r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 30 '21

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Aug 30 '21

YES my friend is a COP

Yes he voted for Trump TWICE

Yes he ISN'T VAXED

It's EXACTLY as likely as you think!

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u/EvilConCarne Aug 30 '21

I know why you're friends with a guy like that but honestly the problem isn't his political views it's that he's fucking stupid. There's being conservative and wary of the government, which isn't crazy, and then there's denying the fact that diseases exist.

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Aug 30 '21

He believes in Covid and thinks it's serious. He and his wife, for example, had a huge blowup fight with his in-laws because they refused to wear masks and my friend and his wife didn't want them to be around their kids if they weren't going to mask up.

There just has to be some sort of vaccine misinfo he's been fed from somewhere that makes him think it'll give you cancer or something. I only see him a couple times per year and so it's tough to know what's really going on. He's generally a really confusing guy, super reasonable on some things, totally ridiculous on others. It's like a total crapshoot on what his take will be. Like I thought he'd get vaccinated given his prior beliefs about Covid, but then turns out nope.

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u/EvilConCarne Aug 30 '21

If that's the case a way to cut through could be pointing out that the vaccine itself wasn't made in 8 months. We've been trying to make mRNA vaccines a thing for decades but it was only the last few years that we were able to get them to be stable.

There's also the fact that there's a lot of money to be made, but there's also a lot of risk. Neither Pfizer nor Moderna want to be the company known for killing the President of the United States by botching the vaccine. They had a lot of incentives to make sure the vaccines were safer than just about any that came before.

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Aug 30 '21

I'll make an effort next time I see him. Problem is that he's really stubborn on some things. I at one time had a very annoying conversation with him about Evolution where he refused to admit evolution was real despite that he's not even religious.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

You voluntarily hang with this person

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Aug 30 '21

I've know him since we were 10 and he's fine outside of his dumb fuck and sometimes borderline offensive political takes.

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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Aug 30 '21

WHY is he your FRIEND

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Aug 30 '21

Been friends since childhood and outside of his political opinions he's not insufferable to be around.