Propaganda is a hell of a drug.
You need to deal with these people.
It’s hard to get people to trust society when society exists to serve the ruling class.
Once in a while, conspiracy theorists are proven right and that’s all that’s necessary to sow doubt in the system.
If the average person recognized that average people are farm animals, then it would be easier to reason with those that reject average rhetoric.
Prison. Immediately
Well that’s one thing Idiocracy didn’t predict. People becoming so anti-intellectual they cant even keep their own children alive. However I whole heartedly believe these people considered energy drinks as a remedy, “because of the electrolytes”.
Can we finally already just make vaccines obligatory, with NO religious exceptions? I don’t care about your stonage fairytales, I care about not dying from preventable illnesses just because you need to have the brain of a 5 year old.
The ONLY exceptions to vaccines should be for medical reasons and they should require signatirues from two different doctors at least
Fuck these religious idiots
And I would have locked her up for attempted homicide
“We’re not blaming God for this,” said 35-year-old Kristina. “Yes, it hurts, of course, it hurts. But God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing something, and we’re gonna glorify his name regardless.
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Doctors suggested Ethan’s parents could take him to Greenville Memorial Hospital, a larger facility with more specialists. Because their son was in so much distress, his parents decided to take him home and keep a close eye on him. “If all they’re doing is antibiotics, maybe he’ll be more comfortable at home, and we don’t have to put him through this,” his mom said
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Less than 48 hours later, though, on Jan. 30, Ethan’s condition deteriorated to the point where he had “no movement at all,” his mom said. “It felt like his body was slowly losing all mobility,” she recalled. Kristina rushed Ethan to see the local doctor, who took one look at him and told the mom to get him to Greenville Memorial Hospital, about a 36-mile drive, right away.
Fuck every single unfortunate atom that make up these inbred fucking monsters. ‘God’ gave them enough signs to make election campaigners jealous and they ignored every fucking one. They should be in prison for child endangerment at best.
conservatism is a mental illness.
I’ve never seen “religion” spelled that way before.
Religion is just an excuse to justify the hatred. They hate the real Jesus and disagree with the text in the Bible.
These people have never read the bible.
My point exactly. If it wasn’t religion, they’d find something else to use as justification for their hatred.
Religion normalizes the tribalism and magical-thinking.
Sounds like laziness leading to child neglect, to me. There are endless ways to justify laziness, no need to pick some specific one.
It’s not laziness. These people are actively opposed to vaccination.
I live in this region. Yep
Lazy thinkers.
Attempted murder gets my vote. Restraining order automatically granted between parent and child.
Just as ignorance of the law is no excuse, maybe we should think the same way about science provided three things:
- It is very consequential when science is ignored
- There is insanely broad consensus in the scientific community about the topic at hand
- A scientist, in this case a doctor, tells you to do something and then you do the opposite
Idk i kind of get it. I don’t want the government regulating how I raise my kids. I don’t want them to enforce that i follow rfk jrs recommendations. I don’t want them saying I legally have to educate my kids according to turning point’s curriculum.
It’s a slippery slope and I don’t trust the government as far as I can throw it to set what is considered scientific consensus.
Hard agree these parents should be found criminally negligent, but how will that be possible when their own government is telling them not to trust vaccines?
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A parade of bad decisions against this poor kids, then they ward the end she whines about feeling helpless? You missed so many chances to be helpful
God gave you vaccinations.
Yeah… This is what MAGA looks like here.
A lot of people are confused about what’s happened to my country. The answer is that votes from people like this are being counted as far more valuable than people in big cities that understand and respect science.
I’m speaking literally.
They have MORE of a weighted importance when voting.
Trust me, I know. County v county and whichever side has more counties gets the state, then whichever gets more states gets the win. Instead of something reasonable like population, this makes rural areas almost guaranteed to beat urban areas.
I’m American too and the election system here has always been awful. Unfortunately we’re taught that it’s ‘the only way’ or whatever the power-mongers would say.
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I still wouldn’t release my hand from around this anti vaccine person’s windpipe and see if she understands her dumbass beliefs.
Yeah, thank God he’s only brain damaged, he might have had autism. ಠ_ಠ
thank God he’s only brain damaged
Think of the upside: now she doesn’t have to be jealous of her son’s intellect.
Fuck yes she does.
When people use the autism excuse (i.e. “vaccines cause autism”), I interpret that as “so you’d rather they be dead than to have autism?”
I don’t actually believe vaccines cause autism, but I’m not going to try and argue that with someone when there is a much simpler counterargument.
Because they would literally rather that. If the kid “simply dies” then they get their eternal reward in Paradise you see. However they literally see autism as a manifestation of a moral failing. it’s just literally God punishing them for vaccinating the kid.
A lot of them will never admit this out loud. Many of them don’t even realize that this is how they think about it because it’s a subconscious bias like how a lot of these so-called Christians hate poor people despite literally being told to treat them well and give to the poor. They have that unconscious bias of the Prosperity Gospel that makes them believe that rich people are favored by God and that’s why they’re rich, and therefore being poor must be a moral failing and a punishment from God. So they end up believing that the poor deserve to suffer because they’re poor.
If we could identify autism in the womb, these people wouldn’t be pro-life anymore.
They would actively kill the newborns they cry so much about protecting. I mean, they do anyway through negligence/lack of support because they only care about them while they’re still in the womb, but they wouldn’t care even then if they were an autistic kid.
they should check the mom too.
I hate everything about this. these dumb fucking people making these dumb fucking choices and only cause problems for a child who had no say in the matter.
this kid doesn’t even get a chance at life because his idiot “caregivers” decided that he was better off
That mom needs to get slapped with charges and rot in jail, but we all know she’ll just toss up a GoFund me and hit the nutty grifter circuit.
Both parents do. Dad is on the same side. Kid’s able to move after almost a month in the hospital.
They pulled him from the first hospital because, “all they’re doing is giving him antibiotics, so he might be more comfortable at home,” even after that hospital told them to take him to a better hospital with specialists. Then when he went catatonic at home, they took him to the family doctor, literally his pediatrician, who took one look and said," get him to the good hospital now."
The article even says that the mom played the whole ‘god has a plan’ shit and that the son was chosen for it, by god.
I hate that this shit is going on 2 hours (driving) away.
whole ‘god has a plan’ shit and that the son was chosen for it, by god.
They have to do that now, because the alternate would mean admitting that they’re abusing (possibly murdering) their child. And I guess their brain needs to protect them from that reality.
There’s also the consequence that admitting anything else would mean their god isn’t in control. I’m not sure what would terrify such a person more - admitting they were wrong about how to care for their kid, or admitting their god lacks the power to intervene in their life.
When Ethan contracted the measles around January 20, his parents hoped he would shake it off and “bounce back” like his brothers, aged 2 and 4, did when they came down with it a week or so prior. Ethan was not so lucky.
Jesus fuck he wasn’t the only one…
the other 2 had a mild infection which is usually the case for children. but ethan had the most severe form which is rare; panechephalitis and dangerous.
all bets are off an adult gets it too.
There’s still time for the other 2.
It has been estimated that about 2 in 10,000 people who get measles will eventually develop SSPE. However, a 2016 study estimated that the rate for unvaccinated infants under 15 months was as high as 1 in 609. No cure for SSPE exists, and the condition is almost always fatal.
SSPE is characterized by a history of primary measles infection, followed by a normal, unremarkable recovery. Symptoms of SSPE appear later. On average, the first symptoms appear about 10 years after the initial infection
thats the house episode, a child was unvaccinated and then developed the SSPE like years later.
People should have to get breeding licenses.
This has been considered at various points in history and, at least in the Western world, it often comes down to white people being given permission (regardless of preparedness) and people of color being forcibly sterilized. Also known as eugenics.
White supremacy is a hell of a scourge and the Western world is still trying to shake it, over the course of centuries.
Under the present administration, this family would have been first in line to receive their “breeding license.”
Breeding the “Trump Youth” and next generation of MAGAts.
Eugenics is fascist, end of.
Note: positive eugenics is also fascist.
For clarification - negative eugenics = preventing certain groups from reproducing. Positive eugenics = promoting certain groups to reproduce.
Fascists use both.
Imperfect implementation isn’t a reason not to adopt a good idea.
No. Just no. That’s fucking eugenics. No.
Theyre practising their own eugenics right now. In a way that can cause harm to others.
So? Does that make eugenics a good thing? No it doesn’t.
Yes, it’s apparently a human right for evil subhumans to bring children into the world and abuse them. The anti-eugenics crowd speed-running idiocracy.
Eugenics is fascist. You are defending a fascist ideology. Take a step back to consider that please.
Also curious to know how you would decide who gets to reproduce.
We place moral restrictions on decisions that have a potential to hurt others. Bringing children into this world is one such decision.
False equivalency. Also waiting on your criteria for a reproduction permit.
Again, eugenics is fascist.
Also, even with the best effort to restrict reproduction in a “good” way, the instant your administration changes, those restrictions will change too. Do you want the Trump admin to choose who can reproduce?
Education is the answer. Always has been, always will be.
the instant your administration changes, those restrictions will change too.
This applies to a lot of things. It’s a reason why you don’t want too much infrastructure in place that can be used for oppression, even if such infrastructure is put into place by a benevolent administration.
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Once thought like that, but actually think through it and it’s not possible without being evil: what are the criteria, who makes the call, who watches those making such calls to ensure it’s fair (and who watches them and so on because this kind of thing would immediately attract people seeking power over others and therefore corruption), how does one appeal, etc etc etc.
It just isn’t possible without being a fascist (evil).
Also it’s been done before even in “nonfascist” states - see forced sterilization of indigineous peoples and African Americans in the US.
Having a child is something a pair of consenting adults can do with their own bodies. How the state can get involved in that without it being a major incursion on personal liberty should cause one to pause.
I’m convinced that in this part of the world most supporters are either active or latent white supremacists. In other parts it’s often based on subjugation of a more specific ethnic group, which isn’t any better. It’s all fascism at the end of the day.
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Eugenics is okay when it’s for my team but not for the others.
Very conservative mindset. lol
Should be considered criminal negligence.
Child abuse as well
If they weren’t his parents it would be charged as murder, plain and simple.
You let your kid walk to the store and back by themselves? Arrest them and take their kids away.
You refused to let them have life saving treatment? Oh okay you have our sympathy?
These are the morals of the right.
It’s because the only kids they like are orphans. Easier to manipulate.
This is also why they want pregnant teenage girls to stay pregnant and put the kid up “for adoption” instead of getting an abortion.
That, and they’re misogynistic pricks who like to flex their authority over women ay every opportunity.
I don’t disagree. Its clear that this rot has grown through all levels of society. That all these stupid things that go on are not stupid. They are evil, malevolent. They are responsible for so much death and destruction I will never be at peace until they are in pieces.
The whole lie is falling apart and literally everything they stand for can be explained by “it feeds the child sex trafficking machine”.
Until proven otherwise, that is now my base assumption of any R politician.
But it’s weird. It’s like I’m in a room full of people with a question posted on a chalkboard…
x = y x + y = 4And I’m standing here screaming out “you fucking idiots, how can you not see it”.
Pun not intended.
How can you not see it?
The words they failed to use are “Child neglect” or “Child abuse”.
