GiebischMay 20
George Takei  ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿฝ
Brilliant idea! Next theyโ€™ll invent seatbelts and call them โ€œfreedom straps.โ€
May 20 at 2:30pmWeb
Show threadnowhereman (nicht der andere!)May 20
@georgetakei
Those who have mentally fled to a parallel universe have forgotten that there must also be natural rules in that world.
So it is a matter of time that they have to invent the same things.
Unfortunately, we have lost important time or are ruined already.
Show threadMassimiliano SiddiMay 20
@georgetakei That seems to be on-brand for people who โ€œinventedโ€ freedom fries about twenty years ago.
Show threadcraigeMay 20
@georgetakei ๐ŸŽถ Hit me with your freedom strap,
Hit me,
Hit me ๐ŸŽถ
Show threadIanM9549May 20

@craige Outstanding.

Now do Blockheads!

Show threadlemgandiMay 20

@georgetakei Brilliant! What a great Idea!

Isn't Jack Posobiec the Comet Ping Pong guy?

Show threadTofu GolemMay 20
@georgetakei
How do people this uninformed get high school diplomas?
Show thread(((TheReader)))May 20
@tofugolem @georgetakei Social promotion
Show threadYES, Dan get more disgusted!May 20
@tofugolem @georgetakei Home high-schooled?
Show threadYES, Dan get more disgusted!May 20
@tofugolem @georgetakei Dr. Kent Hovind! So there is that! ๐Ÿ™„
Show threadTomWilsonYEGMay 20
@georgetakei
Or given people's attachment to a word rather than to what words mean, perhaps we should rename vaccines to ๐™ž๐™ข๐™ข๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™—๐™ค๐™ค๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ, and market them alongside "natural" remedies โ€ฆ
Show threadFurballsNHairballsMay 20
@georgetakei
I'm waiting for them to call guillotines bic razors
Show threadEka A.May 20
@ChrisHolladay @georgetakei
Nooses are neck ties... Notice, the knot in a neck tie slips.
Show threadAndreas KMay 20
@georgetakei
Well, that's one kind (more or less the most primitive kind) of vaccines. Does not work for everything and in some cases it's more dangerous than more advanced approaches.
Show threadHolger FialloMay 20
@georgetakei Wish someone develop a virus that remove stupid people. It will help the world and make it easy for us. They can go like the dodo bird.
Show threadHolger FialloMay 20
@georgetakei Can someone give those people ticket to a tropical nation where Yellow fever, Malaria, and other nice virus are hurting people.
Show threadEka A.May 20
@HolgerFiallo @georgetakei
Sadly Darwinism often doesn't act fast enough. Some breed.
Show threadSTimmchenMay 20
@georgetakei And what if we had people who study the laws and processes of nature and we actually believed what they told us?
Show threadEka A.May 20
@georgetakei
Sounds an awful lot like the first smallpox vaccine, which was the cowpox virus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine
Smallpox vaccine - Wikipedia

Show threadThat Guy on The Bike, get โ€˜em!May 20
LoL
Show threadbytebroMay 20
@georgetakei
Encourage the fuck out them. Really. Their motivation is less important than the results.
Show threadDan Neuman ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆMay 20
@georgetakei Next thing you know the raw milk enthusiasts will be heating up their milk to kill bird flu and getting around pasteurization.
Show threadmad_asshatterMay 20
@georgetakei
A jerk defines a circle.
Show threadDP0May 20
@georgetakei This has to be satire or someone trolling an anti-vaxxer. I can't believe that someone who is able to describe the very functioning of a vaccine fails so disastrously in identifying one when being confronted with it.
Show threadobscurestarMay 20
@DP0 @georgetakei Posobeic is a former convicted felon and right wing noise machine. he's not bright, just corrupt.
Show threadDP06d ago

@obscurestar @georgetakei I already had this fear, but it still beggars belief. Particularly when speaking about measle vaccines, which are actually working exactly that way (as opposed to mRNA vaccines, which are not even using the pathogen but its modified RNA to build a protein to stimulate an adaptive immune response).

So, a stone-age-level educated right-winger sat in front of a wheel and invented it again! Kudos! ๐Ÿ™„

Show threadDie Kehrseite - UnDonTheWorldMay 20

@georgetakei
OMG is this real? But โ€ฆ let them have a weakened virus istead of a vaccine. Fine by me.

#ResultsMatter

Show threadBill ZaumenMay 20
@georgetakei This sort of misunderstanding is nothing new: when "Obamacare" was going through congress, some people were very mad about it because they didn't want the government getting involved in Medicare (they didn't realize that Medicare is a government program).
Show threadPierretteMay 20
@georgetakei ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
Show threadHam on WryMay 20

@georgetakei

Lol the right wing buffoonery knows no bounds.

Show threadbitMay 20

@georgetakei Unwitting self-satire.

*chuckle*

The bar for fiction keeps getting raised by such realities.

Show threadChilly  ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ May 20
@georgetakei
Was unsure if this was real. It is still up and was said in 2020 https://archive.is/vM92h
Show threadMartin Vermeer FCDMay 20

@georgetakei More can play that game

https://fediscience.org/@martinvermeer/113299362898681056

Martin Vermeer FCD (@martinvermeer@fediscience.org)

@ajsadauskas@vivaldi.net @futurebird@sauropods.win @CliftonR@wandering.shop @amsomniac@mit.edu Framing is everything ๐Ÿ˜ BTW y'all seem to have missed that also the original Hyperloop has already been realized all over the world, but with a twist: instead of partly evacuated tunnels, it uses the near vacuum of the atmosphere at 10,000 metres, replacing the guidance provided by the tunnel walls by aerodynamic guidance, fitting out the pod with large, extended lift and steering surfaces...

FediScience.org
Show threadHuntn00May 20
@georgetakei ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ Moronsโ€ฆ
Show threadSebastian LammermannMay 20
@georgetakei "Please fasten your freedom straps."
Show threadMx. Luna CorbdenMay 20
@georgetakei I've seen this one before. It's obvious to me that they know exactly what they're doing. They're trolling, and they know it, and they revel in the power they have to manipulate so many people into being this ignorant. #AbuseCulture
Show threadPaul Chambers๐ŸšงMay 20
@georgetakei Come up with a combo vaccine that you shoot in with a vax air gun and call it Freedom Air and get those 1980 and 90s TV preachers to hawk it like they made millions on with that little piece of miracle cloth.
Show threadToni AittoniemiMay 20

@georgetakei But this is also one the deepest lessons of #conservatism you can randomly get.

The whole schtick isnโ€™t the WHAT, but WHO.

Their worldview is so hierachic, it literally starts from who should be calling the shots and builds up from there.

Importantly, you see here them talking to THEMSELVES. To the out-group theyโ€™ll merely spew justifications.

Thatโ€™s why they also have to invent everything from scratch. Because anything coming from WRONG people doesnโ€™t exist.

Show threadJay ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ6d ago
@georgetakei
Hating a concept because you never knew the definition. This reminds me of the countless MAGA zealots on medicaid who said "I hate Obamacare", not making the mental connection that for many of them, medicaid had been expanded to include them by an evil, woke, communist plot called the affordable care act...
Show threadsquarefaelltein5d ago
@georgetakei ๐Ÿค”the twist is, that vaccines are working exactly that way...
In a classical understanding.