r/comics • u/CreatedByWeems • 14h ago

Don’t Do Politics… [OC]

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u/PM_ME_UR_0_DAY 14h ago

Food and safety standards - shmood and shmafety shmanders. Who even cares about stuff like that, bro?

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u/bottle-o-rockets 14h ago

Quit makin' everything political and let the companies handle it in thei- *regular show noises\* I'll be right back.

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u/zuzg 12h ago

Did ya know that the FDA Reclassified pink slime as Ground beef during Donnies first term?

https://giphy.com/gifs/YknvaDoHOjsJ2

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u/supafly_ 12h ago

The "pink slime" craze was fucking stupid. It's food that would otherwise be wasted turned into something usable. You wouldn't like a lot of your foods if you had to look at them in various unflattering stages of preparation.

The actual question is whether it's safe (it is) and on top of that it reduces waste.

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u/zuzg 12h ago

Meat wastes treated ammonia goes a bit beyond would otherwise be wasted ...
Similar how nobody wants American chlorinated chicken.

Both practices are rightfully banned in the EU.

And if they use cheap methods they've to declare it on the packaging.
Like when it's not real ham but uses Reconstituted meat.
That one actually reduces waste and because they're required to declare it on the packaging it's noticable cheaper.

See how it's supposed to go?
The consumer makes the conscious choice after weighing the options.

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u/Realistic_Owl9525 9h ago

Chlorinated chicken mentioned: https://youtube.com/shorts/RgyQnz9WoPU?si=EeI0Ql5mkvRSI67P

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u/GoHomeNeighborKid 7h ago

Woke chicken farmer that speaks his mind and isn't afraid to step on some toes.....

"You are interested, go to Double-yew Double-yew Double-yew....."

As one of those Palmetto people (or mayonasians) he frequently speaks of, I love seeing he dropped a new short or vid

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u/bigbramel 42m ago

I like the guy and is most likely correct with chlorinated chicken. Just however he also defends washing eggs before going to the store, just because chickens use the same out-channel as for their shit.

Meanwhile said washing ruins a protective film around the egg and makes them weaker against bacteria and viruses, while chickens are actually very clean around their nests. So poop and such is not really a problem. Ruining a protective film is.

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u/Ok-Boss-763 7h ago

My favorite part about the "pink slime" craze was the use of a black and white or edited picture of the tubby custard from Teletubbies. People will believe anything.

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u/BellacosePlayer 11h ago

its literally just the remaining beef and connective tissue.

If you've eaten a hotdog you've eaten worse.

People freaked out about the Ammonia thing but its in a lot of food naturally and PS treated with it would add an amount weighing less than a grain of sand to a burger and still a fraction of the ammonia you'd intake daily even with a non processed food diet

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u/Team_Braniel 11h ago

My ancestors are revered for not wasting any part of the animal, but i eat a hot dog and yall lose your shit.

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u/MorganWick 9h ago

"The free market will work it out! If companies make food that makes you shit, stop patronizing those places!"

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u/Dusty_Scrolls 12h ago

BWRRRRRRR

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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 14h ago

It looks like Americans have had it too good for decades now. They've forgotten just how f*cked up things can get when you don't have a functioning government looking out for their citizens. Instead, they've allowed their oligarchs and billionaires to completely take over. The foxes and wolves are literally running the henhouse.

It'll be interesting to see if they realize just how bad they screwed up. But I gotta say, based on how well the UK has learned their post-Brexit lesson (the party that pushed for Brexit is ahead in the polls over there) I don't really have much hope. Once they hit a certain level of denial and hubris, folks in general never seem to learn and instead seem to just double-down.

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u/Castor_Deus 13h ago

The party (reform) that came from the party (UKIP) are, sadly, two different parties that are both still going. On the plus side, reform is not ahead in most polls worth noting any more.

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u/SunTzu- 10h ago

With a bit of luck, they'll be getting the Bin very soon.

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u/DuntadaMan 10h ago

Were it not extremely illegal I would vote for him as well.

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u/ollietron3 9h ago

Would be less illegal than farage

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u/Unusual_Memory3133 12h ago

Thanks for your input and concern. Please be aware: not all Americans are red hat wearing trump supporters. We damn well understand the mess that a very vocal minority has made for all of us. We are not in denial. There is a lot resistance that you don’t hear about. Root for the underdogs - isn’t that what Brits do?

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u/MangoCats 11h ago

Keep Calm and Carry On.

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u/TheOneTonWanton 10h ago

Turns out that's difficult when it's the government that's fucking everything up. That slogan really depends on the government taking care of business and as far as I can tell the US government doesn't even know why it exists anymore other than "money."

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u/MangoCats 9h ago

We get the government we deserve.

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u/Talk-O-Boy 11h ago

When I was in US History, we had to read “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair to learn about the horrors that come when governmental regulations are absent.

If we learn history, we can learn from it.

But there’s this obstinate section of the population that thinks learning about the darker sides of American history is “unpatriotic”. 🙃

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u/cadex 4h ago

While studying construction in the UK we learned all about the Great Fire of London of 1666, because after it destroyed 85% of the City of London the government decided to introduce the first Building Regulations so that it can't happen again. Specifying what materials buildings should be made of, how far apart the buildings need to be so fire can't jump from one to another, etc. It's a constantly evolving set of documents that we still use today.

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u/SaulsAll 4h ago

I find it relevant and hilarious that The Jungle's aim was a focus on the plight of the workers and their terrible conditions, and all the consumers went, "Wait - what's in our meat??"

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u/IntwadHelck 12h ago

It’s more so that so many are stuck in the cult of ‘America is the best. And if u speak bad of its leaders or of it in general, ur the enemy’. It’s a cult. I recently watched Twisted Yoga, and again learned, we need some influence from France. Their laws about this kind of stuff seem spot-on, and needed globally….especially in the USA

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u/Slow_Investment_951 12h ago

They’d rather double down and let themselves die miserably than admit that they were ever wrong in the first place

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u/MangoCats 11h ago

The local red hat club was precious during COVID. First: "it's nothing to worry about." Next: "There's nobody here who can do anything, they're all feeling like they're about to die." Three months later I ask: "How's everybody doing?" "WE'RE ALL FINE!!! WHY WOULD YOU EVEN BRING THAT UP?"

What I didn't tell them is: my neighbor, about their age, actually died from it...

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u/Needle_Bearings 7h ago

UK is just America Light.  Same moronic attitudes towards corpos and consumerism.  They voted for Brexit because of IMMUHGRANTS, now whine because of said of group.  Brexit solved nothing hey?

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u/Snowflakish 14h ago

The civil service is full of millions of things just like this that nobody cares about until they go wrong.

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u/Extension_Problem223 12h ago

I truly will never understand how the ultra-wealthy have convinced the average person that all of the (non-military) protections and services the government is supposed to provide in exchange for tax money are "fraud and waste."

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u/vi_sucks 12h ago

Racism. What happened is racism.

When the "average person" could see the welfare being spent on white people that looked mostly like them, they thought it was a good thing. When the laws changed to make sure that black and brown people also visibly got access to the same services, suddenly it all became "fraud and waste."

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u/Extension_Problem223 11h ago

Yes, theyre becoming more and more forthright about it. Go in any comment section talking about the Scandinavian countries with universal healthcare etc, and some eugenicist will say "well that's because they have a racially homogeneous society" as if it has anything to do with anything besides their personal ignorance

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u/MorganWick 9h ago

"Aren't you basically saying 'European-style welfare states won't work here because I don't want the darkies to benefit from it'?"

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u/Snowflakish 12h ago

I cannot name a time since Thatcher or even Attlee that people have not been opoosed to benefits. I also dont have any memory of people being normal about benefit claimants.

Anyways most of it is the manafactured fear that somehow, someone is getting something they dont deserve

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u/LuminalOrb 10h ago

And what happens when you assign the label of undeserving to an entire group of people? Well you ensure that there will always be fear about someone getting something they don't deserve.

It's often done through the lens of race but class can additionally be placed on top of that as well.

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u/obviousfakeperson 11h ago

Something I don't get about the ultra wealthy is why they'd want to live in a society with no safety nets much less go out of their way to create one. There are already plenty of countries that already run exactly like that. I love my people but Nigeria, my home country, is a perfect example. 0 safety nets, govt that only does anything for you if you're wealthy, basically no regulations of any kind. Yet, I'm 1000% sure none of them would ever consider living there.

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u/TheRealTexasGovernor 13h ago

"why dint you drink some raw milk about it?"

-RFK jr

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u/Boring-Summer8047 13h ago

I literally paused with my fork in my mouth, and stared at my plate in horror. May the odds be ever in my favor, eh?

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u/Samson_J_Rivers 13h ago

Saw dust bread 😋

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u/Boring-Summer8047 13h ago

Plaster eggs! 😋🤤

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u/datdailo 11h ago

This administration has no standards on anything important. Just testosterone levels apparently.

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u/m0ther_0F_myriads 11h ago

What was that old joke? Something about Ayn Rand, Paul Ryan, and Rand Paul walk into a bar, order a round and die of alcohol poisoning? 

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u/admosquad 11h ago

That’s for libs

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u/ConradBHart42 10h ago

shmood and shmafety shmanders

Stupid Sexy Flanders

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u/huggevill 5h ago

Regulations are just the gubbernment interfering and making life hard for companies and makes the prices higher for us honest citizen!!!!/s

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u/Alone-Ad288 14h ago

Food is political. So is shitting yourself

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u/Salt_Pirate777 14h ago

That’s why I call when I take a crap “passing a legislative bill”.

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u/Capraos 13h ago

If that's the case may ass is doing more work than congress right now. I don't feel so good guys. 😰

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u/zuzg 12h ago

A half dead fish is more alive than Congress.

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u/The_Last_Spoonbender 5h ago

Shouldn't have eaten the lettuce salad...

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u/enadiz_reccos 13h ago

I'm just a bill, and I'm shitting here on Capitol Hill

🎶

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u/CotyledonTomen 13h ago edited 9h ago

Everything is political. Politics is just how we live our lives. You cant live in a society of 330 million people without literally everything you do being affected by the government in some way.

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u/NonReality 9h ago

People fundamental misunderstand what politics are and what it means. I find it that people often fundamentally misunderstand a lot of fundamental things lol

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u/Old_Instrument_Guy 14h ago edited 2h ago

Remember when Michelle Obama had the audacity to remake the food pyramid. Republicans lost their fucking minds. Now they're losing their collective shits.

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u/ejdj1011 12h ago

Loosening of food safety regulations that cause more people to shit themselves is political, yes

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u/Yeeslander 14h ago

Bro got a taste of that MAHA Blast

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u/das_slash 13h ago

Make Asshole Hurt Again

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u/CreatedByWeems 14h ago

😂😂

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u/Shantotto11 13h ago

Make America Hate Again

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u/NightSpringsRadio 14h ago

Sighhhhhhhh 36 comedy points

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u/TooSmalley 12h ago

When I was young I was fairly libertarian and didn't think we need that many rules.

Then in my early 20s I started working in food production. Oh my God we need so many rules. These motherfuckers would sell you straight poison if they could get away with it.

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u/AHugeHildaFan 11h ago

Fun fact they did sell straight up poison.

Y'know there was a famous book about slaughterhouses in the 30s. Give it a read.

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u/Far-Hovercraft9471 10h ago

Daily reminder that radium water was totally okey dokey to sell for 10 years before it killed some rich guy and they started caring

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u/R_Little-Secret 7h ago

I thought you were going to bring up the poison squad dinner parties.

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u/NoTradition6709 11h ago

Looking at the ingredients Maccas uses, particularly for its fries, they still do 😭

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u/SaltyArchea 5h ago

Only in US, though. Other countries have rules.

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u/Inside-Marketing6147 9h ago

I used to be a libertarian as well until I realized that, taken to its logical conclusion, it doesn't eliminate power and control, it just shifts the power to whoever is willing to exploit the lack of constraints most aggressively. And, yes, those people don't mind killing people if they can turn a buck.

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u/CreatedByWeems 12h ago

A sad and disgusting truth ☹️

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u/R_Little-Secret 7h ago

Your story is very common. Its always young men who seem drawn to the philosophy and a lot of the one's I met were not dumb. And I always wondered did they not learn about the Gilded age? I thought I took the same public high school education as them and yet this period of history doesn't seem to come into thought when thinking about libertarianism. The whole industrial revolution, child labor, colonization, slavery, civil rights, Pinkertons. But I guess you did figure it out but I don't know why it takes most of these guys personal experience before seeing why we need rules. It just feels so short sighted.

(oddly enough I had heard the theory that Libertarianism can be linked to loneliness and how we teach young men they can't rely on anyone but themselves. Personally I think its repackaged laissez-faire economics pushed by those with money to gain more power. )

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u/useribarelynoher 7h ago

you say “not dumb” but they were certainly too dumb to come to a logical conclusion about the results of libertarianism due to human nature. just as asinine as the idea of a utopia.

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u/R_Little-Secret 6h ago

Oh they were smart and fun to talk to (at least the ones I've met) but more they had blind spots. We all have blind spots thing that we have trouble seeing and understanding. Realizing that you might be wrong and seeing things from other's point of view takes wisdom to recognize and it takes time for people to develop that. Some more than others.

I think part of the problem is that they are so use to being right about stuff they dont think to question their logic. That and other ways we socialize men (as it's mostly men who get targeted for this kind of philosophy)

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u/astrangeone88 12h ago

I'm Chinese Canadian. The amount of people I knew in my life who think that the "danger zone" of temperatures was not a thing makes me more upset than I know....lol.

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u/Digit00l 7h ago

They used to, sugar used to be laced wirh arsenic so they could sell more sugar per sugar

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u/Grassfed_rhubarbpie 6h ago

I mean they kinda do haha  The amount of candy and snacks we can buy and how little they cost in comparison to healthy food is ridiculous right? And don't get me wrong, I love snacks, but they're not good for us and the sheer amount that's available makes it a lot worse.

And cigarettes aren't food, but I'd say they fall in the category straight poison.

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u/FlatHatJack 14h ago edited 9h ago

Edit: Remembered the wrong word parallel. Made the correction below.

Once again, you may not care about want to be involved with politics, but politics will always "care" about involve you.

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u/Umutuku 4h ago

You may not consent to participate in politics, but politics doesn't understand what that word means when it comes to participate in you.

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u/captainAwesomePants 14h ago edited 14h ago

Please note that it takes at least 2 days and more likely around 10 days between eating a bad salad/fruit/whatever and Cyclospora symptoms appearing. Then 10 day delay is one of the reasons that tracking down the cause is difficult.

(One of the other reasons tracking down the cause is difficult is mismanagement of the FDA and the CDC, including cutting FoodNet and FERN, and including the terminated Public Health Infrastructure Grants and the Preventive Services Block Grants, but also a lack of qualified personnel after mass layoffs)

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u/Reasonable_Cut558 13h ago

Thank, it always annoys me how people will blame the restaurant they had last night for their food poisoning when foodborne illnesses generally have at least a couple days of incubation time

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u/ILoveRawChicken 12h ago

Food poisoning and Cyclospora are two different things. You can absolutely show symptoms of eating something bad the next day or even within a few hours. Norovirus for example is no joke and happens fast. 

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u/G8r8SqzBtl 11h ago

username checks out

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u/ILoveRawChicken 11h ago

Gotta know ball to play ball

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u/captainAwesomePants 13h ago

There are plenty of bacterias that can fuck you up within a few hours. Some Staphylococcus in an unrefrigerated salad or a dairy dessert can hit you before you get home. The E. coli you got from somebody not handling raw chicken correctly will probably take a whole day, though.

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u/bean_vendor 14h ago

Imma be real, it took me a hot minute to understand the context.

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u/Socio_Scorpio 14h ago

There is a current parasite outbreak in the US and some parts of Canada that is sourced from mainly contaminated lettuce.

The outbreak was caused/worsened by funding cuts to the CDC by a certain health administrator.

In a way, this outbreak could be seen as political discourse.

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u/thesanguineocelot 14h ago

In a sane world, it wouldn't be political at all, because neither party would be actively working to ensure we were more exposed to diseases while also less covered for healthcare, but here we are, I guess.

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u/CotyledonTomen 13h ago

Republicans have been pushing deregulation for generations. It hasnt been "sane" for decades.

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u/possibly_being_screw 8h ago

Conservatives are morons who fall for the culture war bullshit so hard, they cheer on cuts to government that make no goddamn sense and hurt them as much, if not more, than it hurts their "opponents" all in the name of...what again?

And any adult who says they're "not political" at this stage of the game is a fucking moron or is a conservative coward lying to your face. Politics has always affected our lives but it especially does now with this ghoulish administration.

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u/BottleNecker69er 13h ago

Eh, in a sane world it would've always been political we just wouldn't treat it that way because, like you said, neither party would want to truly kill their voters, maybe a little death but not like this lol

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u/Fuzzy_Ear_2457 8h ago

In a sane world, it wouldn't be political at all.

Something not being controversial does not make it apolitical.

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u/The-Black-Swordsmane 14h ago edited 9h ago

This is happening because motherfucking RFK jr. cut the cdc funding that tracks and prevents shit like this parasite going around. Yes I’m fucking angry cause I caught it but I’m not one of the fuckin evil dumbasses who voted for trump

Edit: Thanks for the reward

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u/Sea-Position-7189 14h ago

Voting for the dude who shits himself only to end up shitting yourself has to be some form of Greek play

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u/Chiiro 14h ago

All those diapers that they bought to show their support for him wearing a diaper can get used now.

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u/EishLekker 14h ago

You forgot to mention that the “This” in “This is happening” refers to a parasite outbreak in the US and Canada.

I had heard about it, but had no idea it was affecting many people.

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u/Mycoplasmosis 14h ago

Canada getting getting affected by this is bullshit. We didn't even vote for this crap.

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u/EishLekker 14h ago edited 13h ago

There’s lots of states bordering Canada that are affected by this outbreak. So it makes sense to assume that some of the cases found in Canada is from people who have been in the US. I never claimed that the food sources were Canadian.

But sure, maybe my wording was not the best.

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u/ImNotTheNSAIPromise 13h ago

I don't think they meant bullshit like it's not happening, but bullshit like they are frustrated

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u/EishLekker 13h ago

Ah, got ya. I totally read that the wrong way then.

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u/elebrin 1h ago

If that is true, Canada needs to close the border before something worse crosses.

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u/Corsaer 10h ago

The uncomfortable truth is, when the US sneezes, the world catches a cold.

I know we're talking about things here that that could apply to literally, but it also figuratively applies to us voting in a demented fascist.

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u/SouLDraGooN44 12h ago

You guys need to build a border wall and stop getting stuff from us.

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u/Cilarnen 13h ago

Wut?

We’re seeing a gut parasite from the US in Canada?

Is this a serious issue? I can’t believe a serious health concern would first come to my attention on Reddit.

Sniper edit: Global News (a Canadian news outlet, far more reliable than anything American), reports it came from Mexico. It’s apparently the same parasite, but a different outbreak.

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u/DuntadaMan 10h ago

A parasite that the CDC used to require monitoring for. RFK specifically cut the monitoring for this parasite.

Had it not been cut the produce infected with it would never have even made it to market. As it stands they still aren't even sure which fucking farm it came from, or if it has multiple sources so they can stop it. They can't effectively respond because they can't even figure out what to remove from the shelves, so yet more will continue to enter the market.

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u/bean_vendor 14h ago

Oh shit, I completely forgot about that. That's fucking great.

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u/Empty-Care-961 13h ago

Wait the health nutjob?

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u/The-Black-Swordsmane 12h ago

Yes

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u/Empty-Care-961 12h ago

What are the odds that a health nutjob would cause a health crisis.

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u/longingrustedfurnace 10h ago

The health nutjob thinks vaccines are bad for you and eats roadkill, so I’d say they’re pretty high.

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u/Wild_Marker 13h ago

Oh I thought it was about how reading about current politics is bad for a lot of people's digestion.

I know I've been close to puking at least once...

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u/CrestfallenRaven621 12h ago

My mind kinda defaulted to that one saying-

"Fascism is an affair of the stomach"

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u/bean_vendor 14h ago

People who say "I don't do politics" don't realise that politics affect their day to day lives. It even affects our food, like salad.

I would take this with a huge grain of salt, though. I'm not sure I entirely understand it still, but that's what I gathered from it.

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u/mutilated_quips89 14h ago

My favorite line: “You may not do politics, but politics will do you”

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u/snowillis 14h ago

There’s a diarrhea sickness going around that people are getting from eating produce. Food safety guidelines in America have been relaxed a lot in the past decade and the current administration has been contributing to stuff like this happening.

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u/throwawaywoman1234 14h ago

Trump has dismantled disease tracking organizations, deregulated health and safety standards for foods.

Also, there's also multi-state outbreak of a parasite found in salad lettuce that causes intense stomach cramps and diarrhea. Surely this is something we could have prevented with regulations, or been able to track and treat early of we had government organizations in place dedicated to such an endeavor. If only.

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u/EdStufff 14h ago

You all cannot be telling me this while I just had a burger with lettuce people 😭😭😭

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u/No-Vermicelli-2832 14h ago

You best cross your fingers and pray

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u/ElaborateEffect 11h ago

It's not quite thaaaaat deep. But you can definitely make it an effectively 0% chance by only eating cooked produce for a bit.

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u/ghanima 9h ago

It's currently linked to a Taco Bell lettuce supplier.

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u/redditmarks_markII 10h ago

The responses were mostly on the medical side.  There's also the agricultural side, the immigration side.  Our farm subsidies and tax benefits enables a form of ... land owning that is financially feasible while not making any real efforts to farm effectively or safely.  The massive need for help enabled a group of middlemen to provide said help via legal immigration of and illegals detention of (that is, enslavement) foreign laborers.  And no joke at all, working with cartels where they are from to threaten them into compliance.  Given that, it's not surprising they fail to provide proper sanitary work conditions.  They don't care about the workers or the crop.  They care about the money only.  And that applies to those who are malicious, as well as just ignorant.  

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u/AlistairButton 13h ago

My idiot brother who said we need to get rid of safety standards because "people know not to buy bad food". 

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u/catanddog5 12h ago

I met an electrical engineer who stated that the safety regulations around electrical work was written in blood after complaining about how some ppl at his work don’t follow safety protocols but then also stated that food safety regulations were used to control people and are exaggerated.

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u/Verdick 5h ago

Food safety process must have been written in other bodily fluids besides blood.

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u/Ligabolzacky 2h ago

how the fuck does he plan on knowing if the food is bad?

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u/GFluidThrow123 14h ago

Omg yesterday some woman cashing me out was like "I don't do politics! It's just republicans this, Democrats that, and I think they're all dumb!" And she's talking to a trans lesbian (standing next to her wife), but isn't aware enough to realize it.

Like, come onnnnn girl. Politics is the reason the sky is orange and we can't breathe today! That's what you're complaining about! It's politics!

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u/CreatedByWeems 14h ago

Yeah, it sounds like she might prefer just staying in her bubble and pretending that nothing is happening 🫤

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u/M-Shadowtoad 14h ago

Yeah, its annoying how much Politics has become something people comfortably treat like their local sport's team.

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u/What_a_fat_one 9h ago

Republicans do that. It's why they get so shocked when Democrats don't leap to the defense of Bill Clinton, Democrats and left leaning independents don't really give a shit about who is in charge, so long as they're right on the issues. On the other hand Republicans are perfectly fine with people in their party being pedophiles and rapists so long as they're on their team.

And for the record I'm not a Democrat, I'm a left leaning independent but I do strategically vote Democrat to reduce the harm that Republicans cause.

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u/-Esper- 14h ago

Everything is politics. It decides how were allowed to live our lives. These "i dont do politics" people have just decided to let everybody else decide for them

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u/Apptubrutae 11h ago

As an affluent white male who can’t get pregnant and can hop on a plane to cross state lines whenever necessary, I just don’t get why people say politics matters.

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u/Verdick 5h ago

Right?! As one as well, I don't see the issue with just carrying on with your own life and keeping your nose clean leads to success. Why don't other just do that?

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u/DuntadaMan 10h ago

Less letting everyone else decide for them and more "are perfectly happy with everyone but them losing their rights."

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u/wildmaninid 12h ago

TDS strikes.  Trump Diarrhea Syndrome 

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u/flatscancomics 14h ago

Tbf I just say "I'm not really into politics" because discussing my political views is a federal offense and my FBI agent could use a break...

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u/justhad2login2reply 12h ago

Then you're part of the problem. You need to overwork your FBI agent. Why the fuck would you want to give him a break? No, make him write more and more. Get him tired. Get him to do overtime. Make him miss his daughter's recital. 

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u/flatscancomics 12h ago

Lmao I'd actually like to return home one day though

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u/justhad2login2reply 9h ago

Sacrifices have to be made for the common good.

But I understand. I know I won't be returning with all I've said.

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u/flatscancomics 8h ago

Holding out hope for the abolition of all federal law enforcement and a general communist revolution I guess lol

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u/CreatedByWeems 14h ago

😂😂😂 too real lol

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u/sign-through 8h ago

It’s nice though, knowing you’re never truly alone? All you have to do is speak your mind a little too close to your phone and you’ll have a nice captive audience forced to listen to all of your thoughts  :-)

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u/cedarsauce 14h ago

We're getting sawdust back in our bread, MAGA!!!

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u/dumnezero Art enjoyer 8h ago

That might be an improvement now since it's a safe addition of plant fiber, and most people don't eat enough fiber.

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u/Verdick 5h ago

That's a nice way of saying they are so full of shit.

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u/Dudewhocares3 14h ago edited 11h ago

I had a friend who I recently cut off who “didn’t do politics” but had some issues with the lgbt community.

Not the people, nooo, just the community.

When I pressed him for answers, he couldn’t be less vague

Edit: couldn’t be more vague

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u/CreatedByWeems 14h ago

It’s wild how often there’s a correlation between people who “don’t do politics” and bigotry 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/Dudewhocares3 14h ago

The link is ignorance :D

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u/cyanraichu 13h ago

You might not do politics, but politics will do you. Always.

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u/glowdirt 11h ago

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you"

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u/voindd 12h ago

He looks like an architect forced to start a ottoman empire/ pirate themed furniture store because his wife wouldn't get off her fat ass and help him

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u/CreatedByWeems 12h ago

😆😆😆 he does have a similar look lol

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u/SaulsAll 4h ago

The pirate plundered the whole Ottoman Empire, and doesnt know what to do with it, and thus the prices he sells at are the lowest in town.

What is hard to get about this? /s

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u/JKandmannymore 8h ago

I don't understand it 😭 Can someone please explain it to me

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u/RTK4740 7h ago

There's an outbreak right now of cyclosporiasis right now. The disease is caused by a parasite, through fecal contamination in produce. (As I understand it. I am not a scientist, just reading the news.) In July of 2025, the CDC said states no longer have to track cyclosporiasis. They added it to an "optional to track" list. The reason is this administration's massive cuts to the federal budget made it challenging to keep up with tracking all the deadly bugs and diseases out there. The CDC had to let a few slide.

While there are outbreaks of this from time to time, the fact that it's spreading and the US federal government is moving very slow to collect data on it really is the big issue. In the past, the numbers would be collected from all the states quickly, which made it easier to track to the source and shut it down, resulting in fewer cases and less spreading. That's why this is a political issue. This is one of the tangible results of the grossly inept Trump administration's widespread budget cuts. Kinda like how Trump and his admin dramatically inflated the number of unnecessary deaths due to Covid. Trump and his goons may not have caused Covid, but they helped it spread through negligence and outright choosing to ignore it.

A peer-reviewed scientific study published in Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy estimates that nearly 17,000 people died across six countries during the first wave of the pandemic after taking hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug heavily touted by Donald Trump as a COVID-19 treatment.

This spread of cyclosporiasis is another outcome of his inept administration.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/lettuce-or-salad-greens-could-be-potential-source-of-cyclosporiasis-outbreak-health-officials-say/3961111/

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u/JKandmannymore 7h ago

Thank you so much for telling me! 💙

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u/Elorme 6h ago

I've seen an article saying there's a preliminary link in some cases to Iceberg lettuce used at Taco Bell in 4 states. Supplied by Taylor Farms but Taylor Farms is a huge supplier to many places so it's not really a surprise this isn't the first outbreak they've been linked to. Are there definitive answers yet? No. To be fair Taco Bell had already pulled certain veggies in some of the affected areas a couple of days ago 'Out of an abundance of caution '

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u/Agentflit Jeybork 6h ago

Hey just FYI, I agree with everything you said (FUCK the heritage foundation) except that I'd like to clarify that the paper concerning 17k deaths from hydroxychloroquine was retracted due to bad data. Just thought you'd like to know the latest info!

A couple sources:

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1fbageh

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/04/870022834/authors-retract-hydroxychloroquine-study-citing-concern-over-data

The broader idea of what you said is still true though...SO MUCH needless death and suffering caused by this admin. They gutted science funding, healthcare access, even foreign aid... I can't imagine how many people died due to cutting USAID alone...got to be hundreds of thousands.

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u/Normal_Pace7374 4h ago

I love how people act like politics and ethics are 2 unrelated fields.

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u/PotentialConcert6249 13h ago

Once again, safety regulations are written in blood, and everything is politics.

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u/Verdick 5h ago

In this case, it's written in shit.

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u/questron64 12h ago

If you don't do politics then politics will do you.

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u/ILoveRegenHealth 7h ago

"Both sides the same!"

(shits all over walls)

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u/cunt_dykeula 12h ago

You might not do politics, but politics is gonna do you regardless

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u/CreepyPastaLover2005 9h ago

I knew someone who acted just like the black guy in the comic (and funny enough, he looks very similar to the drawing), had to cut him off for numerous reasons but him saying he “doesn’t do politics” and not voting was one of the last straws for me. My mental health is a billion times better without having stupid people in my life like this

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u/Holzkohlen 6h ago

Everything is political. Cowards are in denial about it.

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u/autamo 5h ago

"I don't do politics" is something Russians have been saying since 2014 when they try to dissociate from Putin.

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u/cosmic-untiming 13h ago

"This is the wrong time to talk about politics, it's too soon 😡"

I remember that after multiple tragic events that still happen today in America. It is almost always the right time to talk about it.

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u/Boring-Summer8047 13h ago

Seeing this as I'm eating a salad is priceless.

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u/Falcon102486 12h ago

Welcome to the thunderdome

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u/dumnezero Art enjoyer 8h ago

The bug takes about 1-2 weeks to start causing problems, so you won't know today or tomorrow. That's part of the problem with it: tracking the source requires a lot more effort.

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u/Boring-Summer8047 7h ago

I know! At least it doesn't have such a long and variable incubation period as monkey pox! We also have lots of recombinant COVID strains. I appreciate being in a hospital setting where a surprising amount of people are wearing masks. It's still waaay more people contact that I'm very comfortable with.

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u/BicFleetwood 10h ago

Funfact:

The academic definition of "politics" is, roughly: "the means by which we distribute normative and material resources."

Material resources being actual things (steel, gold, etc.) and normative resources being made-up shit (power, authority, value, votes, etc.)

When someone says "everything is political." YES. EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL.

I challenge anyone reading this to sit here and debate the academic definition in such a way that makes sense to fucking ignore the subject like it's immaterial.

The phrase "I'm not political" is the callsign of either a liar or a dipshit. Probably a lying dipshit.

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u/DuntadaMan 10h ago

There was an article I was reading about these critters back in 2022 I think, and how modern practices were almost entirely eliminating this parasite.

I should have realized that was foreshadowing.

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u/Vacicebash 9h ago

Every time someone tells me that they like some of his policies I now make them tell me which ones. Oh you like him… what specifically do you like about him?

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u/ZebusAquaion 9h ago

you might not do politics but they will do you.

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u/Grim505 9h ago

I dislike most of your comics because they beat me over the head with their point like I'm 5. This one actually has some subtelty, which is good.

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u/haw35ome 8h ago

“I don’t vote bc my vote doesn’t matter”

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u/RedditAdminsAreAI 6h ago

Fun fact even before the poop lettuce, raw vegetables like in a salad are pretty hard on your stomach to digest, so if you have a sensitive stomach already a salad might not be the best choice.

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u/Fitz911 3h ago

"we want trickle down. We want trickle down!"

Now that it's shooting down in an explosive way it's wrong again? Make up your minds!

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u/TRc56 14h ago

Trumparreah

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u/Molly-Grue-2u 12h ago

My partner keeps eating lettuce

from restaurants

I’m just glad it’s not contagious if (or when) he gets it

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u/CreatedByWeems 11h ago

Doesn’t give a fuck huh? Lol 😬

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u/EirikrUtlendi 9h ago

Doesn’t give a fuck huh? Lol 😬

Nah, doesn't give a shit.

... not yet, anyway. 💩👍🏾

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u/Far-Hovercraft9471 10h ago

It seems to be slim odds. Most of the infections have been from raspberries and basil

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u/Yaibakai 14h ago

You feel the influence of your decisions, and what you ignore.

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u/Coolking2011 14h ago

Is that Clark from the backrooms movie

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u/gdex86 12h ago

Politics doesn't effect me. Yeah that's because you haven't had to think about all the stuff politics keeps from hitting the fan in your direction.

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u/Namisar 6h ago

I don't do politics

Maybe you should because politics definitely do you.