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[–] SwordInStone 7 points 9 hours ago

This sentence bears all the context it needs.

[–] harmsy 17 points 17 hours ago

I want to get off Mr. Trump's Wild Ride.

[–] JeeBaiChow 23 points 18 hours ago

So... Which billionaire republican buddy is gonna buy them up before they announce 'lol jk'?

[–] FlyingSquid 124 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone 7 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Did Alex Jones not wear suits?

[–] Mirshe 6 points 13 hours ago

Famously, not really. He's always stuck to business casual at best to make himself look more like a "man of the people".

[–] pyre 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

not that I watched him at all so I don't know of this image is representative, but whenever I think of him I see him in a wifebeater

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[–] [email protected] 152 points 1 day ago (9 children)

time to require proof of vaccines from americans at airports and borders?

[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 day ago

As an American I fully support such proposals.

[–] tee9000 -2 points 7 hours ago
[–] Erasmus 13 points 22 hours ago

Sorry, all you get is proof of brain worms and essential oils.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Proof of vaccinations are now stamped by RFK Jr. himself.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Sooo, anyone want to take bets that Bird Flu is going to be the next pandemic?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Avian flu thankfully didn't become a major pandemic in times past due to luck and measures taken. But SARS in 2003 could have become a major pandemic... because COVID-19 is a variant of the 2003 SARS...

[–] RagingRobot 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

M pox is so cliche. Bird Flu is hot.

[–] Jesusaurus 25 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The government has decided that pandemics are a hoax and as such do not exist.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago

Off to the gulag, I go.

[–] kikutwo 96 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] JackFrostNCola 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stocks in companies that make chainsaws powerful enough to cut the heads off of whales are through the roof.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Am I the only one who thinks companies providing healthcare and life saving medicines shouldn't be fucking publicly traded?? They need to focus on helping humanity, not the fucking bottom line go up or whatever.

[–] 9point6 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well yes that's obvious

It's supposed to be publicly funded, not traded

Someone a long time ago must have misheard

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Except it's actually the best of both worlds for the rich - as far as I know, a lot of these companies are publicly traded AND receive public funding.

[–] LANIK2000 3 points 13 hours ago

Publicity traded, AKA shareholders leverage the company to make return on their investment and this company also receives public money just for the hell of it? Wow, what a combination. Totally not a setup for major exploitation.

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[–] Buffalox 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good job American voters. /s

[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago

"Somebody shit in my pants."

[–] FlyingSquid 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How do I find a way out of this dimension?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Such a sad time in history.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, what can anyone even say about this. It's just so insane

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[–] IndustryStandard 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

No not Big Pharma! Won't anybody think of the STOCKS?

[–] SkyezOpen 12 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Upside: pharma companies stop making massive profits

Downside: we all die from preventable diseases.

Win some lose some 🤷

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Terrible time to be considering having children.

[–] Paddzr 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Or being anyone not male and whitest of white.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Can forget wealthy. It's better than just white.

[–] dhork 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

These companies are huge, and know how to lobby the government. It seems to be the wrong industry to piss off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

know how to lobby the government.

I'm thinking this may be how it'll work. More like "bribe" though, and Trump is probably doing this on purpose to coerce companies for bribes. Aka, racketeering on the highest level.

[–] DirkMcCallahan 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I never thought I'd side with big corporations...but for the next 4 years, some of them may well be the lesser evil.

gag

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

Making Polio great again!

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