• Flying Squid
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    8 months ago

    Your example about both sidesism, bringing on an anti vaxxer, is either a deliberate straw man or a minor example that isn’t a good representative of the media trying to discuss both sides.

    It happened constantly during COVID. Where were you?

    And now we have two antivaxxers running for president. One with a good chance of winning. And they get to talk about their “side” in the news too. Often unchallenged.

    I don’t know how you can not be aware of this.

    But your last point I agree with completely. Neither progressives nor conservatives have the complete truth.

    That’s not what I said. It’s also wrong.

    It is completely true that global warming is happening and humans are the cause no matter how much conservatives want to deny it.

    • @OccamsRazer
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      18 months ago

      Ok, so everything conservatives stand for is wrong? And everything progressives stand for is objective truth? Or are you only referring to climate change?

      Also Trump is not an anti vaxxer. Don’t you remember “Operation warp speed”? Maybe you should find more variety in your news sources.

      Also, discussions during COVID regarding school closures and vaccine mandates are not the same as denying vaccine efficacy. I hope you aren’t confusing those issues. Yes I’m sure there were anti vaxxers on the news from time to time, but you seem to think it was super common. That’s not what I remember at all.

    • Sybil
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      18 months ago

      we have two antivaxxers running for president.

      we do? i don’t think so… who?

      • Flying Squid
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        18 months ago

        I guess you’ve never heard of Donald Trump and RFK, Jr.

        • Sybil
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          18 months ago

          Donald Trump ran operation warp speed, and I frankly hadn’t been following rfk at all

          • Flying Squid
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            8 months ago

            I already covered this in a reply that was done four hours before yours, so I don’t know why you didn’t see it. Trump was an antivaxxer before Operation Warp Speed and he has become one again.

            https://lemmy.world/comment/8963958

            I know this might be hard to believe, but Trump is a hypocrite.

            As for RFK, Jr. He literally made a name for himself by supporting the “vaccines cause autism” lie.

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              I wasnt going to vote for either of them anyway…

              • Flying Squid
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                18 months ago

                I’m not sure how who you are going to vote for is relevant to what I was saying. This isn’t about you.