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It seems RFK Jr is walking back some of his previous statements about vaccines. Notably, that he doesn't seem to want to ban them all anymore. From just two days ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/04/election-trump-rfk-jr-vaccines-fluoride

He's still planning on making everyone's teeth rot though.

Nope. They instituted serious anti-immigrant laws here in Florida that severely hurt many businesses. For example, enormous construction projects just stopped. Just Google, "Florida immigrant law halts construction" and you'll get all sort of fantastic examples.

So yes: Right wingers did shoot themselves in the foot in order to hurt immigrants (which is what their base truly wants in their heart of hearts). The Republican legislature knew it would be horrible for the economy. They knew it was going to hurt innocent people and loads of small businesses.

They didn't care. That's what the Republican party is all about, after all: Not caring. They will actively seek to hurt their perceived enemies no matter what! Consequences be damned!

Liberalism. (noun) a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution.

What they're saying is that revolution is the only option.

"I'm unhappy, financially so I'm going to vote for the felon, racist, sexist, fascist" still doesn't add up.

What does add up is that enough of the American people didn't know or fully understand just how much of a racist, sexist, fascist and total scumbag Trump really is. Or they heard about his misdeeds and absolutely abhorrent statements/views but didn't believe it; "fake news".

They had all the time in the world to just pay attention or ya know, just look shit up but they didn't do those things. Now those very same people are going to be surprised AF that their friends and family are being rounded up, arrested, detained, and/or deported. They'll say they had no idea that Trump planned to do that or that "they didn't think he'd actually do it."

They suck. There's no excuse at this point. Just like the article suggests.

Then there's his actual supporters who like the awful things he says and nod in agreement. If anything, this election has revealed that your Republican neighbors absolutely are horrible human beings. Again: If someone is still a Republican at this point they're saying to the world that they're in tacit agreement with these things. They share the same values as the Republican party and Trump is the Republican party platform at this point.

It looks like a toilet bowl. A huge toilet bowl.

No, it's just as basic as the OP let on... Going to church every Sunday indoctrinates the, "appeal to authority" logical fallacy. The very premise that the religion itself is the source of truth in the world is the trap that leads people down the road of falling for charlatans and other scam artists.

All it takes is for their priest or pastor to endorse (directly or indirectly) any political view, candidate, or person/product and "the flock" will adhere. To not adhere is to deny the authority and thus, the religion itself. That often also means expulsion from their community and very real other social and sometimes worse consequences.

The only "escape" is to simply not participate which actually resolves into two scenarios:

• An honest one where the former adherent admits that they no longer believe (the authority; not necessarily the entire religion).
• A dishonest one where conformance and piety is claimed and faked as a sort of performance art. After all, who can deny piety exists in an individual? It's all in their head. This method can be quite profitable if you have no scruples! (For example, a Jesus fish in an official company logo/slogan... That's basically the modern day version of the money changers in the parable of the money changers!)

At an even more basic level, going to church and claiming publicly that you adhere to a religion like evangelical Christianity opens you up to be scammed. Since there's no official tests or regulations regarding what counts as "Christian" literally any scammer/scummy company can claim to be Christian and thus, "on the team".

Christ's teachings are pretty clear that everyone is on the same team and not to favor one group over another based on ethnicity (and by extension, religion) as given by the parable of washing the prostitute's feet. However, that's not really taught much in evangelical churches these days! In fact, if your pastor isn't bringing that up right now--as Trump promises to intern immigrants, forcing them away from their families/communities--with regularity they're probably in that second camp I talked about: Faking piety for profit.

Ahaha! Microsoft employees are using AI to ~~write~~ hallucinate their own performance reviews and managers are using that very same AI to "review" said performance reviews. Which is exactly the dystopian vision of the future that OpenAI sells!

What's funny is that the "cult of Microsoft" is 100% bullshit so the AI is being trained in bullshit and as time goes on its being reinforced with it's own hallucinated bullshit because everyone is using it to bullshit the bullshitters in management who are demanding this bullshit!

Gelsinger said the market will have less demand for dedicated graphics cards in the future.

No wonder Intel is in such rough shape! Gelsinger is an idiot.

Does he think that the demand for AI-accelerating hardware is just going to go away? That the requirement of fast, dedicated memory attached to a parallel processing/matrix multiplying unit (aka a discreet GPU) is just going to disappear in the next five years‽

The board needs to fire his ass ASAP and replace him with someone who has a grip on reality. Or at least someone who has a some imagination of how the future could be.

The most expensive girl but she can accelerate your heart and fan the flames of love.

Working analog clock minute hands after the first minute.

"obviously fake": NO, damnit! What's "obvious" is that about a third of Americans can't differentiate between what's real and what isn't.

Yeah seriously! Why does it have to be a Christian supernatural force? It could just be Baba Yaga "reaching out" as it were, to a kindred spirit.

Why couldn't it be the fae trying to pull him into their world? Or perhaps an evil yokai finally tracked him down?

Maybe his original soul escaped the mirror dimension and was trying to claw its way back into his body!