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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I am recovering from being raised by ultra crunchy parents. I had no vaccinations until I was already an adult. I have a unique vantage point into both sides of this issue and the thing of it is that yes maybe they are dumb, but the fear comes from a very real, even logical, place. Anything pushed on you by the American government should give anyone pause, because when was the last time the government spent gobs of money in the name of public health? Massive infrastructure spending in order to keep Americans from spending less on healthcare and increase their quality of life? Yeah that does not sound real. Why would the same government that has been dismantling public education and food/medication regulation spend a single red cent to make Americans’ teeth better? It makes no logical sense, so it is easy to see why generations of Americans that have been screwed over by their government at every turn would be skeptical of anything put in the water supply “for their benefit.” This is about a loss of trust in lawmakers, and all they’ve done to perpetuate it.

    As an aside, though, I have watched a ton of people traverse the crunchy leftist to MAGA pipeline and it still bewilders me. “I don’t trust the government, but I trust the sleezy car salesman I have vehemently loathed for decades.” I can only blame lead poisoning for that one.



  • Of course they’re not. You’re preaching to the choir with this one, but the fact is that ‘news’ is in their name and the majority is stupid enough to both believe it and that watching it makes them informed. So you wind up in a conversation where you’re worried about war, inflation, the files, the forests, etc etc etc, and they don’t know anything about that but they’re worried about a small handful of trans athletes. Are they stupid? Of course. Do they still deserve to be informed rather than indoctrinated and radicalized? Of course!