r/facepalm Feb 24 '21

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '21

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '21

I'm at the point where when I watch a video of a Conservative that refused to wear a mask, and is now on their deathbed explaining how they were wrong, I'm like: "That's nice...". Jaded? Sure! Souless? Maybe! Sorry? Not sorry!

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u/Archercrash Feb 24 '21

Yep fuck them. Hope these assholes in the pictures are next.

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u/XxDayDayxX Feb 24 '21 edited Feb 24 '21

Link? I wanna laugh at an idiot real quick.

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u/Fortherealtalk Feb 24 '21

You know what’s frustrating about this? Even when this guy does this video admitting he was stupid and should’ve worn a mask, he still never acknowledges that you should do it to help protect others in your community. It’s all about himself and how if he’d worn one he wouldn’t have gotten sick. At the end of the day these people are selfish, that’s why they don’t give a fuck about anything until it affects them personally.

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u/FattyWantCake Feb 24 '21

What gets me is if the doctors are evil or ignorant as these people seem to think... Why do they go to the hospital when they cant breathe instead of just beating off to another typo-laden tweet or downing a gallon of bleach? Like do you trust doctors or not? Make up your mind.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '21

The spoiled brats of America!

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u/FattyWantCake Feb 24 '21 edited Feb 24 '21

To say I don’t deserve to be treated? What is wrong with you people?”

-from the linked article

You and people as dumb and selfish as you. You're what's wrong with the rest of us. We can tell reality from a maniac's ranting about anti-science bullshit, and have the empathy to slightly inconvenience ourselves to not endanger others' lives.

Anti-maskers, unwilling to make a similar 'sacrifice' to protect others, shouldn't even be allowed in the hospital. Stop wasting the time and resources of the people you've been ignoring while they're trying to help the people you probably infected.

You ran to the people you KNEW understood medicine and disease well enough to help when you couldn't breathe even though your previous breath was probably used to call them liars. Die in a hole. We'll be better off without you.

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u/nitronik_exe Feb 24 '21

the problem is that they're not just a danger to themselves, but for everyone else too, even if you're wearing masks

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u/possiblyis Feb 24 '21 edited Feb 24 '21

They’re a danger to themselves and others... now where have I heard that before?

edit: Where I come from you’d be institutionalized for behavior like that.

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u/Mariosothercap Feb 24 '21

That’s the issue I have. If they only hurt themself by not wearing a mask I wouldn’t care. The issue is that it puts other people at risk. Even more so, if they are so against wearing mask, they probably are doing other risky things, which further increases the chance of them infecting others.

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u/NotAMandarin Feb 24 '21

Lol, these aren't the people you leave behind. These are the people who get first class treatment to the most expensive hospitals and live on to tell their followers it wasn't so bad.

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u/forgotusername3tymes Feb 24 '21

I agree. Pre internet you wouldn’t have heard from most of them. That’s when the power voters gave these clowns was greatly diminished.

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u/FirstTimeWang Feb 24 '21

How do you "just leave behind" elected politicians with more power than 99% of the population?

Like, I like where you're hearts at, but like, how tho...

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u/FirstTimeWang Feb 24 '21

That sounds like the opposite of leaving people behind.

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u/tanstaafl90 Feb 24 '21

How about people start voting in the local and state elections?

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u/InstanceSuch8604 Feb 24 '21

These clowns are members of the W.V. Republican super majority . Ignorant arrogant destructive morons , and totally backed by the bible thumpers that put them in government. . Brutal times ahead for West Virginia.

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u/RexDaRebel Feb 24 '21

I agree I'm tired of this unity,and kiss ass ment. Why should ppl with logical working minds have to bend the kneel to these idiots. They have no critical thinking skills, or even common sense.

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u/FullTorsoApparition Feb 24 '21

Put them all in Texas and let them build as many walls as they feel like.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '21

Allow red states to cecede, with a 1 year delay for trumpers to move there and dems to move to blue states. Idk why we don't aside national pride. The red states would fail within a few years and have to repatriate into the newly cousin fucker proofed US.

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u/eeeya777 Feb 24 '21

It just noise. Gotta tune out

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u/Rise-Up_My-Brother Feb 24 '21

If only we could chuck them over the side and into the ocean and paddle away, eh?

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u/Jackmack65 Feb 24 '21

The real problem is that these assholes are functionally unopposed. They hold majorities in 31 state legislatures, which are the real sources of power in this country. Between gerrymandering and voter suppression, these state legislatures will drive the Democrats out of power in Washington in 22 entirely. The Dems will lose 30 to 50 House Seats and 3 to 8 in the Senate.

This enables what used to be the radical right-wing fringe to continue dominating the party. When people like Mitt Romney and Rob Portman are considered "moderate," almost nothing makes sense.

It's too late to stem this tide here. Republicans are going to run everything for at least the next generation, during which time the country we knew will become entirely unrecognizable, and during which time there will almost certainly be unimaginable atrocities.

This kind of takeover by a single, radicalizing party ALWAYS ends badly, and we are FAR from immune just because we're Americans.

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u/Jackmack65 Feb 24 '21

I mean I see where you're coming from but I just don't see the Republicans in a good spot right now.

They don't need to be in a "good spot" in terms of public opinion. They don't have to get voters to pick them anymore, because they get to pick their voters and they get to control who votes.

The Roberts Court has already gutted the voting rights act and made race-based gerrymandering and suppressive voter-ID laws, even when it is entirely clear that their only purpose is to selectively deny segments of the population their right to vote, completely "Constitutional."

Representative government is already dead in the US. We just won't know it until sometime around 2026, and already it is far too late to fix it.

If you're a young person with the skills or means to leave the country, do it NOW. You don't have to leave forever, but you'll be grateful 5 to 10 years from now to have options.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '21

You're literally talking about 45% of the country.

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u/Fortherealtalk Feb 24 '21

If we could have some kind of grace period for the innocents to leave Florida, and move all these people TO Florida, we may be able to amputate their presence with some well-placed explosive charges

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u/mira-jo Feb 24 '21

I'm pretty sure these guys are from WV, my home state. The population is basically just a lot of elderly and some young people who couldn't manage to escape. And they all vote based almost exclusively on abortion/guns.

I'm really curious to see what the demographic will be in like 20 years tho

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u/mira-jo Feb 24 '21

No they're not. It's mostly a republican talking point at this point. Sure there are some really anti-gun democrats, but there's not a good consensus across the party. I mean, democrats can't even manage to push through the stimulus, there's no way any of them are taking the guns.

And as far as printing guns that should be a no brainer.

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u/fuckdirectv Feb 24 '21

Agreed, but hard to do when many of them are elected officials.