• Flying Squid
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    338 months ago

    Can we convince people that Andrew Wakefield, Jenny McCarthy and RFK, Jr. cause autism?

    (I don’t believe there’s anything actually wrong with being autistic, I have multiple autistic people in my family. I just think that would be amusing.)

    • @[email protected]
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      128 months ago

      Steps:

      1. be (usually born) rich
      2. have an agenda
      3. use your wealth to accomplish it
      4. lie, cheat, steal, do whatever you have to in order to “win”

      Did I leave anything out? :-P

      • @Cosmicomical
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        38 months ago

        You forgot step 5: once you have won, change the rules so nobody else can play anymore

          • @Cosmicomical
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            Eh, you’re still on time. Wait (checks papers) no, sorry you aren’t. They just changed the rules.

            • @[email protected]
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              28 months ago

              It’s okay, I’ll live.

              Wait no, I just checked the rules, none of us will. Oh well.

              Carpe diem baby! :-D

                • @[email protected]
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                  28 months ago

                  Okay (1) FUCK YEAH, but also (5) did you just change the rules there - are you a billionaire? Or just (d) viva la vida loca:-P.

                  • @Cosmicomical
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                    I’m sure the moment I were to become a billionaire people would finally pull out the guillotines.

    • BarqsHasBite
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      68 months ago

      Can we convince people that Andrew Wakefield, Jenny McCarthy and RFK, Jr. cause autism?

      Not autism. They cause death.

      • @pivot_root
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        88 months ago

        For the idiots who avoid vaccinating their kids because “it causes autism,” death is preferable. Consider that they would rather take that risk than be put in a situation of having to parent a neuroatypical child.

        • WideEyedStupid
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          This is what always got to me the most. Even if vaccines caused autism, wouldn’t that be preferable to your kid dying? Like, what the fuck is wrong with these people.

          • Flying Squid
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            68 months ago

            If their child isn’t perfect (by their standard of perfect), it’s worthless.

            Narcissistic parenting.

    • FuglyDuck
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      48 months ago

      (I don’t believe there’s anything actually wrong with being autistic, I have multiple autistic people in my family. I just think that would be amusing.)

      there’s probably a less tenuous correlation there, though. just saying. Granted, correlation is not causation, but, eh… yeah.

      • Flying Squid
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        28 months ago

        I know, but imagine all of these people in this ludicrous panic suddenly thinking Wakefield is the culprit for autism…