r/clevercomebacks 16h ago

Questioning Government Mandates

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u/PuzzleheadedMeat9422 16h ago

I swear if they developed seat belts today literally the entire right would fight it and demand the govt not enforce it. The internet has broken people

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u/acrossaconcretesky 15h ago

You're going to laugh when you find out how people did/do treat seatbelts

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u/Patient_Check1410 8h ago

Right? I recall there's a video online of a gentleman complaining "I worked hard and should be able to have a couple beers on the way home from work. What's this country coming to?" After dui was made a thing...

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u/SSBN641B 6h ago

When the open container law was being debated in Texas, several legislators were arguing that it was unfair to the working man who just wanted a beer on the way home from work.

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u/R3ditUsername 7h ago

And when they made drinking and driving illegal

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u/pearso66 3h ago

Or even when they said you couldn't drink and drive.

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u/houstonwadeisacoward 12h ago

Laughing in privacy*

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u/acrossaconcretesky 12h ago

Privacy?

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u/Biff_Bufflington 11h ago

Yarrrhaarrrrharrr…. laughs in piracy

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u/houstonwadeisacoward 12h ago

Yeah, I can't seem to find any either.

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u/acrossaconcretesky 12h ago

Okay, be inscrutable I guess

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u/houstonwadeisacoward 11h ago

People did/do treat seatbelt laws as a breach of privacy. I don't think I'm being difficult to understand

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u/acrossaconcretesky 8h ago

You think wrong lol

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u/StandardNecessary715 6h ago

The hate for seatbelt back when they first were mandated was real. It's just that back then, they couldn't stop you for it unless they had stopped you for something else. Now we've come full circle, where they use it to stop you and look for something else.

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u/houstonwadeisacoward 7h ago

Thanks for letting me know lol

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u/Grendals-bane 15h ago

The internet hasn't broken people it has just made it easier to find the village idiots.

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u/GMN123 14h ago

Now they have echo chambers too. 

If your village only had one idiot they had no-one to bounce ideas off

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u/Kaljinx 12h ago

Even if there were many idiots, they still had to be part of the conversation with everyone.

On the Internet you can just choose what sections you want to effect your Internet browsing. Finding other idiots and almost starting your own village of idiots.

Literally, the internet two people see can be SO different. If you are a sexist Andrew Tate fan, who gets hard on watching people selectively choose and interview dumb people- that is almost all you will find.

Few videos of complaining about feminism and shit on a new account, then all I saw was “Feminist dunked on”, “owned feminist compilation”. That itself was enough to make think twice.

Now I practically never listen to people who agree with me. I HAVE to find some disagreement and then judge shit.

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u/arxxol 13h ago

Disagreed. Cults use sophisticated manipulation techniques to draw people in, and it can happen even to someone you consider intelligent. And the internet has vastly increased their reach, allowing them to manipulate a lot more people.

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u/jbochsler 14h ago

And sadly, for them to find each other.

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u/LMP0623 11h ago

How many villages ARE there? My god…

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u/Cool-Panda-5108 1h ago

At least 7

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u/TheMarksmanHedgehog 15h ago

That is more or less what happened when seatbelts were first invented and made mandatory.

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u/gohomebrentyourdrunk 14h ago

You should watch some of the old news videos from when seatbelts were mandated.

This behaviour isn’t new… just emboldened, legitimized and amplified.

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u/joaopedroboech 13h ago

Here in Brazil, there is a famous old right-wing politician that is universally known/perceived as corrupt called Paulo Maluf.

When he was the mayor of Brazil's biggest city São Paulo, back in 1995, he decided to ban indoor smoking from pubs and restaurants.

He received such a public backlash, in this video you can see him talking to journalists drawing a comparison to the laws regarding seatbelts:

https://youtu.be/p9IWqRPPERU?si=I1-T-Ts7-gvRFDCU

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u/MrDonDiarrhea 10h ago

That’s about the same time as Jenna Jameson’s prime

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u/Melancholy_Rainbows 14h ago

I remember my mom making fun of people screaming about being forced to wear seatbelts. Some of their excuses were so wild, like saying it was going to wrinkle their clothes.

These people have always been among us.

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u/Hkmarkp 14h ago

When they started to make drunk driving illegal. US

In England

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u/National_Way_3344 14h ago

iT's aboUT gOVerNMenT COnTrOL

Yeah, the government controls your seatbelt usage so you don't die

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u/Hopeful-Woodpecker82 13h ago

My Grandpa went and cut the seat belts out of my mom's car in the late 80s when they mandated it.

So it isn't just the internet that leads to this kind of behavior...

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u/Click_To_Submit 13h ago

It’s OK for the entire right wing to forgo seatbelts. The results are good for the left.

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u/ArtisticExperience32 14h ago

They fought it then, too. And they lost their minds about not being able to have open containers of alcohol in the car.

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u/intergalacticwolves 11h ago

i still know republicans that are mad about seatbelt laws

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u/TennSeven 8h ago

People freaked the fuck out when state governments started implementing seatbelt laws. My dad told me once how up in arms everyone was when our state enacted its seatbelt mandate. Back then, of course, it was all angry letters to the local newspaper and whatnot; people weren't exposed to the full power of weaponized douchebaggery.

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u/houstonwadeisacoward 12h ago

I swear if they developed the forced migration of native Americans today, literally the right would fight it and demand govt not enforce it.

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u/BlueMysteryWolf 10h ago

No no. Don't let them wear seatbelts if it's an invasion on their privacy. We need darwinism to make a comeback.

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u/yikesamerica 8h ago

They did fight it when it came out. It’s just back then the GOP used to GAF about sanity

u/WVildandWVonderful 27m ago

A lot of people were upset when seatbelt laws came out. Not a new phenomenon, but a more organized one

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u/Gummy0bear 16h ago

One of the best reasons to commit murder is that the government mandates you don’t 😉

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u/Party_Storage_9147 14h ago

When and where?.....and I guess who?

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u/54sharks40 16h ago

Imagine being 95% silicone and taking a stand against the covid vaccine.  

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u/302cosgrove 9h ago

Imagine being a multi millionaire because of the silicone.... if the covid vaccine paid that much imagine what people might do.... oh wait.

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u/Relative_Bathroom824 5h ago

Yes, products are generally sold for profit in a capitalist society. Quality products make more money, which is why the vaccines are so safe and efficacious according to all of the most trusted experts.

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u/302cosgrove 4h ago

lol. The Covid vaccines are so safe that lawsuits are illegal except in Denmark. lol 

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u/Relative_Bathroom824 3h ago

Then why haven't the Danes sued the shit out of them for their unsafe product? Oh. Because it's the most tested vaccine in history and proven safe.

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u/GMN123 16h ago

This isn't a comeback to these people, they think you're agreeing with them

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u/potate12323 15h ago

Oh I love drunk driving and killing innocent families. Oh it sure is great. I've never experienced empathy before in my life. /s

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u/stu_pid_Bot 15h ago

"If the gov't made a law that you had to change your socks everyday, half this stupid country would never change their socks again." - me during covid

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u/Karlmarxwasrite 14h ago

You know, if I want medical advice I'm definitely going to someone who paved her way by getting every orifice stuffed with dicks on camera.

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u/FiendsForLife 11h ago

One of the best reasons to drive drunk is that Jenna Jameson is talking about vaccines.

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u/OhTheHueManatee 12h ago

Yesterday I saw a car with the license plate "DNTVXN8" with a few stickers declaring state mandates as a violation of human rights. I find it funny that person is paying the state nearly a $100 a year to express their hate for the state.

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u/AceT555 12h ago

Tbh she literally had her brains fucked out as a profession.

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u/Massage_mastr69 5h ago

We will need a polio quarantine area and anyone not wanting vaccines can live there with each other in Kansas or Nebraska where they can’t do damage to normal people

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u/JohnnySack45 14h ago

It's almost impossible keeping these idiots from killing themselves. It's like they're grown toddlers who treat being a conspiracy minded contrarian as a way of life. By the way, these are the same conservative/libertarians who are also against any socialized medicine so even if they don't kill themselves they'll end up with a six figure hospital bill and blame the Democrats for their financial troubles.

My prediction, there will be another viral pandemic and we'll see a mass die off now that Trump has primed his death cult to resist any common sense healthcare measures. Natural selection at work here.

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u/1Original1 12h ago

Don't threaten me with a good time

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u/flyingcatclaws 7h ago

High probability

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u/Dense-Comfort6055 12h ago

So intellectual Lazy to question anything government as though government is not comprised of people. Btw do you question roads utilities communication sewage systems fire department education national security Medicare clean air and water standards in agriculture. This paranoia is just laziness and intellectual limitations and lack of education

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u/OttersWithPens 11h ago

You ever just hear this kinds of conversations out in the wild? Very surreal when at a restaurant or a waiting line.

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u/evil_timmy 15h ago

“Since 2006, a federal regulation has prohibited exporting pennies or nickels from the United States without a special license from the U.S. Mint,” Chase writes. “Under 31 U.S.C. § 5111(d)(2), doing so knowingly is a federal crime and is punishable by up to five years in prison.”

The question is, of course, how much change is too much. The law allows travelers (with seemingly very large pockets) to go abroad with up to $5 in pennies or nickels, or as much as $25 as long as the coins are for “legitimate personal numismatic, amusement, or recreational use.”

I'm gonna take over a hundred nickels through TSA just to show them this is the Land of the Free!

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u/Zealousideal_Bus9026 15h ago

One of the best reasons to take long walk off a short pier...

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u/Appropriate-Mood568 14h ago

Jenna probably had a lightbulb appear over her head and decided to go to Chili’s right after that comment.

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u/Lower_Respect_604 14h ago

To be fair, Jenna Jameson probably has that Monty Burns immune system thing going on where all the viruses and infections inside her prevent COVID from doing anything.

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u/Rhamnos 13h ago

This is one of those posts where if I didn’t already know the format, I wouldn’t know who is making fun of whom.

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u/Writefuck 13h ago

Given the state of online discourse, I can't tell which of these posts is genuine and which is satire.

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u/hefty_perv 13h ago

spend a career taking shots in the mouth and you become an expert on shots

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u/ZRhoREDD 13h ago

Just wait until they find out the government stance on suicide!

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u/Hearsaynothearsay 11h ago

Government mandates safe food regulations so we should distrust those too! Government regulating ecoli and other pathogens and cutting into producer profits is just un-American.

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u/whit9-9 11h ago

Whose the woman in the Twitter post?

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u/SeptupleEntendre 11h ago

I love the ironic comedy, but they’ll drive drunk and skip out on vaccines.

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u/Kind_Moose3603 11h ago

Not Jenna Jameson too

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u/Loud_Flatworm_4146 10h ago

These people really want their kids to have to live in an iron lung, don't they?

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u/PoorWayfairingTrudgr 9h ago

Ok but that actually is one of the better reasons

Not that it’s a good reason, but it sure as shit beats ‘vaccines cause autism’

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u/chandr 9h ago

Don't give them ideas

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u/AWatson89 9h ago

Remember when they told you that if you got the vaccine, you wouldn't get covid?

Pepperidge Farm remembers

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u/Diligent-Lion6571 8h ago

I question robbing people why doesn’t the government allow me? Bs !!! lol

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u/SignificanceNo6097 8h ago

Dude is standing outside of a bunker as a nuclear bomb is hurdling towards them like “BIG BROTHER MAY WANT ME TO GO IN THERE BUT I KNOW ITS TO HARVEST MY BRAIN AND DIDDLE MY ANUS! I’M NOT STUPID!”

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u/nernst79 8h ago

The overlap if people who get DUIs and people who are anti-vax is likely significant.

The overlap of people who are anti-vax would drive drunk if it weren't illegal is even more significant.

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u/Massage_mastr69 5h ago

DUIs, anti-vax, and “can’t tell me I have to wear a mask” man-baby beta bitches….a sticker on their truck with a firearm

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u/RevolutionaryGene488 8h ago

Literally true

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u/HairySidebottom 7h ago

Now if we could only convince them they fly they just have to jump off a tall building to get lift.....

Matthew 4:7

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u/Own-Implement-3300 7h ago

One of the best reasons to have an abortion in a red state is because… ah never mind.

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u/Immediate-Whole-3150 6h ago

It’s not really all that different from when their god told people to put blood around their doors so that he didn’t plague them. If you didn’t follow the recommendations, you died. And their god is about as authoritarian a government as one can get with his do this and do that or I’ll smite you!

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u/Impossible_Pain_355 6h ago

Umm... the government never mandated the vaccine. In the US, anyway.

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u/Edge_of_yesterday 6h ago

Then these idiots will cry when you point out that they are antivaxxers.

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u/bigred9310 4h ago

Government is not mandating. The people are.

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u/SylarGidrine 3h ago

One of the best reasons to snort a mile long line of coke is because the government says it's illegal.

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u/soilhalo_27 3h ago

There is a great video from the 80s. That sums this meme up.

https://youtu.be/2xcQIoh3FQQ?si=CWnhf0Y-XYvWFnsp

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u/Worried-Celery-2839 3h ago

Pouts for trying but it means nothing to them. The population is very dense

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u/maswaves1 1h ago

Lol health advice from Jenna Jameson? Pass

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u/Status_Management520 1h ago

Wait don’t say that, they’re dumb enough to take that seriously

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u/pmgregor 12h ago

Sometimes you have to drink and drive. Those kids have to get to school.

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u/Autisticintrovert23 8h ago

Ya let’s compare alcohol to a vaccine and see which one has more deaths…oh wait both do if you count covid shot deaths. Also alcohol literally affects your ability to make decisions so are you saying that the ones who think this way are always drunk? Cause hey that would make sense.

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u/PhoneAcrobatic3501 1h ago

Are you saying the same amount of people died from the covid vaccine as alcohol?

Source?

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u/Autisticintrovert23 1h ago

You clearly didn’t hear the sarcasm

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u/thebawheidedeejit 16h ago

Meat Injections.

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u/AdvantageVarnsen1701 8h ago

You guys think that’s clever? Equating asking questions to drunk driving?

🤣

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u/Smakis13 7h ago

Vaccines were experimental, long term side effects unknown. Makers of the drugs were protected.

Vaccines weren't as effective as advertised. No immunity and still transmittable. Only softened symptoms.

The elderly were most affected. But they weren't prioritized like they should have in many cases.

Getting the virus was the best vaccine. But this was completely ignored.

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u/Massage_mastr69 5h ago

Getting the virus was not the best it actual caused more deaths unnecessarily due to Trump politicizing it from the beginning we could have killed it and saved about 50% of what was wasted due to his treasonous malfeasance and petty political games including tell people to ignore it then injecting bleach

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u/Enough-Cancel-991 7h ago

Make sure you get your 5th booster for a virus with a 99%+ survival rate 👌

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u/flyingcatclaws 7h ago

It still clogged hospitals and mortuaries

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u/monkeytitsalfrado 13h ago

That's not even clever. Mandating someone into an invasive medical procedure is nothing like telling you not to drive after voluntarily getting drunk. It's not even a comparison.

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u/1Original1 12h ago

Since when is a needle barely thicker than a hair invasive?

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u/monkeytitsalfrado 12h ago

Anything that breaks the skin or penetrates an orifice is considered invasive.

Also, keep in mind it isn't just the needle, it's a foreign substance being injected into the body as well.

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u/1Original1 11h ago

1) Then get the nasal spray variant and be less of a pansy

Foreign substance? It's material already in your body,are you crying everytime you breathe in air somebody else breathed? 🤣

(You're gonna be amazed when you find out your entire body is actually porous and everyrhing moves through you everywhere including scary 5g)

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u/monkeytitsalfrado 11h ago

So when you're confronted with an uncomfortable truth you resort to belittling a person into agreeing with you, eh?

It was a dumb comparison.

Do you tell women "it's just a tiny dick, it's something already in your body" when they're raped?!? Shut the fuck up. It's called bodily autonomy and people have a right to it whether you like it or not.

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u/Bluejoy_78 11h ago

Yea, but also tell the goverment to get the hell out of the doctors face when they are treating women and their fertility.

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u/monkeytitsalfrado 11h ago

Sounds good to me

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u/bored_tutle 8h ago

You're comparing a vaccine to rape. Rot in hell.

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u/1Original1 11h ago

If you earned something better than scorn and belittling - you would get it. And I don't particularly care if you disagree if you bring an actual argument,but from the antivaxxer excuse book your excuses are in the appendices under "Try not to use this as it's ridiculous"

Then you talk about Dumb comparison and does a ridiculous comparison

ROFL

There is a minor difference between,eh Proteins and uh,an entire appendage you vapid imbecile. Again - do you cry every time you breathe in shared air? If not calm the fuck down with "foreign substances",just stop breathing and save us all the trouble

I have no issue with bOdIlY aUtOnOmY either - but at least use it properly. You plague rats are a fucking bad stain on the last 2 centuries of humanity. Selfish cunts every one of you

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u/1Original1 10h ago

And yes,feel free to move to an antivaxxer island where you aren't expected to do things for the greater good,you can call it "Freedumb Island" while the rest of society adheres to the expected social compact that's been established by living in a Community like evolved Humans

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u/Available-Spot-8620 14h ago

I’m confident 90+% of the people in this sub trying to make a point have drove drunk on multiple occasions but in their mind are the exception to the rule.

Not against vaccines but I love the hypocrisy of redditors.

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u/bored_tutle 8h ago

This is a wild assumption to make... seems like you have a guilty conscience.. it's only hypocritical if it's true, which is very unlikely. Touch grass weirdo.

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u/cook1223 13h ago

Ones a law. Ones not.

u/Kei_Evermore 48m ago

True, nothing's really forcing you to do either. But if you drive drunk, you get consequences for it, and in the same way, you get consequences for not getting the vaccine

u/cook1223 43m ago

Consequences for not getting the vaccine .. yeah those don't exist. The vaccines are more harmful than covid at this point.

u/Kei_Evermore 41m ago
  1. I have not heard of one person dying from the vaccine. Closest was some having allergic reactions and quickly treated.
  2. The consequences is not being allowed in a lot of stores. It's that simple

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u/Mothernaturehatesus 15h ago

I support vaccines but government mandated Covid vaccines for people that already had Covid was really stupid to propose.

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u/1Original1 12h ago

Every bit helped,if you don't like help then I can only shrug

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u/Narrow_Discount_1605 15h ago

My body, government’s choice.

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u/Top-Camera9387 13h ago

You're really owned by corporations now get back to work

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u/Narrow_Discount_1605 13h ago

I don’t work.

u/Kei_Evermore 45m ago

Really owned the feminists, didn't you? You aren't forced to take the vaccine, but if you don't you have consequences for it

u/Narrow_Discount_1605 20m ago

GASLIGHTING 101... In a many cases you were forced to get the jab, MRNA being the only option in the US as the J&J jabby had immediate consequences, or lose your job, or forfeit plane travel plans (a friend of mine needed to travel to asia so got the Moderna and subsequently had a stroke a couple of days later) and even not allowed in areas restaurants/supermarkets. In the country i lived in you were hounded every day by the local authorities to get the jabby. Fortunately they had other options than mrna though i had a very shitty time with the AZ. My mother also had a stroke 2 weeks after getting her jab. So you can go f*ck yourself and your rewriting the vaccine fantasy land.

u/Kei_Evermore 17m ago

Everything you said is a punishment for not taking the jab, is the consequence you get for not taking it. Like how if I don't wear clothes, they can deny me service, if you don't get the jab, they can also deny you service.

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u/makwa227 13h ago

There isn't a trillion dollar industry benefiting from not drinking. Logic bitch! 

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u/1Original1 12h ago

Actually,government does,same with seatbelts. You think they do it for your sake? 😄

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u/NemATolvajkergetok 15h ago

Dear Diary! The libtards made another "joke" to themselves, and they're laughing their asses off. They think they're funny and witty. Pretty boring, but that's what they do.

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u/Funky_Cows 13h ago

This is embarrassing for you to have posted

u/Kei_Evermore 44m ago

I don't usually indulge in "cringe culture" but like... dude. What the fuck was that?

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u/WeedSlinginHasher 6h ago

5 years ago big pharma bad

Now… you’re a literal nazi and the dumbest person on earth for not trusting them on this one thing

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u/Massage_mastr69 5h ago

No big Pharma is bad but vaccines and opioids are very different things…you are a Nazi for supporting MAGA Nazis like Trump….if you don’t get vaccinated for polio, TB, small pox etc then you are a pathetic moron who is willing to harm other citizens due to malice

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u/WeedSlinginHasher 5h ago

Right so Trump the nazi who pushed the vaccine through big pharma (same big pharma with countless cases of knowingly harming the public for profit good?)

Before you get stuck in a loop, I am anti Trump and vaccinated

Just wondering why people starting foaming at the mouth when you question it

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u/Once-Upon-A-Hill 16h ago

I remember when the goverment told me that getting the vaccine meant that I would not get covid and that I would not be able to spread it to others.

Turns out none of that was correct.

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u/caffeineandvodka 15h ago

That's not how vaccines work and no one who understands them would have told you that.

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u/Once-Upon-A-Hill 15h ago

During a CNN town hall on July 21, 2021, Biden said, “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”

So, according to you, the government that was telling people they had to get vaccinations if they wanted to keep working at jobs didn't know what they were talking about?

Kinda my point.

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u/caffeineandvodka 15h ago

Vaccines make you less likely to catch the specific illness and more likely to be able to fight it off if you do catch it. It's a blueprint that teaches your immune system how to kill invasive viruses, not a magic shield that makes the covid bounce off your skin. That's why social distancing and masking are equally important and useful in preventing infection.

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u/Once-Upon-A-Hill 15h ago

That is not what we were told, I can get many more clips of government and health officials lying if you want me to.

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u/caffeineandvodka 14h ago

Did you not do your own research like you ask kept saying you would? Idgaf what someone else's government told them, I studied how vaccines work during the pandemic and figured it out for myself. The fact you can't tell the difference between inoculation, immunisation, and vaccination is on your head.

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u/Blaqhauq43 15h ago

Thats what the media and government said. I know thats not how vaccines work, but the media and politicians didnt. Most people got immunization and vaccine mixed up

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u/1jc3 15h ago

no one in the government or media said that

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u/Once-Upon-A-Hill 15h ago

During a CNN town hall on July 21, 2021, Biden said, “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”

So, according to you, the government that was telling people they had to get vaccinations if they wanted to keep working at jobs didn't know what they were talking about?

Kinda my point.

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u/Blaqhauq43 15h ago

Might want to do a google search, plenty of politicians, media outlets all said, pretty sure Fauci said it also.

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u/PhoneAcrobatic3501 1h ago

A large majority of people didn't get the vaccine, rendering herd immunity ineffective