:O

false, there are no boys on the internet - we will require a photo of a sharpie in your butt to prove it you’re not a girl

denying healthcare because a patient has vaccine hesitancy seems really unethical to me, but I also think that it probably overall increases community risks compared to other methods like empathetic-refutational interviewing, especially because refusal to listen and address concerns and meeting vaccine hesitancy with sanctions will have an effect of further undermining trust and so helping anti-vaxx and anti-science movements

how did you get the venison?

looks delicious!

pretty sure OP is a woman

A stark disconnect between reality and rhetoric surfaced on Tuesday as U.S. forces continued their methodical strikes on military targets in Iran even as their commander in chief raised his steady stream of threats directed at Iran to apocalyptic levels.

The United States launched a series of more than 90 strikes on Kharg Island, Iran’s oil export hub, early Tuesday. A U.S. military official characterized the Kharg strikes as “restrikes” — hitting targets that have been struck before to ensure more damage. He said that the United States was not yet striking Iranian infrastructure on the island, which lies in the Persian Gulf off the country’s southern coast.

not down for me

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Do you put lettuce or tomato on your tuna sandwiches? what about melting a slice of cheese and making it a tuna melt?

I don’t like to put tuna on both pieces and combine, I find it’s easier to lump it on one piece and then add the last piece of bread to the top and to smush it down from there.

If there are no societal roadblocks to prevent anti-vaxx parents raising their children to also be anti-vaxxers, then the cycle of misinformation will only get worse as time progresses.

right, but people don’t get socialized or educated by their doctors, doctors are like gatekeepers for medicine and surgeries that you get to see in very short windows of time once a year … withholding access to medicine and surgery is not going to help the situation

Regardless, parents should not have the ability to prevent their children from getting vaccinations on the basis of their own unscientific beliefs.

right, but the flip side is that you’re OK with foregoing the individual’s right to opt in or out of a medical procedure … I haven’t read enough bioethics to arrive at some kind of position on this, but I don’t think either side is obviously right - on the one hand individual liberties being protected results in more overall harm and deaths from fewer vaccinations; on the other hand ignoring individual liberties is authoritarian and can create medical trauma, as well as may backfire and result in greater resistance.

Either way, we need to solve this on a societal level through education, developing greater trust in biomedicine, and probably by penalizing the grifters who profit from promoting anti-vaxx anxieties.

are you a boomer? lol

my partner asked me to include my proclivity to bite her in my patient history document submitted for my testing for ASD 😅 now I’m wondering if there is a pattern here - are other biters also autistic?

so Matt Walsh works for Daily Wire, which is a right-wing and conservative media company that was started with oil money:

The Daily Wire was conceived by Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing, who both worked for TruthRevolt, a news website that was formerly funded by the David Horowitz Freedom Center.[11] After the duo secured several million dollars in seed funding from billionaire petroleum industry brothers Dan and Farris Wilks, the Daily Wire was launched in 2015.

For context, the David Horowitz Freedom Center is a right-wing Islamophobic foundation, and listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

So why is ending the Iran war is a demand being made here, and why do we think Matt Walsh is taking this stance?

Is it because Matt Walsh is an anti-Semite and wants the US to stop supporting a war that he sees as ultimately benefiting Israel (the way MTG ended up becoming anti-Israel likely for anti-Semitic reasons)?

yes!

also, where does this urge to bite come from? I don’t really know many other people who like to bite (or be bitten) …

this is like the 5th meme like this I’ve seen, I think I’m hitting a breaking point

also, this feels like boomer humor or something, it feels so weirdly out-of-touch and not self-aware (hey, like I’m being right now!)

OP is definitely wrong about rich people not dating middle class people or poor people, etc. - rich people are sorta immune to giving a shit, they are insulated. Aristocrats may have been forced to marry strategically rather than for love, but that’s not really about being rich per se.

Maybe some middle-upper-class people try to emulate aristocratic norms about not mingling that way, tbh I feel like the middle class in general is all about proving they aren’t poor, it’s ironically very typical of poor culture to work so hard to not seem poor - rich people aren’t like that and even try to intentionally blend in around others and not show their wealth.

I guess your authoritarian regime starts to look good when the Americans slaughter an elementary school full of your children?

I don’t understand the need to paint everything in black and white, not every conflict has a straight-forward “good guy” or “bad guy” - the US is self-interested and hates Iran because the current regime challenges US hegemony and deposed a US-backed autocrat to get in power. Meanwhile, Iran is a horrible, authoritarian theocracy that engages in medieval criminal punishment spectacles. It’s all bad.

if you know how many precious memories you’ve forgotten, you haven’t forgotten hard enough, here have some more alcohol

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