• BigPotato@lemmy.world
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    I’m glad I’m an unmitigated failure in life these days. All of my bad takes, like tears in the rain. All my stupidly misinformed opinions on things I don’t know enough about, no one listens enough to hear them.

    I’m glad we’ve got the first ten or so seasons of Sunny, and I’m also intrigued to know how much was a bit and how much was real…

    Does Charlie drink paint?

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    “it’s about the freedom to choose” reminds me of that scene in Thank You For Smoking (2005) where he explains how to defend the blatantly indefensible.

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      Honestly, it should be required viewing in school.

      I know communications classes on the college level (or mine lol) are basically studies on the tobacco industry, but we should really be teaching that to younger people.

      Especially with the access to information, disinformation, and every other kind that’s out there.

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    I’m generally pro vaccine. But I can understand why people don’t trust the private pharma companies in the US. They have traded trust for profit. Just another reason medicine shouldn’t be controlled by the profiteering ultra rich.

    An epidemic preventing vaccine should be open to anyone that wants to use and copy it with the highest level of testing and oversight. Instead you have private companies making more money than god that will cut every corner if they think they can get away with it.

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      Sure, but that doesn’t mean you don’t trust the actual doctors and scientists who are not on the payroll

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        I trust general doctors to be able to fix things like a broken arm, do test for known ailments ect. But I don’t trust them at all when it comes recommending treatment if the treatment is a pill being pushed.

        And this is due to multiple personal experiences. the worst being given a near unlimited prescription opioids as a teenager after a car accident without being told how addictive they are. I will never get those years back and I was told it was safe. And other pills where side effects have cause life changing levels of harm I have still not recovered from years later and they never once went over them before giving them out. I can go on and on about all the times I’ve been mislead doctors.

        The idea of the holy medical professional propaganda is such bs and stale at this point a quick Google search will show examples of how device and pharmaceutical companies routinely pay doctors through loopholes and they spend BIllions doing so.

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        Those companies bribe doctors and scientists all the time.

        Still not a good reason to be antivax, though.

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      It was 2015 for the tweet, who knows about the picture.

      But SB277 was to remove “personal belief” as a reason to not get kids vaccinated for public school or daycare.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Senate_Bill_277

      So, definitely stupid and uninformed. But that was way before covid and a shit ton of Hollywood actors had the same opinions.

      And also has nothing to do with the flu in the next pic, or covid.

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        And also has nothing to do with the flu in the next pic, or covid.

        It is just showing how the mentality in the first panel can increase the chances of the outcome in the second panel.

        He wants there to be children in his country who are not vaccinated => some of these children contract illnesses they are not vaccinated against => these children pass these illnesses onto adults like Howerton

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            between him and ROBs midlife crisis, im not surprised. glenn and rob was doing everything to stay in hollywoods innercircle, aka they did alot of cosmetic procedure. ROB specifially had so much he looks different, and been associating with RYAN reynolds, and a football star that retired, and recently changed his name to rob mac. and the whole PEDs controversy with rob he used for season 13 and on.

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              I found it odd that he was credited as “Rob Mac” on every episode in season 17 except the finale.