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"EVERYBODY HAS TO DIE."

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[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 88 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No shit. His choices are to either double down or admit to himself that he killed his daughter.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He is mentally ill. His child should have been taken away from him long before this happened.

Unfortunately, thanks to millions of people as mentally ill as he is, who inject the conservative propaganda machine directly into their brain stem, she may not have been much better off in foster care...

[–] Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago

The kids don’t deserve to die, but the parents deserve to lose them.

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"We don’t like the vaccinations, what they have these days. We heard too much, and we saw too much."

I want to know what he heard and saw about vaccines, and where he heard and saw it.

I think a lot of the issues in these extremely conservative communities is due to them being unable to rectify the contradictions between religious beliefs and the scientific method.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Probably has less to do with religion and more with not being able to distinguish between reputable and non reputable sources.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

if it's not from the church it's not reputable, and they're trained that way by the church from the moment they're kids.

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I live in a country where nobody goes to church (France) and we have the same crazy persons.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

And I go to church and I'm fully onboard with science, including vaccinations. So it's not church that's the problem, but people being dumb, which neither faith nor atheism can fix.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Meh not just the church, this dude probably gets all his news and science info third hand from Facebook groups fed with disinformation by recycled content from Russian bots

[–] Talaraine@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

This. This has nothing to do with them reading reputable and non reputable sources. The Mennonites are extremely obedient to whomever their local leaders are, up to and including uprooting and leaving if they decide another location just needs more people. Not using vaccines when a lot of these folks aren't allowed to use the internet is not that much of a stretch.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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Seriously, what exactly do you think "religious faith" is, if not strongly believing in something despite lack of evidence (i.e., exactly the antithesis of the Scientific Method)?

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 7 points 1 day ago

I'm just saying, there's plenty of secular anti-vaxxers who just believe it because they saw it on Facebook and don't understand that anyone can post whatever nonsense they want on there without repercussions.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That kid sadly became a victim of her parents belief that opinions are better than facts.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

-Voltaire

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 day ago

That's because if he acknowledges he was wrong he also has to acknowledge he let his daughter die through neglect.

Not so hard to understand really.

We can simultaneously acknowledge that this idiot let his daughter die and that he will pay the ultimate price for that stupidity every day for the rest of his life.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If its your god's plan to unnecessarily murder innocent children, then your god can go fuck itself

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” - Isaiah 45:7 King James Version (KJV)

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

Ignorance is dangerous.

Another line of thought: this is severe negligence, leading to death. Throw this guy in jail for homicide.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

This is why pseudoscience at all levels is dangerous to a modern society. Including "harmless" shit like astrology. It encourages magical thinking and the disregard of science in favor of belief in something that "feels right."

Take that to its logical conclusion, and people die.

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[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He should be forcibly sterilized

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Retroactively, but he was.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If he had gotten her the vaccine, what was she going to do? Die harder?

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She was gonna turn into a gay frog, duh

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 1 points 22 hours ago

She would have got woke gay autism

Totally rational point of view and not at all cult-like behavior. /s

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Hopefully the rest of the family follows suit and just fucking dies. Morons.

[–] PNWKid@lemm.ee 5 points 22 hours ago

The future needs to be letting idiots kill themselves or the fascists will continue to weaponize their stupidity

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 23 hours ago

At the start of 1900, people were ignorant but knew a doctor would help them; these people are ignorant AND stupid.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

"In measles we trust"

[–] FoolishObserver@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Should've tried Brawndo- It Has What Measles Doesn't Want!

[–] griD@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shackle their minds when they're bent on the cross /
When ignorance reigns, life is lost

[–] porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Yeeeeah what about that, Sucka!?

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OKAY, BUT WHY ARE WE SCREAMING AT EACH OTHER?

[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I LOST MY HEARING AID CAN YOU HELP ME FIND IT?

[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 4 points 22 hours ago

DID YOU CHECK YOUR EARS ? YOUR BATTERY MAY JUST BE DEAD!!

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

Why is this in all caps?

[–] Zier@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago

Nothing says love like preventing your child from having 1 small shot. Why even bother having kids?

[–] BeNotAfraid@lemmy.ml 4 points 21 hours ago

"My child is better off as a corpse than I would have been, had I understood that my distrust of medical science stemmed from malicious actors." I want everybody to pay attention, this is programming. This is intentional, it is circulated by the Billionaire class, across media platforms. They control all of our news media and social media. They own all of the content we post online. Every automatic cloud backup you have to opt out of. Everything you've ever logged into a chromium searchbar. Through social engineering and hypernormalisation, they have collected all of our bank details, credit card numbers, license plate numbers. Everything you've ever sent as an attachment in an email. Their trackers permeate the entire clearnet, you cannot use a browser on the clearnet without being spied upon. Which is why privacy solutions all focus on obscuring your identity, because you will always be seen. The Head of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin, recently discovered Google have been effectively violating GDPR, likely since its inception, by including a hidden cookie that immediately starts the process of collecting telemetry on the user. When approached about the legality of it, the spokesperson for Google said they "Could not Comment" on the legality of violating EU law.

In North America, if you head to Google Maps on your android, look at permissions, then touch the 3 dots in the corner and select "see all permissions." You will see what a dire situation we find ourselves in. Google Maps has been recording all of your location data, all the time. Regardless of if it's allowed as a permission by the User. Google Maps scans and reads your storage. As does Google Search, Gmail and anything else Alphabet and Apple include on their devices. Did we notice after Covid how every Card Reader became an android device, with dual front and rear facing cameras? How about how every security camera is now a wifi camera? Coincidentally, that runs android. As does the automated checkouts that proliferated after the pandemic, they record you as you use them and they take your picture. They record your grocery list, card number and then they follow you, in your car using your location data. Your phone, announces itself to every other smart device around it, to wifi routers and bluetooth devices. Even Turned off, apple products use Low Energy Bluetooth, powered by NVRAM to be able to locate you within a margin of error as low as 6 inches.

What is happening now, in the United States and around the world is merely theatre. Conducted by the surveillance arm and social engineering wing of the men who own the world. Apple is valued at over 3.6 Trillion Dollars. The entire GDP of Earth, is just over 13 Trillion Dollars. That is one company, add to that Google, Meta, X, Rupert Murdoch's empire. By the way, that does not include the Billions privately banked by Zuckerberg and the rest of them. You want to know, why the housing crisis exists? Why inflation exists? It benefits them, for it to exist. Facebook has been legitimately, causally (and I want to stress that) implicated in the Myanmar Genocide. Their choosing to have a single moderator that spoke one dialect of the local languages, operating out of Dublin, Ireland with more than 6 hours in the time difference. To review and curtail racist and genocidal content uploaded to their platform. Was a conscious decision, done for personal economic benefit. Banks make money, by ostensibly betting on geopolitics. Say, for example you know there's going to be serious social and economic unrest in Myanmar. Well you take options predicting that companies with a lot of holdings in that state will take a nosedive. You make exponentially larger gains than by buying and trading Swiss Francs for Euros.

Cryptocurrency, there's a laugh. Bitcoin was not made by a genius Japanese recluse called "Satoshi." What kind of anime do you think you're living in? Crypto is meant to normalise the idea of an entirely digital currency. So, that every single transaction, that we make is recorded. They want to move us to a cashless society where our biometrics are directly linked to our bank accounts. What a way to sell it, as if it's privacy. Cryptographic currency, nobody knows anything, except that every single transaction is recorded on the publicly available ledger. Hang on, your wallet address is just a string of numbers, it doesn't mean anything. Yes, a unique string of numbers, tied to you, the purchase of cryptocurrency and opening of said wallet, using your Credit/Debit Card. 2FA doesn't exist to protect you from hackers. It exists to link, every single account you have to a common device. Your phone, with it's unique IMEI which is known by the state, your carrier, Google/Apple/Meta and every single centralised media platform you have ever visited. What have we done?

They have amassed so much money, through affiliate links, mass surveillance and tax fraud. That they can never be prosecuted for these evils. The rapid acceleration in global warming is directly caused by Amazon and other Chinese suppliers. They pollute en masse, destroy our wildlife and record every waking moment of our lives in the name of "progress." They have dirt of every single person in the world, then they built LLM's to be able to effectively wield it against us. Even if you're a Ludite, who never used a smartphone, they know who your family are, they know who your children are and if they can't bribe, bend of break you? They can just have you killed. They'll be cleared, just like every accusation of sexual misconduct, every human rights violation, every scandal because when you can give someone 100,000,000 dollars, and not even notice. Why wouldn't you be completely insane? Why wouldn't you feel like a god? The fundamental binding link for all of 21st century human society is capital resources. Through broken ownership laws, we have allowed people to remove all obstacles to monopolisation and human enslavement.

In 2023 The US Justice Department ruled Google was a monopoly and ordered them to divest. In September of the following year, they found Alphabet, Google's parent company, in contempt and ordered them to divest Chrome, or Android. Now they get to keep it. In 2016 Google's company, X (subtle) then X Development LLC. Held a talk on the theoretical power of social engineering. Although, quite unnerving, they specified that it was just theoretical. You know what else happened in 2016? The Brexit Referendum, where this party UKIP, appeared, out of nowhere into mainstream conciousness. With provably false claims about the EU's relationship, with then member state, The United Kingdom, printed on the side of Busses. This is nothing new, I invite anyone to read the back catalogue of articles written by Boris Johnson whilst he worked for the Daily Telegraph, if you really want to dive into right wing political lies from that era. All of, it circulated, on Facebook.

At the same time, we see mass migration happening from the East, to the West. Brought in through visa programs lobied for by corporations, McDonald's, Tim Hortons, Starbucks, Google, Meta. What starts proliferating on social media? Less than two weeks after the presidential debate where Donald Trump states, "They're eating the cats and dogs." A video of supposedly, police bodycam footage appears on r/Crazyfuckingvideos, that shows officers in a different part of Ohio, not Springfield, approaching a large, nude, catatonic black woman, covered in blood and fur. The title says she has just eaten the neighbour's cat. Immediately in the comments we see two things, "OMG, Trump was right." Then the defense "She's not a Haitian Migrant, she's an American Citizen" and "This didn't even happen in Springfield guys." The result is two fold, you either believe what Trump has said, or you believe the opposite and that this will be used to justify what he said. In reality, it's fake. It is designed to entrench you in your previously held beliefs, because the goal is to divide the working class.

The same thing happened with "Axle Rudikabana" the supposed 17-year-old UK citizen of African descent who, we are told stabbed 3 girls to death at a "Taylor Swift Themed Event" in the UK in 2024. One of which, in the neck 124 individual times, almost decapitating her. There is no footage, of Axle Rudikabana, or any further detail of what this event was, or any image of this boy, or the girl's family. The UK is the most highly surveilled country in western Europe, there is no footage of the attack, of this boy traveling to the event, of anyone walking into it from the street outside. Nothing. There is later a video of a police car driving down a non-descript road, we are told is the police transferring him to court. How do you possibly determine, 124 individual stab wounds to the neck? Where the girl is almost decapitated. 124? He would have had to have been on top of this girl for multiple minutes. This "Taylor Swift Themed Event" Had no security? Had no working cameras and had nobody who could have caught an image, or moved to stop this teenager with a knife. Then come the comments, "He's a UK Citizen, he's not a migrant."

The Dublin Riots of 2023 where far right groups "protest" as a little girl is stabbed by a mentally ill Eastern European man and also Irish national. The little girl in question being the child of a Polish Woman and Brazillian man and also an Irish Citizen. Bravely saved by a Brazillian delivery driver. To date, there has been no footage of the attack, no footage of the little girl, no video recorded interview of the parents, or the perpetrator of the attack. Then the comments in r/Ireland. "He was an Irish Citizen, not an asylum Seeker." "The little girl's parents are foreigners, this has nothing to do with immigration." Do we understand, what this is? This is programming. I could go on, but I'm at the text limit.

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

He's stupid but these people don't believe what the government tells them - why? They don't trust the people making the laws which are ultimately responsible for keeping them safe. Often that's because they or their family has a grudge against the government or even society for some (originally) legitimate reason.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Or right wing propaganda, talk show extremism, believing the charismatic cult leader over reality,

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

I think both. The condition I spoke of leaves people vulnerable to the cults and delusions. The exact same thing has happened here in england and recently led to normal people rioting and trying to burn asylum seekers alive.

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