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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social

On today’s front page: @fenitn.bsky.social went to rural West Texas, epicenter of a worsening measles outbreak that has already claimed the life of an unvaccinated child. He found that some people are doubling down on their resistance to vaccines.

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mar 3, 2025, 2:31 pm • 1,020 268

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social

“Holbrooks worries that younger generations do not understand the danger of measles that he and his staff are now seeing. At a testing site outside the hospital, a mother showed up with a baby with blue lips — a sign the infant was struggling to breathe.” - @fenitn.bsky.social

mar 3, 2025, 2:33 pm • 106 16 • view
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msgl.bsky.social @msgl.bsky.social

I had measles as a small child in the 1950s and my mother had to live through my struggling to breathe like that. Luckily we lived next door to the doctor and she rushed me over there in the middle of the night so he could save my life. I don't understand what's happening.

mar 3, 2025, 3:20 pm • 5 0 • view
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Pixel Nomad @pixelnomad.bsky.social

terrible thing is that these innocent children will be raised by people who believe the president controls the price of eggs and that russia is our ally. who do you think they will vote for when they turn 18?

mar 3, 2025, 2:52 pm • 122 4 • view
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badassery needed @badassbitchbrigade.bsky.social

They're going to die from measles before they get to 18

mar 4, 2025, 2:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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kathleen64.bsky.social @kathleen64.bsky.social

Will they live to vote?

mar 3, 2025, 3:17 pm • 4 0 • view
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Cromulent Poster @leftistvet.bsky.social

They ain't making it to 18. We're bringing back baby graveyards like the good ol days these people yearn for.

mar 3, 2025, 4:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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Good Citizen @im-on-smoko.bsky.social

Oh well.

mar 3, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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Anna @sleeplessanna.bsky.social

Orange will not be around.

mar 3, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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approximateaverage.bsky.social @approximateaverage.bsky.social

The good news is at this rate they probably won’t live that long.

mar 3, 2025, 3:12 pm • 2 0 • view
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jerseygirl36.bsky.social @jerseygirl36.bsky.social

The very same people their parents did

mar 3, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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susiesm.bsky.social @susiesm.bsky.social

Well if they are anything like the boomer generation in the 60s and 70s, they will turn into radical liberals! 😂

mar 3, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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crackenup.bsky.social @crackenup.bsky.social

Their chances of turning 18 are diminishing.

mar 3, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
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Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social

Whoever will pay for their healthcare now they all have long term illnesses

mar 3, 2025, 2:55 pm • 61 0 • view
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T.RD @diasrt.bsky.social

You're assuming they'll live to see 18

mar 3, 2025, 11:58 pm • 10 0 • view
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Rirkby @rirkby.bsky.social

They won’t need (be able) to vote. The title ofTsar is hereditary.

mar 4, 2025, 10:12 am • 2 0 • view
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KCT @kctim.bsky.social

Stupid is, as stupid does…and there definitely seems to be A LOT of STUPID in Texas! Everything’s bigger in Texas I hear. So…it makes sense.

mar 4, 2025, 6:01 am • 0 0 • view
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CDLW @cdlw.bsky.social

mar 3, 2025, 5:53 pm • 1 0 • view
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forbiddenx.bsky.social @forbiddenx.bsky.social

I hope everyone of those stupid assholes get the measles

mar 3, 2025, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view
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Zigzaggreen🇨🇦 @zigzaggreen.bsky.social

Good, let their kids die and see how happy they are.

mar 3, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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larkin12345.bsky.social @larkin12345.bsky.social

I guess we will all hav to prevent Texans from going outside their boarders to infect others

mar 3, 2025, 4:51 pm • 1 0 • view
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Chris @snglnbvll.bsky.social

Please do not attempt to change their mind, for the children we should seek child endangerment prosecutions.

mar 3, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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like_a_bosstonian @wilkos.bsky.social

mar 3, 2025, 11:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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Darren living back in Alberta now @bcdarr.bsky.social

Compromised Newspaper.

mar 3, 2025, 8:43 pm • 1 0 • view
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grayola.bsky.social @grayola.bsky.social

That will remove the most stupid from the gene pool. Darwinism in action.

mar 4, 2025, 12:03 am • 0 0 • view
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David Bee @tokkedoff.bsky.social

. . .as they watch their children die.

mar 4, 2025, 4:40 am • 1 0 • view
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Céu Azul means Blue Sky @ceu---azul.bsky.social

mar 3, 2025, 2:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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🌈Jenni🦋(AntiFa)🥀🌹 @thejazzijen.bsky.social

😢 My oldest had a bad reaction to a vaccine too. He just couldn’t get that specific vaccine. And the Dr gave that specific vaccine to his sisters on a different day from others jic. I didn’t BECOME antivax because my child had a horrible reaction to one vax! God these ppl are so stupid.

mar 3, 2025, 7:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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dueteronomy.bsky.social @dueteronomy.bsky.social

Probably the same people that worship venomous snakes at church.

mar 3, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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RJ @happydawg.bsky.social

Its not surprising, it it? Those people are fucking stupid.

mar 3, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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🇨🇦 @carol80.bsky.social

The USA … welcome to the Middle Ages.

mar 3, 2025, 2:51 pm • 10 0 • view
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Anne 🇨🇦 NS (my family 🇺🇦&🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿) @acs2468.bsky.social

Oddly, I was watching an old episode of L&O SVU where they tried an antivax mom with the death of a child too young to be vaccinated. It's sad that they don't take responsibility for dead children. As long as their angel is okay.

mar 3, 2025, 7:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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ourladyofmatches.bsky.social @ourladyofmatches.bsky.social

Let them. Some people need to learn shit, the hard way, and I am sick to death of trying to save these people from themselves. Then they should be arrested and put in prison for killing their children.

mar 3, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sarah Gorski @gruettgorski.bsky.social

Wtf!!!

mar 3, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lynn Sacco @urbanexile.bsky.social

Of course they are doubling down. We haven't witnessed the right wing make a mistake, ever, and change their ways. They always double down.

mar 3, 2025, 2:51 pm • 9 0 • view
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RR Kind @kindrs.bsky.social

Maybe it's a sign to get rid of all TX MAGAts.

mar 3, 2025, 3:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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MFA Russia Mar-A-Lardo Office @elonismyx.bsky.social

Some people would rather their kids die than admit they were wrong. You can’t fix that.

mar 3, 2025, 8:09 pm • 22 0 • view
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It Can Always Get Worse @because-i-said-so.bsky.social

Good. Let them go.

mar 3, 2025, 3:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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Crepuscular Canard @turnitup5000db.bsky.social

Some men you just can’t reach.

mar 3, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kevin G. Robinson @kevingrobinson.bsky.social

Absolute fools!

mar 3, 2025, 7:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lena des Bois Ⓥ💚🌱 @lenadesbois.bsky.social

America has fallen to the dark side...

mar 3, 2025, 6:21 pm • 3 0 • view
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afsaof3.bsky.social @afsaof3.bsky.social

Hope they are eating all the vitamin A they can find.

mar 3, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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ChristineAa @christineaa.bsky.social

Survival of the fittest. Culling the herd. Fewer MAGATS Sadly, innocent children.

mar 3, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
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animalluvr.bsky.social @animalluvr.bsky.social

Oh well, I guess their children are disposable.

mar 3, 2025, 6:55 pm • 0 0 • view
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jdfuhaid.bsky.social @jdfuhaid.bsky.social

Not all Texans love their children.

mar 3, 2025, 6:27 pm • 1 0 • view
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╭∩╮(︶︿︶) Butch ╭∩╮ 🇵🇹 @butchugal.bsky.social

Excellent! We need to cull the herd.

mar 3, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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sjcurtis.bsky.social @sjcurtis.bsky.social

Doesn’t matter. It’s just Natural Selection at work. Unfortunately, a bunch of innocent children will have to live or die with the consequences of their parents choices.

mar 3, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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txsf.bsky.social @txsf.bsky.social

People can't use religion as an excuse for not vaccinating, when their refusal causes, those around them to get sick or die. You have an obligation to your fellow man, beyond yourself.

mar 3, 2025, 6:54 pm • 1 0 • view
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Howard @koalatyaussie.bsky.social

So wrong that the lives of children must be sacrificed for the sake of an adult’s opinion/ preference/ belief. Perhaps the measles virus should target adults.

mar 3, 2025, 5:59 pm • 3 0 • view
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dixiegal97601.bsky.social @dixiegal97601.bsky.social

Good, let them drain the gene pool. Texas is a freaking sewer anyway.

mar 4, 2025, 6:29 am • 0 0 • view
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The gardener @dh1969.bsky.social

Get these people some education please!!!!

mar 3, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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mike @manatr0n.bsky.social

Desperately need to pass a law that would charge parents with criminal neglect if their unvaccinated child dies from a preventative disease.

mar 3, 2025, 3:12 pm • 12 0 • view
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Janet Alcorn @janetalcorn.bsky.social

And eliminate vaccine exemptions for public school attendance except for documented health reasons. These people can homeschool or pay for private school if they don’t want to vaccinate their kids.

mar 3, 2025, 3:20 pm • 10 0 • view
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Jack Hamilton @jfh.bsky.social

Yes, plans are in the works to divert public school funding to private schools.

mar 3, 2025, 9:30 pm • 2 0 • view
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bizydad711.bsky.social @bizydad711.bsky.social

Can't fix dumb

mar 4, 2025, 2:22 am • 0 0 • view
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clinkerbrick.bsky.social @clinkerbrick.bsky.social

Well they are going to find out the hard way vaccines 💉 save lives like measles is a very safe vaccine has been proven for many years

mar 4, 2025, 11:35 am • 1 0 • view
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else731.bsky.social @else731.bsky.social

Darwin

mar 3, 2025, 4:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ellen Cartsonis @ecartsonis.bsky.social

I wonder if there’ll be a run on “beef tallow and lavender” massage cream in Gaines County? Oh, and cod liver oil. That mom must’ve “done her research” by watching “Little House on the Prairie” on tv. 🙄 #measles #antivax

mar 3, 2025, 2:42 pm • 17 0 • view
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Miss Diketon - Numanoid Democrat - Thank You for Blocking Me @missdiketon.bsky.social

If she did or (God forbid) read the books, she'd vaccinate her kid for everything.

mar 3, 2025, 3:12 pm • 8 0 • view
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Ellen Cartsonis @ecartsonis.bsky.social

true

mar 3, 2025, 3:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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Mich2Cali • RIP Twitter (2011-2024) @michoacan2cali.bsky.social

Beef tallow makes the best French fries…

mar 3, 2025, 3:48 pm • 2 0 • view
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Ellen Cartsonis @ecartsonis.bsky.social

now I‘m hungry

mar 3, 2025, 3:52 pm • 1 0 • view
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Ellen Cartsonis @ecartsonis.bsky.social

RIP ⚰️

mar 3, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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actually-jesus.bsky.social @actually-jesus.bsky.social

If they cared about protecting their children from harm, they'd already support stronger gun control. They don't. Bullets or viruses, it doesn't matter, freedom means the freedom to let a child die from preventable causes.

mar 3, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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md700a.bsky.social @md700a.bsky.social

Child abuse in action

mar 3, 2025, 3:06 pm • 4 0 • view
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Dösewicht @fleischpraline.bsky.social

It is relatively easy: you don’t need to vaccinate all children. Only those you want to keep alive.

mar 3, 2025, 4:57 pm • 8 0 • view
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thearmando24.bsky.social @thearmando24.bsky.social

Difficult to feel sorry for these folks

mar 4, 2025, 8:30 am • 0 0 • view
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Tommy O'Malley 💙 @tommythepirate.bsky.social

We probably give Texas back to Mexico.

mar 3, 2025, 3:48 pm • 2 0 • view
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Rickja.bsky.social🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈friendly🇺🇸👍🚫DM’s💙 @rickja.bsky.social

They likely have far more sense too. Good plan

mar 3, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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johnrb0926.bsky.social @johnrb0926.bsky.social

Darwinism at it's best.

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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social

“We’re not going to harm our children or [risk] the potential to harm our children so that we can save yours.” Now Kaleigh’s son has measles and everyone knows she’s a monster. Good job dummy.

mar 3, 2025, 3:04 pm • 3 0 • view
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Jenn Of Ark @jennofark.bsky.social

Kaleigh's son also has a naive immune system now, thanks to having had measles. Maybe it will be just a mild flu that will carry him off. But Kaleigh's too stupid to understand consequences so if this happens, she won't learn that it was her selfishness that killed him.

mar 3, 2025, 4:16 pm • 3 0 • view
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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social

Can you imagine being that sick and uncomfortable and your mom is rubbing you down with cow fat like it’s the 1300s?

mar 3, 2025, 4:20 pm • 3 0 • view
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Vic @decker2000.bsky.social

I knew this is exactly what they would do.

mar 3, 2025, 4:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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Pass_On_X @passonx.bsky.social

WaPo, the state newspaper.

mar 3, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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rayneowens.bsky.social @rayneowens.bsky.social

Darwinism is on the rise again…

mar 3, 2025, 11:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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Gin Hill Boy @ginhillboy.bsky.social

I'm curious what "her own research" uncovered and whether her treatment of her son's measles was something she discovered in her research.

mar 3, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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PinkFreud @alaskarebel.bsky.social

Dumb people are stubborn, don’t you know that?

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austrich @austrich.bsky.social

i don't get why republicans want their own base to die of preventable diseases.

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Mallory 🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇱🇨🇦🇺🇦❤️🤍🩷 @mallod.bsky.social

The closer you get to the church, The harder they cling to the old and the worst. The children will suffer, their futures unclear, As wisdom is silenced and science is feared.

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simplify-moc.bsky.social @simplify-moc.bsky.social

Fuck 'em. Let the children die a miserable death that could have been prevented. Oh wait, that sounds like RFK Jr.

mar 3, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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Blueberry Windex @xjxaxx.bsky.social

Abortion is illegal in Texas so if you wanna get rid of a kid leaving it unvaccinated is the best way lol

mar 3, 2025, 10:29 pm • 11 0 • view
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BBnotsonice @bbnotsonice71.bsky.social

Hopefully it'll take all the anti vaxxers first 😏

mar 3, 2025, 7:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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RealUSAPatriot @realusapatriot.bsky.social

The era of MAGA is the era of doubling down on stupidity.

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Ryan @ryanb76.bsky.social

I'll never understand how science became political

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StephG ABZ 🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @stephgabz.bsky.social

Time to cull the herd.

mar 4, 2025, 8:32 am • 0 0 • view
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Stallfortime @stallfortime.bsky.social

They are so stupid

mar 3, 2025, 6:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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penboyasgod.bsky.social @penboyasgod.bsky.social

Notice the huge cross in that image? Confirming symbol of how utterly fucking STUPID the "religious" are about REAL humanity.

mar 3, 2025, 4:47 pm • 1 0 • view
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Dix Broussard @mamacocodrie.bsky.social

Those parents should be charged with neglect. Children aren’t property. Parents don’t own them.

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wildthingthree.bsky.social @wildthingthree.bsky.social

It’s children. We’re talking about innocent children.

mar 3, 2025, 7:08 pm • 3 0 • view
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DareToBelieve @sharongt.bsky.social

A Dr told me that he had COVID patients on their death bed say they did not have COVID but “something else” or other patients that survived say before leaving the hospital that they still “would not were a mask” What a way to end your life with something so preventable 😵‍💫

mar 3, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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DareToBelieve @sharongt.bsky.social

You know, if every single maga person would move to Texas, the rest of the country would be okay

mar 3, 2025, 3:55 pm • 0 0 • view
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Adam Vann @adamvann.bsky.social

What the ever loving fuck is this how are you all not in open revolt and leaving to form a new paper

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brahmavihara.bsky.social @brahmavihara.bsky.social

Must be a typo. It should read, "Trump must mend the breach with Zelenskyy or resign."

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Cromulent Poster @leftistvet.bsky.social

What's the opposite of winning the genetic lottery? Cause that's what these kids got. Imagine being born just to be sacrificed on the altar of stupidity and hubris. Makes me very confident in my views that there is no god.

mar 3, 2025, 5:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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You’re terrible Muriel! 🏳️‍🌈 @byways.bsky.social

Oh yay, another article heading to some area and interviewing a few right wingers and amplifying their views on the front page.

mar 3, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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Pacific Blues @better-2b-blue.bsky.social

Let’s go Darwin!

mar 3, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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hermanwill.bsky.social @hermanwill.bsky.social

FAFO

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💙🦋 Ms.Yvonne 🦋💙 @curatednews.bsky.social

Let them. If they want to risk it, let them. All you can do is protect your family.

mar 3, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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judyds.bsky.social @judyds.bsky.social

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ANGRY WOMAN @latentcriminal1.bsky.social

At this point it's just Darwinism at work. Leave them alone. If all the Republicans die from measles, I will be sad for those families grieving. But also..... I'll just be over here sipping my tea.

mar 3, 2025, 4:31 pm • 2 0 • view
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byrnejed.bsky.social @byrnejed.bsky.social

Thanks to school vouchers and home schooling, we’re culling our own, earlier than ever.

mar 3, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Balkanoid Texan in NY @zmiuga.bsky.social

Masks and quarantine would be great.

mar 4, 2025, 6:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lisa from CT 🎯👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @qlm326.bsky.social

Damn glad I don’t live in West Texas!

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brahmavihara.bsky.social @brahmavihara.bsky.social

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F🌼ck Tr🌼mp @resinatingbeauty.bsky.social

Antivaxer: "I don't need vaccines, God will save me". *antivaxer dies from measles, goes to Heaven, and asks God "Why didn't you save me?" God: "I sent you one of my children to create a vaccine to save you".

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BlueDebz @bluedebz.bsky.social

You can’t fight stupid. I feel so sorry for the children! 💔

mar 3, 2025, 3:19 pm • 2 0 • view
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Kevin Wardrop @kevinwardrop.nitemayr.com

They've adopted the "I'd rather kill my kid than have someone think I gave them autism" reasoning that is just super indicative of selfish, lazy, self-involved people.

mar 3, 2025, 3:12 pm • 16 1 • view
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ya playgirl 🧿 @playgirl1312.bsky.social

As well as ableist!

mar 3, 2025, 3:24 pm • 6 0 • view
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meri sand @merisand.bsky.social

Re: Darwin replies Children don't choose, there are those too young to be vaccinated, immunocompromised people exist & don't deserve to get measles, unlucky vaccinated people will also be affected (even blue voters), & measles knocks out *all* immunity, creating potential for other disease outbreaks

mar 3, 2025, 3:18 pm • 8 0 • view
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jerseygirl36.bsky.social @jerseygirl36.bsky.social

The way I see this that they will just be the next generation of non vaxers so I’m not going to worry about them If your own parents don’t care , why should I I don’t have the mental energy to worry about them at this point

mar 3, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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meri sand @merisand.bsky.social

Do you hear yourself? You: "Children should suffer & die if I don't like their parents" Also, re-read the other sentences I wrote. I was not unclear, at all. PS I was raised in a pro-vax, but extremely conservative household. I am not remotely conservative. Kids don't grow up to be clones. smdh

mar 3, 2025, 6:26 pm • 2 0 • view
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sickofelon.bsky.social @sickofelon.bsky.social

Make calls every day #5calls Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 Attend town hall meetings letters-boycott-strike-blackouts #Bluestormrising #resist #dumptrump #banelonmusk #cancelelonmusk #taxbillionaires

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auld-boy.bsky.social @auld-boy.bsky.social

Ffs

mar 3, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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themaninblackfled.bsky.social @themaninblackfled.bsky.social

“Beef tallow crème infused with lavender” 😂😂🤣🤣🤡

mar 3, 2025, 5:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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thjames.bsky.social @thjames.bsky.social

Sounds like the people who love saying “Darwin Award” and FAFO aren’t having a great time

mar 3, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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iconoglass.bsky.social @iconoglass.bsky.social

There is always this reaction. Look at high control groups (as I recall, this was an isolated religious community anyway). There will always be a few that double down despite evidence that they are wrong. There is some religiosity happening.

mar 3, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social

Well, it’s not like she did nothing… She treated the sick kid with beef tallow cream infused with lavender. And she did her own research.

mar 3, 2025, 5:34 pm • 1 0 • view
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social

@alt-text.bsky.social

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The washingto Prices may vary in areas outside metropolitan Washington. Sunny 46/34⚫ Tomorrow: Turning cloudy 58/50 B6 Democracy Dies in Darkness ++ RAMSAY DE GIVE/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Anti-vaccine views harden in Texas BY FENIT NIRAPPIL SEMINOLE, TEXAS-When the local hospi- tal warned of a brewing measles outbreak, Kaleigh Brantner urged fellow residents of this rural West Texas community to beware of vaccinating their children. Two weeks later, her unvaccinated 7-year-old son came home from school with a fever. The telltale rash across his body followed. But his mild symptoms and swift recovery only hardened Brantner's anti- vaccination convictions, even after an un- vaccinated child died of measles at a hospi- tal 80 miles away. how under-vaccinated communities are unnecessarily vulnerable to one of the world's most contagious diseases, experts say. The first known victim was 6 and otherwise healthy, according to two indi- viduals with knowledge of the case who In West Texas, the death of a dangerous, preventable disease. 6-year-old amid a surge of measles cases has spurred hundreds to immunize their children while others have only grown more resistant spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss details that haven't been publicly released. The life-threatening outbreak in West Texas starkly illustrates the stakes of slip- ping immunization rates and the ascension of vaccine skeptics, including Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Ken- nedy Jr., to the highest levels of the public health establishment. And it has revealed how fear and the scientifically false claims of the anti- vaccine movement have seeped into com- munities such as Gaines County, the epicen- ter of the outbreak, hardening attitudes about vaccines, pro and con, in the face of a Brantner, 34, said she decided not to vaccinate her children after years of her own research and because, she said, her nephew had a severe reaction to the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis. She moved from New Mexico to Texas in part because it's easier here to claim an exception to school vaccine mandates. and the Centers for Dis- ease Control and Prevention say harm from SEE MEASLES ON A16 The chief executive of Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, hugs a board member during a prayer service last month at the facility for a 6-year-old child who died of measles.
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johnwestar.bsky.social @johnwestar.bsky.social

It's o.k. cause they're going to heaven.

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sukihothi.bsky.social @sukihothi.bsky.social

#Trumpland Guess you let Darwin and evolution take care of it #ClownsIdiots

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Rabbitfire @rajaru.bsky.social

Unfortunately the kids are going to suffer.

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Lee Marquette @leemarquette.bsky.social

That cross says everything you need to know.

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Nmuggoch 🏊‍♂️☀️🇨🇦🇺🇲🐈‍⬛🐕 @nmuggoch.bsky.social

You just can't argue with stupid...

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sylviejs.bsky.social @sylviejs.bsky.social

At one point why not address the damages religions can do? This because without the backing of some Christians, we would not all be in this situation.

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Brooklyndian @brooklyndian.bsky.social

Exactly. I always hear ‘oh they’re not real Christians’ - yeah they are. Maybe it’s a feature and not a bug.

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lilbigguy.bsky.social @lilbigguy.bsky.social

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Sunflowers 🌻🌻 @sunflowers13.bsky.social

FAFO

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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social

It's,time to require proof of being vaccinated before being allowed to travel

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wickedlysweet1.bsky.social @wickedlysweet1.bsky.social

So these people want dead children from a preventable disease?

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dsullivan238.bsky.social @dsullivan238.bsky.social

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Good Citizen @im-on-smoko.bsky.social

Good! Natural Selection

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Gaytriot Fascist Fighter @jonjonvonbonjon.bsky.social

🤷🏼

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Zeb @zebathome.bsky.social

Then their children will keep getting measles and more will die. I guess that is what they want.

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Paul Heslop 💙💙💙 @pablohes1955.bsky.social

Are they fucking imbec... oh wait, don't bother

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ChrisAndFish @chrisandfish.bsky.social

Honestly, let the Republicans kill their children at this point. They have no problem killing ours.

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Jason Homoa AKA Shoots🤙🏽 @hilifehero.bsky.social

Cool, let’em find out then. #PlagueRats

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malcolm75.bsky.social @malcolm75.bsky.social

feck them, its texas

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Wiley Kann @wileykann.bsky.social

Thinnin' the herd, I see

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jrtpatricia.bsky.social @jrtpatricia.bsky.social

When they start having women forced to give birth to deformed children because they didn’t get immunized against a preventable disease that causes immeasurable harm to future generations, will they listen?

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Duchess of Malfi 🐈🐈‍⬛☃️🎃😸🐶🐱♿️ @duchessmalfi.bsky.social

The scary part is that the nearly fifty cases in Texas and nine in neighboring New Mexico are only the kids sick enough to have to seek out medical care and be diagnosed. This outbreak started in an insular religious group. How many more kids are sick at home??? How far is this quietly spreading????

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Mackey Tech @mackeytech.bsky.social

Sorry to say it but natural selection works for a reason!

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Neuroics @neuroics.bsky.social

All my life I believed (and I hope to God I still do) that everybody can be educated. Everybody. But sometimes, man..., sometimes I just think that you can't fix stupid.

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Bern @bravebern.bsky.social

Natural selection?

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canalboatrob.bsky.social @canalboatrob.bsky.social

It will take the idiots out of the gene pool

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hacker78.bsky.social @hacker78.bsky.social

Sad idiots they are.. children will pay the price

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sundowner-1.bsky.social @sundowner-1.bsky.social

This isn’t the Texas I grew up in. I remember waiting in long lines at the elementary school to get our vaccine.

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sherman909.bsky.social @sherman909.bsky.social

That is what happens in the "LAND OF THE STUPID".

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🍁 Maple @maplepies.bsky.social

Unfortunately unsurprising, doubling down is so much easier that the humility of publicly sharing that you were wrong and harmed your child, it's a moral issue to them, not a factual issue

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TheRasmussen @therasmussen.bsky.social

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madambluestocking @madambluestocking.bsky.social

And as distasteful as it is to say, we need to let them. Our undereducated populace is how we got here. Allow them to thin their own herd.

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abcdef 🕶️ @onecaliberal.bsky.social

Isolate the diseased on an island. Let’s see who survives.

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Bill Koerner @billkoerner.bsky.social

"DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS..."

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toast-baldwin.bsky.social @toast-baldwin.bsky.social

Ugh- geez thanks.

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Just call me "BIG MOM"! Love*Peace*Equality I talk in Woke Code! @glolala911.bsky.social

#LetsGoDarwin

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Michael A. Martin @michael-a-martin.bsky.social

This is caused by an unfortunate feature of human psychology called “the rebound effect.” Using facts to debunk quackery and pseudoscience is necessary, but is not always sufficient. Very often, logic cannot lead people out of beliefs that logic didn’t lead them into in the first place.

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zebedee13.bsky.social @zebedee13.bsky.social

Doubling down on stupidity, now there's a winning strategy 🙄

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Alice Lastname @goodbyeamerica.bsky.social

That’s Darwin at work.

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TimeForTeaWithE @eawalton75.bsky.social

They are also blaming "illegal immigrants" for measles "suddenly" reappearing. Trumpers will never ever see themselves as the cause of their own problems.

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mfarmilo.bsky.social @mfarmilo.bsky.social

Bigots always seem to single out a group of people and blame them for everything.

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ilaura66.bsky.social @ilaura66.bsky.social

Some of these antivax people are Menonite immigrants from Mexico. Maybe there were vaccinated. Idk. They got a religious exemption for school enrollment. Poor children!

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pghfemme.bsky.social @pghfemme.bsky.social

ngl, this shook me. “We’re not going to harm our children or [risk] the potential to harm our children so that we can save yours.”

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70retired.bsky.social @70retired.bsky.social

Too much faith too little science educated folks. This is just sad!

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President Donald Mountain Dew Herbert Heinz Camacho Taco Drumpf @idiostupedia25.bsky.social

Darwin Awards cateGORY “Cough gag cough gag” I ain’t got “cough” no covid “gag”

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zafodbeeblebrox.bsky.social @zafodbeeblebrox.bsky.social

No comment on the content, but can you PLEASE use ANY source other than Bezos' heavily-censored piece-of-shit excuse for a newspaper. Or at the very least crop out the offensive masthead.

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torrinia.bsky.social @torrinia.bsky.social

They'll kill themselves and their children with preventable disease before they ever admit their orange messiah was wrong and that they were lied to. And on top of that, they'll blame minorities, trans people, or literally anyone but themselves. This level of anti-science stupidity can't be cured.

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Hercules Mooligan @hercluesmooligan.bsky.social

It's a death cult. They will watch their loved ones die before admitting they were wrong, before questioning their faith. Just like we saw with COVID.

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BasicAFBayAreaBlackGuy find me on Onlydads™️ @basicafbayblackguy.bsky.social

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china-cat72.bsky.social @china-cat72.bsky.social

Good. Fuck em.

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Chris DiBella @wyzegi.bsky.social

Good, they'll die off faster.

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mfarmilo.bsky.social @mfarmilo.bsky.social

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Lynnfsc @lyfrsccr.bsky.social

Child abuse.

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The Lady Lucy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌻🐾🐕 @lucyarnold.bsky.social

Remove their children on the grounds of neglect.

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Mr. Fantastic @mmg1960s.bsky.social

Oh well I hope their life insurance premiums are up to date ☠️

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Delta Nupe @itsnotuitsme1911.bsky.social

Yes!

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Wonkawash spelled backwards @hsawaknow.bsky.social

I don’t care about dead kids of Republicans. They have to hurt to learn.

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Nita @gobbledygookgirl.bsky.social

Their stupidity will kill them - we saw it with Covid.

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bluethru.bsky.social @bluethru.bsky.social

Darwinism at work in real time. Seriously, the US right now is the dumbest humans have been in centuries.

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KCT @kctim.bsky.social

🎯💯%

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Devin𓅃 @devin-eleven.bsky.social

I feel really bad for the children. Nobody gets to pick their parents. The vast majority of anti-vax parents got all their vaccines but they will deny their children the same protection.

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Good Citizen @im-on-smoko.bsky.social

Less groomed traitors to deal with

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jltak.bsky.social @jltak.bsky.social

I agree. Let the parents get sick. They are the morons. These poor kids though… it’s sad.

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katheter.bsky.social @katheter.bsky.social

But the parents were most likely vaccinated by their parents. The kids who could die have no say in the matter.

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MJ @anti-trump-af.bsky.social

It’s child abuse plain and simple. The politicians peddling lies and the parents listening to them need to be held accountable. This is barbaric.

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Steve Coogan Fan @stevecooganfan.bsky.social

This

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SereneStars @serenestars17.bsky.social

Natural selection. Less fascist trumptards to be indoctrinated in the future killing POC, women, lgbtq people, immigrants, etc

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greatfausto.bsky.social @greatfausto.bsky.social

Jim Jones cultism lives on…

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Marty Grant @bye2musk.bsky.social

It must be something in the water in Texas that devours brain cells.

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The SiliconValleyGeek @svgeek.bsky.social

It looks like my comments about anti-vaxxer parents being responsible for and need to be held accountable for the measles death/illnesses of their children has hit a nerve.

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The SiliconValleyGeek @svgeek.bsky.social

I don’t see why we should bother to care about west Texas or any anti-vaxer. There’s is something calls Darwin’s law and eliminating stupidity from the gene pool can only make us better.

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moonbeam37.bsky.social @moonbeam37.bsky.social

Because they travel and spread measles.

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The SiliconValleyGeek @svgeek.bsky.social

Spread to who? The unvaccinated? If so that is a win win.

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yoclockface @yoclockface.bsky.social

Because it affects others. You are exactly what the problem is.

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The SiliconValleyGeek @svgeek.bsky.social

Affects who? The unvaccinated? That’s a win win. One truism of politics and religion is that you can’t save everyone and forcing salvation on the unwilling makes you the enemy.

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Ildfluer @ildfluer.bsky.social

Where do you think these sick children are and who are the people tasked to nurse them back to health?

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yoclockface @yoclockface.bsky.social

One truism is don't have an opinion when you are willfully uninformed and you are. Many can not take vaccines through no fault of their own, they are counting on a rate of 95%+. You sound like you are moments away from joinin the assholes w gop/maga. You, specifically you are the enemy and you kill

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The SiliconValleyGeek @svgeek.bsky.social

I’m referring to folks who have the choice and option (unlike the children of Gaza) but yet decide not to take the option of vaccination. Don’t put words in mouths that did not voice those words. If no comprendes I can’t help you.

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Dee Joy @djb-aleeya71.bsky.social

♦️Everybody they are pushing for an audit of the paper votes yay! They're asking for your help please listen and share. If you can't listen you can read the pics for what to do. This is the best news!! 💜 youtu.be/AWSWqn7UHYM?...

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George C. Picard @pdatwelve.bsky.social

Too bad this is in the Washington Post. I used to like to read it, but not since it has become Pravda West.

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Steve Breeden @cxsteve.bsky.social

I subscribe for 25 years. No more. I thought I'd miss it, but I do not.

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Bon the Menace @psycat1017.bsky.social

Such good little sheep they have in TX. That’s it, lay down and die like you’re told…

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SoFloBlue @sofloblue.bsky.social

They are stupid , period . There’s no other explanation.

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Capt Obvious @cedar-sherlock32.bsky.social

Good. The less Texans exist in the works, the safer the rest of the world is. 🖕Texas.

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🍷HoneyLips🍷 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🦋 @winecave.bsky.social

Morons. Stay home. Don't go to the hospital. Stop spreading this.

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wasabimomma.bsky.social @wasabimomma.bsky.social

FAFO

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Sapper Morton @sappermorton.bsky.social

Maybe it's time to let all the stupid people die off.

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Michele McCarthy Smith @micheskiing.bsky.social

Darwinism?

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RatatouilleCat @ratatouillecat.bsky.social

Post polio syndrome is a real treat to live with. A life of Medicaid support….which will be gone. We are really moving forward America.

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🦋Corrina🎶ShakeItUp🦋 @scarletfirebear.bsky.social

Charles is amused.

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Ishka @ish1.bsky.social

Sad to say. That’s one way of thinning the herd. Can’t make them.

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jgisslen.bsky.social @jgisslen.bsky.social

There’s no cure for stupid.

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Chuck 🍁 @easytoslip.bsky.social

Darwin likes this 👍

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Chalk 🇲🇽🇵🇸🌈 @spearmintchalk.bsky.social

Between plagues, cults, and school shootings, child morticians in Texas must be making a killing. There's big, big money in child funerals in Texas. Everything's bigger.

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Oceaangirl @oceaangirl.bsky.social

Then they deserve what is coming. You can’t fix stupid

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jrriver.bsky.social @jrriver.bsky.social

Morons

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feistywriter2024.bsky.social @feistywriter2024.bsky.social

Stupid!!!

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