#pro vaxxers

[sophieinwonderland]

You seriously need to stop spreading misinformation and making these outrageous claims. They are rooted in pseudoscience, and what you’re saying is harmful to everyone, including yourself. Being a system requires high levels of dissociation, which is the result of trauma, and not even everyone with trauma develops that disorder. Most people claiming to be endo are either putting that label because they don’t consider their trauma severe enough to have a dissociative disorder (which is sad and rooted in misinformation), confusing their symptoms with another mental health disorder, or blatantly faking it. Promoting endogenic as normal strays people away from true recovery. I hope you eventually realize what you are doing is wrong. You most likely are genuinely ill, but this is wrong. If you are gonna have these medically incorrect views, you must keep it to yourself.

Pseudoscience, you say?

Do you... actually comprehend the gravity of the accusations you're making here?

Again, these are the quotes from Transgender Mental Health, a book by a reputable doctor that passed both peer and editorial review to be published by the American Psychiatric Association.

Your position here, then, is that the American Psychiatric Association is publishing pseudoscience!

This is a MASSIVE accusation to put out there with no evidence to back up your claims.

Additionally, the World Health Organization's ICD-11 has also basically said the same in regards to non-disordered plurality. Only, rather than use the term plural, it says that you can experience the presence of multiple "distinct personality states" without a disorder.

"Distinct personality states" being the ICD-11 and DSM-5's term for dissociative identities.

Is this pseudoscience as well in your opinion?

Because last time a group were accusing the World Health Organization of pseudoscience, they were trying convince people to not take their COVID shots!

[sky-walkerem]

im getting the Covid booster in an hour pls hype me up for this im ~nervous~

[hussyknee]

Idk how people go into social science research knowing that you're anyway going to spend your entire life arguing with wilfully ignorant fuckwits over stuff like "keeping one-tenth of the world's GDP locked up in a handful of people's accounts is bad for a functional economy'', "you shouldn't have to pay money to stay alive", "letting people mind their own business won't hurt you", "knowledge is good actually", "people have the right to do whatever they want with their own bodies", "children are people too", "germs are real", "spreading disease is bad for society", "genocide is bad actually", "letting the government kill people puts everyone in danger because everyone is people", "access to long-distance murder weapons increases the chances of getting murdered", "you can't give a clump of cells the same rights as a human being" ad fucking nauseaum until you die.

[larkthorne]

wow a post vaccine baby is no joke! Haha I'm in danger dot gif.....

[cookinguptales]

I know that I've mentioned several times how I had to go through a period of relearning once I got out of the religious environment in which I'd been raised, and like... A lot of the things I had to research and learn about all over again were fairly obvious, like climate change. My parents and teachers told me that man-made climate change wasn't real, so I believed them. Once I got to college, I realized that I'd been misled, and I had to relearn the whole topic.

But not all of these things were obvious! I went through this period where I didn't even know what part of my education I should be questioning. Like... what do I even research?? Do I actually understand weather? What about history?

One of the reasons I bring up history is because one of the things my parents told me wasn't real was radiocarbon dating. And I don't just mean "well, these are estimations, can't be used for precise dates, and might be somewhat off due to atmospheric conditions." I got the whole "well, this is unprovable* and goes against the history the Bible gives us so you shouldn't trust carbon dating at all."

(*I was taught that anything that wasn't like... observable in real-time was not provable.)

Let's just say... a lot of my childhood was adults around me hedging their bets like "I'm not saying this is fake, I'm just saying it can't be proven and they're asking us to take this hypothesis as fact! I'm just saying you should question things! And not believe those liberal scientists!"

(carbon dating, evolution, the big bang/quantum physics, whether humans and dinosaurs coexisted, climate change, how hiv works, etc.)

And uhhh I went into archaeology (among other things) when I first started college, so you can imagine how this impeded my studies. lmao

idk, I guess I'm not going anywhere in particular with this. I was just listening to a podcast that's currently talking about the paleolithic period and I still had a gut instinctual reaction of "well, you don't know these things are that old" that I had to squash like a fucking bug.

I definitely understand exactly how the "it's good to be curious and read sources critically" to "question everyone, especially experts" to "those liberal scientists are trying to trick you" to "fake news!!" pipeline comes about. ;;

[keelanrosa]

terfs when a study shows literally anything positive about trans people/transitioning: 'hm i think this requires some fact-checking. Were those researchers REALLY unbiased? Because if they were biased this doesn't count and if they weren't knowingly biased they probably were unconsciously biased, woke media affects so much these days. Have there been any other studies on this? Because if there haven't been this could be an outlier and if there have been and they all agree that's a bit odd, why aren't there any outliers, and if there have been and any disagree we really won't know the truth until we very thoroughly analyze them all, will we? Were there enough subjects for a good sample size? Did every single subject involved stay involved through the whole study because if they didn't we should be sure nothing shady was going on resulting in people dropping out. Are we 110% sure all the subjects were fully honest and at no point were embarrassed or afraid to admit they didn't love transitioning to the people in charge of their transition? Are we 110% sure none of the subjects were manipulated into thinking they were happy with their transition? In fact we should double-check what they think with their parents, because if the subjects and their parents disagree it's probably because they've been manipulated but their cis parents have not and are very unbiased. How many autistic subjects were there because if there weren't enough then this doesn't really study the overlap between autistic and trans and if there were too many then we just don't know enough about what causes that overlap to be sure this study really explains being trans and isn't just about being autistic. How many AFAB subjects were there because if there weren't enough this is just another example of prioritizing AMAB people and ignoring the different struggles of girls and women and if there were too many how do we know sexism didn't affect the results. Was the study double-blinded? We all know double-blinded is the most reliable so if this one wasn't that's a point against it even if the thesis literally physically could not be double-blinded. Look i'm not being transphobic, i want what's best for trans people! Really! But as a person who is not trans and therefore objective in a way they cannot possibly be, i just think we should only take into account Good Science here. You want to be following science and not being manipulated or experimented upon by something unscientific, right?'

terfs when they see a study of 45 subjects so old it predates modern criteria for gender dysphoria and basically uses 'idk her parents think she's too butch', run by a guy who practiced conversion therapy, 'confirmed' by a guy who treated the significant portion of subjects who didn't follow up as all desisting, definitely in the category of 'physically cannot double-blind this', completely contradicted by multiple other studies done on actual transgender subjects, but can be kinda cited as evidence against transitioning if you ignore everything else about it: 'oOOH SEE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE TALKIN BOUT. SCIENCE. Just good ol' unbiased thorough analysis. I see absolutely no reason to dig any deeper on this and if you think it's wrong you're the one being unscientific. It's really a shame you've been so thoroughly brainwashed by the trans agenda and can't even accept science when you see it. Maybe now that someone has finally uncovered this long-lost study from 1985, we can make some actual progress on the whole trans problem.'

[papirouge]

funny how the same capitalism simps who get butthurt whenever any criticism of this economic system is called out and excuse all and any of its shortcomings, but the moment the government remotely fucks up they act like its sole purpose was to remove every right from citizens, seize their property and kill their grandma

why do you guys have more tolerance for economic injustice than for political injustice?🤔

[stellarvisionary]

Not me lying to my dear, sweet, anti-vaxx mother about my Medicare billing statement, about the two additional COVID shots that I've had in the past two years, after she strongly objected to my first shot in 2021 🤣💉💉

[agreenroad]

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[wonderr-skyy]

I got my vaccins today, so I wanted to bring up the covid vaccins problem again. Here's what i wrote in one of the covid videos:

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"This doesn't explain why I had to take covid vaccins every few months, instead of every few years like other vaccines. I've had 3 covid shots already in the span of one year! 3 shots in one year is crazy. And still the doctors keeps telling me to get more and more every few months. How many more do we gotta do? There's something wrong if the vaccines can't even protect you properly, that you gotta get several every few months...

This is the main reason people are against it. People are not stupid and shouldn't be treated as stupid. Most of us know vaccins work (or at least are suppose to...) Because even pro-vacciners like me find a problem with it.

Imagine if you suddenly have to take 3 shots of measils every year, people will find that weird. It's a normal reaction to have. It's not "stupid" or "ignorant".

[beta-lactam-allergic]

Andrew Wakefield has blood on his hands.

I know a few anti-vaxxers. They are infuriating. I tried to explain to them why they are wrong. They refuse to listen. Immunology was one of the courses I studied for my degree, I know how the immune system works far better than people whose education stopped in high school.

Vaccines work. Vaccines save lives. The only reason that smallpox is extinct rather than still rampaging through our communities is because of vaccines. If Wakefield never released his falsified study, we would have wiped out Measles, Mumps & Rubella by at the very latest 2015. Every death caused by those diseases since 2015 is on Wakefield's hands. That's before getting into deaths caused by other vaccine preventable illnesses.

I think there is something particularly horrible about antivaxxers who are 30+ and absolutely 100% fully vaccinated (because their parents and grandparents lived through too much shit to turn down ways to keep their kids alive) and who have benefited from those vaccines for decades, only to turn around and deny their children those same protections and risk them getting life changing and potentially fatal illnesses that they will NEVER be impacted by as a vaccinated person.

This is in incoherent rant, I'm just extremely bitter.

[pizzaanatomy]

[larkthorne]

wow a post vaccine baby is no joke! Haha I'm in danger dot gif.....

[low-cole-timothy]

Reliable Sources

Anti-vaxxers: I'm having a hard time to find reliable sources about the dangers of the vaccine. There is a lot of information on Facebook and Reddit but i can't find any reliable sources about it. The mainstream media won't tell you the truth about it. Everyone is lying to you about what is actually in the vaccine because of big pharma.

Flat-earthers: I'm having a hard time finding any reliable sources about flat earth, I have a group chat with all the info but no credible source. The mainstream science sources won't tell the truth about it and still continue to claim it is round. Everyone is lying to you about the moon landing. NASA is part of the illuminati

Pro-Hamas leftists: I'm having a hard time finding reliable source about the genocide in Gaza. I saw a Tik-Tok video about it and heard about it a rally but can't find any credible sources. The western media won't tell the truth about it - they keep saying it isn't a genocide and that Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7th, murdering, raping and kidnapping innocent civilians. I'm sure they are lying about that because jews control the media.

[spacelazarwolf]

i looked up the current candidates for the 2024 presidential election in the usa and it is. really fucking bleak.

democrats:

joe biden - current president. doing...ok. he's pro trans rights and has been doing some good stuff to fight climate change, but he's like a hundred years old and

robert f kennedy jr - seems to have decent opinions on a lot of policy, but thinks that chemicals in the water are making kids transgender and has suggested that covid is a conspiracy by ashkenazi jews and chinese people

marianne williamson - anti vaxxer apparently, also i guess thinks love is the only thing that will defeat trump

republicans:

ryan binkley - conservative pastor that thinks marriage is "between one man and one woman", anti choice, wants to Build A Wall

doug burgum - republican governor that has actively passed anti trans legislation, anti regulation (unless what you're regulating is trans people ig????)

chris christie - is apparently opposed to bans on gender affirming care, but vetoed a bill allowing trans people to change their gender marker, anti choice

ron desantis - i feel like i don't need to explain

larry elder - denies systemic racism and wants police to be harder on crime, anti crt and dei, pretty solidly anti trans

nikki haley - anti choice, extremely anti trans, anti immigrant, supports israel while also having an evangelical pastor who has a history of antisemitism and racism and queerphobia open for one of her events

will hurd - doesn't seem too horrendous, not noticeably anti trans, but supports 15 week abortion ban

asa hutchinson - great value brand trump

perry johnson - was republican candidate for governor of michigan but was disqualified due to fraudulent ballot signatures

mike pence - yeah

vivek ramaswamy - "anti wokeism", would pass a law requiring teachers to disclose to parents if they found out their kid is trans, supports bans on gender affirming care, wants to end sanctuary cities and address mental health through "faith based approaches", hedge fund bro

tim scott - said that america is not a racist country and the biggest problem facing black people is "fatherlessness incentivized by welfare", opposes same sex marriage and gender affirming care and thinks democrats are using school to "indoctrinate children"

corey stapleton - montana secretary of state, couldn't find much abt him

donald trump - donald trump

independent

cornel west (green party) - seems really cool actually but two party system will fuck him over

i hate the two party system so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

also congrats to the dems for yet another milquetoast kennedy, and congrats to the republicans for having the most racially diverse list of racist and transphobic candidates!!!

[suratan-zir]

Hi. I wanted to ask how you have those among Ukrainians who believe in russian propaganda. I just met one refugee from Kharkov, and he told me that Putin is fighting for the Russian world, and it was the United States that started the war. He reasons that since he speaks Russian, he should support Russia's actions. And this despite the fact that his city was bombed, and he and his family were on the verge of life and death.

Hi. I can't really answer this. I mean, I can try, but I'm not good at answering vague questions. I'm not well-spoken enough.

How come so many USAmericans worship Trump and see him as a savior of the poor when he's the exact opposite? How come far-right parties all across Europe gain more and more popularity, with people believing that fascists in power will resolve all their problems? Hell, we can take it a step further and ask how come people become anti-vaxxers and flat Earth believers? The answer is only one - propaganda. People fall under the harmful influence.

Russian propaganda has been extremely active in the southeast of Ukraine basically since we gained independence. Russia has been spending millions upon millions on brainwashing Ukrainians. The propaganda became more and more aggressive since the Orange Revolution. It was everywhere in the Donbas, you couldn't even wear a piece of orange clothing without risking being beaten up.

I was only a middle-schooler, but I remember it in detail. Propaganda materials such as leaflets were distributed everywhere. I remember one with Viktor Yushchenko (pro-European presidential candidate) against the background of the US flag and Uncle Sam who's saying, "Yushchenko is our pResident." I remember asking my mother what it meant, and she said it means that Yushchenko is a very bad person. This stuff was wild. And it only got wilder.

Russian propaganda claims over the years varied from the statement that "Donbas feeds the entire Ukraine" to "pro-European politicians and the US will make concentration camps in the Donbas for the Russian-speakers and will populate the territory with people from the West instead." I don't know how, but people believed in this purely artificial conflict. Not only were there never any persecutions against the Russian-speakers, but you would actually feel more comfortable speaking Russian in Ukraine. In most regions, the Ukrainian language was considered a "redneck" language and would get you nowhere. Of course, the Ukrainian government is also to blame for letting Russia control the narrative. But for most of these independent years, Ukraine was basically externally managed by Russia. During Yanukovych's presidency, we were like Belarus is now - a false "president" taking instructions straight from the Kremlin. So the brainwashing was getting worse and worse.

I told this story several times, and I'll tell it again. Before the "referendum" in Donetsk, most people laughed at the idea of the "republic." It was supported by some local lunatics, but mostly the whole thing was done by russian mercenaries and russian military. During this time, my aunt told me that those who support this are crazy and they're calling war into our homes. She was a reasonable person. She had a job, a nice apartment of her own, a happy family, and a bright future ahead. In 2015 they fled from Donetsk to russia, along with my grandmother. Why to russia? Propaganda. Then they got russian citizenship and used it to vote for putin. I asked how they could vote for him after what he did to them, after they lost it all. "We're thankful he gave us a home, gave us citizenship," was the answer. At first, he took everything from you, ruined your life, then let you restore a tiny bit of it - and you're grateful. I don't know how this works. It's not like they were welcomed in russia, they faced a lot of prejudice and oppression for being from Donetsk. To the point that my cousin was bullied at school for being from the Donbas, not only by kids but by teachers, despite being an excellent student and graduating with honors. Russians are outraged that their state "rescues" and "helps" those Donbas khokhols instead of helping "true" russians.

In the second month of the full-scale invasion, my grandmother proposed that I move to them, to the moscow region of russia. "This is the country that is trying to kill us all, how can you ask me to move there?" "What difference does it make which country to live in? It's safe here." So along with pro-putin brainrot comes also apoliticalness, passivity.

I'm rambling at this point. I don't want to go on about this forever, like I know I can. Let's leave it at this.