Nobody requested empathy for his brother. But a normal person would have empathy for Drown ‘Em. Separate the two.
A lot of the people posted itt seem to be awful people judging from their posts on social media. People are going to laugh when you're an asshole and then step on a rake. I mean I'm sure it sucks if that's like your cousin or something but idk what you want from other people.
This was the height of comedy in 1300’s London so I guess it’s not surprising since most of us are descended from those very morons
ok then, to clarify, I don’t really care about people that are sad that their family made choices that continued to persist a pandemic and also took limited health care resources from people that were more responsible. One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic
Last word I’ll say, and then please do move on. My brother isn’t one of those. He’s an MIT educated electrical engineer who works on fiber optics for missile launching mechanisms for a defense contractor in Huntsville, AL. He just didn’t think he’d get very sick as a 43 year old and was unsure of unknown long term effects of the vaccines. I’m sure he regrets it now. Thank you guys for the support, and I mean that, but I was cool with my first fuck you to him. And he’s apologized. Please get this thread back to what it was meant for, making fun of chuds who eat horse dewormer and think that Bill Gates wants to control them and who have actually died because of it.
doubt there’s going to be a better example of the power of disinformation and peer pressure than than this
Like I said the other day, I feel badly for some of these people, especially the uneducated types. They’ve been led astray by their family, preacher, or Fox News.
One thing I’ve noticed is that many of these same assholes who died would have continued to be assholes if they had survived Covid. Especially if they had only suffered mild symptoms. We have a good friend who is 99% of the time thoughtful, caring and a great friend to my wife. But when it comes to Covid specifically she just has a total fucking brain fart. She is the only one in our friend group who used to call it “fake flu” for months. Although not vocal on social media about it, the few times the topic of masks and whatnot comes up she is the only one aggressively against such measures. Fast forward to this school year and she opted her 4th grader and 7th grader out of wearing masks when it was still an option. Her 4th grader almost immediately caught Covid at the start of the school year. Then she caught Covid that week, and has been suspiciously quiet (I think she got sicker than she let on). We found out a mutual friend who is fully vaccinated caught Covid from her own kid (who is too young to be vaccinated, but wears a mask to school), and her takeaway message from it all is, “See? Masks and vaccines don’t work!” It’s incomprehensible coming from an otherwise intelligent person.
If you had an unvax'd family member die, you'd be angry with them. You'd be upset they were gone for something so stupid. Losing a loved one sucks. I'd have empathy for you, not them, bc that's what normal people do.
I don’t feel bad for the dumb assholes that die that post racist/homophobic/bigoted shit. The world is arguably a better place with them gone. If they’re just brainwashed or don’t know any better that’s a bit different. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
Dismissing the effectiveness of masks and calling it the fake flu when hundreds of thousands of people have died make it seem like that lady is the asshole and not the people laughing at her misfortune but what do I know
His brother didn't. Why can't you separate the unvax'd brother from the brother having to deal with his unvax'd brother's poor choices? It's two different people.
I have found that it's next to impossible to reason with folks who are against the vaccine. It almost always ends in a fight or best case, and agreement to disagree.
I’ve clarified this already. Continuing to discuss it doesn’t matter. The man fucked around and found out. If he wants support he can go to therapy. It’s not coming from me I don’t owe empathy to the people that do this nor to the people that are left behind. I’ll concern myself with people taking measures to prevent continued spread
yeah you can be 99% empathetic and caring but man that covid blind spot really makes that a tough 1% to reconcile against everything else. kinda outweighs a lot of other stuff
Isn't a lot different than knowing people who you otherwise love and see do empathetic and good people things having otherwise abhorrent beliefs or incongruent beliefs with awful implications. Sometimes it's hard to separate the person you love from the shit they believe. I feel that literally always wrt politics.
Like, if there was a plague for being oblivious, unintended racists most everyone around me would be dead.
Yes, but I’m not an unvaccinated ignorant asshole requiring medical resources and asking for thoughts and prayers, so it looks like I’m ahead of the game
I don’t always write off trump supporters immediately but if those people you love are also posting racist/bigoted shit too then I think that’s the line where you reconsider your relationship with them. As someone from west texas, trump’s presidency made me rethink a lot of my relationships with family members/supposed friends. They had the opportunity to show how they truly feel and took advantage of it. Fuck em
Okay, this is the LAST POST on the tangent. After my post about it, the thread will be back on topic.
Ok so what I gathered yesterday is I'm supposed to blend carrots and toast with invermetic paste and butt chug it. Is that the thread consensus or
Oh I’m not asking for empathy for her. On this topic she’s clearly an asshole. I used the example for why I feel perfectly fine laughing at the other shitheads getting mocked in this thread. It’s not really a tragedy when they wouldn’t have changed their behavior had they not died.
Ok if you can't have empathy foe those left behind, those that had no control, you're just an asshole. Not much left to say.
Get over to Reddit and find a new post about someone who fucked around and found out then bring it here. Voila!
Thanks, I've already clarified I have no empathy in this situation. People die, sometimes because of their own behavior. That’s literally what this thread is about
Its really weird that you can't separate the people that made bad choices from the people in their life that had no control over their bad choice. "Damn, my brother died of covid. I tried all I could to get him to take the shot but he wouldn't. I'm angry at him for it." "Fuck you, I don't feel sorry for you." Fuck is wrong with you?
It’s like laughing at someone who’s brother died of liver failure after being an alcoholic. He’s just an irredeemable piece of shit.
Are you not literally in a “fucked around and found out” thread? Stop auditing who we have to be concerned about
“I can’t handle the thought of putting unknown chemicals and other substances into my minor child’s body,” says mother who routinely fed her child a steady diet of Hostess snack products, soda, sugary cereals, TV dinners and Golden Corral buffet offerings.
I understand it's hard to cut out friends from your life, but there's no way I wouldn't have blown up at this person and told her I don't want to be friends with her anymore. I get the argument that we all have friends that probably have some awful views (for me it's usually gun control and ownership) but given how much the anti-vaccine message is amplified by people who actively and loudly deny it that's just a bridge too far.
“Let’s have empathy on a message board about someone getting sick because they decided to not have empathy for others”