I’d argue it comes down to three factors:

One, the rejection of modernism. People will argue that things were great in the past and now we are a fallen people (thus the popularity of the MAGA rallying cry). Obviously then, everything modern is suspect as it may be part what robbed us of our ‘greatness’.

Two, machismo. Among many illness is seen as punishment for some nebulous moral failing. You’re sick? Oh, you must not of eaten right, or you didn’t work out enough, or god is punishing you, etc. As such protecting yourself from disease is un-manly. You saw this a lot during COVID, masks were “face diapers” and Covid was “just the flu” and only the “libtards” were getting the vaccine (which via point one was was branded the “clot-shot”). Covid was seen kind of like a “Snake handling” ritual, proof that you are “moral” enough to live through it as well as proof you don’t fear death.

Three contrarianism. We all know this one. “If it’s popular it must be bad!” is a creed has holds a deep grasp in the psyche of many. Usually it’s pretty trivial, it doesn’t really matter if you liked <band> but hated them when they hit the mainstream. However when contrarianism starts getting applied to lifesaving medical procedures you start having problems.

Ohh… it’s a bridge! I was wondering what they had against that one particular patch of road.

Basically Nvidia put out this video with much fanfare about DLSS 5 being the future . Pretty much everyone has been mocking how it changes lighting, artstyle, character facial features, and introduces that weird AI blurriness in every instance shown.

Oh no, my jet setting lifestyle is in peril! How ever shall I cope? /s

Okay… so follow my logic. God made man in his image, then some time later, made woman in mans image. Therefore, we should at least expect God to be as different from a man as a man is from a woman. I would in fact argue that we should expect God to be even more different, as going from a mortal being to a different mortal being is less of a jump as going from a immortal omnipotent being to a mortal being.

Well, of course! The CEO is the most important employee because he does the most work in a company. The extra five million in his pockets will motivate him to put in the extra hours needed to personally turn around this profit slump! /s

Yeah… I’ve seen that one

And these are the programs the Techbro billionaires want to have running society.

We really need to get him a toddler activity center to keep him occupied.

Yeah, I’ve been referencing Ur-fascism more and more for some reason.

Of course they didn’t care, they have a arrest quota to fill. The fact that they’re arresting innocent people that will later be released at great cost for the government doesn’t matter, we must have action for actions sake.

Our rules of engagement are bold, precise, and designed to unleash American power

Precise… sure.

Hmm… what was point nine of Ur-Fascism? Oh yeah:

For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle. Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because life is permanent warfare. This, however, brings about an Armageddon complex. Since enemies have to be defeated, there must be a final battle, after which the movement will have control of the world. But such a “final solution” implies a further era of peace, a Golden Age, which contradicts the principle of permanent war. No fascist leader has ever succeeded in solving this predicament.

So looking at the pictures of this guy I have to ask; why does every “young” republican look like… that? It’s like there’s some factory somewhere where they inject skin coloured latex and ground up copies of the bible and Atlas Shrugged into a mold and we get weird looking guys like this

As things go forward, police would be wise to start opposing ICE.

IMO the regular police are scared of ICE. While the cops and ICE are both on team “oppress minorities” the regular police are worried that the new gestapo out rank them. So they’re being very, very careful not to step on ICE’s toes for fear that if push comes to shove ICE’s higher place in the police hierarchy will be formalized.

Well, yeah. That was the plan from the start. Let’s not be the “dumb fucks” who just “trust him” with personal data this time.

Why does everyone think that OJ Simpson killed his wife after he was acquitted by a jury? Just because you can convince 12 schlubs of something doesn’t make something true or untrue.

IMO, the panic about glyphosate’s health impacts is just based on empty hype, most risk assessments I’ve seen show it to be one of the safer herbicides out there.

Eh, better then what I’ve gotten from most games I’ve participated in.