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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 22:48:42 JST Bread up, Bro
   leftism is a terminal case of fear of death
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 23:12:16 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Poastal Enthusiast Alpaca
     @WTFPurpleAlpaca yes, and those will make for excellent punishments
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     Poastal Enthusiast Alpaca (wtfpurplealpaca@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 23:12:17 JST Poastal Enthusiast Alpaca

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     @sickburnbro It's cliche but there literally are fates worse than death.
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     Poastal Enthusiast Alpaca (wtfpurplealpaca@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 23:16:19 JST Poastal Enthusiast Alpaca

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     @sickburnbro You make an interesting argument for keeping the Jews alive. I am prepared to hear some more.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 23:16:19 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Poastal Enthusiast Alpaca
     @WTFPurpleAlpaca Letting them have 10,000 years isolated on pluto to cool their heels seems like a fate worse than death ( or perhaps a few million ) for a parasite
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 23:47:34 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @ThatWouldBeTelling @WTFPurpleAlpaca yes, well that's the "terminal" part of it. In the early stages of the memetic infection it was too easy to die, so it kept people more grounded.
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     That Would Be Telling (thatwouldbetelling@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 23:47:35 JST That Would Be Telling

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     @WTFPurpleAlpaca @sickburnbro You're of course right, but modern Leftism didn't start out with such a high fear of death due to its omnipresence in the bad old days of the French Revolution and then still a great deal in the 19th Century.

     Sure, public health measures including clean water and sanitary sewers, better medicine like antiseptics in the later middle of it (we had to develop the germ theory of disease) did a lot statistically to increase lifespans, but see for example what crushed Calvin Coolidge. His son followed an all too familiar path, played tennis without socks because he was in a hurry, got an infection, and the best of US medicine at the time couldn't save him and he died in a time easily measured in days.

     The development of safe and effective anti-microbials starting with the sulfa drugs in the 1930s and then antibiotics in the 1940s, first available to civilians in 1946, effected a sea change which was probably capped with polio vaccines. People now reasonably expect healthy infants and themselves to live a long time, generally at least into their sixties, and there are often clues if you won't, or will die sooner than "normal."

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     petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 00:20:45 JST petra

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     @sickburnbro That's what stuck me with the covidiots. Most of them were leftists. And their absolute fear of dying over a virus only marginally more deadly than a flu, at least compared to real pandemics of the past, blew me away. No one wants to die, of course. But mentally healthy people usually come to terms with their own mortality and move on with living. These people couldn't. And they were thrilled to be around each other hyping up lock downs. Crazy fuckers. And dangerous.

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