Sorry, can’t find any better sources for this.
The animator then asked Maher what the “downside” of “getting a vaccine” was, which caused the comedian to go on an anti-vax tirade.
“The fact that you the fact that you don’t even have a clue what’s the cost of getting a vaccine that you don’t know the answer to that. You completely want to shut your eyes to the fact that there are repercussions to all medical interventions, including a vaccine, all vaccines,” he ranted. “They come, they say side effects, just like every medication does. You can see it in the literature. They can’t write it on their back on the vaccine. So you have to dig them. And of course, there is a vaccine court because so many people have been injured.”
Oh, it’s me. I’m that guy. I mean, look at my post history here. I invented being that guy, except Maher is older than me, but I’ll still argue about it because I’m that guy.
It comes from being somewhat above average in school, and getting a bit of a reputation for being precocious and smart and not really having anything else going on so you may as well double down on it and have a thing. Plus if you ride that wave confidently enough it’ll get you a full on career. And once you get validated by sucess, or whatever you personally consider success-adjacent enough, there’s no way them kids are gonna show you up. Ever. No matter what. Every hill is worth dying on. Because that self-image. Is. All. You. Have. All you’ve had for decades now.
Man, I should go hug my dad. I can point at the two or three conversations we had that made me at least try not to be that asshole.
You can also have had a professor for a dad. My dad and his colleagues basically spent any social time they had together trying to play “who’s the smartest?”
As a cishet guy I hate hanging around with other cishet guys because they’re constantly trying to assert dominance
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