Essentially, for Republicans, it seems like avoiding raw milk is the new masking — and they’re just not going to do it in order to prove a point.
For instance, in April, Infowars host Owen Shroyer called the Food and Drug Administration a “gangster mafia” who wanted to “make raw milk illegal.”
“So, now that more people are going to local farms and farmers markets and consuming raw milk, this angers the FDA,” Shroyer said. “This angers Big Milk. Say, ‘No, you need to pasteurize milk, it’s a lot less healthy for you.’ See, eventually, they’ll just make it illegal. They’ll just make raw milk illegal. That’s what this is all about.”
Leadership based on fear and outrage.
Shame.
Shameful
Just wait until they notice beef is coming from cattle too … ;-p
Reminds me of ‘Soylent Green is people!’
Politics outside the US can get pretty goofy, but Americans just seem to be on another level… just a shame that we all end up having to deal with the consequences :(
I swear there has to be something in the water over there or something.
“When you’re born, you’re given a ticket to the freak-show.
When you’re born in America, you have a front-row seat.”
– George Carlin
You can’t tell me what to do!
Apparently for some, this is where right-wing political philosophy starts and ends. Everything else seems to be retrofit around this principle, regardless of its rationality. Even if the party in question is giving you sound advice, like not to drink raw milk, and is doing nothing to prevent you from doing so if you please.
Getting back at the FDA for messing with insulin price freedom by getting rubes to drink unpasteurized milk?
It’s weird. They used to take such great pride in not being like the French.
Then again, they also used to think the Iraq War was a great idea (unlike those filthy French).
Do they even eat chocolate that taste like barf anymore? Man, if old Hershey was still around, he’d set them straight. Or the other thing. Either way, he’d do it decisively.
I swear, modern Republicans are dumber than ever.
Government: A new disease is sweeping the nation! Side effects include instant death! Whatever you do, don’t lick any lightbulbs!
Famous Republican/Right-wing Influencer: THE GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO STOP US FROM LICKING LIGHTBULBS!!! GO OUT AND LICK ALL THE LIGHTBULBS TO OWN THE LIBS!!!
That’s what it feels like to me.
I remember them hyperventilating over CFLs (mostly because Gore backed them, if we are going to be honest). Now that those are to be phased out, I wouldn’t be surprised if they now hyperventilate over THAT.
I hear the libtards also hate skydiving and jaywalking across busy highways wearing dark clothes in the middle of the night.
That’ll own 'em if you do those things, too.
Skydiving is OK, but only because it’s regulated. What really pisses the libs off is skydiving out of your buddy’s crop duster with a homemade wingsuit.
Gravity’s a woke scam anyway, just jump from a tall place and drink those lib tears.
You know, I’m inclined to just let them fuck around and figure it out the hard way.
They pulled the same shit with coronavirus, and it killed a small - but electorally noticeable - fraction of the conservative population, over and above the rates that the general population saw. Given that this is a regressive segment of the population that generally tends to hurt the rest of our society, I’m not going to object too strongly if they want to thin their own herd out with Darwin awards. Please, continue “owning the libs” by harming your own political base.
I’ve been at this stage for a while. Popcorn out, schadenfreude mode ready, and remaining uninvolved.
The knowledge fight guys are gonna love this
The new GOP mascot needs to be a pig.
They belong in the realm of disease, not animals.
Once upon a time this was called “virtue signalling” but I think “vice-signalling” is better. A historian named David Perry defined it as such:
a public display of immorality, intended to create a community based on cruelty and disregard for others, which is proud of it at the same time.
In other words, being an asshole just to prove you belong with the other assholes in the rectum. And then you realize that everything the right does (and has been doing for decades) to “Own TEh LiBz!” can be ascribed to this:
- Drinking raw milk
- Anti-masking
- Anti-vaxxing
- Destroying their Dixie Chicks CDs
- Not watching Disney
- Destroying their Yetis
- Tanning your Tucker Carlson
- Claiming the Battle Flag of Virginia as their heritage
- Etc.
That’s why right-wing boycotts are usually ineffective- on the surface they might be mad about something, but since they’re only performative said boycotts don’t last long.
On a deeper level, however, this is more disturbing as it’s another step on the road to fascism. Fascist groups are all about their purity and so members are driven to prove their inclusion in the in-group lest they be purged next. This creates a downward spiral of more and more extreme acts to maintain that facade of inclusion, which gets worse and worse for the people who have to exist with those assholes.
Someone needs to tell them that the libs are extremely owned when they not just tan their undercarriage, but when it gets a nice, red hue in the entire area. To the point where there is later peeling.
The libs really, really, really hate this. Spread the word!
| Tanning your Tucker Carlson
This could also work as a euphemism for exposing yourself in public. As in, “Bobert’s husband went jail for tanning his Tucker Carlson in front of some teenage girls at bowling alley.”
Bobert was caught hand signing with Tucker Carlson at the Beetlejuice show.
They just do the opposite of what you tell them so I have an idea: Tell them not to jump off a cliff.
So. If we do nothing, Republicans will go drink raw milk? Sounds ideal! Unless they also want the rest of us to drink raw milk. I’m vegan so it doesn’t affect me, but sounds like a thing you just let them go crazy on. Then we can talk about COVID25 and the rise of madcowcovidbirdflu v2.1.
Why do republicans want to kill themselves so badly?
Because they look in the mirror.
Suicide is out, so next best option is to hurt anyone else.
Anything to own the libs
Step one.
Bird Flu jumps to cattle Step two.
Bird Flu in milk Step three. Milk, it does a body good!!!
