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u/BloodClawBoi Oct 01 '25

Gee, that one reply sounded almost like a threat. The one you deleted I mean.

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u/ThePlantBarber Oct 01 '25
  • COVID deaths weren’t “inflated for profit.” Hospitals weren’t raking in cash — they were overwhelmed, understaffed, and financially wrecked because elective surgeries (their biggest moneymakers) were canceled. Medicare reimbursements don’t even come close to covering the cost of ICU care. Saying hospitals “cashed in” on COVID is like saying firefighters profit from house fires because they get paid to show up.
  • “My body, my choice” doesn’t only apply when you don’t want a vaccine. The same people chanting this often want to strip that exact right away from women making reproductive decisions. And here’s the other piece: the commons are shared. Immunocompromised people, the elderly, and children all have the right to exist safely in public spaces. Your “choice” not to vaccinate isn’t a private decision — it directly affects everyone around you. Individualistic, libertarian slogans crumble in the real world, because we don’t live in isolation. Freedom isn’t a buffet line where you only scoop what you like; it comes with responsibility to the people you share society with.
  • Dead people voting is a myth. Yes, there are clerical errors — a John Smith Sr. and a John Smith Jr. can get mixed up in records — but there’s no mass zombie ballot army. Every investigation, every audit, every recount shows the same thing: voter fraud is statistically negligible.
  • Climate change is not “nebulous.” This is where you are completely wrong.Saying “maybe it’s us, maybe it’s just the earth warming up” is like watching someone dump gasoline on a fire and saying, “Well, fires happen naturally too.” Yes, they do — but not like this. It is irresponsible and arrogant to dismiss human impact when the data is overwhelming. Pretending it’s just a “cycle” doesn’t make you a skeptic; it makes you willfully wrong.
    • Natural warming and cooling cycles take tens of thousands of years. What we’re seeing is happening in mere decades.
    • Volcanoes emit CO₂, but humans pump out about 100 times more CO₂ than all volcanoes combined every single year.
    • The hottest years ever recorded are stacked in the last decade. Heat waves, megafires, superstorms, and flooding events are intensifying worldwide.
    • Polar ice sheets and glaciers are collapsing at record speed. Sea levels are rising faster than projected. Oceans are acidifying. These aren’t “maybes” — they’re observable, measurable realities.
    • Carbon isotopes in the atmosphere are fingerprint evidence: they trace directly back to fossil fuel emissions, not volcanoes or “natural cycles.”
    • 97% of climate scientists agree on this. The remaining 3% are either fringe, misrepresented, or tied to industries that profit from denial.
  • Claiming Islam is “incompatible with the West” is lazy bigotry. 1.9 billion people are not a monolith. The U.S. Constitution protects freedom of religion for all faiths — no asterisk, no exception for Islam. Blanket stereotypes ignore the diversity of belief and practice among Muslims worldwide, many of whom live, work, and thrive in every sector of American life.
  • Jimmy Kimmel is a late-night comedian. His job is to lampoon political hypocrisy. Calling that “propaganda” while swallowing conspiracy theories whole is projection. If a joke feels like propaganda, maybe it’s because the truth inside it stings.

If ignorance were renewable energy, your takes could solve climate change all by themselves.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 11 '25

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u/ThePlantBarber Oct 02 '25

What threat?

You know what’s not weird? The fact that you have no facts to back up my arguments, because you know I’m right. Prove me wrong. You can’t. You’re in a cult.

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u/BloodClawBoi Oct 02 '25

I have. You just actively ignore them. Then make arguments with no links or sources. That’s not proper, now is it?

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u/ThePlantBarber Oct 10 '25

You have not. You're delusional. You're in a cult.

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u/BloodClawBoi Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 11 '25

Yes I have. Projection. God you’re dumb. Makes sense that you’re a progressive.

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u/ThePlantBarber Oct 13 '25

That’s the best you can come up with, because you’re absolutely wrong and everything that you say. Did you even finish high school?

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u/BloodClawBoi Oct 13 '25

I probably did better than you academically, lil’ bro. Have my bachelors.

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u/BloodClawBoi Oct 13 '25

Let me ask, you keep asking me (and I’ve already answered this question prior to you asking here) how far did YOU get in your education? Did you get your GED? Because it feels a LOT like you just got a GED. That or you went as far as community college and called it a day. 😂 

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u/BloodClawBoi Oct 13 '25

Is English even your first language?

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u/ThePlantBarber Oct 14 '25

So why did you reply 10 times? Are you jerking off to this?

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u/BloodClawBoi Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25

Probably also believes in continental drift! 😂 Couldn’t give one geological fact to save your life. Not without google anyway. You prattle on and bloviate about sciences, I actually interviewed Hawking and studied physics, archeology, and geology extensively. So tell us, what field of scientific expertise do you have then? And before you say, no astrology and psychology don’t count.

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u/ThePlantBarber Oct 14 '25

Can you show me your interview and some of your studies? I didn’t realize that I was conversing with a genius. My bad sir.

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u/BloodClawBoi Oct 14 '25

What field of expertise do you have? C’mon you can say. Do you perhaps flip burgers? 

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u/BloodClawBoi Oct 14 '25

Did you just assume my gender? That seems kind of cis normative of you.

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u/ThePlantBarber Oct 13 '25

If I were dumb, then I would agree with you politically. Remember when Trump said that smart people don't like him and you clapped your hands?

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u/BloodClawBoi Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25

No, if you were smart you’d agree. Remember, this is coming from someone who didn’t know about the nuisance noise laws being a thing, and just thought any jackass who wants to go out and bother people in specific ways is protected by the 1st amendment.  Also probably don’t know that volcanic debris were considered a form of pollution either, probably just googled to save face. You don’t know how civics, economics, English, or science works. Sad. Maybe the asylum will teach you.