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[–] ceenote 137 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

A lot of innocent people are about to suffer so some idiots can learn what it means to say "Regulations and rules are written in blood"

Kidding, of course. They won't learn shit.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But it isn’t those idiots dying, so for them, nothing important was lost.

Everyone going to need to make room for these thoughts and prayers.

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

If bird flu gets going, it will be them dying too.

[–] Bahnd 14 points 1 week ago

But we already had a plague...

Yes, but what about second plague...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're gonna blame the liberals on whatever it is I bet. Reality isn't going to kick in. Feels like they're so far gone.

[–] CharlesDarwin 2 points 1 week ago

These are the dingalings that blame Teh Gheyz for hurricanes, so...yeah.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, new regulations will be written in blood 4 years from now. At least this time it will be the Americans themselves that will do the suffering first.

[–] breadsmasher 64 points 1 week ago
[–] Sanctus 56 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Remember when RFK went to like fucken Samoa and held an anti vaccine campaign that ended up killing dozens of children? Then he left and just like nothing happened to him? Oh AND he denied any wrong doing. I remember.

[–] AbidanYre 18 points 1 week ago

The Samoans remember.

[–] CharlesDarwin 2 points 1 week ago

Now donvict and Brainwormz wants to bring the benefits of all that back home so that children can die HERE.

For freedom.

[–] anubis119 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

So we're investing billions into new AI data centers to help develop custom vaccines for people to not use; did I miss anything?

[–] ThePantser 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, the true purpose of AI is to replace workers, not create vaccines. The creation of vaccines was a smoke screen to get the good philanthropists to invest.

[–] grue 2 points 1 week ago

I was with you until the "good philanthropists" part.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago
  • Train AI on medical data to make vaccines

  • Replace workers with AI

  • Get people to stop taking vaccines

  • No longer need AI to make vaccines

  • Use AI trained on Medical data to make biological weapons

[–] brlemworld 4 points 1 week ago

No we're investing billions so that insurance companies can have new and exciting ways to deny people's claims and make them billions more.

[–] CharlesDarwin 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, because we'll get our chakras aligned and pray extra hard to donvict jesus drumpf instead of using all the liberal deep state elitist globalist Big Tech sciencey stuff.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can someone please go sneeze and cough on this man? We need for him to hurry up and die.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

You know this man is vaccinated. I'm sure his family passed out blankets back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Please do not post anything from The Independent or Evening Standard. It's owned by Russians who could have links to KGB/FSB.

Evgeny Lebedev is a shareholder of The Independent (41%) and Evening Standard (63%). He is a Russian oligarch, son of Alexander Lebedev who is, according to Wikipedia, a "Russian businessman, and has been referred to as one of the Russian oligarchs. Until 1992, he was an officer in the First Chief Directorate (Foreign Intelligence) of the Soviet Union′s KGB and later one of the KGB's successor-agencies, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)." Alexander's net worth is ~$3 billion.

Alexander Lebedev was a member of the state Duma in 2003-2007, had connections with Gorbachev (Radio Liberty had an article on their website where they mentioned that Gorbachev awarded scientists from the toxicology laboratory where poisons are produced to kill "enemies of the people", but I can't find it now, so it can be false). He was recently sanctioned by Canada (under number 820; https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/international_relations-relations_internationales/sanctions/consolidated-consolide.aspx?lang=eng).

At that moment future PM Boris Johnson was with Evgeny Lebedev at the party in Italian villa. Nobody knows what they exactly were doing there. And when Johnson was a PM, he nominated Lebedev for a peerage in 2020, giving him a seat in the Upper House for life at House of Lords.

P.S.: Evgeny Lebedev was also an owner of London Live TV channel, it's was closed on January 2025.

P.S. #2: Evgeny Lebedev "maintained friendship with Boris Johnson since the late 2000s, with Lebedev's Evening Standard endorsing Johnson as the Mayor of London. Johnson has been reported to have attended vodka and caviar parties hosted by Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev in the UK and Italy throughout the 2010s."

P.S. #3: That show with Brexit in United Kingdom was when Boris Johnson was a Prime Minister. Back then, there were advertising campaign on buses, like "we just giving away to EU 350 million pounds and they give us nothing". It seems that was a lie.

Sources and some news articles:

  1. "Italy ‘was monitoring Lebedev villa at time of Boris Johnson's visit. Intelligence service believed property was being used for espionage purposes, documentary claims" - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/26/italy-was-monitoring-lebedev-villa-at-time-of-boris-johnson-visit-documentary-claims
  2. "Morning after: Boris Johnson recovers from Lebedev’s exotic Italian party. Exclusive: New prime minister refuses to say if he abandoned security for 2018 night in billionaire’s castle" - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/boris-johnson-security-evgeny-lebedev-perugia-party
  3. "Lebedev could lose House of Lords seat as Labour peer launches bid to throw him out" - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/21/evgeny-lebedev-peerage/
  4. Alexander Lebedev on Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lebedev
  5. "Alexander Lebedev - OpenSanctions" - https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/Q370787/
  6. "Consolidated Canadian Autonomous Sanctions List" - https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/international_relations-relations_internationales/sanctions/consolidated-consolide.aspx?lang=eng
  7. "London Live (TV channel)" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Live_(TV_channel)
  8. "Evening Standard" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evening_Standard
  9. "The Independent" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Independent
  10. "Boris Johnson and Evgeny Lebedev: a decade of politics, parties and peerages" - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/21/parties-politics-peerages-boris-johnson-evgeny-lebedev-friendship
  11. "Spooking the Spooks: Media Complicity and Security Concerns over Lebedev and Johnson" - https://bylinetimes.com/2019/10/25/spooking-the-spooks-media-complicity-and-security-concerns-over-lebedev-and-johnson/
  12. "The Boris Johnson Brexit Bus Lie of £350m" - https://conversion-uplift.co.uk/brexit/the-boris-johnson-brexit-bus-lie-of-350m/
[–] Gammelfisch 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The KGB was replaced by the FSB (domestic) and SVR (foreign) agencies. Ach, you're right, same shit different names.

What about the Telegraph? I thought they are heavily influenced by bastard Muscovites.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't have any information about The Telegraph.

I thought they are heavily influenced by bastard Muscovites

It's a news outlet that was described as conservative/right-wing, so maybe that's why it seems like that. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph.co.uk)

[–] WrenFeathers 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bets that there will be plenty of vaccines to go around in the White House. You know… just in case.

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

Which would go to show they don't even know the basics of vaccines. Unless you give them to everyone, they will have very limited effectiveness.

You either eradicate the virus or it will mutate in no time by the now huge (ces) pool of unvaccinated idiots

[–] CharlesDarwin 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but that's just because The Ebil Elitist Globalist Scientists view us as "the herd". They even say it: "herd immunity"!

/s

[–] Kyrgizion 9 points 1 week ago

This, too, shall pass. Along with many people.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I went into the local heath department and requested a polio booster, would recommend

[–] jaggedrobotpubes 7 points 1 week ago

We should be going straight to the point and helping it become more clear that vaccines are a thing these people actually do want. When they, as well as their opponents, claim that they don't, it's because they don't understand the situation clearly enough.

People who understand vaccines want vaccines.

[–] NineMileTower 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Before you panic at the title, remember to read the article. It's anti-vaccine mandates. You can still get your vaccine it seems. Until the king says otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Accuracy is important. But then again, it doesn't make much difference.

People are dumber than ever, and a lack of a mandate means herd immunity starts to fail because not enough people are vaccinated. At that point, people start saying, "Everyone's still getting sick, vaccines must not work," accelerating vaccine-skepticism and disease in a feedback loop.

[–] SulaymanF 3 points 1 week ago

This simply won’t end here. RFK wanted vaccines pulled off the market. (He may put on a show during his confirmation and lie and pretend now he loves them though)

Antivaxxers have spent the last 4 years claiming that vaccines cause people to “shed” vaccine particles or spike proteins. They’re blaming miscarriages, autism, and actual covid on this mythical shedding and some have tried to ban vaccinated people from businesses and homes. They’ll try to ban vaccines to stop this delusion.

[–] CharlesDarwin 1 points 1 week ago

Still; they'll spread enough bullshit so that stupid people will think that vaccines are not worth getting, which is nearly as bad as banning them outright when it comes to efficacy.

[–] Lemminary 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Five bucks says antivaxxers are gonna find out. Another five bucks says they reinvent the vaccines for the third time.