• @[email protected]
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    9 months ago

    Best interaction with an antimasker:

    Them: masks don’t work

    Me: We’ll I’m going to wear one anyway

    Them: Well then you’re just traping the germs against your face

    Me: so you’re saying they block germs?

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      9 months ago

      They even stated the correct reason to wear a mask: to trap the germs against my face, so others don’t get infected

      It’s like they don’t compute the idea behind it, it stops at me me me

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        779 months ago

        My favorite reply to them is that it’s America and I can do whatever I want, I’ll call them snowflakes too whenever appropriate. They get pissed when you insinuate they’re anti American lul.

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            219 months ago

            Didn’t gun control ramp up when the Black Panthers started exercising their rights to bear arms? Funny thing is the Panthers seem much more like a “well-regulated militia” than this Wild West, permitless carry, anything goes BS.

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              99 months ago

              exactly. gun control only started when minorities started exercising their right to bear arms. The right don’t want gun control laws until the groups they are trying to oppress start exercising their second amendment rights.

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          99 months ago

          John Stewart’s latest show did a great job pointing this out. “Pro-constitution” redco- hats supporting a dictatorship and ignoring the fundamentals of the constitution.

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        Someone once told me that the box in which masks came in says “doesn’t protect from viruses”, as if it was hidden-in-plain-sight proof that masks don’t work.

        Yeah, they don’t protect the user from viruses, they protect other people. The box is technically correct, Patricia, there is no conspiracy here.

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          209 months ago

          It is humorous that these people think that they have some secret knowledge that only they know and they feel so much power because of it. Except that the information they know is incorrect and they just end up looking like an idiot.

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            59 months ago

            Not in their own minds, and that is all that matters. Also not to their church members, sadly:-(.

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              29 months ago

              Perception is reality and they cannot perceive a reality in which they aren’t always correct.

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                29 months ago

                I mean, I would not say that it is reality, just that they act like it is - except even that much is not true, b/c when they get REALLY sick, they finally show up at a hospital begging to be saved. So even they know, deep down, where the medicine is at. Cognitive dissonance is a horrific, terrible thing:-(.

        • Liz
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          69 months ago

          … Which masks? N95 will totally filter viruses, no?

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            89 months ago

            They will, but you have to follow some protocols, like not having beard where the masks is supposed to seal around your face, not using it more than ~3 times (iirc), not trying to clean it (just let it rest for some days on a clean surface) and etc.

            Basically always seal testing.

            Also, iirc the N stands for not oil resistant, so any oil staining ruins it. I’d guess that includes sneezing on it.

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        229 months ago

        I think they actually do understand but don’t have enough empathy with other people to see it as their responsibility to protect other people from their viruses.

        Not that someone as perfect as them would ever sick enough to potentially infect others…

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          109 months ago

          This. So much of this. I can’t even convince family members to not go and socialize with dozens of others while they are sick! Five years ago, I would have bet my life’s savings and every appendage I have that I would get the correct answer if I asked someone whether illnesses spread through contact with or being near a sick person.

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        129 months ago

        Claims are not evaluated, in the loyalist worldview. They’re not arguments. They’re slogans. You shuffle your cards and say whatever might justify the ingroup being fundamentally superior to the outgroup. Because of course, it is impossible for someone to simply be wrong. That would require evaluating claims. No: truth is dictated by people above you. They must be right and smart and handsome, or they wouldn’t be above you. Any challenge, any criticism, any disagreement, is a personal attack. You are calling someone lesser.

        And I say “you” because these people think this is all we’re doing. They think that’s all there is. It’s reality as a team sport.

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        Or, more likely, they’re selfish jerks who don’t care about anyone else. “The greater good? What’s that?”

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      289 months ago

      While it is fun to tweak their titties with this, it will make zero difference on their position because their position wasn’t arrived at by rational thought.

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        59 months ago

        Their actual position is that they don’t give a fuck about anyone other than themself. Everything they claim to believe is just a rationalization they think will sound good to someone else. All they care about is what they can convince others.

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          29 months ago

          While there is some nuance between people, you pretty spot on.

          Weaponized magical thinking.