tradition? Even if you're right, and that returning to some traditional way of life (whatever that means) is better, it still falls under your definition of progress. Progress is kinda hard to define, same with tradition arguing one over the other without context arises from politcal instinct more than actual opinion
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Eduardobobys@reddit

>Even if you're right, and that returning to some traditional way of life (whatever that means) is better, it still falls under your definition of progress. What about it though? The progress of today is the tradition of tomorrow. Traditions are simply a set of rules that were proven benefitial over long periods of time. I disagree with progress being hard to define. Every change leads to an outcome, if over several years the outcome of said change ends up with a worse result to the country, than it objectively cannot be called progress. Plain and simple.
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violent_knife_crime@reddit

I see you dropping some wisdom, but Its not plain and simple, not every change leads to an observable outcome. In cases with outcomes how do we determine cause. Causality is also extremely hard to place, there is no possible logic you can do to change "a then b" to "a causes b". Then theres the problem of judging what is worse, what is better, sveryone has different values. Progress for one is regress for another.
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Eduardobobys@reddit

I think you are making it sound way more difficult than it actually is. We don't need a perfect execution of this idea to reap it's benefits...if that was the only way to do things, we would have no system in place because they are all imperfect. The fact of the matter is that whatever change is worth discussing will always lead to some observable result, and the government has all that data and money at their disposal to figure it out. They just don't do it because they don't see how it benefits them. Turns out it's easier to gain public aproval(the only thing that matters) by funding whatever shiny new stupid idea and pretend you are always in the right than to look back at the tangible effects of your actions and say" yeah, we messed up, but we are going to find a better solution in the future". It's very easy to see what is for the greater good of all, and what is not, that transcends personal value. These are not things one person needs to deem good or not. Again, they haven't been doing it not because it is difficult, but because thinking of the far future doesn't line their pockets.
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violent_knife_crime@reddit

There are very few cut and dry issues, and most are already tradition. Eg, dont fuck with the fed's independence. I also dont buy the line their pockets I can give a couple examples of the top of my head of easy issues being complicated. Gun control is on the easier side, one side thinks people dying is bad, the other side fears tyranny and guns are an insurance. How tough we should be on China is much harder, the more we antagonise, the more they lash out and respond and we get hurt. If we dont do anything, they might continue military drills near taiwan, or might bully their way to claim a contested island in the south china sea. Idk where this conversatiom is going.
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Eduardobobys@reddit

Again you cling to that notion that everything must be perfectly executed or else it's better to not do it. Get this into your head: nothing the government has ever done was perfectly executed. There isn't a single thing that works flawlessly in practical terms, including the law. The only reason you keep grasping for that impossible metric is because you don't like being wrong, but you are. >here are very few cut and dry issues, and most are already tradition. Again, heavily disagree. Half the "issues" we have nowadays were created entirely in the heads of a particular set of people that have absolutely nothing to find fault at in life but still want to play the new age revolutionary.
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violent_knife_crime@reddit

Your misunderstanding what im saying, im not asking for perfect execution, im saying that were making choices based on values. People value different things differently. Like i literally gave out 2 examples. There probably isnt a corrext solution. >Half the "issues" we have nowadays were created entirely in the heads of a particular set of people that have absolutely nothing to find fault at in life but still want to play the new age revolutionary. That is probably the most bad faith thing you can say, ever.
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Eduardobobys@reddit

You don't know were it's going, clearly, because what the hell does China have to do with traditions getting run over? You completely left the scope of the argument.
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balls_deep_space@reddit

i personally find OP’s post worse than WWII so yes
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quantum_explorer08@reddit

> Traditionally women did not vote > Give them capacity to vote > The political objective they care the most is the ability to kill their own babies
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Magicruiser@reddit

Unemployment literally soared at the end of his term due to the pandemic ON YOUR OWN SOURCES, and GAS WAS QUITE LITERALLY SOARING DURING THE TUME BEFORE HIS TERM. Inflation also started to take a sharp rise during the end of his term. The inflation is not gonna be at its peak since the pandemic if you are hopefully aware, was nowhere NEAR over. Whining about a sitting president creating jobs, which is quite literally what happens yes. And again unemployment is higher than Biden’s term post pandemic. Also, the stock market situation was nowhere near as volatile. The stock market falling drastically was quite literally due to his announcement of tariffs. Cant exactly inherit something mainly caused by your policies. The debacle happened months after he became president, not sure how that’s Biden’s fault but alright. One thing you miraculously got right was that Biden had a bad withdrawal and wasn’t the best at it. In the same vein, I’ve never seen Biden threaten to withdraw money away from Ukraine because of not getting what he wanted. What about the Epstein List? He campaigned off that, and covered it up like the rest. You trust a man that can’t keep his promises or a straight coherent narrative. Hell, he can’t go a few meetings without falling asleep on the job. In that regard, Trump and Biden might be the same.
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magicpeanut@reddit

tradition is the most degenerate way to find solutions. its like: "the solution is X"... but why? ... "i dont know, its been like this forever". do you really think anything would have ever been invented this way? we would still be fckin hunters and gatherers.
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Danish__Viking1@reddit

So which problems arise when we ban circumcision?
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Starbonius@reddit

Nobody thinks about other men's dicks as much as a 4chinner
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Danish__Viking1@reddit

True shit. Just wish it would be illegal
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balls_deep_space@reddit

Wash underneath fren
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Sleep-more-dude@reddit

Eh i guess an increase in STIs, that's why the WHO has been pushing circumcision in Africa etc. Not really an issue for developed societies though.
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Bag_of_Meat13@reddit

We got out of the Stone Age....because of progressivism. Middle Ages? Got out of it because of progressivism. If bigots still ran the show we'd still be playing with sticks and stones.
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Plowbeast@reddit

You mean when we progressed from having a dozen kids and losing half of them before they turn 18?
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Lblomeli@reddit

This 4chan klanservative that are mentally handicapped. It's like, you know they are in some busted up wheel chair in some dank room of their mom's trailer hating people and everything they do, they are such experts in life. Guess it's just their disability. They don't know any better?
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2Rome4Carthage@reddit

Very important thing to consider is that things can be corrupted and misused. Just consider technology, theres good and bad use of it, and just because something solved an issue, doesnt mean it cant be used to abuse citizens later down the line. And not just abused, but even overusing a thing can make it bad.
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Pauldb@reddit

God
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IronJackk@reddit

Why so many upvotes but all the top comments are from leftist redditors?
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Starbonius@reddit

Because most rightoid redditors are bots. Kind of like xitter
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noticingmore@reddit

"we're the only smart humans, every idea before 1960 was evil and bad" Nah, we need to return to tradition. That includes fighting the enemies of Christendom.
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BlueHeartBob@reddit

yeh, put da lead back into the gasoline
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Starbonius@reddit

And the paint too While we're at it we need to start using asbestos as a fire retardant material
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xinorez1@reddit

> Matthew 22:36-40: > 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” > 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
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psychoCMYK@reddit

Buddy, you couldn't fight a paper bag. Watching UFC doesn't make you stronger
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bunker_man@reddit

They dont actually watch ufc. They occasionally eat bdubs while ufc is on and then claimed they watch it.
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bunker_man@reddit

People spending all day gooning on the devil box sounds like the first enemy to start with.
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Tz33ntch@reddit

Which Christendom Because the bloodiest war in Europe before ww1 was a catholic-protestant chimpout and if you go before thatit was regularly massacring other varieties of christians and sacking constantinople because crusaders decided walking all the way to moslemlands is too hard
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MentokTehMindTaker@reddit

> in europe
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Tz33ntch@reddit

Yeah, famously Christendom was anywhere else outside of Europe in pre-modern period
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KashiFarts@reddit

Marriage. Studies have shown that the most disadvantageous stat you can be born with isn't skin tone, genitals, LGBTQ status, etc. - it's having a single mom. Look at the struggle of African-Americans to succeed in the US. The left says it's racism, but then why are Kenya and Nigeria in the top 5% of about 130 countries in terms of how well their immigrants do here? Btw the black single motherhood rate is so high because of the democrat's well-intentioned but ultimately harmful policies: 1) welfare state, 2) no-fault divorce. And instead of looking critically at their policies, they just assume it's good because their intentions are good, and that all problems are republican's fault. All heart, no brain.
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Brussel_Rand@reddit

I remember hearing about this plant that Brazilian natives would eat (cassava) which had a very particular cooking process. It got brought to Africa and people began eating it but they would get sick and die. Turns out that process is to remove the cyanide that's present in the plant. People weren't explained that because the people who made the process didn't even know why they were doing it other than that's how you do it. I don't think it's just a progressive thing, although it is a core feature of liberalism to question tradition and find new things while conservatives tend to be slow to new things. You see it when people think they're going to be the one to start a trend cooking chicken rare, sun their assholes, or what have you.
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xinorez1@reddit

Ah yes, slow, like our present decimation of govt services nearly a century old, or giving 5T to a new, masked, unaccountable police force that can imprison people indefinitely without trial. Sloooooooow. The ones drinking raw water are cons, not libs. The anti school woo woo ancestral magic 'hippies' were never firmly in the lib camp.
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Brussel_Rand@reddit

I'm sorry the definition of conservative doesn't conform to how people act in your eyes. You know Republicans didn't make illegal immigration their issue until after the Democrats made it their issue twenty years ago, but they moved on and Republicans kept it going? It's the reason why Republicans don't want to legalize weed. Part of it is the traditional condemnation of it as an evil drug and partly them waiting for studies to come out to prove its safety.
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Starbonius@reddit

Hey, us libbies want sweeping change too! Like universal basic income or free healthcare
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aurath@reddit

> things change > REEEE
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Starbonius@reddit

God damn liberals using their space lasers to melt my 4th tub of ice cream
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Walden_Walkabout@reddit

> Our technology and understanding of the world gets better. > "No, you have to obey this old book! REEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"
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AutumnThePrincess@reddit

You gotta literally have a retard level iq to agree with the implication being made here lol
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casualsactap@reddit

I think you mean conservativism. Definitely a sprint back to the dark ages at least
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keeleon@reddit

https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
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waydamntired@reddit

, bc
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GoblinBreeder@reddit

Vaccines, borders, police and military are the big ones that come to mind. Masculinity, too.
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anomander_galt@reddit

r/iamfourteenandthisissodeep
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MainEnAcier@reddit

Beautiful meme but here people (liberals) are just making reducio at Trumpum, missing and twisting in their views. Tradition were results of experience in society, for example if all previous society were trying to regulate immigration, their were GOOD reasons. If even the old Romans or China made some neighbourhood ONLY for certain community, THEIR were good reason to it... It was to avoid violence and problems because they knew multiculturalism wasn't really fully possible. But here they are all in "gnnuuu Trump". So pathetic. In Belgium, the EuroSoviet once decided that, the farmer land waste to many surfaces for the tractor because of the haies, idk the word in English but basically it's vegetation that delimited farmland. Farmers knew that this vegetation was there not only by tradition, but also because it could fix the dirt on the land when rains come. Guess what happens ? Yeah... An other victory for 'Captain EURSS... OFC not
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xinorez1@reddit

>Both ancient Rome and ancient China had complex and evolving approaches to immigration, but they were not always "stringent" in the way we might understand that term today. Their policies were largely driven by their imperial needs, security concerns, and cultural perceptions. >Ancient Rome, especially during its expansionist phases, was remarkably open to integrating diverse populations, particularly in its earlier periods. > * Foundation Myth and Early Republic: Rome's foundational myth involved it being a "city of asylum," welcoming refugees and exiles. In the early Republic, citizenship could be acquired through various means, including military service or contributions to the state. Laws like the Lex Canuleia (445 BCE) allowed intermarriage between Roman citizens and non-citizens, promoting integration. > * Expansion and Citizenship: As the Roman Republic and later Empire expanded, it often extended forms of citizenship to conquered peoples, sometimes with limited rights (like Latin Rights) that could eventually lead to full Roman citizenship. This was a key strategy for Romanization and maintaining stability in its vast territories. > * Slaves and Freedmen: Slaves, a significant part of Roman society, could gain their freedom (manumission) and become "liberti" (freed people), who enjoyed many legal rights and whose children were born as full citizens. This was a unique pathway to integration for people from diverse backgrounds. > * Later Empire: As the empire faced decline and increased pressures from Germanic tribes, immigration policies did become more stringent. Emperors like Septimius Severus imposed restrictions on movement, particularly along frontiers, to preserve stability. The Gothic invasions, in particular, highlight a period where Rome struggled to control large-scale migration. However, it's important to note that even then, Rome often tried to resettle groups within the empire, albeit disarming them and breaking them into smaller units to prevent threats. > * Edict of Caracalla (212 CE): A major turning point was the Edict of Caracalla, which granted Roman citizenship to virtually all free inhabitants of the empire. This expanded the concept of "Roman" immensely, but by this point, the practical benefits of citizenship were also somewhat diminished compared to the Republic. > In summary, Rome's approach was often pragmatic and adaptive, using citizenship and integration as tools for imperial governance, rather than a blanket "stringent" exclusion. >Ancient China, while also an imperial power, often had a more controlled and at times restrictive approach to population movement, particularly regarding non-Han ethnic groups and settlement in certain regions. > * Internal Migration: Chinese dynasties, including the Han, often employed compulsory migration policies for various purposes, such as populating newly conquered or less inhabited lands, or relocating minority groups. This was a means of territorial control and resource management. > * Border Regions and Ethnic Groups: The Qing dynasty, for instance, famously prohibited Han Chinese from settling in Manchuria (the Manchu homeland) and Outer Mongolia, aiming to preserve Manchu and Mongol ethnic identities and control. Mongols were also forbidden from crossing into the "18 provinces" inhabited by Han people without permission. However, practical needs like famine relief could lead to temporary relaxation of these bans, with Han refugees being allowed into Manchuria and Inner Mongolia. > * Limited External Immigration: Compared to Rome's systematic integration of diverse peoples into its citizenship framework, ancient China generally had less emphasis on large-scale immigration from outside its traditional sphere. Foreigners were often viewed with suspicion or as tribute-bearing entities rather than potential citizens. > * "Barbarian" Policies: Chinese dynasties often dealt with surrounding "barbarian" tribes through a combination of military campaigns, tribute systems, and sometimes limited resettlement within the empire's borders, aiming for pacification and cultural assimilation rather than broad integration into the Han social structure. >In conclusion, while both empires sought to manage their populations and territories, ancient Rome, especially in its earlier and expansionist phases, had a more fluid and inclusive approach to integrating immigrants through citizenship. Ancient China, on the other hand, often implemented more restrictive internal migration policies and generally had a more insular approach to external populations, especially in later dynasties like the Qing, where maintaining distinct ethnic boundaries was a significant concern. I guess you're right on China, somewhat, if you ignore the constant dynastic civil wars
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MainEnAcier@reddit

I wasn't meaning they wanted to be fully agains't immigration (despite both empires built walls). I say - they managed immigration, they didn't let people live where THEY want, which is very different
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shinra10sei@reddit

> If even the old Romans or China made some neighbourhood ONLY for certain community, THEIR were good reason to it... It was to avoid violence and problems because they knew multiculturalism wasn't really fully possible.  The USA is the antithesis of this argument, literally a country of immigrants living on top each other - it has created a new world-spanning culture by taking bits and pieces from so many other nations and people's. Multiculturalism is possible and works, the USA is literally all the proof you need to see that different groups can live together and produce something new and unique. It's frustrating that so many people pretend like we have some inherent "fight other humans" gene that activates when you live near someone of a different ethnic or religious background, but reality is that it's always made for new and more versatile groups. Literally no other nation is as strong or multifaceted as the USA. China, as powerful as it is, will never have the same amount of cultural appeal or impact because of it's insistence on monoculturalism.  (Also I'm not a USA-stan - the country is a nightmare state because it's so  young as a nation and has had too much wealth too fast to have developed into a more normal nation state. It's just an incredibly good example of multiculturalism working if everyone stops being upright pussies about living next to someone that doesn't share a great grandma with them)
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ThirdXavier@reddit

Unbelievable bot activity on this sub.
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NachoNutritious@reddit

I'm seeing people on Twitter schizoposting about how the government is about to dump irradiated flesh eating bugs on the South, fantastic example of this. There used to be a disgusting bug native to North America called the screw worm fly, that would feed on and lay eggs in living flesh. By using sterilized flies we were able to decimate its population and completely irradiate it from Canada, the US, Mexico, and most of Central America back in the 30s. Well, the first swarm of them in ages has made its way from South America is is threatening to make its way back north, so we're pre-emptively flooding the population with flies sterilized with radiation to kill their breeding population before it can start. We used to do this all the time but because it's been nearly 100 years, people have forgotten.
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Responsible-Onion860@reddit

The fact that so many redditors are having a viscerally angry response to this is proof that anon is onto something.
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Sugreev2001@reddit

Back to the Dark Ages. Stone Age would be if the modern people abandoned all technology and traditions of the past 5k years of Human History.
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futainflation@reddit

your bait worked. they are fuming. well done OP
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jjjosiah@reddit

Don't worry guys, luckily we are at the point in history where we're not required to improve anything. So we are allowed to not give a shit. It's fine.
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getacluegoo@reddit

The good old traditions of slavery, oppression, subjugation of workers and women, etc… You know a tradition I miss? 90% tax rate for millionaires. MAGA by going back to the tax rates of when America was “great.”
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AntDracula@reddit

> posts in nighttime hours to USA  > ends up flooded with lukewarm NPC redditor takes about vaccines and Trump Hmm…
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MerliniusDeMidget@reddit

You're expecting redditors to have normal sleep schedules?
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AntDracula@reddit

Hi Chang.
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MerliniusDeMidget@reddit

I'm from Denmark. You're supposed to call me Hinga-Dinga Durgen looking ass or something
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AntDracula@reddit

Ok. Chang.
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KajaIsForeverAlone@reddit

ditch traditionalism and the whole issue is solved
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Mr_Compliant@reddit

How long did Spain have issues with certain groups? Looks like they may repeat that 
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Friendlyvoices@reddit

"Dad. Why do we pray to thr goat god?" "Idk son, but it's been a tradition ever since I was born"
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Philaharmic01@reddit

The issue is how we’re told Old religions “don’t have sex until you’re married because sin” Actual intent: if you have sex multiple times you could get STIs and die Modern times: continue spouting the same nonsense as over two thousand years Intent now: control people, with no care of modern medicine and technology to prevent them
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Superkritisk@reddit

The office had a great episode about this, when that homewrecking bully got to be boss for a time, and he tried combining birthdays.
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dilldoeorg@reddit

Literally Trump >American have a Trump problem >American vote in Biden >Biden becomes solution >American now say we don't have a Trump problem, Let's go Brandon >Biden abandoned and labeled as "senile" >Trump returns >Cycle repeats.
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Formal_Walrus_3332@reddit

There is a deeper problem behind this, and it is that western countries love putting senile 80 year olds on the toughest leadership positions. It is much easier for the billionaires that way, they fear working age people having the executive power to make them fall in line. You have to ask yourselves, of 300 million people, are these two the best you have to offer?
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23_Serial_Killers@reddit

I wasn’t aware that was a big issue anywhere outside of America. The oldest prime minister here was 72 when he left, and that was after he had served 18 years.
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Formal_Walrus_3332@reddit

America is the most extreme, with 80 year olds with obvious dementia symptoms for everyone to see on live television. But 70 year olds with questionable mental and physical fitness in leading political positions is becoming a thing in Europe too.
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Mama_Mega@reddit

Biden didn't solve a damn thing. The economy was in the shitter after several years of growth during the Trump administration. And while it didn't exactly do good in 2020, that's not exactly Orange Man's fault. He literally wanted to stop travel from China to keep coronavirus out, and the WHO's response was to call him racist for suggesting it.
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dilldoeorg@reddit

So blame Corona when economy went into the shitter in 2020 under Trump and then blame biden for it for not getting us back fast enough. How's the economy now? even worst than when biden took over. heading for self inflicted recession even after biden brought the economy back from one.
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FeuerwerkFreddi@reddit

Funny thing is, Trump inherited a [very strong economy](https://www.wsj.com/economy/the-next-president-inherits-a-remarkable-economy-7be2d059) when he took office
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derp0815@reddit

Then went on fucking it up, votes changed, now Biden is to blame because MAGAwhatever. Truly the best and brightest.
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Tz33ntch@reddit

That's not really what the post is about The problem you're describing is an issue in any country; plebs blame their shitty life on the government so whoever is currently in power is hated
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snizarsnarfsnarf@reddit

That's good anon, now go ahead and look at the tax rate between 1901 and 1975 and look at when the decline in our infrastructure started, when our global ranking in education started dropping, when our rates of poverty and incarceration started increasing, when lobbying started to become a real problem, when the privatization and monopolization became possible and started happening, and see if you can connect some dots
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GPT3-5_AI@reddit

It's weird how PhD scientists are the most progressive and homeschooled religious kids are the most traditional.
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hobbinater2@reddit

Classic Chesterton fence.
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Petrarch1603@reddit

The episode calls to mind Edmund Burke’s *Reflections on the revolution in France*, a prescient meditation on the dangers of dismantling institutions without understanding the long, often painful, process by which they were formed. Burke argued that traditions are not arbitrary relics but the distilled experience of generations. That argument is largely lost on "modern audiences", for whom the historical context has faded into obscurity. The result is a kind of intellectual orphanhood, precisely the condition burke warned against, and one that lends quiet credence to OP's argument
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Obscure_Candidate_42@reddit

Gender equality. We've been attempting it since the ice age, it's not a progressive new idea, it's an ancient problem that keeps popping back up
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Outarel@reddit

Make an example you r-word What "tradition" we abandoned that created a problem that recurfaced? This anon probably likes to suck jewish dick and is defending infant genital mutilation.
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Raze678@reddit

You can argue the inverse in literally the same way >Humans come up with new thing that makes everything better >things get so good that someone people feel good enough that they don't want anything new or any change and start resisting it on "back in my day basis" >As soon as they stop coming up with new thing and changing, they stagnate, become corrupt, and collapse as a state >the shards of that state need to cope up with new thing and change to survive >ad infinitum Also, out of examples of rapid change doing better than sticking to tradition, there is: The Shogunate being opened up rather than sticking to traditional isolation, making Japan the big dick Empire of the East. Peter the First of Russia literally forcing his nobility to shave off traditional Muscovite beards and build a fleet, turning Russia into the behemoth we know today. Bismarck preemptively creating general worker insurance and other social reforms to keep the SPD out of power and to make Germany one of the foremost economic and scientific powerhouses of its age. The list goes on.
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Oaker_at@reddit

OP is 16 years old
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strife696@reddit

I love rants like this because it screams 3AM shower thoughts that lack examples, or that have examples that are both extreme oversimplifications or radically exaggerating the issues.
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miraclewhipbelmont@reddit

The sooner we become Orange Juice the sooner we can stop worrying about stuff.
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TreeGuy521@reddit

You're right we should stop rotsting our beans too, crop rotation is goyslop cattle ranching behavior
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Tz33ntch@reddit

>there wasn't any woke dei around at catalhoyuk
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freet0@reddit

This was posted by GK Chesterton
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UnkleBott@reddit

So measles
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AgitatedKey4800@reddit

Pubblic schools
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