'You don’t even have a clue what’s the cost of getting a vaccine.'

Sorry, can’t find any better sources for this.

The animator then asked Maher what the “downside” of “getting a vaccine” was, which caused the comedian to go on an anti-vax tirade.

“The fact that you the fact that you don’t even have a clue what’s the cost of getting a vaccine that you don’t know the answer to that. You completely want to shut your eyes to the fact that there are repercussions to all medical interventions, including a vaccine, all vaccines,” he ranted. “They come, they say side effects, just like every medication does. You can see it in the literature. They can’t write it on their back on the vaccine. So you have to dig them. And of course, there is a vaccine court because so many people have been injured.”

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
    69·
    10 months ago

    being able talk about things is crucial for a democracy to function.

    This is a thing that really bothers me these days, has me worried.

    There’s such an emphasis on “killing the messenger” (vs the message) and shutting down discussion, that we haven’t seen in previous ages.

    I don’t know why it’s a new thing, maybe it’s just astroturfers/bots, otherwise it’s the newer generation being okay with censoring others, and that’s a bad thing (censoring others).

    • xor@sh.itjust.works
      59·
      10 months ago

      it’s been pretty crazy…
      with covid we had people dying from dumb information, and russia running huge disinfo campaigns online… so i did understand cracking down on it… but just completely stifling all questioning… at all… was a huge, and terrifying, overreaction.
      …
      i got banned from reddit for arguing in worldnews against obvious israeli disinformation… so that’s fun
      …
      one main troll tactic now is to just fuck with people until you get them aggravated enough to cuss or something, then report them…
      (just got a warning on here, actually… i can say any horrible, literally destructive thing i want… but if i cuss at someone or call them a name, well THEN im uncivil

    • Jax@sh.itjust.works
      39·
      10 months ago

      That’s what happens when you’re trained to recognize buzz words as a strategy for defending yourself against idealogies you disagree with. Not defending yourself because you’re right, but because it keeps you from being exposed too much to what the other thinks. It’s easier to paint things “good, bad”, file them away and go on with your day.

      It isn’t that they think censorship is good, it’s that they’re trained to censor themselves. This is just late stage social media brainrot taking full effect, among other things.