Essentially, for Republicans, it seems like avoiding raw milk is the new masking — and they’re just not going to do it in order to prove a point.
For instance, in April, Infowars host Owen Shroyer called the Food and Drug Administration a “gangster mafia” who wanted to “make raw milk illegal.”
“So, now that more people are going to local farms and farmers markets and consuming raw milk, this angers the FDA,” Shroyer said. “This angers Big Milk. Say, ‘No, you need to pasteurize milk, it’s a lot less healthy for you.’ See, eventually, they’ll just make it illegal. They’ll just make raw milk illegal. That’s what this is all about.”
During a bird flu outbreak that has crossed over to cattle. Weird thing to do to your supporters.
Not that different from attacking masks and vaccines, is it?
Really, it’s very different. Avian flu is estimated to be more deadly, and also less contagious among humans. Covid was most dangerous to the sick and the old, as well as first responders and medical professionals.
In other words, the people who were careless about Covid19 precautions were not the people who suffered the most.
With Avian flu, and really anything else you might get from contaminated milk, the person who will suffer is the person who is being careless.
So if Conservatives want to ignore the best advice of smart people and drink poison, I’m not going to lose any sleep over it. I feel really bad for their children, of course, but I can’t stop them from where I’m sitting.
In other words, the people who were careless about Covid19 precautions were not the people who suffered the most.
I thought there were measurable differences in how many t-rumpians died vs. normal Americans?
There is some correlation between political affiliation and community death rates, especially as it relates to attitudes towards vaccinations.
But that doesn’t mean the anti-vaxxers are the ones who suffer. It means the communities where anti-vaxxers live suffer. That’s not the same thing at all.
We know how Covid works. We know how viruses work in general. Every infection is an opportunity for mutation, and every unvaccinated person increases the risk for the entire community.
A young, healthy individual has a relatively low risk of dying from COVID19. They should still get the vaccine, and take precautions against transmissions, because every infection is an opportunity for mutation, and every unvaccinated person increases the risk for the entire community.
I’ve heard from so many morons, “it’s just the flu, it’s no big deal, it’s not worth the inconvenience.” And they’re probably right, for them. But it’s far worse than the flu, it is a big deal, and the minor inconvenience of wearing a mask or getting vaccinated is nothing compared to the lives it would have saved if we had mandated these basic things.
While that sounds straight forward in theory, these same idiots will give their children this same milk and wind up killing them.
Democrats need to start attempts at banning more things for them to defend. For example:
- huffing glue,
- trepanning,
- russian roulette,
- Flavor Aid with Valium, chloral hydrate, cyanide, and Phenergan.
Also, “Big Milk”? LOL, these are probably some of the same dumbphucks that agitate against almond milk, oat milk, soy milk, etc…
Good god, these people are so stupid.
That’s the woke range of milks.
Indeed, but the fact that they appropriate certain bits of language like “Big Milk” (which is continuing their campaign against “woke milks”) while championing drinking raw milk has a lot of irony to it.
I don’t like youtube shorts much but I’m reminded of this https://youtube.com/shorts/VcYT1ZcB_5w?si=E1stp-oOBCE6GtPU
There is a lobby for sure, but you’d expect these folks to be on the side of the businesses.
Yeah because raw milk has two important factors: 1) it’s (kinda) illegal for health reasons “guv’ment not tell me what do!” And 2) it’s largely a white people thing.
Grown adults in most of the world can’t digest milk, because they are not children. Close to 80% of the world is lactose intolerant as an adult. Guess which demographic overwhelmingly ISN’T lactose intolerant? White people. From the same areas Hitler liked.
Doctors should say avian flu is transmitted via pegging
It’s gotta be something they aren’t secretly doing already.
Once upon a time this was called “virtue signalling” but I think “vice-signalling” is better. A historian named David Perry defined it as such:
a public display of immorality, intended to create a community based on cruelty and disregard for others, which is proud of it at the same time.
In other words, being an asshole just to prove you belong with the other assholes in the rectum. And then you realize that everything the right does (and has been doing for decades) to “Own TEh LiBz!” can be ascribed to this:
- Drinking raw milk
- Anti-masking
- Anti-vaxxing
- Destroying their Dixie Chicks CDs
- Not watching Disney
- Destroying their Yetis
- Tanning your Tucker Carlson
- Claiming the Battle Flag of Virginia as their heritage
- Etc.
That’s why right-wing boycotts are usually ineffective- on the surface they might be mad about something, but since they’re only performative said boycotts don’t last long.
On a deeper level, however, this is more disturbing as it’s another step on the road to fascism. Fascist groups are all about their purity and so members are driven to prove their inclusion in the in-group lest they be purged next. This creates a downward spiral of more and more extreme acts to maintain that facade of inclusion, which gets worse and worse for the people who have to exist with those assholes.
| Tanning your Tucker Carlson
This could also work as a euphemism for exposing yourself in public. As in, “Bobert’s husband went jail for tanning his Tucker Carlson in front of some teenage girls at bowling alley.”
Someone needs to tell them that the libs are extremely owned when they not just tan their undercarriage, but when it gets a nice, red hue in the entire area. To the point where there is later peeling.
The libs really, really, really hate this. Spread the word!
I hear the libtards also hate skydiving and jaywalking across busy highways wearing dark clothes in the middle of the night.
That’ll own 'em if you do those things, too.
Skydiving is OK, but only because it’s regulated. What really pisses the libs off is skydiving out of your buddy’s crop duster with a homemade wingsuit.
Gravity’s a woke scam anyway, just jump from a tall place and drink those lib tears.
At least this time they’ll just be owning the libs and themselves unlike with masking where they screwed everyone over.
Please no one tell them and let them drink their raw milk and get avian flu and perish.
“Why did nobody tell me I would die from this?”
“Do your own research.”
Apparently one of the conspiracies is that it will cause immunity to the bird flu. It’s like a chicken pox party, basically.
So. If we do nothing, Republicans will go drink raw milk? Sounds ideal! Unless they also want the rest of us to drink raw milk. I’m vegan so it doesn’t affect me, but sounds like a thing you just let them go crazy on. Then we can talk about COVID25 and the rise of madcowcovidbirdflu v2.1.
It’s weird. They used to take such great pride in not being like the French.
Then again, they also used to think the Iraq War was a great idea (unlike those filthy French).
Do they even eat chocolate that taste like barf anymore? Man, if old Hershey was still around, he’d set them straight. Or the other thing. Either way, he’d do it decisively.
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Just wait until they notice beef is coming from cattle too … ;-p
Reminds me of ‘Soylent Green is people!’
You can’t tell me what to do!
Apparently for some, this is where right-wing political philosophy starts and ends. Everything else seems to be retrofit around this principle, regardless of its rationality. Even if the party in question is giving you sound advice, like not to drink raw milk, and is doing nothing to prevent you from doing so if you please.
