The death gap between Democrats and Republicans was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates.
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GOP voters had higher excess deaths rates after COVID vaccine rollout
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The remaining Koch brothers would speak differently--or would spend differently. Start local to build larger. That was their milieu
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ROFL, you have no idea that the Archer instance of this was, itself, a reference to Casablanca? The film?
I mean, I actually sort of get that, it's a classic, but, like, driving my dad's Corvair before he sold it, was a reminder that nostalgia is a helluva drug -- classics mostly don't hold up to modern standards. Mostly.
In any case, if you're curious, the Archer bit was itself a riff on Casablanca, which, for a movie from 1942, does hold up pretty well. It's noted as a classic, in fact. If you go to (or near) film school, weird movie geeks have been dissecting it as high art since, oh, probably January of 1943. And ever since. Really.
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Considering how narrow the margin of victory can be in some districts, it may not flip a state blue, but it may well flip individual districts, and that can make quite a difference in the House.
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This is it! This is THE way to get more republican people vaccinated! Get vaccinated people! Reduce the chance that democrats get a majority next election!
Seriously though, with such close election results in the US, this may actually matter...
Seriously though, with such close election results in the US, this may actually matter...
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They believe it. One guy I know put the spin on it of "god damn vaxxers, taking a dad away from his family because of his beliefs."
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Its called darwinism, or evolution ^^
Been going on for eons, it just takes a very long time.
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If there was a more lethal virus, behaviour would change. Take something as infectious as original Covid and as lethal as Ebola.
There wouldn’t be a lockdown needed, people would be just too afraid to leave their homes. Republicans would queue up for vaccinations like everybody else. Death figures would go up to the level where republicans think it’s more important to save their own lives, plus a bit more since you can’t stop a disease instantly.
20 million dead, that is one in fifteen, that is someone in the five houses closest to you, that would get everyone vaccinated.
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It’s the idiotic logic.
If we don’t do something things will go horrible.
We do something so they don’t go horrible.
They didn’t go horribly wrong so we didn’t need to do anything.
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The anti science crowd did not just get themselves killed though. They also spread the disease, killing plenty of unrelated victims.
In Ohio, one of the first things to reopen was the bars. The Trumpkins continued to attend social gatherings, usually while ignoring mask requirements.
My mother died from Covid, about two weeks before she would have been eligible to get her first vaccine. She had been following all the safety recommendations, even though most people in her area weren’t taking the pandemic seriously.
It would not surprise me one bit, to learn that whomever had exposed her to the virus, had themselves picked it up while behaving like an idiot.
In Ohio, one of the first things to reopen was the bars. The Trumpkins continued to attend social gatherings, usually while ignoring mask requirements.
My mother died from Covid, about two weeks before she would have been eligible to get her first vaccine. She had been following all the safety recommendations, even though most people in her area weren’t taking the pandemic seriously.
It would not surprise me one bit, to learn that whomever had exposed her to the virus, had themselves picked it up while behaving like an idiot.
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Can you explain for people not in the USA (and for everyone under 60)?
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Remember that you don’t notice the ones who move on with better information. They will do it quietly. The ones digging in their heels will do it loudly and noticeable.
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Can you explain that. I thought voting in the USA was secret, so you can register any way you like, then walk into a polling station and vote for whoever you want to vote for? And nobody would know?
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Yeah, I'm feeling the schadenfreude too, but we're only as strong as our weakest links. I strongly favor efforts to increase vaccination among the hesitant/resistant. I just don't have a clue how to do that.
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Prior to the 60’s, Democrats were the conservative party. As the civil rights movement got under way, southern Democrats split with northern ones, and the Republican Party steered right to snatch the rural white American vote up. Typically referred to as the “Southern Strategy”.
It’s when folks like Donald Trump say that it was Republicans that opposed slavery he isn’t wrong…if you take it literally and ignore the underlying beliefs of the parties and who has those values now. The reality is that progressives were against slavery, conservatives were for it. Described in ideology, there’s no change. But which party represented each ideology DID change.
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Just saying: The BBC took a published list of “dead” voters, checked the oldest 33 on the list, and in every single case found a voter who was well and alive, but also someone with the same name and born in the same week elsewhere who had died.
So if you compare lists of voters and lists of deceased people you will find matching names. Even matching names and birthdates. But not matching people. If your name is John Smith, and you are in your sixties , there will be another John Smith born on the same day and dead.
Sorry, in one case they found a 50 year old voter who had lived all his life with his dad in the same house, and the dad had just died. Dad and son had the same name. That guy got two invitations to vote and by mistake voted with his dad’s invitation. He only voted once.
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A primary election is where voters can choose the person (of their party) to be on the ballot of the general election. Those votes are usually only cast by the people registered to that party.
This makes sense because if they allowed anybody to vote for a primary, an opposing party could deliberately hijack it by voting in a weaker candidate.
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There's only one rational explanation - Fauci went to Wuhan to engineer a virus that would preferentially kill Republicans!
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Please, for the love of Zod add a '/s' to that, because there are a frightening number of utter imbeciles who will actually believe that.
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Katharine Hayhoe has a whole thing on this, that the way to reach people was to identify with what they care about.
So maybe "everyone loves babies, nobody likes polio, get yer shots before visiting, gramps."
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I believe there’s an old saying that goes something like “stupid is as stupid does”. Seems appropriate.
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Both US parties used to both be more umbrella in before the 1960s. Back then the Southern Democrats were racists white supremacist, but the Northern Democrats more egalitarian. The Democrat party decided to ignore the southern voters at some point in the 60s to push for civil rights. The Republican party then decided to appeal to these Southern Democrats, and pick them up for an easy win. Those racists ended up controlling the entire Republican party in later decades.
It is sometimes called the big switch, because the racist party changed sides, but it was more that both sides had has racist element before, and that just became a new polarized subject. But if you look at election maps before and after, the Republican and Democrat strongholds basically flipped 100%.
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So are you another one of those fools that think Trump won in 2020?
All this waffle about undetected voter fraud leads me to believe you are.
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Open primaries are actually quite common; you don't have to be registered with the party, but you are limited in voting for only one party; you can't double-dip and vote for a candidate in each party.
Shenanigans like voting in a loser during the primaries is definitely a thing. It's quite possible to have a lunatic win in the primaries (which favor that sort of thing thanks to low turnout) and get trounced in the general election as even their own party can't bring themselves to vote for them.
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The 6 or 7 republicans who have managed to find a tech site are down voting away. As is their right to deny facts!
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freedom of choice is a many splendored thing, and being a martyr seems to appeal to certain persuasions..
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Not sure it only happens due to shenanigans. Pretty sure when (was it Alabama?) turned blue because the Republicans ran a pedophile candidate, it was the honest to god choice of the party.
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Oh, sure, that definitely happens as well. When the dems do it, though, their intent and hope is that the gop candidate they boost will go on to lose; when goppers do it, they actually intend that candidate to win.
You're thinking of Roy Moore.
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Do you defend Nazi SS officers too for merely being victims of propaganda?
Antivaxxers are not innocent, they were the ones giving power to the lie.
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That's great, seeing as how Republicans think slavery was actually beneficial to the slaves!
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Also, a lot(?) of hippies fell really easily into supporting fascism. The ones I knew had warning signs all along but still who would ever expect that
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The reason they can't take being wrong, IMO, is they have made their political party a core aspect of who they are as a person. If they weren't Republicans then who would they be?
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Not to mention that what started as the Southern Strategy has matured to the point that most low income US people identify with the right now.
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People are trying to be helpful to you, and you're just sealionining them. Go troll on X social or whatever instead of here
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Oh but facts do matter. Watch:
Fact: more republicans died of covid than democrats
Fact: Covid is fake/weapon from china/weapon from the U.S./developed by the U.S. in Ukraine with adrenochrome idk
Ergo: republicans died more because they were targeted due to their love of freedom or something, whatever.
Anyways, those are the facts and they matter.
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This is the way Darwinism or natural selection works in our human society.
In the far future, most of US citizen will consists of descendants of smarter Democrats.
In the far future, most of US citizen will consists of descendants of smarter Democrats.
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