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Not sure if this is a science meme but politicalmemes hated it so I'll try here
(media.piefed.social)
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Red pill:
Let people who pretend to know nothing about vaccines decide who can get what vaccines
Blue pill:
Let people who pretend to know nothing about guns decide who can get what guns
Red pill:
Let the weapon industry dictate gun policy
Blue pill:
Let big pharma dictate vaccine policy
Well in that case, the image is based on the false dichotomy that doesn't exist of the parties' policies. Most dems don't want to remove all guns. They just want to keep guns out of crazies' hands and some want to limit availability of particular things so any subsequent mass shooter has a harder time just endlessly popping off shots like the Vegas shooter... They do not fail to understand guns.
Ontop of that, vaccines are a very strange thing to put in opposition to guns. I know what you're trying for, but it is again based in ignorance. Vaccines are a universal good. There is a reason, a good reason, vaccines are required in order to go to schools. Whether the pharma industry works off of capitalistic practices is a wholly separate thing. Just because big pharma is a piece of shit capitalist enterprise should not reflect poorly on vaccines themselves.
Replying to the second paragraph you added after my reply:
What are you talking about? What does any of this have to do with the context where you're replying?
I am not OK with how my access to vaccines is unjustly restricted, putting me and my loved ones in senseless danger and violating our constitutional rights, because Democrats go along with Republicans on that whenever the money says so.
I am not OK with how my access to guns is unjustly restricted, putting me and my loved ones in senseless danger and violating our constitutional rights, because Republicans go along with Democrats on that whenever the money says so.
It seems like your edit after my reply was intentionally designed to make me look anti-vaccines or something?
And you got upvotes while my thread went from overall positive score to me getting buried in downvotes - that seems like maybe it was because of you making people think I was against vaccines or whatever you're implying here
~~How the fuck can you people sleep at night while treating others like this?~~
The edit was to cover an additional point I noticed. Why are you reading so much into it? You're being downvoted because you've put an attempt at a political meme into a science sub, expecting a science community to agree with politically charged topics.
Now you're jumping to conclusions about why, because surely most people don't disagree with you!
Just chill out dude. You'll have a much better time here and IRL.
I really wouldn't be surprised if the reason it went from above 5 to below minus 5 was because your edit made me look anti vaxx, even if you didn't do that on purpose (I edit comments a lot too so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt on that)
Dude. You're reacting like someone murdered your mother to people down voting your meme, that's not normal. Go touch grass.
Ask yourself why you just took the time to gaslight a stranger on the internet about what they're reacting to.
And again, how do you sleep at night while treating others like that? What kind of person is like "you know what would be a good use of my time and this stranger's time? Lying to them about an obvious verifiable thing that just happened in writing, just to mess with them mentally"
Dude. Touch fucking grass and delete your account. Clearly you don't have the mental fortitude to deal with social media without having some kind of break down.
This isn't an insult, this is genuine advice. Getting this upset over the reception of a meme you posted is neither normal nor healthy.
I get this irrationally upset when I do badly at online competitive games. And that's why I decided to stop playing them completely years ago. Maybe you should make a similar decision about posting on social media.
Not reading all that. See previous reply.
Just kinda proves my point, tbh. See previous reply.
Copying and pasting:
Every reply you make like this literally just further reinforces and strengthens my point.
You're not mentally suited for social media. Just stop, your mental health will thank me.
Weak gaslighting attempt. Might work better if you tried on nostr, I think I take people there more seriously overall because they're at least willing to talk where neither side can be banned
I like that you're complaining about gaslighting whilst literally gaslighting me about my intentions. Just stop. I'm going to block you now anyway, for your own good more than mine.
People disagreeing with you and telling you your meme is shit is not psychological abuse, and it's objectively fucking insane to claim it is.
Replying again
Not reading all that, see previous reply
Are you willing to double check what you just said and admit you're wrong, or are you just trying to gang up on me with cult mentality?
This is how much holding your hand through it I'm willing to do, even though I feel like I'm probably wasting my time:
This is a level of hand holding I'm not willing to do without more feeling that it wouldn't be a waste of time:
Edit - fuck it, I don't want to come off as an asshole or disrespect you too much. If you want me to refute you with evidence, just let me know if you prefer text or video format (I think it would be easiest to find a good video or two about this)
lol I'm not wrong.
I gave you the benefit of the doubt over whether your reply edit was manipulative on purpose, but I'm back to thinking it was, because you still haven't even answered me asking if / how you double checked your original statement about Democrat gun experise
Seems like you only ever replied in this thread in bad faith
It doesn't take an expert to think, "if they have to reload more often and cannot have easy access to tweaks like bumpstocks, they won't be able to shoot as much lead."
This isn't rocket science.
I asked if you double checked your statement, not if you felt like rephrasing how you think it's OK to violate my rights
If it was OK to violate my rights by limiting me to guns that don't shoot many bullets or something, that would still not justify what's happening in the real world, where I'm entirely banned from owning any gun at all and also from using many vaccines
Even if you didn't do stuff like ban vaccines and entire gun ownership, it still wouldn't be OK to do stuff like limit me to shitty guns in a country like the US where the people are supposed to have the right to overthrow the authorities in an armed militia
Reiterating point 1: think about how bad of a person you are for making me spend this time typing this, taking the topic so fucking far from the question of how you double checked your statement
Did you double check? If so, how?