I’m not gonna watch the video, but I’m a scientist. I work with engineers.

The answer you’re looking for is no. (Maybe hell no.)

You should try yelling “money” again, that’ll definitely convince people. Of. Well, whatever it is you’re trying to convince us of.

There is nothing as hilarious as someone trying to use fancy words but missing pretty basic concepts of the language.

You’re trying to sound smart. It’s making you sound dumber.

“I am so smart, the answer is obvious. So I won’t tell you. If you don’t get it, you’re not as smart as me.”

🙄

Loudly agreeing with the fascists probably isn’t having the effect you want.

Fuck cynicism, we’re gonna fight!

I can’t think of a more direct way to get ignorant parents to understand the harm they’ve caused than for their own children to suffer from their actions

I don’t need them to understand. I’m okay if they’re angry. They can throw a fit on Facebook and get a million likes. But if their kid doesn’t get the measles, it’s worth it.

You’re saying you want to be proven right. I’m saying I don’t care what they think as long as their kids are okay.

And yeah, I’m from the US. A rural town from a flyover state. My parents vaccinated me during the Clinton administration because the whole right wing coalition was there to disagree with him, not convince their rank and file that he was the antichrist.

They can’t make their constituents hate “the left” (for whatever that’s worth in the US) any more than they already do. So why not just do the right thing? You’re correct in that center-left people will never enact what I’m suggesting. I’m going to stick around and make sure better people replace them.

In fact, I see a solution

I can’t conceive of any context in which this doesn’t mean “the suffering of children is a good outcome.” Like, the suffering of children will convince their parents that they were wrong?

There is a simple solution:

1. Vaccinations are provided at no cost.
2. Vaccinations are required by law. No religious exemption. No “I’m a parent and I say so” exemption.
3. Day one of school will be vaccination catch-up day for kids who have fallen behind.

That won’t get everyone. But it’ll get enough to ensure broad community immunity. The people writing and implementing the laws just have to be willing to grow a spine and say “your opinion as a parent does not overrule medical science.”

I was raised by said conservatives and if I was born thirty years later I’d have been unvaccinated. I don’t have a good answer for you. But you’re condemning a lot of people (that may eventually disagree with their parents!) to a pretty unhealthy existence.

Maybe consider being a little less gleeful when thinking about dead kids, even if their parents are assholes.

Being raised by conservative assholes shouldn’t be a death sentence.

I admire your anxiety-posting that suggests there’s nothing we can do and we’re doomed to fall into fascism.

Ah, actually no. I do not admire that. Spreading the message of “the fascists are unbeatable” is not as good for the non-fascist cause as you might think.

I know what you’re saying feels right to you, but it’s not really backed up by what’s happening.

I worked at IBM.

The people that run that place are the biggest corporate brain-rot dumbasses in the world. The only way to climb into their ranks is to be enough of a waste of oxygen that you aren’t threatening.

I was doing a chemistry project. One aspiring corporate idiot couldn’t believe why my group didn’t want to “incorporate blockchain” into our project. He’s a VP now.

If they ever do anything right, it’s only because they’ve run out of dumb shit things to do first. I assume those poor young people they’ll be hiring will be laid off at the first whiff of the next corporate fad.

I am once again begging people not to post a headline that starts with “Trump, 79,” that doesn’t end with. Well. You know.

There’s an AMERICAN word for that, and it’s WOKENESS, a debilitating and contagious condition President  Donald Trump has worked hard to eradicate, along with other liberal failings like empathy, honesty and inclusion.

Gonna go out on a limb and say it’s satire.

If you punch down, towards people that are less influential or less capable than you, someone “upward” of you is probably benefitting from the lower people fighting each other instead of themselves.

It was entirely defensive, and because the deep red states already did it. There was a provision in the law that if Texas’s redistricting got overruled or cancelled by a court, California’s would automatically be cancelled as well.

Oh, I’ve read this one before! The cocaine was so pervasive, they even found it in the blanks! Too bad publishing that makes the report kind of useless.

If you really want to see something, and you’re sloppy with your blanks, an LCMS can detect anything you want.

You sound like the brainwashed masses. He, a billionaire, was much more qualified to determine if someone is fit to practice medicine than some institutional board. Obviously, otherwise he wouldn’t have been a billionaire.

People have been begging for big tech companies that rely on open source software to support development. Netflix finally did the dang thing.

More, please!

It is a mountain moving effort, though. Humans are deeply social creatures. Every thing that surrounds this guy has incentivized him to believe and behave in a way that keeps him part of the tribe. It’s safe to stay in line.

We do not know that he had no issue with the terrible things that happened. But we do know that the whole of American conservatism is set up to squash those doubts as soon as they come up. To keep everyone in line or face being ostracized.

He has not done enough, yet. But there is a huge difference between telling someone “yes, good, you’re starting to get it” and “fuck you, dude, you’re irredeemable.” There is certainly a core of shitheads that is irredeemable. But most people caught up in this think they’re doing the right thing.

Obviously they’re not doing the right thing. But they want to. Imposing day one ideological purity tests does not make it easier for them to change their minds about what the right thing is.