• cawsby [he/him]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    Totally normal country.

    There needs to be regulations on anti vax nonsense being pushed in any form of media where a profit is involved.

    These folk have been wound up by grifters. The vast majority of the journos/influencers spouting anti vax views on radio, TV, and the web are vaccinated.

    • Horsepaste [they/them]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      Antivax content and writing should be illegal altogether. This isn't something that is debatable or worth being given a platform.

      The American fetishisization of "freeze peach" directly contributes to perpetuating social murder.

      The correct response to an antivaxxer is not engaging them in discussion, it is strapping them down and vaccinating their ass. See this handy guide I made for more info.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      yes and makes me think of this

      The question of “free press” and “free speech” is not separable from the question of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie versus the dictatorship of the proletariat. The idea of “political plurality” as such turns out to be the negation of the possibility of achieving any kind of truth in the realm of politics, it reduces all historical and value claims to the rank of mere opinion. And of course, so long as someone’s political convictions are mere opinion, they won’t rise to defend them. And so the liberal state remains the dictatorial organ of the bourgeoisie, with roads being built or legislation being passed only as commanded by the interests of capital, completely disregarding the interests of workers. Under regimes where political plurality is falsely upheld as a supreme virtue, the very notion of asserting oneself as possessing a truth appears aggressive and “authoritarian.”

      from https://redsails.org/brainwashing/

    • PrideBoy [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      How did they get rid of snake oil salesmen from the early 1900s? (Or did they? :DrOz:)

    • Mike_Penis [any]
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      3 years ago

      to be fair there are anti vax psychos everywhere.