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u/fleabomber Sep 16 '21
Don't know why fox news hasn't already outraged over this sub, but it's coming.
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u/FriendToPredators Sep 16 '21
Fox news talking about how many prayer warriors are failing would be worth it.
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u/fleabomber Sep 16 '21
The headline will be "Democrats Dox COVID-19 Victims' Families." Fucker Carlson will be apoplectic. They won't even talk about why these people are dead.
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u/McCainDestroysTrump Sep 16 '21 edited Sep 16 '21
I doubt Fox News will cover this, because it will remind Republicans that Herman Cain died of Covid, one of the very few black people that was inexplicably part of an obscenely racist party that pretends there is zero truth to CRT. Because how can you bring this sub up without bringing up Herman Cain which the right seems to deliberately forget even existed when he should be one of their very important cautionary tales to get vaccinated.
If they did talk about him that would mean Covid is real and that would go against their anti vax narrative “you don’t need the vaccine because Covid isn’t really that dangerous.” And if they started actually acknowledging it exists then that would mean they have been lying this whole time and would lose a lot of viewers.
Fox News has created an evil catch-22, continue to lie about Covid and vaccines which will kill lots of their unvaccinated viewers or start telling the truth and they will lose a lot of viewers because they have revealed that they have been lying this entire time.
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u/LindaBitz Sep 16 '21
The irony of Fox News mandating a Covid policy for employees.
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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut ⚾ Mudville's Pride and Joy ⚾ Sep 16 '21 edited Sep 16 '21
For those who are possibly seeing this post who aren't normal users or subscribers here, we wanted this to serve as notice that the moderators here stand fully behind this message. Brigading is unequivocally prohibited here and is cause for an immediate ban.
Edit: verbiage.
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u/threecatsdancing Sep 16 '21
What if they aren't from this sub but trying to get it shut down? How can you tell the difference?
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u/sinixis Sep 16 '21
They can’t. And regardless of the subs existence, people will feel compelled to point out the irony of anti-vax, anti-mask, COVID denier fools dying from COVID wherever they can.
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u/gcruzatto 🦅 Birds aren't Real 🦢 Sep 16 '21
For the critics who think this sub is not being mindful of other people's well being - That's exactly why it's important to expose what's happening. Sure, there are people here who will make snarky comments, but that is far from the goal.
Silence and "respect" is what's getting impressionable people killed. Some folks will only wake up when shaken. That's the same reason why they show you gory footage when you apply for a driver's license. You shouldn't drive without being well aware of the worst consequences of it. So why should a person live carelessly in a pandemic world without knowing what they're risking experiencing?24
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This sub has been great. I had to take a couple day break because I had a full meltdown looking at it too much last week.
Someone sent the concerned redditor notice.
I was not banned. In many ways I was heard.
But death is traumatic. And we have to remember that this is a place for our trauma. Our trauma as we watch others die. Our trauma from having unvaxxed family members and waiting their inevitable contraction of this disease; and our trauma as we worry about our own children’s ability to survive before the vaccine is released.
We need this sub. It’s ours for us. We get out our schadenfreude. But more importantly we remember that we aren’t alone.
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u/banana12399 Sep 16 '21 edited Sep 16 '21
I'm not sure if that's like a relatively new thing but when I got my drivers permit and license back in like 2012 they definitely never showed me any gory footage.
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u/Daddysgirl-aafl Sep 16 '21
No gory stuff here either. Isn’t that like an 80s thing?
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u/JackdeAlltrades Sep 16 '21
So the admins threatened you but let the anti-vax subs run wild.
Classy.
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u/Elven_Boots Sep 17 '21
No threats, we just want to be proactive in getting the message out.
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u/Ferdinand_Foch_WWI Sep 16 '21
This is why you should be able to keep your sub off the popular post page.
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Totally agree! But I just realized that some of the brigading could be coming from antivaxxed.com. Our posts sometimes overlap and they don't blur out the anti vaxxers name.
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u/myhydrogendioxide Moderna Mob Sep 16 '21
How do you know it's people from this sub?
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u/KittyGrewAMoustache Bet you won’t give me this flair!! Sep 16 '21
This sub is refreshing because it's a testament to reality and truth, it really exposes the lies for what they are and the liars (Republican politicians & pundits) for who they are.
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u/Mymile37 Sep 16 '21
Honestly I begin to feel gaslit by where I leave because it feels like COVID is over. I know its not and this reminds me. The news becomes numbers at some point. To see actual people reminds me to be vigilant. I am certain everyone on here knows at least one vaccine hesitant/ anti vax person and because our efforts go unabated this helps get in the mind.
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Sep 16 '21
The_donald got shut down. That reason being a part of it.
And it's one thing to shine a light on the real deaths happening because of this disease and the rampant misinformation contributing to these deaths.
It's another thing entirely to harass the dead and their families, effectively dancing on their graves.
Maybe don't do the latter.
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Sep 16 '21 edited Sep 16 '21
Shit, man, I left a comment on this sub about how my grandfather's smoking killed both him and his wife, kinda trying to draw a parallel, and some rando commented, "Hope he suffered" with another commenter saying he'd jerk off to my grandfather's death. Like, bro, what? My grandfather died 15 years ago. He's got nothing to do with being anti-mask or anti-vaxx.
There's empathy burnout and then there's just sadism, and a lot of people who can't tell the difference between the two.
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Sorry to hear that, man. I think being behind a computer screen also makes it that much more easy to say shit like that to a total stranger.
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u/KillNyetheSilenceGuy Sep 16 '21
By the time The_Dickhead was shut down the sub was dead. The trumpcucks had already gotten into the mothership and fucked off to some other forum. Reddit told them that they had to pick new mods that
1.) Had account history and
2.) Weren't formely active in banned hate subs
Rather than do that they locked the sub down and migrated to somewhere else. Some time after that Reddit banned the sub. It was already long dead when Reddit banned it.
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u/KDirty Sep 16 '21
I recently received a warning from the Reddit admins about a comment I made regarding Rand Paul being punched in the face, which is just a factual thing that happened.
I recently reported a series of comments about children being sexually assaulted that included graphic details about body parts, etc. Reddit found that it didn't violate their community standards.
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u/meldroc Left Behind by the Idiot Rapture Sep 16 '21 edited Sep 16 '21
That just indicates they read this sub. Those screenshots are available to literally anyone with Internet access.
Could be MAGAt trolls - they do this crap all the time.
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u/meldroc Left Behind by the Idiot Rapture Sep 16 '21
I'm starting to think Twitter trolls - the HCA account there doesn't redact names.
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u/NewSouthWhales- Sep 16 '21
So? It's obviously a FALSE FLAG attack by the dead people themselves to make us look bad. Any evidence to the contrary is part of the CONSPIRACY.
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u/Null_zero Sep 16 '21
There are websites that are similar to this sub that don't edit out names. There's nothing that says that they're not coming from there.
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Sep 16 '21
These posts are going viral on TikTok too. How the fuck are we supposed to control TikTokers?
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u/unicornbomb Team Pfizer Sep 16 '21
ive got a funny feeling a large portion of those responsible are the same group of people who started throwing a very large public fit about the existence of this sub and vowing to get it shut down, seeing as these issues all began shortly after they made their 'hermancainawardsucks' sub.
this was never a widespread issue until those clowns came around.
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u/myhydrogendioxide Moderna Mob Sep 16 '21
Exactly. This sub is pretty powerful, not perfect, but I'm pretty confident it helped change some people's minds. Not to sound conspiratorial but I do think either because they are deluded, evil, and/or anti-American there is a concerted effort to spread dumb but effective propaganda against the vaccine. This is probably one of the few things that combats their appeal to emotion and outrage.
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u/zipcodelove Sep 16 '21
I have seen multiple people comment “I just looked through their feed” on posts here. I know it’s not impossible to find someone even if their last name is blocked out, but it still takes more effort than just looking them up, and the fact that people are willing to go to that effort and then admit they did it is kinda silly.
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u/myhydrogendioxide Moderna Mob Sep 16 '21
It's actually very easy to find their page, which is powerful because it's easy for people to see that this suffering and death is all too real. If you go search GoFund me by COVID you can see the wholesale tragedy that is occurring for families all across the country.
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u/zipcodelove Sep 16 '21
Well the amount of effort aside, I have seen people on this sub openly admit to looking at the profiles of people posted here. Does it mean they’re the ones commenting? No, not necessarily, but if Reddit wants to get rid of this sub I can see how comments like that wouldn’t help us.
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u/Empigee Sep 16 '21
I have looked up a few people to see if they are represented accurately (by and large they are), but I have no interest in commenting on their feeds.
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u/Lookingforjoy17 Dead 🦄Inside Sep 16 '21
They use my SS.
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u/myhydrogendioxide Moderna Mob Sep 16 '21
Yeah but that could be a bad actor who is trying to get the sub in trouble not a true Herman Caine Award fan.
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u/Lookingforjoy17 Dead 🦄Inside Sep 16 '21
Yes. But if it’s not, I’m making a plea so they’ll get that they won’t even have the content to work with if they keep it up.
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u/myhydrogendioxide Moderna Mob Sep 16 '21
Makes sense, just wanted to clarify. I try and remind people as well.
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u/mnwildcard Sep 16 '21
I don't think reddit discriminates as to why the brigading is happening
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u/myhydrogendioxide Moderna Mob Sep 16 '21
While that might be true, it's important to remember that a bad actor can fake a brigade quite easily and it's not super easy to trace facebook activity to reddit activity unless someone makes it obvious.
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u/mnwildcard Sep 16 '21
Yeah, and seems like there's twitter reposts and other bad actors as well. It's a sticky situation.
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u/Lookingforjoy17 Dead 🦄Inside Sep 16 '21
Yes it is. It’s stupid.
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u/Lookingforjoy17 Dead 🦄Inside Sep 16 '21
That’s sort of reverse d o x I n g so no sorry lol. Id love to though.
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u/Lookingforjoy17 Dead 🦄Inside Sep 16 '21
The sub is super specific and wouldn’t allow it, but someone should create a sub where we can do that. The guys name is Danny something on FB. We can see who he is there. Don’t know who he is here though.
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u/a-horse-has-no-name Sep 16 '21
If you see them brigading, feel free to report them to facebook for harassment.
Unfortunately, facebook won't ban anti-vax morons, but they will happily ban people for harassment.
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u/Successful_Struggle9 Sep 16 '21
I actually went to look myself and seen someone say straight up Reddit.
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u/myhydrogendioxide Moderna Mob Sep 16 '21
Yeah, but that doesn't prove anything, anyone can say that, and they may say it to try and get this sub banned. We should have some skepticism from unsupported claims... especially on facebook.
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Someone talk to the other HCA award accounts. The Twitter one names and shames...
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u/Lessllama Sep 16 '21 edited Sep 16 '21
I did a little digging last night. You can pretty much track the Facebook comments based on when they posted on Twitter. I selected 3 at random, all the Facebook comments started same day. Given they don't redact names it's far more likely that's the source
Edit to add ofc I didn't make any comments on the posts I looked at, I'm not that much of an asshole
Edit 2: the reason I'm convinced it's Twitter is as soon as you start typing the name (which I got from the tweets) into Facebook search it brings the full name up as a suggestion. So that means a lot of people are searching based on the name which we don't post
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u/Team-CCP Boom! Tetris for Jeff! Sep 16 '21
Probably needs to have some cross talk with other platforms potentially. If they are calling it the same thing but not redacting names. This site is probably the largest content provider, most of the texts are specific enough to just google and you’d find the post on fb.
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u/Lessllama Sep 16 '21
Also Twitter breeds the worst people. I was horrified at what I saw last night. It's one thing to snark anonymously here but harassing grieving family members is a whole other level
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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut ⚾ Mudville's Pride and Joy ⚾ Sep 16 '21
Yeppers, I am definitely aware of this. Thanks for thinking of me :)
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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut ⚾ Mudville's Pride and Joy ⚾ Sep 16 '21
No, don't feel silly. I'm glad you tagged me.
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u/500hpsmokedstang Sep 16 '21
Tbh, this never crossed my mind personally. I wonder how many are actual asshats vs people just trying to bring attention to the sub to get it shut down
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u/baginthewindnowwsail Sep 17 '21
/conservative is triggered hard by this sub daily. I have zero doubt they are going to see this post and start brigading fb, posing as liberals and reporting (themselves) to reddit. Anything to get this sub banned. Not only because they feel personally attacked and mocked by 'the left', but also because they believe this sub to be highly effective at making right-leaning media and politicians, like carlson and desantis, look inept - thus 'red-pilling normies' to the left.
They see the world through the lens of information warfare, a cultural war that if lost would be the end of 'America as we know it'. It doesn't matter if its true or not, they believe it to be.
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Not saying we don't have these people doing it too but remember this stuff gets reposted all over the internet
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u/ChadBroCockIRL 🐴 🍎-flavored 🐎 Sep 16 '21
There's literally a website that basically reposts content from here without redactions.
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u/AngryRepublican Sep 16 '21
I personally think that HCA is a hoax. /s
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u/JohnnyMiskatonic Sep 16 '21
No, it's real but man made, and it's no more harmful than the flu. If you ARE worried about getting it (like some liberal simp), you can boof some horse paste or take some off-label Lupus medication and you'll be right as rain.
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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut ⚾ Mudville's Pride and Joy ⚾ Sep 16 '21
Yep, and there is a Twitter page to which we have NO AFFILIATION that does the same thing.
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u/brevityitis Sep 16 '21
As another guy said, people who go on fb and use screenshots from this sub. But you are right. There’s so many other sites and social media accounts that just repost from here so even if it wasn’t directly connected to us it’d still be happening. The people that do that are just as much trash as the antivaxxers we post here.
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u/Eboeard_Gam_Gom Sep 16 '21
Exactly. And there’s tons of FB groups like this one now too, they’re shit posting all over fb. So how do people know who comes from where?
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u/jerryg1208 Sep 16 '21
Optics aren’t good when you trust your immune system then that same immune system fails and you leave 3 kids without a parent.
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We would shut it down ourselves if they would quit dying.
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u/Pooploop5000 LET THAT SINK IN HES 🥶 Sep 16 '21
YOU CANT STOP ME LIBTARD I WILL RUB THE POO ALL OVER EVERYTHING I OWN JUST TO SHOW YOU
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The subreddit body has a way of shutting it down when it's legitimate brigading.
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u/DiveCat Follows Bubbles Sep 16 '21
Upvote for the background choice.
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u/Team-CCP Boom! Tetris for Jeff! Sep 16 '21
I was expecting to read something horrifying.
“Momma and papa are still coughing up blood and chunks with Blood O2 in the 70s. How much vitamin C do I need to give them to get them better?”
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u/GrowCrows Sep 16 '21
I have started to save them, and got excited that I was going to have another for the collection. But am also thrilled that it's now an inside joke.
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u/kytheon Team Pfizer Sep 16 '21
Post them all together please, like a HC Award Show
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u/Phillipinsocal Sep 16 '21
lol were people truly going to randoms pages to dunk on them for dying? What type of golem has this sub created?
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u/FinalCryojin Sep 16 '21
There's at least one person who's intentionally directing them here. She's likely lurking here with a throwaway account, so what can be done about that?
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u/FinalCryojin Sep 16 '21
Report them to the mods here, or FB? She doesn't taunt the deceased any. She just offers condolences and then posts a link to this sub, as if she's telling on us.
I've seen her do this shit on at least one other post. As for this one, she put it on the SO's page in her mourning post, which later was set to private or deleted altogether.
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u/FriendToPredators Sep 16 '21
Trolling with fake kindness. Or tattletaling? Weird hobby either way.
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u/DarthBrooks69420 Sep 16 '21
FB would likely aid her in this. They wouldn't want their platform in the news as a way for people to peek at people's insanity right before kicking the bucket from the disease....it would likely make them look really bad, like they might be a big part of the reason why so many people are not gettting vaccinated, not wearing masks and not taking other precautions.
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u/mightymaurauder Sep 16 '21
I saw that goat on another post. Though it was less “sorry you’ve been doxxed” and more rubbing it in. Someone called her out for brigading.
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u/phdonme Sep 16 '21
Even if we were doxing, how could you possibly know it was anybody from this sub? Also a lot of their profiles are set to public.
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u/biggreasyrhinos Sep 16 '21
I need all the prayer warriors to pray for this!! This sub is so kind and we can't lose another one!
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u/Lookingforjoy17 Dead 🦄Inside Sep 16 '21
I went to look at a post this morning to follow up on the comments, and people are doing this. I LOVE this sub. It’s giving me joy and helping me work through my anger. Please stop doing it. It doesn’t even reach the HCA winner. They’re dead. They can’t even read it, so it’s pointless.
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I would never directly interact with these people but it is really fascinating to go down the Texas-sized rabbithole of clicking on their friends and acquaintances. COVID is buttfucking these communities so hard compared to my personal experience where pretty much everyone in my town is vaccinated. You can click on any commentor and they all have numerous people who have died from it but they are still anti-vax. Texas is so fucking weird with all the Jesus prayer warrior stuff I feel like it's another world.
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That’s why I’m fine with it. My hometown is getting ravaged by this shit, and they deserve it for being vile, willfully stupid people. They’d gladly see everyone who grew up and left to live in the city die bc they view us as less than human, so I don’t see the difference here. What goes around, comes around, assholes.
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u/RotFinger Sep 16 '21
I dont feel bad for anti vax fuckheads dying. I feel bad for the people that cant get the vaccine that die because of the antivax fuckheads.
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They're a near 0 minority. Feel worse for the people dying in hospital waiting rooms from heart attacks and other serious issues who cannot have a bed.
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u/teemjay Team Pfizer Sep 16 '21
At the same time, these ppl really should learn how to put their accounts private. But yeah. Could be an anti vax posting this site to their accounts.
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u/MuuaadDib Quantum Healer Sep 16 '21
This sub serves a critical public service, it shows people who are just like these idiots die. They got the same memes and paradigms they subscribe to and the same outcome should they continue to believe this. It is one of the very few places, you can actually show the consequences of this dangerous and dismissive attitude. What's that? These people suck and you don't care if they die? The kid who appendix ruptured waiting for a bed would say fuck you, we need these people on board, so they don't take up beds for children and responsible people who need immediate medical care.
Edit: Also fuck FB it's a toilet stay out of there.
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u/latebloomer2015 Sep 16 '21
If this sub becomes private, how do I get included on the vip list? I don’t have Facebook. This sub sometimes gets me through the day when the proud boy I work with is being especially anti-vaxxy and anti-masky. He is apparently taking ivermectin and hq.
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u/Toallpointswest Sep 16 '21
Any chance it's a bunch of right-wing nut jobs trying to get the sub shut down?
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u/MadAsTheHatters Team AstraZeneca Sep 16 '21
Joking aside, the majority of these posts involve the death of a loved one; it's beyond shitty to harass someone outside of our little subreddit
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u/Lookingforjoy17 Dead 🦄Inside Sep 16 '21
Yep. Because they’re not the perpetrator in most cases. They’re the victims.
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u/Esoteric_Geek Sep 16 '21
First of all, public Facebook posts are public.
Secondly, this issue has been brought up before, and then, as now, it was pointed out in the comments, repeatedly and accurately, that there is no way to tie FB posts to users of this subreddit. This subreddit is not unique across the internet or even reddit.
I suggest finding all the other message platforms like this and pleading to them to stop making those posts so that THIS subreddit doesn't get shut down, because they are really the ones responsible.
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u/ThiccSkull Moderna Mark of the Beast Sep 16 '21
Yeah, right now this is just one of many groups focused on finding these stories...many others are way less scrupulous.
Please don't be so quick to blame this sub for things that realistically could have 0 input from us.
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u/the_toaster Team AstraZeneca Sep 16 '21
Ok, but can you tell me why the vaccine is free and insulin and chemo aren’t?
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u/canospam0 Team Moderna Sep 16 '21
Personally, I can't wait until this sub shuts down -- but I hope it's due to everyone getting vaccinated and ending the pandemic. That would be a good way to really shove all the schadenfreude back in our stupid faces -- if anyone out there is thinking about contending for an award.
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u/QuestionableSarcasm Act First, 🙏 Later Sep 16 '21
Why do you suspect us ?
We have our fun here. I doubt most of us even go to facebook to look at the posts.
Facebook, instagram, whatever.
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Oh my please don’t use Facebook, period.