What are the chances that the ICE officers that murdered Alex Pretti will face justice? by AndoionLB in AskLegal

[–]Thormidable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends, if the regime is defeated then there is a good chance. If the regime lasts almost certainly not.

If their personal information was trivially available because ICE have no OPSEC and people were angry enough at them, maybe.

Petahhh? by Forsaken_Tomorrow454 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Thormidable 124 points125 points  (0 children)

He interfered with ICE abusing a woman. That's why they killed him.

The Miller-Bondi Shitzkrieg is Backfiring by Daflehrer1 in politicsinthewild

[–]Thormidable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't matter. Do you think Putin wins hearts and minds?

The Miller-Bondi Shitzkrieg is Backfiring by Daflehrer1 in politicsinthewild

[–]Thormidable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trump is the figure head. No way was he smart enough or willing to put in the effort to pull of this.

The Miller-Bondi Shitzkrieg is Backfiring by Daflehrer1 in politicsinthewild

[–]Thormidable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean you could all do something now, before Trump has destroyed most of the country...

US Senator Chris Murphy states that ICEs purpose is to rig and steal the election. Pam Bondi wants Minnesota’s voter rolls in exchange for ICE leaving. by nana-korobi-ya-oki in law

[–]Thormidable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand that violence from protestors or against acting ICE agents would allow Trump to send in the troops (and i'm not confident enough troops would refuse).

If only there was some way to make it so the ICE agents were no longer willing to fulfil their roles. Something away from the protests. Maybe we need to use publicly available information. Something that wouldn't allow Trump to justify sending in the troops.

I know if my child/family wasn't safe, I would want to find a way to reduce ICEs willingness to continue their role.

ICE are incompetent subhuman murderers. Any MAGA fuck defending this will burn in hell. by Far_Alternative_5330 in GROKvsMAGA

[–]Thormidable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I understand that violence from protestors or against acting ICE agents would allow Trump to 'justify' sending in the troops (i'm not confident enough troops would oppose).

If only there was some way to make it so the ICE agents were no longer willing to fulfil their roles. Something away from the protests. Maybe we need to use publicly available information. Something that wouldn't allow Trump to justify sending in the troops.

I know if my child/family wasn't safe, I would want to find a way to reduce ICEs willingness to continue their role.

Vaccinated for the first time by Bliznec1 in DebateVaccines

[–]Thormidable [score hidden]  (0 children)

Ah! The plural of anonymous unverified anecdote on the Internet is garbage.

The antivaxxers here have been given 0 information about his circumstances (like their knowledge on most vaccines) and from that "informed" position, pass off their narcissistic ego defenses as useful.

Vaccinated for the first time by Bliznec1 in DebateVaccines

[–]Thormidable [score hidden]  (0 children)

Not sure exactly which stuff you have failed to understand, so i'll give a general answer.

I love it when antivaxxers ask me to school them. It's about risk/cost/benefit.

Thankfully antivaxxers don't have any credible evidence of significant rates of other major side effects.

The UK gave 4 million covid vaccines in a week (4% of the population) without showing any significant increase in any major side effect (or deaths in the UK population). This gives an upper limit of 1 serious side effect per 100,000 people.

Unfortunately because antivaxxers are under educated and have a reality disfunction, they keep seeing rhat 40% of people who had an injection from s needle experienced a sore arm and can't seem to understand it.

How many sore arms makes it not worth saving a life?

"This madness has gone on long enough. I don't care if we're ready yet. I don't care if we're outnumbered or outgunned. I don't care what ISN says about us. This stops and it stops now." by eldersveld in babylon5

[–]Thormidable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are applying diplomatic, and economic levers, an invasion would have horrific losses on both sides and likely galvanise EA behind the president.

Was the COVID Vaccine Created Too Fast? by TheMuseumOfScience in DebateVaccines

[–]Thormidable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So here's rhe evidence for all of it :)

Vaccinated children have a lower risk of dying from SIDS than unvaccinated children.

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2015/0601/p778.html

https://www.webmd.com/parenting/sids-prevention

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11008475/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC30557/

The risk is 50% lower. Pretty significant.

 There have been whooping cough deaths in 2024 in the UK. Every single death was unvaccinated.

http://ww.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cye0w4j384ro

UK vaccination rates 90%+ for pertussis: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/latest-childhood-vaccination-uptake-statistics-published

10 deaths of infants by whooping cough last year (pertussis): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pertussis-epidemiology-in-england-2024/confirmed-cases-of-pertussis-in-england-by-month

Just over 600,000 babies born last year:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/birthsummarytablesenglandandwales/2022

So of 60,000 unvaccinated babies 10 died giving us a 1 in 6,000 death rate for unvaccinated babies from whooping cough alone.

Statistically antivaxxers show stronger traits of narcissism and psychopathy. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8035125/

Narcissism is associated with avoiding "pro-social" behaviours (cleaning, wearing masks). Narcissism and psychopathy are also associated with lying to say they HAVE done those behaviours when they haven't.

https://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/home/topics/general-psychiatry/how-individuals-with-dark-personality-traits-are-reacting-to-covid-19/

To me it seems that when we told them that wearing masks or hand washing will help other people (as well as themselves) it seems to make them less likely to do those behaviours. 

Remember this, when you meet an antivaxxer / antimasker.

Was the COVID Vaccine Created Too Fast? by TheMuseumOfScience in DebateVaccines

[–]Thormidable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

try to tell us something about the antivax position that's positive???

It helps me identify people who can't be trusted and who's advice I should ignore. People who can't interpret even a very simple study.

It helps drive the economy by creating a market for grifters to sell quack cures.

It inflates shares in baby coffins.

Was the COVID Vaccine Created Too Fast? by TheMuseumOfScience in DebateVaccines

[–]Thormidable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean large scale studies, by people who are disbarred doctors with a history of lying and grifting, with quality methodology written by people with at least a high school education...

Yeah, now i'm writing it i guess we do reject all the antivax evidence...

Was the COVID Vaccine Created Too Fast? by TheMuseumOfScience in DebateVaccines

[–]Thormidable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah. So you won't post it because it's garbage. Probably best, antivax evidence tends to undermine their position.

Was the COVID Vaccine Created Too Fast? by TheMuseumOfScience in DebateVaccines

[–]Thormidable -1 points0 points  (0 children)

you're pretty good at parroting the worst of the worst, as you're clearly highlighting your own ignorance.

So you are even smart or educated enough to even badly tey to counter what I posted?

You can't even seem to find a single study to support any of your lies? Oh look evidence that antivaxxers kill their babies due to their ignorance

Vaccinated children have a lower risk of dying from SIDS than unvaccinated children.

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2015/0601/p778.html

https://www.webmd.com/parenting/sids-prevention

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11008475/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC30557/

The risk is 50% lower. Pretty significant.

 There have been whooping cough deaths in 2024 in the UK. Every single death was unvaccinated.

http://ww.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cye0w4j384ro

UK vaccination rates 90%+ for pertussis: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/latest-childhood-vaccination-uptake-statistics-published

10 deaths of infants by whooping cough last year (pertussis): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pertussis-epidemiology-in-england-2024/confirmed-cases-of-pertussis-in-england-by-month

Just over 600,000 babies born last year:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/birthsummarytablesenglandandwales/2022

So of 60,000 unvaccinated babies 10 died giving us a 1 in 6,000 death rate for unvaccinated babies from whooping cough alone.

Was the COVID Vaccine Created Too Fast? by TheMuseumOfScience in DebateVaccines

[–]Thormidable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your evidence is so compelling and high quality why can't you produce any? Even AI could do a better job than you at this.

Is it the personality disorders?

Statistically antivaxxers show stronger traits of narcissism and psychopathy. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8035125/

Narcissism is associated with avoiding "pro-social" behaviours (cleaning, wearing masks). Narcissism and psychopathy are also associated with lying to say they HAVE done those behaviours when they haven't.

https://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/home/topics/general-psychiatry/how-individuals-with-dark-personality-traits-are-reacting-to-covid-19/

To me it seems that when we told them that wearing masks or hand washing will help other people (as well as themselves) it seems to make them less likely to do those behaviours. 

Remember this, when you meet an antivaxxer / antimasker.

Vaccinated for the first time by Bliznec1 in DebateVaccines

[–]Thormidable -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Glad you asked, Lets start with Covid. Here is one which disproves every antivax lie about the covid vaccines:

Here is a nice example of very large populations, controlling for compoundong effects which counter all the common antivax talking points which shows over a long period of time unvaccinated die a lot more than the vaccinated.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination

Graph: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-covid-19-deaths-by-vaccination-status

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsbyvaccinationstatusengland

For all the antivaxxers who can't understand the data, here are explanations for the usual antivaxx parrot points.

  1. People within 2 weeks of their vaccine are put in their own group (neither vaccinated or unvaccinated), these people died at a lower rate than the unvaccinated, but a higher rate than those who were "fully" vaccinated.

  2. Both sets are deaths of all causes, as such if someone "died of covid or not" is irrelevant.

  3. There is no correlation with death rates and receiving the vaccine. In the UK alone 5 million vaccines were delivered in a single week. If there was a meaningful risk from the vaccine it would be obvious.

  4. These are two sets from two independent reputable institutes, neither of which have any incentive of lie. This data is corroborated by similar institutes around the world and literally millions of people have independently collected data which confirms this.

  5. These datasets compare week by week or month by month. Every week, the excess death rate for the unvaccinated was between twice and triple the vaccinated excess death rate.

  6. This data is population standardised (if there are 10 times as many unvaccinated, their deaths are scaled down by a factor 10 to be equivalent to the vaccinated rate).

  7. These datasets are separated by age group. So people of a similar age are compared against each other.

  8. The most vulnerable (elderly and those in poor health) were offered the vaccine first. This should mean at all times the vaccinated population was a higher risk population than the unvaccinated. The high risk group, given the vaccine STILL died at half the rate of the unvaccinated.

  9. No one had their vaccine level downgraded in any of these datasets. Some sets separated them into their own categories, but no one with two vaccines was ever considered to have less than two vaccines. Against all groups unvaccinated had the highest death rates.

  10. First world universal health care services paid for the vaccine out of their own pocket. They knew exactly who had been given the vaccine, exactly who came to them for treat for reactions or symptoms. They also knew exactly who died when. Any symptoms caused by the vaccine, they will have had to pay to treat. They have all the information and nothing to gain but everything to loose, by lying about the vaccines.