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Speaking at an anti-vaccine rally in 2022, Malone spread dangerous falsehoods about mRNA COVID-19 vaccines: "These genetic vaccines can damage your children. They may damage their brains, their heart, their immune system and their ability to have children in the future. Many of these damages cannot be repaired."

Malone aligned with the anti-vaccine crowd during the pandemic and has become a mainstay in conspiratorial circles and an ally to Kennedy. He has claimed that vaccines cause a "form of AIDS," amid other nonsense. He has also meddled with responses to the measles outbreak that erupted in West Texas in January. In April, Malone was the first to publicize news that a second child had died from the highly infectious and serious infection, but he did so to falsely claim that measles wasn't the cause and spread other dangerous misinformation.

In a newsletter post earlier this week, Malone proclaimed: "Some people still believe that the term anti-vaxxer is a pejorative. I do not—I view it as high praise."

The phrase "the lunatics have taken over the asylum" never seemed more apt. I know, we've lived in an asylum for awhile. We had a lunatic fringe, but even if we had to interact with them at least sane adults were in charge. Those halcyon days are over.

I just think COVID and social media have allowed people's historical "well-rounded" selves - the crazy bits getting sanded off by friction with sane people, which they've steadily now removed from their lives - to slowly disfigure until so many in the country have become grotesqueries. Superficially well-rounded people but when you turn them a bit, you see bizarre outgrowths of insane propaganda-fed mutation. And all of those people coalesced this election around Trump.

My neighbor is a nice, friendly person, but was talking about moving out of state during COVID because she didn't want her daughter to have to get the vaccine. I'm sure she is cheering this move. And goddamn, it's depressing.

Edit: A word.

I think you're onto something important there. COVID broke all daily routine habits, good and bad. I could imagine that resetting these kids' ideas of what it means to learn, at exactly the wrong time.

I'm glad this came to light. It's not surprising; this is Trump's whole fake-it-till-you-make-it game with his presidency, from the moment he actually paid actors to cheer for him coming down the escalator in 2015. He's always, always focused on the appearance of things rather than the substance.

That's weird. I specifically did NOT check NSFW. It must toggle it because my username is from lemmynsfw? I unchecked it, maybe it does that on the initial post assuming it's NSFW and you have to edit it out.

The actions come as President Trump and his top aides seek to bend academic institutions to their ideological beliefs. The State Department’s public diplomacy office is run by Darren Beattie, a political appointee who was fired from a job during the first Trump administration after he gave a talk at a conference attended by white nationalists. He has made social media posts on white grievances, including one saying “competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work,” and ones ridiculing Mr. Rubio.

God, every imbecile in this administration is somehow worse than the last. It's dizzying sometimes, like imagining a paradoxical Ouroboros of incompetence that somehow has eaten itself to completion and is still going.

Ahh, yes, that was the issue - sarcasm in 2025 Internet begins at the seventh decimal point.

I assume the first sentence was sarcasm, but yeah, this is one of those pure-politics votes that are only meant to injure Democratic candidates by ensuring either the "left" or "centrist" parts of the party are angry at the result.

These people are pretty much all from universally purple swing districts and made a political calculation on a purely political vote.

By talking about this, and getting pissed off, we're playing to the GOP's tune.

So the only purpose of this move is to burn the bridges we've spent a century building with our allies, got it.

Boy, Putin got the deal of the millennium on Trump.

The tweet read:

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Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater.

You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.

I'm having some trouble here, what's the controversial statement?

Yeah, this is the most depressing thing about the move - we are only 11% through the term, and best case is we remove them in 2029, but even if we do, we're going to be digging ourselves into the hole until then.

As is typical, the blue states end up doing the thing that's right; the red states just keep doing the thing that wins.

The federal agency ICE is completely captured by fascists. They are arbitrarily staging immigration crackdowns using hastily deputized agents who arrest people off the street while hiding their identity. They came to Los Angeles, a fervently anti-fascist area. It triggered massive but mostly peaceful protests, and some protestors wave Mexican flags like OP's picture.

Trump is using the protests as a pretext to claim this is an invasion, so he can mobilize the federal military against citizens. The protests are getting more chaotic (by design, since military presence is exacerbating tensions), which causes the police violence to increase, in a vicious cycle.

How can we be in such a stupid timeline?

It is perfectly obvious that Trump and his fascist brain trust are methodically testing every limit to democracy, they are already arresting citizens who have broken no laws, they are using physical violence and military control over civilians, and this is obviously leading up to a militarized authoritarian state. And at the same time our Congress - including many GOP opportunists who don't actually believe in Trump but think there's no real danger - are utterly incapable of seeing the big picture.

You spineless windbags in Congress, it's happening right now, Trump is dismantling democracy right now. Do something. Introduce articles of impeachment and shut down Congress until they're voted on, put pressure at every possible point.

Yes, congresspeople, you didn't have the votes, that's why you influence public opinion in service of what's right - you know, politics. Have you heard of it?

Their learned helplessness is just giving Trump unitary lawless control on a silver platter.

I'm not sure what the hostility is for. The very thing the protesters are standing up for is the correct idea of America. The flag should be for real patriots who believe in the Constitution, not Trump and his insurrectionist ilk.

So Musk being cast out means all of a sudden they care about security?

Perfectly demonstrating that the in/out group separation is the only principle they care about.

Hoping the third party fractures the right is all you can hope for while we're a first-past-the-post voting country. Any new party popular enough to displace a party will simply become the other second party and create the same mediocrity. Until then, it would just siphon votes from the closest two-party option.

The only way this gets fixed is by ranked choice or similar voting systems, that remove the tactical voting incentive.

Stylophone is very nice. The abrasive overtones are an acquired taste, but I've acquired it. It has a nice, rounded sound while not being generic like a sine wave.

Sometimes I do it for comments, and it's just because I don't really like what I wrote. I read it and it's just banal, and I'm like, "you're not moving the discourse forward at all."

What annoys me are people who did that to thousands of their posts after leaving Reddit. They're their posts, they have the right to do it, but I'm like, c'mon, Reddit isn't suffering from it. They're selling the data for the same price with or without, and they have all the backups. No, all the users who are googling a one-place-on-the-Internet solution to their extremely specific problem are suffering.

I think that's like getting angry at your boss and taking it out on your family.

The White House reportedly asked Graham to insert waivers into the bill allowing Trump to choose which entities get sanctioned and changing the word “shall” to “may.” Removing the mandatory language from the text would essentially defang the bill, staffers said.

This isn't a request to change the bill, it's a request to completely make the bill irrelevant.

I guess we know what they were waiting for to bring him back - looking for some reason they could claim he broke a law so they could retroactively be right.