The photo is of a hardcore antivaxer who took ivermectin and then died.

The drawing is a picture of a horse by the immortal artist Lisa Frank.

  • OgdenTO [he/him]
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    For real though, laughing at people dying that aren't actively supporting capitalist inequality is pretty gross.

    Like, if this were a cop that would be one thing, but this is just a dude. Sure, he's an antivaxer - that's not great - but laughing at him dying from bad decisions is some big liberal smirkiness.

    • RootVegetable [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      They're literally taking horse dewormer to own the libs. I think it's fine to laugh at the absurdity of the situation

      • Brak [they/them, e/em/eir]
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        muh civility tho. we need to cry for the fash chugging poison.

        If I don’t laugh at this nightmare, I’ll doomer. It’s better to be jokerfied!

        :jokerfied:

        • OgdenTO [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          It's one thing to laugh at the situation, it's another to laugh at a person, who, in fact is a victim of extreme misinformation, lack of healthcare, and capitalist exploitation. This guy died, because he was told that ivermectin was a good idea rather than the vaccine.

          You call it his choice, but fuck that. When a system is stacked to push people towards bad decision making what the fuck are most people supposed to do.

          • happybadger [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Did he crawl under a porch to die like a cat when he decided to not believe in the disease or did he perpetuate that propaganda and in turn put your life and that of everyone you care about at risk?

            Literally lmao that he is dead. I have to call an air ambulance to my house with a bucket because I laughed my ass off and my organs are spilling into the floor.

              • OgdenTO [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Is it so important to you to celebrate people dying from what is certainly a structural condition rather than a personal responsibility choice. Pointing out their hypocrisy of dying is not going to get them next time.

                I guess we just see their position in this situation differently. I think they are victims literally being murdered by the system that they can't escape. And sure, they are doing bad by spreading the virus and they suck shit for that, but they are also doing what they have been told is best for fighting the disease.

                You seem to think that they are subhuman rats spreading disease specifically to vulnerable populations.

                Curbing the spread of disease is serious, but I think it's a failure of the system when even the unvaccinated die from the disease. They should be locked down, not dead.

                • happybadger [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  I guess we just see their position in this situation differently. I think they are victims literally being murdered by the system that they can’t escape. And sure, they are doing bad by spreading the virus and they suck shit for that, but they are also doing what they have been told is best for fighting the disease.

                  Tell me the name of the mass shooter who had a good reason. Some nuanced point, some well-considered position, any justification which overrides the actual observable material impact of their actions.

                  They all have a stupid reason. They all want validation for that reason. They want to be valued despite the effect they have. That effect is being a feral person who destroys everything around them.

                  If someone shoots a mass shooter during their spree, fucking lol. The only difference here is that they don't even need to carry a gun to kill more people for the same ideological goal. Their daily existence is terrorism and their enablers only reward them for it. The only thing you'll get for your tolerance is one of them giving you the virus and then saying you don't deserve healthcare.

                  If they don't want all of this to happen, it takes five minutes to get the shot. That's what is at stake. Human lives or a slight inconvenience. Pick your side.

                    • happybadger [he/him]
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                      3 years ago

                      Is that a practical option? Given that they're selling vaccine passports to each other, disbelieving in the virus, refusing to get tested when they get it, and infecting all of the people they break normal protocols to interact with before it kills them, do you think that's even on the table? From the state or federal governments that can't make them wear masks or get a vaccine? From the antimasker/antivax police threatening to resign if they're mandated to get it? From the military that now has to threaten to discharge its right wingers en masse because they refuse to get it?

                      I didn't say the choice was pretty. That's the choice. These are the clearly defined sides and one of them obviously gets you or someone you care about killed. The other kills someone who chose to die. Are you going to solve the trolley problem by starting the trolley, running ahead of it, and tying yourself to the track that has the most people on it?

                      • OgdenTO [he/him]
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                        3 years ago

                        It seems you are attempting to make a "realist" rationalization of why you're happy that this guy died. You are saying that because our government and health care actions are so ineffective, that it's actually something to celebrate that this guy was killed?

                        I'm finding this rationale is lazy. In the case that the government was actually able to implement real lockdowns, providing food and rent relief for those that are kept indoors, do these people still deserve to die? Like, in China's response to the pandemic, these people would either be vaccinated, or they would be kept indoors. There wouldn't be this option to literally kill themselves because of misinformation.

                        If they would be alive if the government weren't supporting their decisions to take ivermectin and go about transmitting covid, isn't it the government who is responsible not only for their death, but also for their transmitting covid?

                        I have a hard time with your personal responsibility take.

                        • happybadger [he/him]
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                          3 years ago

                          No, I'm saying that because he is a terrorist I'm glad he's dead. If he sneezed in a jar and then threw that jar at the ground it would be a bioweapon. If he sneezed on a blanket and gave that blanket to you it would be a bioweapon. He encouraged others to sneeze onto everything and had the obvious result everyone told him would happen. With as much mental autonomy as you have.

                          I fully recognise that there are failures at all level of government. That this hog voted for. The healthcare system is a moral abomination and guess who voted for it. His life up until this point was creating the mousetrap and then he spent his final year trying to convince people to eat the mysterious cheese before taking a bite himself. His personal responsibility is only the same you face when you wash your hands, put on a face mask or a seat belt, click one google result over the other. The most basic shit he chose at every turn to not do, specifically to risk your life. I can hate the government as well as the people who enable it at the same time. I can hate an ideology and the people who reinforce it at the level on which I exist. If you don't, what is the obvious result of this person spending another day walking around? How many innocent people are you willing to murder to preserve this plague rat? Knowing how hard he's worked to eat the cheese and force you to. This is not some abstract moral puzzle for old white dandies to jerk themselves off over. This is an immediate threat to your life and to any population you could claim to be protecting by enabling antivaxxers. Fuck the people they vote for but those aren't the people sending their children to school with yours. Their parents don't go into the nursing homes yours will. It's this guy and every carrier like him.

                          • OgdenTO [he/him]
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                            As far as it's not an abstract moral puzzle - which part. That there are people who have literally been tricked into spreading misinformation and disease, or the part that you choose to celebrate that used person's death?

                            I get what you're saying. I don't have to be happy that a person is dead now that would be alive under a different system. This is not a person welding money and power, this is not a terrorist, this is a brainwashed dummy who is a victim of the system. Literally all saying is rebelling in their death, regardless how ironic you see it being, is blue maga lib shit.

                            I am kind of suprised to see you suggest that the answer is to :vote: better.

                            • happybadger [he/him]
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                              3 years ago

                              That there are people who have literally been tricked into spreading misinformation and disease

                              Which doesn't matter when the result is that they're actively spreading a disease. Nazi shit tricks mass shooters into committing massacres but we don't absolve them by pretending they're an impressionable baby. When they die it's a net gain at every level of the system I'm still free to condemn without their obstruction. This plague rat absolutely is a terrorist because he is purposely spreading a fatal disease. Any erasure there just makes you complicit in that. Maybe your fucking around won't result in finding out.

                              • OgdenTO [he/him]
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                                3 years ago

                                Look dude, if you don't understand the power of propaganda and the generational legacy of white supremacy and neoliberalism has wrought on the us fine, but like, don't tell me I have to be happy that someone is dead, especially when they were not the instigator nor fundamental cause of continuing poor conditions due to covid. That's clearly the people in power and the people with money.

                                Blaming anyone who is not bourgeoisie for the mess we're in is falling for pro bourgeoisie propaganda.

                                • happybadger [he/him]
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                                  3 years ago

                                  Feel free to go express that working class solidarity in r/nonewnormal. See if they think you're human and watch as they kill more.

                                  • OgdenTO [he/him]
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                                    What are you talking about? Me, not celebrating the death of a victim of capitalism, is somehow not human? You, celebrating the death of a non-bourgeoisie, is somehow a champion of worker solidarity?

                                    Edit: I just looked up what nonewnormal is. I'm not on Reddit so I had no idea. You think I'm an antivaxxer? Not at all the case. Everyone should be vaccinated that can be, and those that can't be should be locked down and supported by the state.

                                    Just because I refuse to be happy about the death of a rube doesn't make me an antivaxxer, it makes me not a fucking monster. I think the government needs to step up, and every preventable death that is a result of shitty government policies is a sad one.

                                    • happybadger [he/him]
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                                      Anyway I was waiting to spring this on you. https://mobile.twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1432114945953501188/photo/1

                                      That's Robert David Steele, former marine and ex-CIA agent. He's a recurring Infowars guest most famous for his antivaxxer and Sandy Hook denialism conspiracies.

                                      In your quest to be the most enlightened pacifist, there's the company you keep Hogfucker.

                                      • OgdenTO [he/him]
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                                        3 years ago

                                        "Spring" that on me? You again are saying I support antivaxxers, so go fuck yourself.

                                        All I'm saying is that applauding the death of someone who has been mentally abused by the state to death is missing the systemic causes of this.

                                        There are a hundred million antivaxxers in the USA. It seems that you would prefer to kill every one of them. I am saying no, it's a systemic issue.

                                        • happybadger [he/him]
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                                          3 years ago

                                          Clearly you do support them given that you enable them. This is the kind of hog you support. Enjoy your new comrade because I don't trust your judgement enough to consider you one.

                                          • OgdenTO [he/him]
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                                            3 years ago

                                            Ultimately, your ideology on this, happiness at the death of this person, is wishing for the deaths of 100 million Americans. If this doesn't seem like a systemic issue to you, I really don't know what to say.

                                            I really don't understand your jump (unless you are just being a troll) from not being joyful over a person's death, to supporting antivaxxers.

                                            So, overall, you are either really dumb, or not being serious, so this has been an extreme waste of time.

          • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            in fact is a victim of extreme misinformation

            everybody outside of DailyStormer/pol/ accepts the fact that vaccines work. Even Trump took it, for Allah's sake

            lack of healthcare

            the vaccine's been available for over 7 months now

            and capitalist exploitation

            As is everyone else

            I still laff evertim

        • OgdenTO [he/him]
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          If you think this is about civility you're not correct. Fuck people who literally work towards anti-worker, anti-proletarian causes. these guys who have been suckered into taking ivermectin are victims. They may be chuds, but they are also used and victimized by the system and are literally being killed by it.

          • Brak [they/them, e/em/eir]
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            3 years ago

            There’s nothing more anti-worker than infecting another worker with a virus that could murder them and everyone they care about.

            • OgdenTO [he/him]
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              Perhaps something more anti worker is workplaces not enabling safe working conditions, remaining open despite a global deadly.pandemic, and government not enacting lockdown or other policies to keep people safe, and allowing (and abetting) the spread of misinformation around ivermectin, actively and purposefully providing disincentives to people getting good healthcare.

    • TheFuckYouOnAbout [hy/hym]
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      3 years ago

      :youre-laughing: I will laugh at these murderous fuckheads killing themselves with horse paste all day long :michael-laugh:

    • Brak [they/them, e/em/eir]
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      Being antivax turns you into a plague rat. They value their pride more than the lives of everyone around them. Not gonna waste tears over someone that wants me dead.

      If his shit decisions only affected him, then fine, but it doesn’t. It hurts everyone trying to get through this safely.

      • WranglesGammon [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Fair enough if this was just a small handful of people, but given that the anti-vax movement is tens to hundreds of millions strong it makes it far more of a structural failing than a personal one. Not to mention that many anti-vaxxers are trying to spread information they genuinely believe is for the wellbeing of their communities.

        Yeah they're obviously wrong, but it's pretty fucking lib to ignore the structural reasons for their misinformed position and make it about personal responsibility

        :president-parrot-naked:

        • Brak [they/them, e/em/eir]
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          Not to mention that many anti-vaxxers are trying to spread information they genuinely believe is for the wellbeing of their communities.

          So are nazis. That makes it worse.

          the anti-vax movement is tens to hundreds of millions strong

          Probably won’t be for much longer.

          :doomer:

          ignore the structural reasons for their misinformed position and make it about personal responsibility

          It’s both. We live in a society and that society is unfortunately structured around personal responsibility.

          Every single elected official with the power to fix this systemically who isn’t doing anything is also to blame.

    • MaxOS [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, I feel conflicted on this too. I don't want to be like the vax eugenicist libs.

      • Brak [they/them, e/em/eir]
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        3 years ago

        Antivax are dangerous because they put anyone who can’t get the vaccine yet in danger. The libs lump everyone without a vaccine in the same group, which is some extra heavy bullshit.

      • WELCOMETHRILLHO [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        I would possibly be more conflicted if I wasn't a caretaker for a high risk person who currently cannot get vaccinated/know so many friends and family with very young children who are at risk as well. I think the suffering of these people needs to be broadcast far and wide, not out of spite (well, maybe a little), but also because it's easy to see a youtube video of someone saying "vax bad" and then not follow up and realize they died a week later. It's easy to float through that kind of content mill and not see the people dropping dead as they go but still fueling misinformation.

        • Brak [they/them, e/em/eir]
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          This point is important. I see the actual victims of these reactionaries and it’s heart wrenching. The more ways we mock and highlight the self-destruction of antivaxers, the more stigmatized and embarrassing it becomes for them. People on the fence notice that shit. It’s the same way we belittled the klan and made them into a joke.

          I mean uhh-

          :brak: Boy howdy I sure do love apple flavored treats! 🍏

          • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            based and redpilled.

            Some 11 year old Black girl (ineligible for the vaccine) just died of covid a few weeks ago.

            How many children died because of reality-denying subhumans like these? Zero sympathy. They must be humiliated, full stop.

            The next logical extension of the absolutely cucked and principle-less philosophy described above is sympathizing with nazis because "they truly believe what they preach" and "they've been propagandized by misinformation" LEL :agony-mescaline:

            • Brak [they/them, e/em/eir]
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              3 years ago

              sympathizing with nazis because “they truly believe what they preach” and “they’ve been propagandized by misinformation”

              same :brainworms:, different reactionaries.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      laughing at people dying that aren’t actively supporting capitalist inequality is pretty gross.

      good thing that didn't happen