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Slow down and stretch a bit before patting yourself on the back so godamn hard! The fact that the vaccines turned out to be safe and effective means that we never should have spent the time to verify they're safe and effective?!?!?!?! And again, you're some sort of medical professional???

Well Bill, the historical origins of that word are perfectly innocent so what's the big deal?

Yet you often don't bother to disclose this about your links until somebody's called BS on them...

americanthinker.com? Dude, you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel

Another rambling post but it seems your takeaway is that your definition of woke (remember, it’s the Fox News caricature version) is the be-all/end-all.

A little over a year ago, Stedfast Baptist Church opened up in a strip-mall about a mile from my house. This summer I saw a bunch of people out in front of the church with rainbow flags and protest signs, and learned about the group No Hate in Hurst. They're protesting the pastor of this church advocating killing gays...This isn't somebody twisting his words: he's said point blank that gays are against God's will and they should be killed. ***This pastor took over for the previous pastor who shared similar viewpoints and had celebrated the Pulse nightclub shootings, but was relieved of his duties after being found in a hotel room with hookers and drugs (if that's your thing, party on but don't do so whilst condemning those who don't adhere to your high Christian standards). So the group No Hate in Hurst started protesting these guys, got them designated a hate group and as a result they were evicted from their building; the church is currently appealing the eviction. Would the OP consider these protestors mentally ill? A Woke mob run amok? Does this not count as 'woke' since it's not primarily a racial thing? Here's a video of this asshat in action: Pastor Shelly spreading the word of God

Thank you for walking me through it, I was having problems keeping up.

Come on man, really?

No confusion, and I really couldn't give two shits about what any form of 2000 year old fairytale says. Just don't go accusing me of speaking glowingly of pedos.

Your ability to take gigantic leaps and arrive at incorrect conclusions never ceases to amaze.

Do you share your general opinion of the Koran as the manual for some sort of pedophile cult with your Sunni and Shiite friends? Or do you smile to their face and then come talk shit about their religion on the dizzy dot comms?

Look at his track record...any wins gotta be taken where they can be gotten!

We all know you're prone to rambling but now you've straight up gone and jumped threads!

Okay, so we agree racism's not okay. Where things diverge is when you think any attempt to so much as acknowledge the existence of it is fighting racism with racism, and that's just about the stupidest fucking idea I've ever heard. But there's obviously no changing your mind on this, and there's no shortage of links to online stories of extremists who you believe prove your point. Continue plugging your ears with your fingers and pretending that everything's just peachy, nothing to see here

After seeing months of the drivel you post in the 'Woke' thread I'm not going to waste any more of my time getting into a pissing match with you. From everything I've read (including articles cited in the link you posted to back up your 'abysmal' claim), the vaccines are pretty effective at reducing the likelihood of infection and extremely effective at reducing serious infections leading to hospitalization/death. They ain't perfect, but just about all accounts they're quite effective: certainly not abysmal

By what standards? I guess you went to the same medical school as Westerly.

Goddamn!!!! That just about made me spit-take!

Godammit even for your typically rambling posts, that one's a doozy. It only took you a couple of months to get from 'joke' to 'worse than nazis'. At least you're demonstrating that Godwin's Law is alive and well.

I think you know what he was getting at: nobody has an issue with somebody doing research to educate themselves...when that 'research' is 30 seconds on The Googles to find a YouTube video that's pushing an agenda that disagrees with the consensus of the scientific community, then using that video as evidence that the scientists are all stupid egg-heads...that's where shit gets annoying. Brent Hutch on here has done extensive climate research, for example.

I think it's actually closer to 7%

You consider actively attempting to understand the plight of others to be a mental illness. You apparently think that a single sensationalized book cover represents 'the French standpoint'? Is that all French, or just some of the French? Does it include French Canadians? Anglos who speak a bit of French? Is your summary of 'the French standpoint' based on anything more than the blurb on the cover jacket? At the end of the day, I'm just glad I could impress!

With such a shit argument, one must look far and wide for evidence to support it.

I wish it were that simple, but many anti-vaxer's will either not get it or will get a mild case and turn around to say 'see, it wasn't that bad, this whole thing was a hoax all along'. If it were true that no vaccination == death-sentence, a lot more people would be willing to re-think their ideologies. The number of people dead or suffering long-term consequences due to COVID should be enough to convince any rational person to take precautions with vaccinations, masks etc....that said, there are enough people who have various (ill-conceived) reasons for not taking precautions who can look at their buddy Tim who caught COVID and walked away, who will use that as justification for pretending that it isn't a major issue. And there will always be enough 'Tim's' to keep that narrative alive for the true believers. It sucks and it's ridiculous: I mean, think about the insanity of coming on a skydiving forum to brag about going to Disney unmasked just to own the Libs! As JoeWeber pointed out recently, the inability to take sensible precautions with such a sudden/acute threat coming out of left field and killing so many people in 18 months makes me pessimistic about our ability to deal with climate change. I remember in the early days of the pandemic seeing a LinkedIn post from an oilfield connection saying something along the lines of "I guess those 'scientists' predicting 300,000 deaths are the same guys predicting more disasters from climate change". I wish I'd grabbed a screenshot.

Wasn’t BH a DZO? I may have to call BS on the whole ‘deepest thinkers’ claim if so.

I've never had much luck understanding what was going on in most DZOs' minds