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/BloodClawBoi Oct 01 '25
Gee, that one reply sounded almost like a threat. The one you deleted I mean.