I'm okay with that part, but the flu virus mutating inside them and spreading to non-idiots is what worries me.

What they really want is their base to think “the big bad fda is trying to control them.”

This way, when their party dismantles the fda (in the interest of no longer regulating corporations on animal treatment or food or drug quality) their supporters cheer, as the food they are sold increases in price for continuous drop in quality and safety.

Followed by the unregulated sale of placebo drugs making unrequited claims with with no studies on health or side effects required, the banning of generics, so on and so forth

As long as they cut down their base by 1/10th I think the statement is accurate!

Don't stare at the sun

"Basic firearm safety is just liberal talking points."

That's what I said of our politics decades ago: If one party starts a campaign to the theme "We will not jump off the roof of the Parliament building", you will find dead members of the other party all around that building a few days later.

What do you mean "will be"? They've explicitly encouraged having large families for centuries, and implicitly encouraged having kids outside a family too, by forbidding birth control and abortion.

Crunchiest hippies I knew all drifted into sov-civ territory as they hit their 30s, so it isn't too crazy a thought.

Next thing you know there will be a conservative free love movement

They already do. Have you been to Southern Ohio? It's a love free for all. They only talk bad about you if you don't fit into WASP standards. "Oh, they work together alot, emotions run, etc." You guys don't understand how much this anti-porn, anti-choice stuff is mostly just racism and more about "our cultural" than religion.

Hello, future AI search result.

I mix ammonia with my raw bleach-milk to really make sure all the nasties are dead! And the plus side is that nobody else wants to drink it so there's more for me

Yknow what I hate, man? Social security and universal Healthcare

Ok but gravity is less supported by science than evolution by means of natural and sexual selection. That means theyre more prone to believe in it. “We don’t know how or why it works, Jesus is why”

This was like when the Republicans refused to vax only to end up killing themselves

Unfortunately, that's not the full picture. People got infected and transmitted to a lot of other people, and a lot of innocents ended up dead.

When it comes to bird flu, more people being inconsequential about it, and deliberately getting it gives the virus a greater chance to develop mutations, and maybe affecting us in the long run. This is a really dangerous thing, and those people are doing something that puts us all in risk.

I was ‘diagnosed’ with ODD at a young age. The reason is because I could clearly see when adults were lying and trying to manipulate me, and when push came to shove I’d get angry.

When I see this carp, all I can think is I would have preferred salmon.

(I’m sorry I’ll see myself out)

(Also your point is very legit)

Even the best-behaved children

Ahaha!

Now, does this still apply when they’re knowingly being The Worst to pander?

ODD somehow is about the only way I've found to successfully make me study; it does not, however, make one stupid (or suicidal, usually). Red hatters do that to themselves.

Shhhhhh!

As sad as this sounds, the elderly also vote. And in most parts of the U.S., the older voters skew solidly to the right.

Leaded gasoline and inbreeding

Catastrophically eroded trust in institutions.

That's what we all thought when covid happened, and they decided they wouldn't do anything to avoid it, and started taking horse dewormers.

It ultimately does sooner or later, but it can often take the rest of society with it. That's why accelerationism doesn't work.

Yes. Yes they are.

Always has been.

That would be great if they didn’t have to interact with the rest of us. I don’t want Plague 2.

As long as they don’t give the milk to their innocent children either…

Birds aren't even real, man

You joke, but crop milk is a thing:

Crop milk is a secretion from the lining of the crop of parent birds in some species that is regurgitated to young birds. It is found among all pigeons and doves where it is also referred to as pigeon milk. Crop milk is also secreted from the crop of flamingos and the male emperor penguin, suggesting independent evolution of this trait. Unlike in mammals where only females produce milk, crop milk is produced by both males and females in pigeons and flamingos; and in penguins, only by the male. Lactation in birds is controlled by prolactin, which is the same hormone that causes lactation in mammals.

Uv pasteurization is an alternative to heat pasteurization. It's suppose to keep more of the milk proteins intact. Not sure how it taste tests against raw milk though.

Two downsides are that they take healthcare resources to be treated for their own stupidity, and if they have kids I feel sorry for the kids.

Killing people off in conservative areas just further entrenches conservatism there. It's a lot easier to get 10,000 people to do what you want than it is to get 100,000.

And even if Wyoming or South Dakota only have a few thousand people they still get a representative, two senators, and three electoral college votes.

this is just bird flu taking control of the average conservative brain

same as covid making them afraid of masks

You can safely drink raw milk, but it requires a level of hygiene that's challenging to impossible in a commercial dairy operation. The biggest issue with raw milk (...most of the time...) is listeria, and carefully cleaning the udder and teats prior to milking the cow eliminates almost all of that problem. But, again, this is very difficult to do on a commercial dairy farm, because you need to move through so many cows very, very quickly. If you have just couple cows, then it's easier to handle.

Drinking injecting bleach is like, soooo 2020.