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submitted 5 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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.”

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[-] WhatIsThePointAnyway@lemmy.world 73 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

During a bird flu outbreak that has crossed over to cattle. Weird thing to do to your supporters.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 51 points 5 months ago

Not that different from attacking masks and vaccines, is it?

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 5 months ago

The best thing you can do to help their children is ensuring that public education continues to be funded and safe for all children

[-] JoShmoe@ani.social 10 points 5 months ago

and here comes the CRT airplane

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[-] Wiz@midwest.social 7 points 5 months ago

I feel really bad for their children, of course, but I can't stop them from where I'm sitting.

It's worse than that, because if you warn them that their stupidity is dangerous to them and their family, they will dig in their heels and want to do it even more. They are intransigently stupid.

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[-] Pistcow@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago

Cool,I can get behind more dead Republicans

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[-] Veedem@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

While that sounds straight forward in theory, these same idiots will give their children this same milk and wind up killing them.

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[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 44 points 5 months ago

Wild that people choose to dance with Captain Trips.

Choosing to drink a product that contains a virus currently killing 50% of whatever it infects is absolutely detrimental to a long life.

Sucks that if it does make the jump to human to human spread we are fucked beyond belief and these ass hats will probably be the catalyst.

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

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.
[-] el_bhm@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

Sef impaling.

Gangbang impaling.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] dumblederp@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

That's the woke range of milks.

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[-] dmMeYourNudes@lemmynsfw.com 30 points 5 months ago

Why do republicans want to kill themselves so badly?

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Anything to own the libs

[-] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Because they look in the mirror.

Suicide is out, so next best option is to hurt anyone else.

[-] Veneroso@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Step one.
Bird Flu jumps to cattle Step two.
Bird Flu in milk Step three. Milk, it does a body good!!!!!!

[-] Spitzspot@lemmings.world 29 points 5 months ago

I did not have "rickets" in my 2024 GOP bingo card.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

| 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.”

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

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!

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 8 points 5 months ago

Fun fact. Hitler was lactose intolerant. But he loved milk.

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 23 points 5 months ago

Ah the new dying to own the libs

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

Doctors should say avian flu is transmitted via pegging

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[-] SentientFishbowl@lemmy.ml 18 points 5 months ago

Politics outside the US can get pretty goofy, but Americans just seem to be on another level... just a shame that we all end up having to deal with the consequences :(

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 months ago

You know, I’m inclined to just let them fuck around and figure it out the hard way.

They pulled the same shit with coronavirus, and it killed a small - but electorally noticeable - fraction of the conservative population, over and above the rates that the general population saw. Given that this is a regressive segment of the population that generally tends to hurt the rest of our society, I’m not going to object too strongly if they want to thin their own herd out with Darwin awards. Please, continue “owning the libs” by harming your own political base.

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[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

Please no one tell them and let them drink their raw milk and get avian flu and perish.

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

"Why did nobody tell me I would die from this?"

"Do your own research."

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[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] ours@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Gravity's a woke scam anyway, just jump from a tall place and drink those lib tears.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

At least this time they'll just be owning the libs and themselves unlike with masking where they screwed everyone over.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 13 points 5 months ago

Leadership based on fear and outrage.

Shame.

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[-] Wiz@midwest.social 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Why don't they skip the middle step, and just suckle off the teat directly? It's healthier that way!

It's a conspiracy! Big Cow is getting in the way!

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago

I swear, modern Republicans are dumber than ever.

Government: A new disease is sweeping the nation! Side effects include instant death! Whatever you do, don't lick any lightbulbs!

Famous Republican/Right-wing Influencer: THE GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO STOP US FROM LICKING LIGHTBULBS!!!!!! GO OUT AND LICK ALL THE LIGHTBULBS TO OWN THE LIBS!!!!!

That's what it feels like to me.

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[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] ShadowRam@fedia.io 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

These same people don't believe in Darwinism, so "¯\(ツ)/¯ "

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

I used the word "evolve" when talking about new strains of viruses to a co-worker who was a Young Earth Creationist. Dude was so triggered - it's like I threw holy water on him and he barks out: "that's NOT evolution! it's not like cats turning into dogs or a monkey turning into a human!!!111"

Not even kidding. Where to even start with these people? Did they just entirely skip bio 101 courses? This guy actually went to university (but not anywhere near a coastal city) and got a bachelors in science. WTAF.

[-] ShadowRam@fedia.io 8 points 5 months ago

Dude, the amount of engineers and technical people I meet that are creationists are astounding.

Like, you went through all that math and science. You know how it works. You trust it enough to get on an airplane or crawl under your heavy thing supported by a frame you built and worked the math out on.

You trust the material science, that you didn't actually do, other scientists did.

And yet you don't trust the math and science that went into proving the earth is older than 6000 years or whatever fucking random number they made up in your one fantasy book.

The mental gymnastics is just mind boggling.

Then they pull the, (well god put all that there when he created the earth to make it look like its that old)

That's about when I introduce them to the concept of the last Thursday theory.

One dude had the gall to say the Bible is the oldest written story, and I'm like DUDE! have you no idea about the Epic of Gilgamesh?

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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

The more of them get infected, the greater a reservoir of infected exists in which the virus can mutate into something that can spread more easily.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago

The new GOP mascot needs to be a pig.

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[-] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Just wait until they notice beef is coming from cattle too ... ;-p

Reminds me of 'Soylent Green is people!'

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 5 months ago

They just do the opposite of what you tell them so I have an idea: Tell them not to jump off a cliff.

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