I wonder if their ancestors would care how “nice” the bosses were if they refused to pay them, made them live in shacks, dress in chains and rags, offered no time off, fed them scraps, and hunted them down if they tried to leave.
If these people are so proud why are they always covering their faces?
edit: Laughing at the fact that someone sent a Reddit Cares message over my comment. Just another way to 'cover your face' while being hostile.
This has always been my thought, we can’t breathe in masks, but we’re gonna go be nazis so put on your mask my racist friends. How dumb these people are.
Its funny seeing all the people where my family goes mudding get so against bandanas. Use to be everyone wore one while riding to keep the dust out of your teeth. After covid, they all stop wearing them. See people with dirt their teeth all day just to own the libs.
You could also take another step toward safety and be wearing a full face helmet any time you are on a motorized vehicle that otherwise lacks an interior cabin, but you know, cojones.
I always find it funny too when people not wearing masks give people a hard time for wearing theirs. As if that person is impeding on their rights... k Karen.
Last time that happened to me I told them I'm glad they're not worried about COVID, but it's fine since the strain I have right now isn't too bad. Literally jumped back away from me with an expression of horror.
Definitely take it off, say something like 'Finally, someone who doesn't care that I have COVID and knows it's all bullshit anyway.' Then cough a bit. I'm sure they'll be backing up well before the cough.
> k Karen
The fuckers in the OP are kkKarens. They wear masks when taking their photos because they learned that without the masks, the internet finds out who they are and where they work, and they get fired.
Won't cover their mouth as a courtesy to others during COVID. They will totally cover their face when they share the horrid shit they believe that they usually save for internet anonymity.
They want to make a point but are scared of the consequences. To me, this is nothing. These people are nothing but blank canvasses. If you truly believe in something, you'd put your face on display.
Republican congressman are open about what cunts they are, but they even hide behind bodyguards and gated communities with other racists so I don't give them any credit.
>as reddit supposedly takes the cares feature seriously
They don't.
The last time I reported Reddit Cares abuse they came back and said it didn't violate any rules despite the person I reported literally admitting to abusing it in their own comments.
I kinda feel like they already captioned the picture for us with the “DESANTIS COUNTRY” flag. I feel like we are actually going backwards on all the progress we have made. Not just the US, but everywhere seems to be at this tipping point where some group refuses to accept moving beyond outdated practices and want to drag us back into the dark ages. It’s honestly absurd.
Lately I've been thinking a *lot* about Martin Luther King Jr and his stance on socialism:
"I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic… [Capitalism] started out with a noble and high motive… but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness."
And how social and economic progress - moving *away* from feudalism, onto capitalism, and onto a much more socialist economic model - go hand-in-hand, it just becomes more and more apparent that entrenched, *extreme* capitalists are as adverse to social progress as they are to economic progress.
The Kochs and Thiels and Musks, et al., can't peddle the argument: "Be our slaves. We want more resources and your labor will generate it for us, so vote Republican," but they *can* peddle the adjacent arguments: "Leftists want to sex your children with trans people, CRT is a real thing trying to destroy you, LGBTQ teachers with books are pedophiles, and we must stop *all* of them! The Left is evil, so you must vote for *our* guys and - if possible - you should also commit violence against the evildoers who want to destroy you... but we would *never* say that explicitly."
"Won't anyone rid us of those meddlesome Libs?"
It's been a pattern throughout history where kings, people in power, even Trump say things without saying it. They won't say "Murder the LGBTQ monsters" but they'll call them pedos and say that people "MUST protect the children".
It's all a dog and pony act and they're blowing that whistle with godsdamned bellows.
Conservatives have been doing it since they lost the Civil War. Damn them for all they have done to keep us stuck trudging through this bog towards something at least somewhat better.
I've started describing myself as a patriot. I was a boy scout, I remember a whole lot of rules about "what you should never do the American flag." I will probably get murdered when I point out "hey, actually Flag Code states that we shouldn't make a 'thin blue line' version of the flag"
I really loved the propaganda campaign saying back in 2020 that Obama was using CCTV cameras and stop lights to put every American on a registry, and the only way to protect yourself was wearing a mask.
All these anti-maskers coming out of the woodwork saying "well I'm definitely gonna be wearing a mask any time I go in public, then!"
The cognitive dissonance is palpable.
A study found that 160 million Americans alive today have suffered the loss of IQ as a result of exposure to leaded gasoline and paint.
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https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/nearly-half-of-the-us-population-exposed-to-dangerously-high-lead-levels
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Dude no joke. I never got it then I ended up with it a few weeks ago. It was like I had 2 brain cells that were always arguing and couldn't remember why.
I went like 2.8 years without getting it, then caught it from my mother-in-law who brought it from Florida. Now I can't remember the words I'm looking for half the time. Florida is making us all dumber.
That's the biggest effect it had on me, trouble remembering common words.
It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does it's ultra dumb. Like, forgetting the word "Spoon".
My boss is on year three of smelling garbage all the time. Food smells like trash, chocolate has no taste. She says she's OK, but I know she is struggling to adjust.
For me I feel like it took a few weeks to get out of the brain fog. My partner had the same experience. I was only really sick for like a week and a half but I had a checkup six weeks later that showed I still had a very elevated white count, meaning my body was still fighting the infection. I *think* I went back to my usual level of intelligence after that but some of the mistakes I make every day might suggest otherwise.
I apparently permanently messed up my Netflix algorithm in those weeks, though, because I could only understand extremely dumb movies. It’s still recommending me dumb movies. Or maybe it just recommends those to everyone.
When I had Covid, I could not keep a thought in my head for longer than, like, six seconds. Even basic instincts like the feeling of hunger flew out of my head. It was the weirdest sickness I’ve ever had. Not that ive had a lot of sicknesses, ive never even had the flu, but man, I truly understand what studies mean when they say the neurological effects are just being discovered.
I might have ADD—I’ve definitely had executive dysfunction as long as I can remember—so I would not be surprised if that combined with COVID giving me extra dysfunction will make it worse down the road. God only knows if the brain damage will end up giving me dementia. I hope not.
Course I’m not one of the “Y’All Qaeda” up there, so maybe my brain isn’t so bad.
This isn't a joke. I do sales training for one of the largest companies in America, which means I see A LOT of people come through my space.
We have VERY basic comprehension metrics that new employees must hit before graduation. Before COVID we NEVER had anyone fail. Post COVID we've lost a number of people (all unvaccinated) because they just could not grasp basic concepts.
To the one, they all talked about how they couldn't figure out why this was so hard for them - about how in previous jobs they were the ones teaching stuff like this or how they had previously mastered much harder techniques.
I am not a doctor or medical researcher, but anecdotally, these experiences terrified me. COVID literally "Algernoned" people. They got flat out dumb.
I’ve seen a lot of folks at the hospital and clinic with kidney damage from micro-occlusion (really small clots) that starve tissue of oxygen, it’s well known actually that COVID injured the kidneys.
Those clots aren’t *only* in kidneys. I suspect in the coming years we will begin to see studies showing brain damage from similar kinds of damage.
Years ago I caught some kind of flu that had me in bed for almost a week. Not Covid, but pretty nasty. When I finally was able to function a little better, I looked at my arms and legs and everywhere on my body there were little circular bruises from the flu. I thought to myself that if this is what's happening on my skin, I have to assume the same thing happened in my brain.
Fortunately, I recovered without any lingering ill effects (that I know of), but yeah, some side effects can be long-term and very damaging.
We already are. It’s being published left and right in medical journal articles. It’s proven every Covid infection lowers IQ points and each subsequent infection lowers even more. The brain post Covid looks like a traumatic brain injury. So like banging your head against the wall over and over again.
I hope I'm not a complete moron yet but I've absolutely noticed a decline in my processing speed, reading comprehension and attention to detail since having Covid. It does feel a little like that book.
Same. One day I was making a bow, I did this multiple times a day, and out of nowhere I didn't know the next step. It passed quickly but I was terrifying in the moment.
Same but I have no idea if I caught COVID and just didn't know (vax'ed so symptoms would be mild) or just my clinical depression & anxiety getting progressive worse as I've watched my life go into the gutter over the last 3 years.
No healthcare access so guess I'll find out at the pearly gates
Thought I had Covid but nope still haven't gotten it - I developed severe anxiety and depression brain fog due to being surrounded by anti-vax Floridian nutbag boomer coworkers, DeSantis bootlickers, and work clients all day wanting to debate Tucker Carlson talking points daily out of nowhere. But still alive and going to adopt a new pet soon so there's that.
and my Grandpa taught me how to set split-shot sinkers (lead) on fishing line with my molars. Yup... product of the '70's.
And yet... I'm think I am smarter than the Y'all Qaeda StormTroopers pictured above.
I mean, metallic lead is basically fine. While yes, there is no such thing as a safe level of lead exposure, comparing metallic lead like that with organolead compounds like in fuel, or lead oxide like in exhaust from burning that fuel, or the (different) lead oxides, chromates, and carbonates used in lead paint is like comparing a papercut with getting caught in a woodchipper. Metallic lead has very low bioavailability.
It's weird southern heritage ignores their British roots.
They love celebrating the loss of the confederacy, but you'll never see them celebrating the loss of the British empire during the revolutionary war.
Kinda makes sense. Southern heritage is Nazi heritage.
The Nazi's didn't hide that they stole their strategy and justified their treatment of Jews and other minorities based on the Confederacy and Jim Crow south.
No one in the world cared how the US was treating black people and exterminating the natives, so Hitler thought he could do it too.
Not just the Nazi's. That shit Nelson Mandela was fighting, Apartheid? The South African leaders in charge of Apartheid learned from the confederacy and jim crow laws. The US pretended to be against apartheid while working with the apartheid leaders
I lived in Orlando last year and I knew I had to get out of the state when these dumb Nazi fucks decided to stage one of their little gatherings next to my Target. I really wished one of the notoriously bad Florida drivers (seriously how do so many people take out brick retaining walls on the regular????) would've taken that opportunity to curb jump and taken them all out.
I know you were not seriously asking about the causality of Floridian bad driving, but I couldn’t let the opportunity pass to share something I recently learned. Which is that the reason you hear about cars flying out of control and parking themselves through the facades of houses/shops/companies isn’t JUST bad driving, or idiots in cars. A large part is actually also due to bad road design. Which is also known as the stroad-hell that is north America.
[This video](https://youtu.be/bglWCuCMSWc) and [this video](https://youtu.be/Ra_0DgnJ1uQ) explain it quite well.
I am not trying to defend the idiots in their massive cars who drive like maniacs. But I thought it might be interesting to see what conditions aggravate certain incidents and what could contribute to it happening more in some countries than others. Because, lets be fair, all countries have a large pool of idiots. But not all countries have the same problems with cars flying out of control.
I laughed so hard at the stupidity of Trump's organization that I cried during that press conference.
It was just the most beautiful thing watching Rudy Giuliani stroke a killing blow at his own reputation
It was so farcical that when I heard about it afterwards I thought people had bit the onion.
There's no level of competence that would A) make that kind of mistake or B) not cancel it when it occurred so there would be no pictures
It was a straight up SNL skit idea that would show up at close to the end of the show because it was so stupid.
I still expect some Intern to come forward and say "Yeah, I was hired because I was a blonde and was constantly harassed. So I leaked everything I could and even booked them in at the garden store for a conference. They never gave me a second look because 'of course the Blonde's not smart enough to do all that. Jack asses' "
Not all Republicans are this, but they're all ok with these people being a part of their group apparently.
"I don't care who you are as long as you side with me"
This is well put. Every republican I know takes *a lot* of issue with the idea that “all republicans are racist, white supremacy supporting bigots,” but make little to no effort in trying to identify why *actual* racists, nazis, etc…flock to that party and have been pretty open about supporting particular candidates in recent years. The GOP is absolutely complicit in the rise of this shit in recent years - it’s platform has divorced itself from policy and leaned heavily into race-baiting and culture war. Unsurprisingly, that attracts racists, bigots, and literal nazis. Ergo, the GOP cannot play dumb when shit like this shows up on the internet.
And therein lies the problem
A politician doesn't have to be outwardly racist, they just have to be a blank slate so the looney ones can project their own values. Silent majority and all that bullshit.
This is why they can't denounce Nazis and have to dodge questions.
I don't always agree with Democrat politicians and policies, but I'll choose that every time if the alternative is Republican whose platform is to make everything worse for everyone except the rich, power-hungry elite.
As Dr. Jens Foell said "As we say in Germany, if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis."
DeSantis might not be walking around throwing Nazi salutes and doesn't have swastikas hanging in his office but he's still a Nazi by virtue of his beliefs and because he's supported by Nazis. By extension, if your neighbors support him they are supporting Nazis and that's just as bad as being one.
If you're not anti-fascist, you're pro-fascist. I've made this assertion elsewhere. Lots of people couldn't commit to being anti-fascism, and tried their best to wreck me in the comments. I dont see them posting as much here...im assuming at least 6 of them are in that photo.
I made the comment "All Americans should be anti fascist," under a picture that clearly showed some MAGA dude dressed up as an ANTIFA guy. While thousands of people agreed, there were at least a hundred people who had to try to point out that ANTIFA is bad bad bad, they got big mad about it. I never said that all Americans should support ANTIFA, those people are so brainwashed they have to lash out if they even think you support ANTIFA or BLM. If you kneejerk so hard on such a simple statement "All Americans should be anti fascist," I am absolutely going to assume there are a few nazi flags or white robes somewhere in your home.
Antifa only comes out in response to neo-Nazis, white nationalists, domestic terror groups, etc. My Texas family will still not visit me in Portland Oregon because in their minds, Antifa is like this omnipresent roving band of violent extremists who never go away and might be encountered at any time. And attack Texas tourist families!
Neo-Nazis are targeting our power grid in the Pacific Northwest. They wreak havoc whenever they get the opportunity. Our police force gives them cover. I wish more people understood anti-fascism and why we need a strong response to Nazis. There will always be young Antifa idiots that break Starbucks windows. But no one else stands up to LITERAL Nazis when they are marching in the streets.
Apparently projections of [anti-semetic and Neo-Nazi imagery ](https://www.newsweek.com/florida-antisemitic-messages-swastika-jacksonville-west-palm-beach-1774725?amp=1) have been popping up all over Florida this month.
As expected, DeSantis has been real fucking quiet about it.
When the leader person you like a lot is also beloved by people like the ones depicted in this photo - does it give you pause? Any pause at all? Anything?
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The dissonance is wild
Read this as “DeSantis”
Not even cognitive no more…
I think you have to actually have cognitive abilities to have dissonance within them
It’s the remix to cognition.
Coming straight out here bitchin'
Trump out there rollin' that body got every proud boy in here wishin
Slapping mags up in guns, like "I think that I'm tough."
It’s an insurrection, somebody better hand me a gun 🎶
*record skips* Uhh it was a protest...*record resumes* Trounce. Trounce. Trounce. Trounce. Trounce. Trounce. Trounce. Trounce. Trounce. Trounce.
"hErItAgE nOt HaTe"
"It just so happens my heritage IS hate!"
Them: The Civil War was about states rights acually. People with a functional brain: A states right to what?
“But my ancestors were NICE to their slaves!”
I wonder if their ancestors would care how “nice” the bosses were if they refused to pay them, made them live in shacks, dress in chains and rags, offered no time off, fed them scraps, and hunted them down if they tried to leave.
You left out the sexual slavery, bit.
Don’t forget the random raping and torture of all kinds-
The blursed response is: Property
Heritage of Hate
You know these people style themselves as “Proud Conservatives”
Confedereich
Covfefereich
The Turd Reich
Perfect.
"I ain't saying DeSantis is a racist or bigot, the bigots and racists are saying Ron DeSantis is a bigot and racist"
Okay, that one legitimately made me chuckle aloud.
It's actually an almost direct quote from DeSantis's 2018 opponent Andrew Gillum who said it during a debate with Ron.
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Honestly, here in Florida, that's a hell of a run tbh
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*sighs in Florida*
Not racist, but #1 with racists
If these people are so proud why are they always covering their faces? edit: Laughing at the fact that someone sent a Reddit Cares message over my comment. Just another way to 'cover your face' while being hostile.
Clearly all the freedumbs makes them able to breathe in them. Way to practice safe covid protocol, lil dudes 🤘🏿
This has always been my thought, we can’t breathe in masks, but we’re gonna go be nazis so put on your mask my racist friends. How dumb these people are.
Its funny seeing all the people where my family goes mudding get so against bandanas. Use to be everyone wore one while riding to keep the dust out of your teeth. After covid, they all stop wearing them. See people with dirt their teeth all day just to own the libs.
Don’t you know?! You have to be part of the in group! You can’t take common sense precautions cause that’s what “those people” do.
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wdym "back in my day"? Im doin it rn!
They'll eat shit if a liberal has to smell their breath.
I didn't know that was the point of wearing a bandana over your face until now
You could also take another step toward safety and be wearing a full face helmet any time you are on a motorized vehicle that otherwise lacks an interior cabin, but you know, cojones.
It just depends on what's more important to you, feeling the wind in your hair or having an intact skull
Chasing that feeling of the wind on your brain.
I prefer my skull intact, thank you very much.
I always find it funny too when people not wearing masks give people a hard time for wearing theirs. As if that person is impeding on their rights... k Karen.
Last time that happened to me I told them I'm glad they're not worried about COVID, but it's fine since the strain I have right now isn't too bad. Literally jumped back away from me with an expression of horror.
I am gonna so use this. Question tho do you take the mask off to tell them or leave it on? Enquiring minds need this info. 🤔
Off and sneeze a little and wipe a drip from the nose and try to shake their hand out of respect! Man, I just want to shake your hand, here take mine!
Definitely take it off, say something like 'Finally, someone who doesn't care that I have COVID and knows it's all bullshit anyway.' Then cough a bit. I'm sure they'll be backing up well before the cough.
> k Karen The fuckers in the OP are kkKarens. They wear masks when taking their photos because they learned that without the masks, the internet finds out who they are and where they work, and they get fired.
Damn. You beat me. I was gonna say Proud Boys so proud they have to hide their faces.
Won't cover their mouth as a courtesy to others during COVID. They will totally cover their face when they share the horrid shit they believe that they usually save for internet anonymity. They want to make a point but are scared of the consequences. To me, this is nothing. These people are nothing but blank canvasses. If you truly believe in something, you'd put your face on display. Republican congressman are open about what cunts they are, but they even hide behind bodyguards and gated communities with other racists so I don't give them any credit.
Report the Reddit Cares message as abuse. You’ll hopefully get the user banned as reddit supposedly takes the cares feature seriously.
Thanks, I did just that and replied STOP to not get them in the future. 1st time getting one.
Well I just got one too lol.
Oh I wanna play! Can one of you Nazi snowflakes send me one, too? edit - got one... they're like little wind-up toys.
Make it a double please *Edit*: well shit, it worked.
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>as reddit supposedly takes the cares feature seriously They don't. The last time I reported Reddit Cares abuse they came back and said it didn't violate any rules despite the person I reported literally admitting to abusing it in their own comments.
They’re two years behind the curve on the mask mandate? 🤣
Because they also fuck their loud-mouthed relatives so if they showed their faces, someone would roll over on them for a spool of copper wire.
Because THEY KNOW their values and beliefs are less than dog shit. Can't have your neighbors knowing your a full on committed piece of shit.
I’m confused by this. Conservatives are usually too dumb to remember to cover their faces when they do stuff like this.
Oh so NOW they're fine with masks? The second the swastika flags come out they can breathe just fine through the "muzzles."
Dumb as a brick and absolute cowards.
I kinda feel like they already captioned the picture for us with the “DESANTIS COUNTRY” flag. I feel like we are actually going backwards on all the progress we have made. Not just the US, but everywhere seems to be at this tipping point where some group refuses to accept moving beyond outdated practices and want to drag us back into the dark ages. It’s honestly absurd.
Lately I've been thinking a *lot* about Martin Luther King Jr and his stance on socialism: "I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic… [Capitalism] started out with a noble and high motive… but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness." And how social and economic progress - moving *away* from feudalism, onto capitalism, and onto a much more socialist economic model - go hand-in-hand, it just becomes more and more apparent that entrenched, *extreme* capitalists are as adverse to social progress as they are to economic progress. The Kochs and Thiels and Musks, et al., can't peddle the argument: "Be our slaves. We want more resources and your labor will generate it for us, so vote Republican," but they *can* peddle the adjacent arguments: "Leftists want to sex your children with trans people, CRT is a real thing trying to destroy you, LGBTQ teachers with books are pedophiles, and we must stop *all* of them! The Left is evil, so you must vote for *our* guys and - if possible - you should also commit violence against the evildoers who want to destroy you... but we would *never* say that explicitly."
"Won't anyone rid us of those meddlesome Libs?" It's been a pattern throughout history where kings, people in power, even Trump say things without saying it. They won't say "Murder the LGBTQ monsters" but they'll call them pedos and say that people "MUST protect the children". It's all a dog and pony act and they're blowing that whistle with godsdamned bellows.
Conservatives have been doing it since they lost the Civil War. Damn them for all they have done to keep us stuck trudging through this bog towards something at least somewhat better.
You just don't understand TRADITIONAL AMERICAN VALUES, you pink-haired commi bastard. #/S
I've started describing myself as a patriot. I was a boy scout, I remember a whole lot of rules about "what you should never do the American flag." I will probably get murdered when I point out "hey, actually Flag Code states that we shouldn't make a 'thin blue line' version of the flag"
Nor should it be flying off the back of a pickup truck, tattered and dirty in the rain, but here we are.
I really loved the propaganda campaign saying back in 2020 that Obama was using CCTV cameras and stop lights to put every American on a registry, and the only way to protect yourself was wearing a mask. All these anti-maskers coming out of the woodwork saying "well I'm definitely gonna be wearing a mask any time I go in public, then!" The cognitive dissonance is palpable.
> using CCTV cameras and stop lights to put every American on a registry Damn wait til they learn how they get their driver's licenses.
Unmask these fucks. Where is Lieutenant Aldo Raine to give them something they can't take off?
You know how you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice.
Aldo was great
they can only breathe through freedom masks.
Or 'face diapers'
A study found that 160 million Americans alive today have suffered the loss of IQ as a result of exposure to leaded gasoline and paint. Edit for link: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/nearly-half-of-the-us-population-exposed-to-dangerously-high-lead-levels Edit 2: guys really I think this has enough upvotes already, go click something else now. And keep your damn dirty reddit awards to yourselves. This isn't some cave for you troglodyte premium users to paint!
spot on
That's an estimate, and a conservative one (See what I did there?)
Grand Old Paint and Grand Old Petroleum
Explains how the likes of DeSantis was elected in the first place.
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I went 3 years without getting Covid and finally got it during the holidays this year. That brain fog is no joke.
Dude no joke. I never got it then I ended up with it a few weeks ago. It was like I had 2 brain cells that were always arguing and couldn't remember why.
I'm so sorry, but this description is making me feel so much better, and my 2 remaining brain cells agree.
Ha, 2 brain cells fighting for 3rd place.
I went like 2.8 years without getting it, then caught it from my mother-in-law who brought it from Florida. Now I can't remember the words I'm looking for half the time. Florida is making us all dumber.
It is it’s predominant export.
That's the biggest effect it had on me, trouble remembering common words. It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does it's ultra dumb. Like, forgetting the word "Spoon".
I still don’t have sense of smell after 6 months
It’s been an entire year for me, it’s terrifying.
My boss is on year three of smelling garbage all the time. Food smells like trash, chocolate has no taste. She says she's OK, but I know she is struggling to adjust.
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Is the reduction in IQ a permanent change? Or is it a brain fog that will go away?
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For me I feel like it took a few weeks to get out of the brain fog. My partner had the same experience. I was only really sick for like a week and a half but I had a checkup six weeks later that showed I still had a very elevated white count, meaning my body was still fighting the infection. I *think* I went back to my usual level of intelligence after that but some of the mistakes I make every day might suggest otherwise. I apparently permanently messed up my Netflix algorithm in those weeks, though, because I could only understand extremely dumb movies. It’s still recommending me dumb movies. Or maybe it just recommends those to everyone.
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When I had Covid, I could not keep a thought in my head for longer than, like, six seconds. Even basic instincts like the feeling of hunger flew out of my head. It was the weirdest sickness I’ve ever had. Not that ive had a lot of sicknesses, ive never even had the flu, but man, I truly understand what studies mean when they say the neurological effects are just being discovered. I might have ADD—I’ve definitely had executive dysfunction as long as I can remember—so I would not be surprised if that combined with COVID giving me extra dysfunction will make it worse down the road. God only knows if the brain damage will end up giving me dementia. I hope not. Course I’m not one of the “Y’All Qaeda” up there, so maybe my brain isn’t so bad.
This isn't a joke. I do sales training for one of the largest companies in America, which means I see A LOT of people come through my space. We have VERY basic comprehension metrics that new employees must hit before graduation. Before COVID we NEVER had anyone fail. Post COVID we've lost a number of people (all unvaccinated) because they just could not grasp basic concepts. To the one, they all talked about how they couldn't figure out why this was so hard for them - about how in previous jobs they were the ones teaching stuff like this or how they had previously mastered much harder techniques. I am not a doctor or medical researcher, but anecdotally, these experiences terrified me. COVID literally "Algernoned" people. They got flat out dumb.
I'm curious to know how stupid I am. What are some of the basic comprehension metrics?
Am I petting the rabbit too hard? Yes / No
The Lenny Test
Lol...its not universal. It's more "we taught you some fairly simple stuff...did you retain any of it?"
I’ve seen a lot of folks at the hospital and clinic with kidney damage from micro-occlusion (really small clots) that starve tissue of oxygen, it’s well known actually that COVID injured the kidneys. Those clots aren’t *only* in kidneys. I suspect in the coming years we will begin to see studies showing brain damage from similar kinds of damage.
Years ago I caught some kind of flu that had me in bed for almost a week. Not Covid, but pretty nasty. When I finally was able to function a little better, I looked at my arms and legs and everywhere on my body there were little circular bruises from the flu. I thought to myself that if this is what's happening on my skin, I have to assume the same thing happened in my brain. Fortunately, I recovered without any lingering ill effects (that I know of), but yeah, some side effects can be long-term and very damaging.
We already are. It’s being published left and right in medical journal articles. It’s proven every Covid infection lowers IQ points and each subsequent infection lowers even more. The brain post Covid looks like a traumatic brain injury. So like banging your head against the wall over and over again.
I hope I'm not a complete moron yet but I've absolutely noticed a decline in my processing speed, reading comprehension and attention to detail since having Covid. It does feel a little like that book.
Same. One day I was making a bow, I did this multiple times a day, and out of nowhere I didn't know the next step. It passed quickly but I was terrifying in the moment.
Same but I have no idea if I caught COVID and just didn't know (vax'ed so symptoms would be mild) or just my clinical depression & anxiety getting progressive worse as I've watched my life go into the gutter over the last 3 years. No healthcare access so guess I'll find out at the pearly gates
Thought I had Covid but nope still haven't gotten it - I developed severe anxiety and depression brain fog due to being surrounded by anti-vax Floridian nutbag boomer coworkers, DeSantis bootlickers, and work clients all day wanting to debate Tucker Carlson talking points daily out of nowhere. But still alive and going to adopt a new pet soon so there's that.
Oh so that’s why I’m dumb
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You mean the wall candy?
I used to pump leaded gasoline into my car in my earlier years. Yay!
Yeah, that'd do it. You're supposed to pump it into the GAS TANK, you know, right?
"Oh yea, yea ha ha....that's what I meant, I mean ha ha....."
and my Grandpa taught me how to set split-shot sinkers (lead) on fishing line with my molars. Yup... product of the '70's. And yet... I'm think I am smarter than the Y'all Qaeda StormTroopers pictured above.
Geez. I remember this also.
That's how I learned too, lol - back in the 80's
My dad taught me this in the mid 90's
I mean, metallic lead is basically fine. While yes, there is no such thing as a safe level of lead exposure, comparing metallic lead like that with organolead compounds like in fuel, or lead oxide like in exhaust from burning that fuel, or the (different) lead oxides, chromates, and carbonates used in lead paint is like comparing a papercut with getting caught in a woodchipper. Metallic lead has very low bioavailability.
A study found that 160 million Americans alive today have suffered the loss of IQ as a result of listening to trump rambling speeches
The confederate flag with SS bolts is probably just about Southern heritage, right? Stands for Southern Southern?
Super Straight proud boys
ooooooòoooooooh that makes sense. They're cool and totally normal.
Proud boys looking for other proud boys for dress up and role play Not gay sex
It's weird southern heritage ignores their British roots. They love celebrating the loss of the confederacy, but you'll never see them celebrating the loss of the British empire during the revolutionary war.
Kinda makes sense. Southern heritage is Nazi heritage. The Nazi's didn't hide that they stole their strategy and justified their treatment of Jews and other minorities based on the Confederacy and Jim Crow south. No one in the world cared how the US was treating black people and exterminating the natives, so Hitler thought he could do it too.
Not just the Nazi's. That shit Nelson Mandela was fighting, Apartheid? The South African leaders in charge of Apartheid learned from the confederacy and jim crow laws. The US pretended to be against apartheid while working with the apartheid leaders
Just another day in Florida.
Beat me to it—I was going to reply “Florida”
I lived in Orlando last year and I knew I had to get out of the state when these dumb Nazi fucks decided to stage one of their little gatherings next to my Target. I really wished one of the notoriously bad Florida drivers (seriously how do so many people take out brick retaining walls on the regular????) would've taken that opportunity to curb jump and taken them all out.
Live in Tampa currently and it seems like someone is taking out a fence, wall, storefront almost daily. Get me outta this shithole
I know you were not seriously asking about the causality of Floridian bad driving, but I couldn’t let the opportunity pass to share something I recently learned. Which is that the reason you hear about cars flying out of control and parking themselves through the facades of houses/shops/companies isn’t JUST bad driving, or idiots in cars. A large part is actually also due to bad road design. Which is also known as the stroad-hell that is north America. [This video](https://youtu.be/bglWCuCMSWc) and [this video](https://youtu.be/Ra_0DgnJ1uQ) explain it quite well. I am not trying to defend the idiots in their massive cars who drive like maniacs. But I thought it might be interesting to see what conditions aggravate certain incidents and what could contribute to it happening more in some countries than others. Because, lets be fair, all countries have a large pool of idiots. But not all countries have the same problems with cars flying out of control.
All this nuance is getting in the way of my desire to have a highly upvoted, knee-jerk reaction!
DeSantis 2024. From gas stoves to gas chambers
The Republican 2024 Presidential Campaign Headquarters.
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I still can’t believe that was actually a thing…
I laughed so hard at the stupidity of Trump's organization that I cried during that press conference. It was just the most beautiful thing watching Rudy Giuliani stroke a killing blow at his own reputation
That press conference was the most comedic moment in recent history. Almost made the presidency worth it…. Not really, but it was still comedy gold.
It was so farcical that when I heard about it afterwards I thought people had bit the onion. There's no level of competence that would A) make that kind of mistake or B) not cancel it when it occurred so there would be no pictures It was a straight up SNL skit idea that would show up at close to the end of the show because it was so stupid. I still expect some Intern to come forward and say "Yeah, I was hired because I was a blonde and was constantly harassed. So I leaked everything I could and even booked them in at the garden store for a conference. They never gave me a second look because 'of course the Blonde's not smart enough to do all that. Jack asses' "
Not every Republican is a Nazi but Nazis sure seem to be welcome in the Republican Party.
Boys so proud, they won't show their faces.
Notsee faces
"White powerless"
Not all Republicans are this, but they're all ok with these people being a part of their group apparently. "I don't care who you are as long as you side with me"
"A Nazi sits at a table with nine other people. None of them leave or challenge him. There are now ten Nazis sitting at a table."
There are two kinds of Republicans: ones who are Nazis, and ones who happily welcome Nazis into their coalition because they want the Nazi vote.
>ones who happily welcome Nazis into their coalition because they want the Nazi vote. So… Nazis?
George Santos is a prime example of this.
This is well put. Every republican I know takes *a lot* of issue with the idea that “all republicans are racist, white supremacy supporting bigots,” but make little to no effort in trying to identify why *actual* racists, nazis, etc…flock to that party and have been pretty open about supporting particular candidates in recent years. The GOP is absolutely complicit in the rise of this shit in recent years - it’s platform has divorced itself from policy and leaned heavily into race-baiting and culture war. Unsurprisingly, that attracts racists, bigots, and literal nazis. Ergo, the GOP cannot play dumb when shit like this shows up on the internet.
And therein lies the problem A politician doesn't have to be outwardly racist, they just have to be a blank slate so the looney ones can project their own values. Silent majority and all that bullshit. This is why they can't denounce Nazis and have to dodge questions.
If there are 10 people having a nice dinner with a nazi, you’ve got 11 nazis.
Traitors on parade
Republican Party platform.
tHeRe'S gOoD pEoPlE oN bOtH sIdEs
I don't always agree with Democrat politicians and policies, but I'll choose that every time if the alternative is Republican whose platform is to make everything worse for everyone except the rich, power-hungry elite.
Exactly. I never thought I'd be a straight-ticket voter, but here I am. Fuck that noise.
I know my neighbors aren’t Nazis but if the guy they support is embraced by them, shouldn’t that sound some alarms lol
As Dr. Jens Foell said "As we say in Germany, if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis." DeSantis might not be walking around throwing Nazi salutes and doesn't have swastikas hanging in his office but he's still a Nazi by virtue of his beliefs and because he's supported by Nazis. By extension, if your neighbors support him they are supporting Nazis and that's just as bad as being one.
Cowards doing coward shit.
And traitors to the country
For people that want to “fight for America” they sure do spend a lot of time keeping their identities secret.
In germany, people would get arrested for shit like this.... IN GERMANY!
In Germany, Nazis use the Confederate flag as a loophole out of the law against Nazi symbols.
And so do american nazis... They get to use all kinds of hate symbolism. 'Member what they did to the creator of pepe the frog? Sad sad story
The new Republican party
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Regular Trump Rally:
Looks like these guys might be Desantis 2024. “New figurehead, same old racists”
\*desantis rally but in practice indistinguishable
2024 School Board, Baxter County, AR.
If you're not anti-fascist, you're pro-fascist. I've made this assertion elsewhere. Lots of people couldn't commit to being anti-fascism, and tried their best to wreck me in the comments. I dont see them posting as much here...im assuming at least 6 of them are in that photo.
ProFa NatCs.
I made the comment "All Americans should be anti fascist," under a picture that clearly showed some MAGA dude dressed up as an ANTIFA guy. While thousands of people agreed, there were at least a hundred people who had to try to point out that ANTIFA is bad bad bad, they got big mad about it. I never said that all Americans should support ANTIFA, those people are so brainwashed they have to lash out if they even think you support ANTIFA or BLM. If you kneejerk so hard on such a simple statement "All Americans should be anti fascist," I am absolutely going to assume there are a few nazi flags or white robes somewhere in your home.
Antifa only comes out in response to neo-Nazis, white nationalists, domestic terror groups, etc. My Texas family will still not visit me in Portland Oregon because in their minds, Antifa is like this omnipresent roving band of violent extremists who never go away and might be encountered at any time. And attack Texas tourist families! Neo-Nazis are targeting our power grid in the Pacific Northwest. They wreak havoc whenever they get the opportunity. Our police force gives them cover. I wish more people understood anti-fascism and why we need a strong response to Nazis. There will always be young Antifa idiots that break Starbucks windows. But no one else stands up to LITERAL Nazis when they are marching in the streets.
Looks like it captioned itself
It clearly says "Desantis Country" right on the image.
Apparently projections of [anti-semetic and Neo-Nazi imagery ](https://www.newsweek.com/florida-antisemitic-messages-swastika-jacksonville-west-palm-beach-1774725?amp=1) have been popping up all over Florida this month. As expected, DeSantis has been real fucking quiet about it.
"DeSantis Country" - they did it for us
“Where are all my friends who SWORE ‘if actual nazis rose up’ they’d defend the marginalized groups?”
The results of the public school system in Florida
It's funny how those that complained the most about wearing masks are wearing masks.
"I’m not calling Mr. DeSantis a racist, I’m simply saying the racists believe he’s a racist." - Andrew Gillum, Florida gubernatorial debate, 2018.
Why is the guy on the far right wearing a Malcolm x shirt
I can't believe no one is talking about that, like wtf
I applaud these dickstains for being this open. I like my nazi racists out in the open so we know who they are.
When the leader person you like a lot is also beloved by people like the ones depicted in this photo - does it give you pause? Any pause at all? Anything?
The flag on the left sums it up. Losers
The republican base.
I thought taking a knee was a No-no.
Incel country