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This is what a coworker of mine was saying would happen with that recent emergency broadcast ping. He came to me very solemnly and asked if I wanted to go somewhere peaceful to spend my last moments. He was convinced there would be a radio wave that activated a zombie virus inside every vaccinated person.

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That’s just Acceptable Polite Discourse. It’s not like he said genocide is bad, or something equally career-ending.

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One time he asked me very seriously if I wanted his help reporting my mother to the police because she had an abortion 37 years ago. Like he said it in a concerned, helpful way

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This has to be the most confusing person I’ve heard of. Seems deeply compassionate, yet falls for the most unhinged of chud rhetoric.

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That kind of behavior is always the thing that throws me. Like, they believe this shit clearly designed to make you hate people and view them as enemies, but somehow are still nice about it. It is very rare, but people like that feel like they’re just misguided. They could be comrades if we could make them think a little better, but that’s really hard to do

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31 points

They could be comrades if we could make them think a little better

There had never been a more accurate description of the leftist struggle

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Yeah he’s often very close. He’s deeply into Qanon, but is somehow not bigoted. He just buys into bigoted stuff without realizing it, like he blames half the world’s problems on George Soros.

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So wait.

Are you unvaccinated and he figured you would go along with it?

Are you vaccinated and he doesn’t know, so he figured you would go along with it?

Or are you vaccinated and he knows and wanted to live out the fantasy? Give you the old double tap?

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I’m vaccinated and he thought I was gonna die of zombie plague. It’s not a fantasy to him, he believes this stuff to be true.

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More so the fantasy of many conservatives to be the gritty survivor of an apocalyptic event.

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13 points

Ngl, I’m low key jealous of you guys who know these people personally. All I have is fundies and they’re the boring kinda of cranks :(

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i mean, at least with fundies you don’t have to be afraid of them suddenly pulling out a handgun. That’s the price of knowing interesting reactionary cranks.

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…“okay, see you on Monday, Ted.”

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Huh, guess that coworker cared in some fucked up chud way.

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The real American spirit of that situation is knowing that if the end of the world actually did happen you’d most likely be at work when it did.

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