• DandomRude
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        12 hours ago

        If you only seriously realize this when using some random social media app, you’re the perfect example of how this could have happened. If not, then all the more so.

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          12 hours ago

          I realized that they basically defunded the CDC now because I live REALLY far away from america and dont subscribe to depressing us news

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            12 hours ago

            It’s less trustworthy in the guidelines but it’s not defunded.

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                11 hours ago

                Yes, but it’s incorrect if you act like it’s gone too.

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                  11 hours ago

                  Why are you acting like there’s no problem? There is one—and it’s a huge one!

                  Edit: I’m talking to the same person, right? What’s that all about? A discussion needs arguments, not smurf accounts. Internet points aren’t a measure of anything. GTFO!

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            12 hours ago

            Then maybe you should hold back on making sarcastic comments about things you know nothing about.

            Aside from the fact that mainstream social media apps are being misused by billionaires for their own purposes, that’s the biggest problem here: people who get in the way of a meaningful discussion because they feel the need to post something they find funny.

            This isn’t a topic where jokes are appropriate. You may not grasp the consequences, but it’s exactly as I say: Hundreds of thousands of people are dying because of this.

            And yet: You think this is a joke. That’s disgusting, nothing more.

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                11 hours ago

                It really couldn’t be more obvious that I’m not from the US.

                Please spare me that, because nobody reads that far on social media anyway. So you’re basically talking just to me right now, and I don’t get at all what you’re getting at with your slogans.

                Seriously, don’t bother. Just don’t reply if you don’t have anything meaningful to contribute.

                Edit: Go easy on the downvotes, too—smurf accounts don’t make your life any better; in fact, they make it pretty pathetic—even more pathetic than it already is, apparently.

                To put it bluntly: The fact that you’re resorting to these measures proves my previous statement correct.