Olivia Hill
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Author. Artist. Game Designer. Award-Winning Filmmaker. Radical. Trans. She/Her. I tell stories about monsters that are actually stories about humans. Trantifa
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Hey new followers!
Check out my novel,
#iHunt
: Killing Monsters in the Gig Economy. It’s Buffy meets Uber. Irreverent dark humor and social commentary.
Or the companion tabletop rpg of the same name!
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One time I went to a comedy club.
Comedian made awful gay joke after gay joke.
A man booed.
Comic said “what are you gonna do about it faggot?”
The leather daddy got up on stage and laid him out with one punch. “That’s what this faggot will do.”
I’ve never laughed so hard.
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The Los Angeles teachers union has said they'll reopen schools under the following conditions:
1) Defund the police
2) Moratorium on charter schools
3) Pass Medicare for All
4) Pass a wealth tax
5) A federal school bailout
More demands like this please. Use your power.
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Liberals right now are like, "the single most important thing you can do is get out there and vote in November," meanwhile Democrat governors all over the nation are like, "While we respect peaceful protest, if you're seen outside after 6pm, you can eat a bullet."
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I had to go to Walmart.
They’ve put locks on all of the cooking oil.
This country is fucking doomed.
If you support capitalism at this point you’re a death cultist. I’m tired of playing nice.
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This interaction is the perfect encapsulation of what it means to be transgender right now.
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The only time my parents brought up sexuality was when my stepdad said, “if you turn out gay I promise you they’ll never find your body.”
So no, maybe I don’t think all education about gender and sexuality should come from parents.
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If you think the UNRWA should be completely abolished because three people in it might have Hamas ties, wait until I tell you about the Neo Nazi population in the US police force.
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I want you to read this while simultaneously remembering that Florida and about 20 other states are passing various forms of “being trans or in drag is a sexual offense against minors.”
Just saying.
BREAKING: Florida Senate committee has unanimously passed a bill that would give the death penalty to those who commit sexual crimes against children.
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Texas just banned men performing in makeup in public.
This of course includes Donald Trump, Joel Osteen, rodeo clowns, and literally every theater performance.
When pressed about this, Texas legislators responded, “Naw y’all know we just mean the faggets.”
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Guess it's a good time to remind you that Tesla makes a significant amount of its money selling carbon offset credits to other polluting companies. Tesla directly profits from climate change. It's their business plan.
The climate change billionaire is a full blown climate change denialist
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Fun fact: This young woman was 16. She did not stab anyone. She was accosted by IOF forces. She was searched and had a knife on her person. She was then shot ten times, survived, then was imprisoned for eight years.
The only controversy was whether he shot her 10 or 12 times.
Let me fix it for you:
She was not "snatched" from you. She was arrested after stabbing a Border police cop
And it is not a "hostage swap": The Israelis freed are children, women, and elderly who were brutally kidnapped from their homes only because they were Jews. The…
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I think it's worth noting Rashida Tlaib was censured for stating that Israel would attack a hospital.
Since that statement, they've attacked numerous hospitals and have even admitted to some of them.
Breaking: Indonesia hospital in Gaza is under Israeli attack. Several killed and injured.
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I mean, imagine spending years and years and years making a thing, and it's a smash hit, and you're rewarded with having to give a company that didn't contribute anything but brand identity markers $90m.
Good for them.
Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke has revealed that the developer isn't planning to release any expansions or DLC for Baldur's Gate 3, nor a Baldur's Gate 4.
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Me: I need better healthcare.
GOP: He can fuck off and die.
Dems: 👏 SHE 👏 can fuck off and die.
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Since liberals have decided “from the river to the sea” is a call for genocide, I’ve decided “vote blue no matter who” is also a call for genocide.
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For younger people, here’s a weird thing you probably didn’t know about unless you’re at least an elder millennial, because it sounds insane.
Chickenpox Parties.
Growing up, when one of our friends got chickenpox, parents would throw a party with tons of kids. To get us sick.
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Fun fact: The last time I went job hunting in video games, I sent out about 400 resumes, 200 with my name as Olivia, and 200 with my deadname. Identical resume.
Nearly half using my deadname got callbacks. I got about 20 interviews from that bout.
I got ZERO as Olivia.
@EcoTechBro
I really don’t think the average man/white person benefits from patriarchy/white supremacy and it’s extremely counterproductive to say so. They *perceive* themselves to benefit from it, but the social consequences of these systems of oppression hurt everyone
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That woman shaming EBT users by posting that receipt that turns out was actually hers, and she owns a Cadillac dealership that got $3m in free PPP money is a perfect encapsulation of American conservatism.
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Don't let them try to convince you that a 4 day work week is a "radical" position. It's extremely popular.
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Remember this every time you're told about how Israel is an ally to the LGBTQ+ community.
They're not. They're 100% not.
Israeli security forces have admitted to deliberately threatening and outing queer Palestinians as a tactic to intimidate them into working as informants.
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This.
They don't flock to Andrew Tate because they have no positive masculine role models. There are plenty of those out there. They flock to Andrew Tate because he promises them power and control. He promises inequity, and they salivate over it.
The fundamental problem with "positive" masculinity as a solution to misogyny is it offers no reward, which is the only reason men care about masculinity to begin with
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Make art Nazis don’t want to consume.
Make games Nazis don’t want to play.
Draw comics Nazis don’t want to buy.
Write books Nazis don’t want to read.
Film movies Nazis don’t want to watch.
Hold conventions Nazis don’t want to attend.
It’s not hard.
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Youtube algorithm:
"You watched a video by a feminist. How about a video by a Nazi?"
"You watched a video by a trans person. How about a video by a Nazi?"
"You watched a video by a Muslim woman. How about a video by a Nazi?"
At a certain point it's no longer just ineptitude.
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Wanna know how the Japanese internment happened right under everyone's noses?
This is a former executive for NBC.
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Dropped my daughter off this morning and I just got cut off by someone doing 70~ in a 35 zone. They swerved past me and slammed into the car ahead of me. I slammed my brakes. The car sheared the side off the other. I just watched someone die.
I hate this country.
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In case you were wondering about watching Civil War, they thank actual Nazis in the credits.
NGL seeing Andy Ngo and Helen Lewis there really hurts my opinion of
@A24
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January 1st, Metropolis goes public domain.
This is insane to me. A film that looks like this, 100 years old, is the newest thing the culture can freely embrace.
Corporations stunt our cultural growth. We need to divest from them if we want a better world.
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@BuckAngel
Maybe because porn is categorized based on how men fetishize us? And we should perhaps base our society LESS on how men fetishize us? Not more?
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A lot of people saying this is fake haven’t spent much time in shitty bars, apparently.
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Your daily reminder: Wage theft is the most common form of theft in America. It literally makes up nearly 75% of all theft.
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The unchecked demand for “wholesomeness” is going to kill queer art.
The irony is not lost on me that the absolute most toxic, aggressive queers on the planet are the ones who demand everything be saccharine YA clean.
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“Leftists” going after AOC because she shared her sexual assault experience: Understand that we see you, we will never, ever feel safe around you, and we will make sure you’re not part of any movement we are. Holy shit why do I have to say this?
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My humanity is not an "opinion."
Report: Warner Bros. Games president says transphobe J.K. Rowling has "the right to hold her opinions".
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To be clearer:
Vaccines are objectively the single most important scientific advancement in our species’ recent history. They have saved countless millions of lives, and that will project out into billions.
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I’m seeing more and more antivaxx sentiment every day, and from “the left.”
No. Just no. I will never compromise on this issue. The science is very clear and very abundant. There is no credible, replicable evidence that vaccines are a net negative. Period.
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Never, ever let this kind of misinformation go uncontested.
America miseducates us to think all our rights were won peacefully, because the truth would put the oligarchs in danger.
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No. I want a hand out. You people have taken every single drop of my surplus labor for my entire life and spoon fed it to oligarchs.
I’m done asking what I can do for my country. It’s time my country do something for me.
I know Americans aren’t looking for a handout. They just want a fair chance to get ahead — and I’ll work every day to make sure folks get that chance.
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Psst. Bullying bigots is exactly how we got Nazi punks out of the SoCal punk scene in the 80s and 90s. It was objectively good.
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Lol this shit is almost word for word what they say in the orientation videos at a non-union retail store.
Actors’ strike will likely have no impact on your favorite actual play series
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Nobody thinks that if you shut up about liking Harry Potter and stop buying merch, you’re going to single handedly bankrupt JK. We’re asking you to draw a very basic line in the sand over a leisure product, so people see that discrimination means rejection.
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I want you to look at this thread. This is what transphobia looks like. These people act like they’re behaving in a perfectly sane, rational way. These people are terrifying, inhuman monsters. They will afford us not a single boundary; we can only exist according to their whims.
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Conservatives absolutely cannot talk about antifa without making them sound even more awesome.
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I’m sitting here in a parking lot having a panic attack because I just watched a human being ripped in half because someone was probably late for work or something and literally none of us fucking need cars Jesus Christ this fucking death cult country.
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I utterly do not want to dive into drama bullshit. But honestly, fuck Brianna Wu. She bragged about testifying to Congress about how bad Gamergate was. She sold her story to Hollywood. Now she's saying trans people are as bad as Gamergate?
Fuck that and fuck her.
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If superhero media is "our modern myths," then why do films like The People's Joker get pulled?
Because that's not what they are. They're corporate content mills and intellectual property to sit on and landlord.
Copyright is the antithesis of mythology.
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This looks like the most shitty, bland, and regressive game I’ve seen in years. Imagine thinking of a cyberpunk future and all you can come up with is “scruffy white guy with a gun.” This is a game for people who think looking like that is cool.
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Biden put a trans woman in an influential position regarding healthcare.
That’s so cool. So when I bawl my eyes out because I can’t get healthcare as a trans person, at least I can look up and see the boot on my head is worn by someone like me.
Inspiring.
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Imagine being so obsessed with proving to the world that you’re oppressed that you fund a hate crime against yourself for evidence.
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Zuckerberg lost so much today that if he just spent that money instead of hoarding it, he could have fixed Flint's water supply 63 times over. Just with what he lost in a day.
Had a rough day?
Mark Zuckerberg lost $3.6 billion today.
Jeff Bezos lost $3.2 billion.
Google's founders lost $2.3 billion, each.
Bill Gates lost $2.2 billion.
(Source: Bloomberg)
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This is cyberpunk.
He used Snapchat’s “gender switch” filter to pose as a 16-year-old girl online, and take down a police officer allegedly looking to hook up. He tipped off the PD, and the officer was arrested.
Our exclusive interview with the man, and why he did it, at 11 on
@nbcbayarea
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Now my cousin died in 91. He was basically my age. The varicella vaccine came about around 95. He would have lived if he just pulled through a few more years. My kids won’t die of chickenpox. They won’t even get it.
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Mind you, before the vaccine, hundreds of people died every year from it and countless thousands hospitalized. Many suffered permanent injuries from it. I have scars from it.
Now? It kills about 30 people per year. And those ones are almost all unvaccinated.
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There's a thread going around about Kamala Harris, defending her transphobia. It of course glosses over and waters down the bad parts, and just ignores the inconvenient ones. So let me break it down a little more specifically.
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Further, the vaccines used in any given nation are used in others. If your conspiracy about vaccines doesn’t account for global access, it isn’t even worth considering.
Vaccines do not cause autism. They do not cause mass shootings.
They save lives.
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However, varicella is also very dangerous. I think that culturally we really downplayed that aspect. For example, my cousin died of it when he was 9. He got it at a party. My community still held parties, because they believed it was for the greater good.
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You see, chickenpox, now more commonly called varicella, is a very uncomfortable sickness, and basically the older you are when you get it, the worse it is. For adults, it’s absolute hell.
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Be gay do crimes.
Not, like, shoplifting. Or theft. Or property damage. Or public disturbance. Or political violence. Or arson. Or possession with intent to sell. Or indecent exposure. Or noise ordinance violations.
You know. GAY crimes. Like… ummm…
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Sucks SCOTUS ruled to end student loan forgiveness.
But instead of blaming powerless Joe Biden, we should blame whomever made it so you can’t discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy. That asshole put us here.
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@thebrettrussell
@ara_hagopian
As a former Disneyland employee, I can say the interrogation rooms are actually by the entrance to Frontierland.
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Hey. A lot of normies and liberals are starting to get radicalized now. THIS IS GOOD. Now is not the time for “I told you so.” Now is the time for welcoming and love. The ONLY concern is zeal of the convert. Guide them to things that work.
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I'm terrified of Gamergate 2 because if it really happens we might get another Brianna Wu.
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Ergo, to many parents, the idea was you get as many kids together as possible, in hopes of getting them infected as early as possible. After all, most people can never get varicella twice.
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Wonderful piece about the Queer Eye Japan series, from a queer Japanese person. On how the show fails on basically every level, reinforces numerous harmful stereotypes, and completely disregards Japanese queer existence.
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“Why do leftists spend so much time critiquing liberalism instead of focusing on conservatism?”
Easy. Conservatism is evil ideology. We have no illusions what conservatives want. Liberals say they strive to be humane. We are hoping in vain they see our criticisms and do better.
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The Dixie Chicks didn’t get canceled so you motherfuckers can pretend none of us knew Iraq was bullshit.
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Them: "I'm gender critical!"
Me: "Oh really? Cool. Let's talk about how the last few centuries has turned gender into a rigid, narrow construct that disallows variations and—"
Them: "No I like that part."
Me: "So what part are you critical about?"
Them: "Your human rights."
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If your agenda involves stopping them from saving lives, in my ethical foundation that puts blood on your hands. Any single person who dies because of a disease that could have been prevented by herd immunity but didn’t because of propagabda, their blood is on your hands. Period.
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Remember that time Marilyn Manson was facing numerous rape and abuse allegations and JK Rowling sent him flowers?
Surely it’s because she cares about women.
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Now also note that varicella was particularly bad to compromised populations. We were poor, in rural Ohio. Clinics meant an hour drive through tough terrain. An emergency room is hours away and a huge bill that could bankrupt their family and lose them their house.
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The Democrats banning TikTok will be as good for their electoral prospects as if they banned The Beatles in 1964. Just absolutely telling an entire generation that they're not respected at all. On-brand for the Dems, really.
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Gundam: Witch From Mercury is a mainstream prime time children’s anime built on a 40 year old cultural mainstay property. It features an unapologetic, earned, and happy lesbian marriage of the main characters. Stop settling for crumbs.
We can have better media.
#g_witch
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CDPR is copyright striking people making fun of Cyberpunk 2077.
I’m sure the “free speech” warriors obsessed with them will be up in arms and take them to task for “anti-consumer” behavior, right? Right?
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If you’re a fan of Neil being snarky about Santa, know that he launches these sorts of allegations against Santa every year. You can Google “Neil deGrasse Tyson allegations” to see some of his other wacky exploits.
After extensive research, I've concluded that for Santa to deliver presents to the billions of homes that celebrate Christmas, and to do so in one continuous night across 24 time zones, he & his reindeer must open wormholes through the fabric of spacetime between each delivery.
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Also, addendum to this?
I don’t think it’s a “parent’s right to choose.”
I don’t think parents should be able to unnecessarily put their children’s lives at risk and expose them to shingles as adults. Kids are raised to trust their parents. Those parents are murderers.
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The mothers in my neighborhood will never, ever hold a party to try to get my children to catch a potentially fatal disease. Never again.
If that’s the world you want, you’re my enemy.
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Reminder: Wendy’s is not cute or clever. Their billionaire owner is a massive Trump donor who has actively fought against improving farm workers’ labor standards. He’s the worst in the already bad field of fast food.
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This culture is a death cult. Instead of entertaining ideas like “how can we protect and save the most lives,” we’re debating whether or not polio should come back.
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If this passes, I will no longer be able to be fired for being trans.
I'll only be able to be fired for "no stated reason."
I won't be denied housing for being trans.
I'll only be denied housing because "we went with another applicant."
No American should be discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
That’s why the House passed the
#EqualityAct
today.
Our march toward a more perfect union continues.
🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈
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I’m so sick of this debate. I’m so sick of rehashing the same points, and rebutting the same bad science over and over. It’s literally more of a religious argument than climate change. Anti-vaxxers are aggressively resistant to any scientific reason.
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You want to talk about questioning big pharma?
Great.
My sister died of the precursor to the MMR.
She was a baby. It was devastating to the family. My mom got a $500 settlement check to bury her from a Merck rep. The check signature line was on an NDA.
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@ewarren
@TeenVogue
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@TheYoungTurks
She's already deleting tweets. Pulling a Trump. But we've got receipts, Ashlee. Tell us more about Bernie's record.
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@col_bosch
A girlfriend of mine punched one of the blink 182 guys. I’ve never been so proud of anyone.
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Did you know VAERS, our vaccine adverse effect reporting system, is completely opt-in? Did you know a company can literally pay you to not say your family member died from a vaccine?
Yeah that’s fucked.
But the evidence is still overwhelming in favor of vaccines.
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According to the popular discourse right now, consent means what I wear should be dictated by the most conservative person present. That’s utterly unacceptable.
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Anyone my age or older, how in the hell could you want chickenpox parties to come back? Why do you want kids to suffer and die unnecessarily?
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These people obsessed with “free speech” who want “all ideas to be debated” are never the kinds of people who have to spend a considerable amount of their life “debating” that they deserve a life and equal rights.
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“The MCU is military propaganda.”
*A thousand people come out of the woodwork to shout you down and defend even the mildest criticism*
Definitely not the behavior of people upon whom propaganda worked.
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But do you know WHY the VAERS system can be gamed by Big Pharma?
It’s because anti-vaxx sentiment is so simultaneously absurdly anti-science yet so existentially dangerous to us that we have to invest all our work in overwhelmingly pushing back against it.
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