https://twitter.com/iwelsh/status/1362992021099732992?s=19

    • nohaybanda [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      If the pharma company had managed to deliver on their promises it would be a lot easier to swallow their "but what if someone incompetent made the vaccine and made people wary of it" schtick. Fuckers.

    • read_freire [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      I'm 99% sure Gates pays for astroturfed comments on reddit, twitter, etc.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        yep. since being the most hated man in the mid-nineties, he has spent huge amounts of money annually on PR. there's good reason to think that now includes a lot of astroturfing

    • TossedAccount [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Shit like this makes me almost think chuds are easier to win over to working-class/socialist politics than liberals. Some of the villains are the same (Bezos, Gates, Soros, Epstein, Clinton, Obama) but often for the wrong reasons.

    • snackage [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Soon my friend. Soon.

      In centuries people will be making historical fiction movies about what could have been had that gone the other way. We'd be like been born on the moon instead or something.

  • jilgangga [doe/deer]
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    4 years ago

    I may be hysterical, but I posted this on my Facebook just to trig the libs. Like seriously, “we are the bad guys” need to be branded into their hearts. Fuck the western sanctimoniousness.

  • MarxistHedonism [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I’m skeptical that the US has more vaccines than the population requires, since it’s basically as easy to get as a PS5.

    I could also believe we have enough and the distribution is that fucked up. It’s almost like capitalism is bad 🥺.

  • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Anyone got a source on the "800 million vaccines in 41 countries".

    A few days ago I was looking for comprehensive information on stuff like that but didn't find it.

    Edit: bourgeois media compiling the data for us

    • snackage [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202102/1215285.shtml

      https://www.statista.com/statistics/1123927/sputnik-v-exports-from-russia-by-country/

      I'm sure they come to 800 mil if you add it all up.

  • comi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I kinda doubt russia shared (edit: as in physically given)that many vaccines, so like not selling, but allowing to make and giving know-how to produce. We’ve vaccinated just 2 percent of our population :angery:

    • snackage [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Here looked for yourself https://www.statista.com/statistics/1123927/sputnik-v-exports-from-russia-by-country/

      What's up with your latent red scare bullshit though?

      • comi [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Eh, sorry, I’m just annoyed our vaccinations roll so slowly. Is it not that they are produced by partners though and delivered? Like I’m reading here, it seems they agree to manufacture them in india themselves, no?

        • snackage [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          India doesn't have laws protecting patents for vaccine or something so if they will be produced in india it will by any number of local and quite competent pharma companies. Because these laws India had developed a very strong generics industry.

          • comi [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah, I meant that our production seems slow, so saying supplying x millions of doses reads as if physical goods were delivered ready to use instead of giving/selling a license to produce x millions of doses and here how to do it. Like it’s miles better than pfizer, don’t get me wrong.