• FlashMobOfOne
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    2051 minutes ago

    I wish I knew how to get these motherfuckers to care about anything as much as they care about ivermectin.

  • @[email protected]
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    744 minutes ago

    Well at least methylene blue is harmless. I used to put it in my coworker’s coffee to turn their piss blue.

  • ivanafterall ☑️
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    162 hours ago

    What’s up with Mel? Does he have Parkinson’s or something similar? Or is he just strung out on cocaine? He was insanely, constantly twitchy the whole interview.

  • @[email protected]
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    238 minutes ago

    We need to get Joe Rogan to think the key to eternal youth is uranium glass butt plugs

  • SharkAttak
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    Sure, they were cured of cancer… until one day suddenly dropped dead, for no reason at all

  • NutWrench
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    554 hours ago

    It’s like these people got trolled by 4chan and believed every single word they said.

      • @[email protected]
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        115 minutes ago

        The government is hiding the fact that homemade bath salts and huffing spray paint kills most cancer patients.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        132 hours ago

        Maybe convince them that they can get pure cat pee and mix that with bleach to create chloramine.

        When inhaled, it can cure them of any respiratory illness. Permanently!

    • Skeezix
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      93 hours ago

      I have some green food coloring in the pantry. Will that help with hemoroids?

      • TheRealKuni
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        73 hours ago

        I can confirm it will not. All it will do is leak a bit and then you spend years trying to figure out which specific spice has a bit of food coloring on the bottom because every now and then you find a green circle on the counter.

  • @[email protected]
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    113 hours ago

    When numbnuts have no power in society, it’s often dismissed as a fool’s errand to try to counter their crazy claims. But I think we all need to be countering the crazy at all times, not just when the biggest crazies are enjoying power and reach. Otherwise, we get Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson talking about curing terminal cancer with animal dewormer and Donald Trump winning a second term and appointing RFK Jr. to delete vaccines from history.

    Horse/barn door situation, but still. It can always get worse.

    • @[email protected]
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      74 hours ago

      That reminds me of some obscure bit of dialogue in some scifi show or something, where someone tries to insult another person by something but then they’re not offended, just autistically go “brains are supposed to be wet” for something.

      Ugh it’s not wet though but something along those lines. Ugh this is gonna bother me all day

  • @[email protected]
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    144 hours ago

    Why can’t they take like acute doses of actual poison? Why is it always this bullshit? Don’t be a pussy, drink the bleach, bitch!

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    I’m not defending idiots saying it cures cancer, but people dismissively calling ivermectin a “horse dewormer” when it’s approved for human use for all sorts of parasitic diseases is something that grinds my gears. It actually is something of a wonder drug, just not for what these idiots keep claiming.

    Methylene blue is an approved drug too, (the first synthetic drug, coincidentally) it’s used for cyanide poisoning amongst other things. It’s also a MAOI, which makes it dangerous to take with a bunch of common medicines.

    • @[email protected]
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      423 minutes ago

      I personally know/knew one of the main guys promoting Ivermectin in the news and on rogan. It was 100% a grift and he knew it. The point wasn’t the medicine but subverting public health efforts. That is why it is derided as horse dewormer.

    • socsa
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      102 hours ago

      People are literally buying it from harbor freight when doctors won’t prescribe it. That’s why people say horse dewormer. It is literally horse dewormer they are taking.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 hours ago

      Same with ketamine, horse tranquilizer. Also a powerful fast acting anti depressent among a other very positive qualities

    • @RedditRefugee69
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      22 hours ago

      Propaganda and conspiracy usually work better when they have a bit of truth to them.

    • The horse dewormer thing iirc comes from the fact that ivermectin is a prescription drug, and doctors obviously wouldn’t prescribe it for covid. So people resorted to one of the very few ways you could still purchase it: as the horse dewormer variant.

      Of course this version is much stronger and intended for horses, not humans. IIRC this led to a few hospitalisations and even deaths.

      That’s why when people advocate you should take ivermectin, the counter claim is that they’re telling you to take horse dewormer, since that’s the only way to get it. It’s not out of a general ‘disrespect’ for ivermectin.

    • @[email protected]
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      316 hours ago

      It actually is something of a wonder drug

      And it worked wonders on COVID patients who actually had parasites in the “throw everything at the wall” period. Word got out some patients had improved because of it. It became a whole thing because doctors didn’t got the same results with ivermectin in others trials, probably because their patients didn’t have parasites, and ruled it out as the COVID cure. Arm chair viral experts refused to believe it and made it a conspiracy, and from there on became a cornerstone of anti vax and right wing politics. Of course right wing commentators now make it the cure for cancer.

    • @[email protected]
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      166 hours ago

      The fun fact about Methylene Blue that always is a hit with students is it also turns your pee a green/blue-green color.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yes, but invermectin is also a very strong drug and even for its intended uses, it’s rarely recommended to take it more than twice in a year. During covid days, people were taking it weekly.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 hour ago

          My boss and the secretary were squeezing it into their applesauce every day.

          The secretary was the same person who complained the doctors caught her trying to sneak it into her mom’s hospital room and was trying to squeeze some in her mouth while intubated and said she needed to get her mom out of there to got a real Jewish hospital that would let her do it and cure her mom.

          Both sad and funny stupid.

          My boss would end up packing his entire family and their stuff from their house that would fit into his F150 truck and flee Florida to Texas for “More Freedom™”

    • @[email protected]
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      Yes it led to the first TB treatments or something didn’t it? I completely can’t remember, does it also have a link to the development of antidepressants? Somebody help me out, my undergraduate degree was a long time ago now.

      Edit: oh yeah, it’s a MAOI, you literally wrote that in your post.

  • @[email protected]
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    247 hours ago

    Remember that nobody is protected against conspiracy theories. This shit is going everywhere.

    • lurch (he/him)
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      41 hour ago

      It’s okay when it’s clearly labelled a theory. They can be entertaining thoughts. Some may even prove true some time, but it should be clear a theory is not a fact and should not be treated as such.

    • @[email protected]
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      284 hours ago

      To be fair, Mel Gibson has been a racist, homophobic piece of shit for decades now. The fact that he’s waded into right wing conspiracy and grift, should be a surprise to no one.

  • smokebuddy [he/him]
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    obligatory fuck daily mail but this screen was posted to a discord I’m in and I laughed then, I’ll laugh again now

  • finley
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    5510 hours ago

    I’d probably just nod, too until the crazy old man went away.

    • lurch (he/him)
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      22 hours ago

      I know it’s dangerous, but it’s important to at least tell them people ignoring them aren’t silently agreeing with their bullshit. So, if you think you can manage the risk, you should tell them.

    • TomAwsm
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      I’d probably just not have a crazy old man as a guest, but hey ¯\(ツ)

    • @[email protected]
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      4710 hours ago

      Was gonna say he wouldn’t have to nod along if he didn’t talk to the crazies, but then I remembered it’s precisely what he’s getting paid such absurd amounts to do.

    • southsamurai
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      2310 hours ago

      Yeah, while I don’t doubt Rogan would swallow it hook, line and sinker; just nodding along is what most people would do with someone that’s a guest but batshit crazy.

      • @[email protected]
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        25 hours ago

        I’d also say that JRE is entertaining, not education. I don’t listen to it myself, never have and probably never will, but I can see why people do.

        I listen to a true crime pod which incorporates actual audio from police/court hearings and it can be great fun to listen to someone absolutely unhinged try to explain why they’re innocent.

  • @[email protected]
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    3510 hours ago

    “The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world” Mel Gibson guy?.. he has been into conspiracy theories for a while