Essentially, for Republicans, it seems like avoiding raw milk is the new masking — and they’re just not going to do it in order to prove a point.

For instance, in April, Infowars host Owen Shroyer called the Food and Drug Administration a “gangster mafia” who wanted to “make raw milk illegal.”

“So, now that more people are going to local farms and farmers markets and consuming raw milk, this angers the FDA,” Shroyer said. “This angers Big Milk. Say, ‘No, you need to pasteurize milk, it’s a lot less healthy for you.’ See, eventually, they’ll just make it illegal. They’ll just make raw milk illegal. That’s what this is all about.”

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During a bird flu outbreak that has crossed over to cattle. Weird thing to do to your supporters.

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Not that different from attacking masks and vaccines, is it?

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Really, it’s very different. Avian flu is estimated to be more deadly, and also less contagious among humans. Covid was most dangerous to the sick and the old, as well as first responders and medical professionals.

In other words, the people who were careless about Covid19 precautions were not the people who suffered the most.

With Avian flu, and really anything else you might get from contaminated milk, the person who will suffer is the person who is being careless.

So if Conservatives want to ignore the best advice of smart people and drink poison, I’m not going to lose any sleep over it. I feel really bad for their children, of course, but I can’t stop them from where I’m sitting.

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The best thing you can do to help their children is ensuring that public education continues to be funded and safe for all children

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I feel really bad for their children, of course, but I can’t stop them from where I’m sitting.

It’s worse than that, because if you warn them that their stupidity is dangerous to them and their family, they will dig in their heels and want to do it even more. They are intransigently stupid.

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In other words, the people who were careless about Covid19 precautions were not the people who suffered the most.

I thought there were measurable differences in how many t-rumpians died vs. normal Americans?

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Regarding drinking poison. Some of them were attempting to take horse dewormer, and their moron in chief suggested injecting bleach annd internal UV sterilization.

To be fair it turned out RFK Jr might have needed de-worming.

But yes, at least this time it’s less risky to the rest of us, though the less human cases, the lower the odds of bird flue evolving to inter-human transmission.

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Cool,I can get behind more dead Republicans

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While that sounds straight forward in theory, these same idiots will give their children this same milk and wind up killing them.

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Still fits in the parameters of natural selection.

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Wild that people choose to dance with Captain Trips.

Choosing to drink a product that contains a virus currently killing 50% of whatever it infects is absolutely detrimental to a long life.

Sucks that if it does make the jump to human to human spread we are fucked beyond belief and these ass hats will probably be the catalyst.

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Democrats need to start attempts at banning more things for them to defend. For example:

  • huffing glue,
  • trepanning,
  • russian roulette,
  • Flavor Aid with Valium, chloral hydrate, cyanide, and Phenergan.
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Sef impaling.

Gangbang impaling.

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Also, “Big Milk”? LOL, these are probably some of the same dumbphucks that agitate against almond milk, oat milk, soy milk, etc…

Good god, these people are so stupid.

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That’s the woke range of milks.

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Indeed, but the fact that they appropriate certain bits of language like “Big Milk” (which is continuing their campaign against “woke milks”) while championing drinking raw milk has a lot of irony to it.

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I don’t like youtube shorts much but I’m reminded of this https://youtube.com/shorts/VcYT1ZcB_5w?si=E1stp-oOBCE6GtPU

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There is a lobby for sure, but you’d expect these folks to be on the side of the businesses.

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