r/HermanCainAward
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u/ganonpig
HCA Historian
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Sep 27 '22
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"Did you know that... 2300 years ago, long before Islam, Arabs discovered that forcing people to cover their nose and mouths broke their will and individuality and depersonalized them." I didn't know that. And in fact I still don't - The padlocked mask compilation Awarded
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u/intheazsun Blood Donor 🩸 Sep 27 '22
A thin piece of paper over your lower face to protect society, the horror!
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u/CatsPolitics 🦆 Sep 27 '22
If I could wear one of those full-face plastic masks that came with my Halloween costume in the 60’s & 70’s where the nose & mouth holes never matched mine, a surgical face mask is a piece of cake!
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u/Jim_Macdonald Bet you won't share! Sep 27 '22
I wonder why they don't include "Wore a full face hard plastic Halloween mask" along with "played lawn darts," "drank from a hose," and "rode in the back of a pickup truck."
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u/Ostreoida V-A-C-C-I-N-E, I don't want those tubes in me! Sep 27 '22
Hmm, gosh, that shall forever remain a mystery!
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u/M4A1STAKESAUCE Urine God’s hands 🙌 Sep 27 '22
I mean, it hides my face which reduces the amount of horror in the world.
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u/TenNinetythree FCK XBB! Sep 27 '22
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u/Repulsive-Street-307 Sep 28 '22
/r/worldofhorror character vibes. Fortunately the great old ones aren't descending as we speak, just the great CO2 suicide.
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u/TenNinetythree FCK XBB! Sep 28 '22
Do you mean climate change?
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u/Repulsive-Street-307 Sep 28 '22
I mean the biosphere collapse that comes from climate change, but those are just details.
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u/m-p-3 Team Moderna Sep 27 '22
And it reduces the amount of sufferers from coffee/garlic breath down to one.
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u/ganonpig HCA Historian Sep 27 '22
Not content with diminishing the Holocaust by comparing Covid measures to the genocide of World War II, anti-vaxxers also draw parallels between masks and Muslim face coverings. Claiming masks are used as a tool of oppression similar to the various forms of face coverings in the Muslim world. The persecution complex is in full overdrive. Every slight inconvenience is immediately viewed as a permanent loss of liberty, specifically targeting them, and equally Marxist, fascist, Islamist, Satanist, and globalist in nature.
This piece of copypasta is being uncritically shared because it conforms to something they already believe or want to believe. Fact checking it is therefor the last thing they would want to do.
The narrative that is spun by this meme is pure fiction. The unsubstantiated claim that covering nose and mouth makes someone submissive. The spurious origin story of Muslim face coverings. The unfounded link to masks worn for health reasons, which entails a complete disregard for the drastically different reasons for implementing the use of masks during a global pandemic...
The first meme's left image depicts a slave mask used between the 16th and 19th century ostensibly to prevent slaves from eating dirt. Whether dirt eating was ever a thing is beyond the scope of what I'm talking about here but there are plenty of articles about it available.
The right image is an illustration circa 1800 featuring an iron mask, collar, leg shackles and spurs used to punish and control slaves in the southern United States during the early 19th century.
None of this has anything to do with slavery in ancient Arabia or how the slavers used masks to break people psychologically. Nor anything with mask mandates, which have been lifted for quite a while now (apart from in hospitals).
Covid masks are not comparable to the types of masks that conceal the entire face. Did they forget you could take masks off outside, or at home, or any other non-crowded spaces? They're not padlocked.
I have to wonder what they thought the end goal was of introducing masks to supposedly make people submissive. It's one of those memes where everyone can inject whatever they fear most. It stirs some ill-defined fear of loss of liberty. And that's all a good fear-mongering meme needs, suggestion without actually saying anything concrete.
Major FB vector share numbers
1 - 7
- Feb 14, 2021 : 454K
ding ding ding wakey wakey
8 - 20
- Sep 6, 2021 : 19K
More history lessons for those that want to erase history
- Aug 21, 2020 : 164K
I borrowed this!
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u/tomdurkin Sep 27 '22
Thanks. I was going to make a few of these points, but you absolutely nailed them.
The only additional point is that if you use a photo of an attractive blonde, men will be more likely to uncritically share it.
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u/Shieldmom Blood Donor 🩸 Sep 27 '22
Not sure how that attractive blond could ever get that padlocked mask off with…chain ear loops??
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u/VintageJane Sep 28 '22
You’ve basically described the Fox News business plan with maybe the exception of “attractive”
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u/ahender8 Team Bivalent Booster Sep 27 '22
I will not be forced to breathe filtered air.
damn it
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u/Glittering-Cellist34 Sep 27 '22
Don't you mean breath? /s
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u/ahender8 Team Bivalent Booster Oct 02 '22
I don't know. I just dictate and let the autocorrect gods Do as they will
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u/CatsPolitics 🦆 Sep 27 '22
I’d rather be smiling under a mask than 6 feet under the ground, in the forever box.
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u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 Sep 27 '22
But the mortician can make you smile in that box forever (or until the grave is exhumed and disposed of as the land is reallocated for a different use).
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u/ganonpig HCA Historian Sep 27 '22
Notes;
Pic 1. Also in Killing for Ratings part 1. Pic 14. And in Breaking News part 1. Pic 18. And in Fauci memes part 4. Pic 16.
Pic 2. Also in Fauci memes part 1. Pic 2. And in Fauci memes part 6. Pic 4.
Pic 4. Also in If you have to carry a card in your pocket part 5. Pic 5.
Pic 6. Also in Fauci memes part 7. Pic 20. And in Come back, zinc! Pic 11.
Pic 7. Also in Abortion memes part 1. Pic 14. And in I'll be dead before I let them put a microchip in my body. Pic 11. And in Covid is a true killer. Pic 12.
Pic 8. Also in The Babylon Bee seat belt meme part 2. Pic 3. And in Quarantine. Pic 11.
Pic 9. Also in Christian memes part 1. Pic 18. And in The deadliest virus in history. Pic 17. And in Viruses come and go part 2. Pic 16.
Pic 10. Also in Candace Owens part 17. Pic 12. And in In search of oxygen. Pic 14. And in What sense did it make? Pic 17.
Pic 11. Also in Breaking News part 2. Pic 16.
Pic 12. Also in The Continuing Death Toll of Memetic Warfare. Pic 4.
Pic 13. Also in Fauci memes part 3. Pic 7. And in What will it take? Pic 5.
Pic 14. Also in Holding hands part 1. Pic 16.
Pic 15. Also in The "I trust my immune system awards" part 1. Pic 18. And in If you have to carry a card part 1. Pic 17.
Pic 17. Also in Christian memes compilation part 11. Pic 11.
Pic 18. Also in Your mask is as useless as Biden. Pic 13 And in Candace Owens part 19. Pic 3. And in The Babylon Bee seat belt meme part 3. Pic 12.
Pic 19. Also in Meanwhile at the CDC. Pic 18. And in Candace Owens part 19. Pic 15. And in If you have to carry a card part 6. Pic 14.
Pic 20. Also in The Babylon Bee seat belt meme part 2. Pic 16.
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u/ActiveEntertainer620 Nothing to be done Sep 27 '22
Slide 7. "My brother aka my dad". Yeah, I guess there's not a lot to do in the long winter nights down in Alabama.
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u/Upvotespoodles Sep 27 '22
If you’re comparing that to a temporary cloth mask for a trip through the grocery, maybe you’re the dramatic one.
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u/Jim_Macdonald Bet you won't share! Sep 27 '22
Slide 3: "The doctor told us to take the recommended supplements and treat it like the flu."
Which doctor would that be, I wonder? A "frontline" doctor?
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u/Ragingredblue 🐎Praise the Lord and pass the Ivermectin!🐆 Sep 27 '22
Slide 3: "The doctor told us to take the recommended supplements and treat it like the flu."
Weird. There are no "recommended supplements", unless you have a specific condition (such as pregnancy) or a specific deficiency that requires supplementation.
The "doctor" who told them that was a YouTube nut. Clowns like this don't have real doctors.
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u/Jim_Macdonald Bet you won't share! Sep 27 '22
Four thousand four hundred years ago, in the Garden of Eden, Adam learned that if he put coverings over the female nipple that it broke Eve's will and spirit and made her subservient. That's why ever since women have been forced to wear fabric over their chests. Modern psychology explains it: without mammary glands women don't have purpose. Infants look at nipples as sources of love, comfort, warmth, and nourishment. The bra is the beginning of the destruction of family.
He who doesn't know this history is doomed to repeat it.
Who the heck is "Tury Carpo"?
/s
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u/AndriYatim Sep 27 '22
Women in hijab: backwards society! Terrorists!
Women in nun's headdress: God bless you! Murica!
Men in masks: commie! Let that soros-5G sink in!
Men in masks performing surgery: quacks unless they agree with me
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u/HerringWaffle Happy Death Day!⚰️ Sep 27 '22
Take that mask off when you do open heart surgery on me, doc! Get some of that spittle right into my chest cavity! I HAVE AN IMMUNE SYSTEM.
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u/Haskap_2010 ✨ A twinkle in a Chinese bat's eye ✨ Sep 27 '22
You get hints of their personalities in the death announcements. "Fiery spirit" and "tough facade" = obnoxious person who steam-rolled over other people.
Slide 9: "He had Covid, yes, but it isn't confirmed that's what he died from." 🤦♀️
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u/erin_bex Sep 28 '22
Slide 9 is what got me too. Like honey what do you think it could possibly be??????
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u/dumdodo Oct 02 '22
If he died from Covid, he was evil.
If he had Covid and died from something else, God gives him a harp.
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u/Dry-Tangerine-4874 Sep 27 '22
Ninjas: “Hold my saki.”
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u/vsandrei 🐆 🐆🦩🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆 Sep 27 '22
Ninjas: “Hold my saki.”
🐆 🐆 🐆: "Another bottle of Tabasco, please."
🐹 🐹 🐹: "Or two. Or three."
🐿 🐿 🐿: "Dibs on the nuts."
🐆 🐆 🐆 / 🐹 🐹 🐹: ". . ."
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u/dumdodo Sep 27 '22
The padlock on the mask is such a reach.
Amazingly, a mask has not stopped me from voicing my opinion, for asking for something or made me submissive. Mostly, they fog up my glasses now and then.
I am, of course, wary of the risks, because of the geoengineering that is going on from airplane chemtrails, and the brain submission chemicals that were injected into me and called "vaccines", so maybe I'm unaware of the brain modifications that have occurred. /S
How can these idiots believe that? A mask is a nuisance and that is all.
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u/pjflyr13 Sep 27 '22
So they’re saying most surgeons and medical personnel are totally “broken and dehumanized”. by wearing masks and other protective gear? (NOT)
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u/hotchnerbrows Sep 27 '22
Haha ikr! As a RN I’ve been wearing masks well before COVID started in earnest, and I’m glad for it. My PPE makes me feel safe, not dehumanised. More importantly, it grants me surety that I’m doing everything I can to stop the spread of nosocomial infections. But of course, anti-vaxxers love making things up about healthcare workers.
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u/Fickle_Chance9880 Sep 27 '22
You can totally dehumanize people without masks. Anti-vax racists do it all the time.
These clowns really want to make it so much deeper than it actually is, and they grasp at any random straw to do so. As if they cared so much about "human connections". GTFOH...
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u/TrashyMcTrashacct Sep 27 '22
I love that they use an illustration of an iron bit used by European enslavers. I have a feeling these same dummies would cry about CRT if someone tried to teach the real context of that illustration.
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u/honeybeedreams Team Bivalent Booster Sep 27 '22
imagine being such an attention whore you’d make such a big deal out of wearing a mask ffs. now imagine dying on that hill. i know mostly everyone here cant even imagine being that stupid or disordered.
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u/FearSkyDaddy Biological Ware Fare Sep 27 '22
It’s interesting the how the fact challenged meme has a later posting of Covid deaths.
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u/IrritableGourmet Sep 27 '22
Masks are ancient tools used to break down people psychologically.
Batman disagrees. Unless you're talking about the people who see him in the mask.
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u/Chase_the_tank Sep 27 '22
Batman disagrees.
Batman's masks generally don't cover the mouth...
...but you better believe he has Bat Scuba Gear and Bat Gas Masks in his Bat Utility Belt just in case he needs to protect his Bat Mouth and/or Bat Lungs.
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u/Corky_Butcher Sep 27 '22
I don't know why a lot of these people ask for prayers, what with all the research they've done.
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u/dhoffnun Sep 27 '22
Accidentally explaining why historically marginalized peoples tend to wear highly expressive clothing when able.
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u/OrokinSkywalker Sep 27 '22
Hold up, the crowd bitching about schools teaching critical race theory is talking about “those that don’t know their history are destined to repeat it?”
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u/LodlopSeputhChakk Sep 27 '22
“Without a face we don’t exist as independent beings.”
The adult who loses at peekaboo.
Also, that one guy’s dad is his brother.
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u/vsandrei 🐆 🐆🦩🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆 Sep 27 '22
“Without a face we don’t exist as independent beings.”
Without working lungs you won't exist period.
Idiot.
🐆 🐆 🐆
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u/maxreddit Sep 27 '22
I like that last slide, "I don't even know who I am angry with". Well, everybody here knows who you should be fucking angry with! Who constantly shit-talks about vaccines? Who profits off of people denying them? Who secretly gets them and tell everyone else not to? I'll give you a hint, their group name starts with an "R"...
Also, "You're not an individual without a face." That's an awfully reductive way to think of humans and individuality. All you need is a face to be an individual? Not unique thoughts, behaviors, and actions? You look at all those cookie-cutter blondes fox News and the other right wing media uses and tell me to my face that you can tell them apart!
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u/BethMD Two 🚢s & a 🚁 Sep 27 '22 edited Sep 27 '22
Even if this were true and not an urban legend, there's a simple solution: Wear a mask with a window. Many varieties are available on Etsy, or you can make your own if you know how to sew (and have a heavy-duty machine needle, since the needle needs to pierce through the plastic used for the window). I have two. I gather they were originally conceived as a way for people to speak to deaf/hearing-impaired folks who read lips; I just like them because I can show off my lipstick. :) These window masks are great conversation starters, allow people to see my smile (and read my lips), and as a bonus they got some travel time, as I took them all over the Caribbean!
They do tend to get a little rainforesty inside when I wear them for long periods of time, but a little saliva vapor is better than the alternative.
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u/thestareater Team Pfizer Sep 27 '22
"He did open his eyes, and squeezed his sons finger before he passed peacefully" sounds like hilariously whitewashed version of struggled for his last breathe and grasped what he could, considering the man was struggling to breathe for weeks before dying
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u/Total_Junkie Team Moderna Sep 28 '22
Yeah, what I hear: "We had a peaceful time watching him die...because he couldn't scream or communicate how much pain he was in."
Fun fact: People aren't in pain unless they say so! I mean, if you aren't actively crying and/or screaming...then are you really suffering?
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u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 Sep 27 '22
"If you don't have a face you don't have an identity!"
So blind people think there is only _one_¹ other person in the world? That's remarkable! I wonder what they think of us having so many different names, while they only get to have one?
[1] Or is it none? Oooh poop. It's so hard to make sense out of insanity!
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u/Aquce Team Moderna Sep 27 '22
Says masks "dehumanize people"
While dehumanizing Arabs by posting photos of black people, totally missing the irony there
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u/Goose_o7 I am The TOOTH FAIRY! Sep 27 '22
Imagine dying from a preventable disease just to own the Libs? They refused to wear a mask against an airborne pathogen. They refused to get vaccinated against that same pathogen because... Dunning Kruger arrogance and blind stupidity.
Now they are all DEAD!
I LOVE these SELF OWN COMPILATIONS!
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u/ljuvlig Sep 27 '22
It’s like you are literally tracing how individual memes kill. It’s really striking.
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u/eightbitfit Sep 28 '22
I replied to this nonsense years ago. As an American living in Japan I spoke of how masks have always been present in cold and allergy seasons, with zero downside, unless you call less getting sick and less sneezing a negative.
In some cases they will come back insulting Japanese culture as being compliant or some other stereotype demonstrating lack of education. For some people being considerate of others is an undesirable trait it seems.
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u/GoGoSoLo Sep 27 '22
I’m not sure I want to know why the later pictures have a person continually referring to this man as their father AND brother.
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u/verotoriz Sep 28 '22
Maybe the oldest and youngest. My mom left us when I was 12 and my siblings were 8 and 9 years younger so I get Mother’s Day calls.
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u/sayaxat Sep 27 '22
SMH. Their world is so little, and their knowledge is so little, that they don't know to question the stuff that's fed to them.
On a side note, I wonder if scammers are more successful with these ignants.
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u/umchoyka Need a cheap choke? COVID-19 is your free dom! Sep 27 '22
scammers
No doubt they are. I remember as a kid watching an episode of All in the Family where some slick salesman cons Archie into thinking his basement is too hazardous to go into unless he replaces his furnace. Eye opening even as a youngling and a good lesson to stay vigilant with learning how things actually work so as not to be easily fooled.
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u/Raspberrylle Sep 28 '22
If a mask breaks your will and erases your personality you have a weak will and no personality. I don’t define who I am with the bottom half of my face. Or any of my face for that matter. I was a lot more social when wearing a mask was normal for a while there than I usually am, because it was a comfort item like a cozy hoodie and I didn’t have to worry about controlling my facial expressions so much or being told to smile more. (I’m happy I just don’t like to smile after being forced to for years as a cheerleader and service worker.)
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u/DoomPaDeeDee Sep 27 '22
"Modern psychology explains, without a face we don't exist as independent beings."
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u/BidenIsYourPOTUS Sep 28 '22
“Back in the ICU again. Hope third time’s the charm.”
Hey, my fellow vaccinated people — how many COVID ICU stays have you had?
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u/Thin_Biscotti_7815 Sep 28 '22
Exactly. I hate that people have to learn things the hard way. I just realized I've lost count of the number of shots I've gotten for this now, but I'm okay with that because I've had lifelong respiratory issues and the thought of not being able to breathe is terrifying.
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u/alexbeyman Sep 27 '22
No but it might keep out sand and prevent dry air from dehydrating you as quickly
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u/Confident_Fortune_32 Sep 27 '22
And the woman who broke into the hospital room and had to be removed by the police?!?!?!
I suspect they called hospital security for more than just a little praying like she claims...
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u/CFDoW Sep 28 '22
So… can I be maybe too honest? That padlock mask is kinda sexy. I’d totally wear one if I thought it’d look like that in reality.
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u/your_mind_aches Team Sinopharm Sep 28 '22
Or..... get this....... they didn't want to inhale dust from the desert that they were constantly surrounded by.
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u/vsandrei 🐆 🐆🦩🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆 Sep 27 '22
"Did you know that... 2300 years ago, long before Islam, Arabs discovered that forcing people to cover their nose and mouths broke their will and individuality and depersonalized them."
The 🐆 🐆 🐆 "broke" the prey item's lungs.
"Oops. We did it again." --the 🐹 🐹 🐹
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u/verotoriz Sep 28 '22
I can not imagine all the people in the ICU when ac crazy woman breaks in. Wow, even as a loved one is dying, the disrespect for others is palpable.
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u/Kutas88 Sep 27 '22
Because 2300 years ago, everything that ANYONE did had just a symbolic meaning. Today we react on knowledge. Thats a difference.
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u/BigbySamMelody Sep 27 '22
That's selling our ancestors a little short. Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth to surprising accurate result 2300 years ago.
Ancient Egyptians were early astronomers and tracked the stars, as well as medicine and agriculture.
Humans by our very nature react on knowledge, we've been doing it for millennia. It's how society started.
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u/Kutas88 Sep 28 '22
That's right. And if I may ad, discoverys of certain tool even give hints that ancient egyptians did brain surgerys.
BUT☝🏻 They hadn't the internet and all the stuff. So most of the knowledge was pretty much stuck in one spot on the planet. And later religious nutjobs tried to reverse every collected knowledge by declaring it witchcraft and burning people to death for it. Just 1 example of many. One time they found a book by leonardo daVinci, which was full of inventions and scientific explainations. A monk took it to copy the bible into it.
The chinese collect knowledge about medicine since 5000 years. That's why most of their medicine is plant based, and that's one of the reasons that chinese people have the most over 100year olds. Do we use any of that knowledge in the western world? Didn't see anything yet. So the thing I said was meant that "the majority of people".
So, yes, you're right about that knowledge exsisted for much much longer. But the point is, most of the people were either very ignorant or tought to be ignorant.
It's the year 2022 and there are still people out there who reject EVERYTHING because their god will fix their problems for them.
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u/Samurai_gaijin Sep 27 '22
Today we react on knowledge.
Well, some of us do, the rest, not so much.
I really hate the confidence that keylady has when it doesn't fucking work to still act like she's right. Any questions? yeah, who dropped you on your head and was it on purpose?
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u/Kutas88 Sep 27 '22
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yep. I didn't say all of us. That's right, "some are just goddamn stupid motherf*ckers"(quote: Texas Paul)🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/hell2bhbtoo Sep 27 '22
I still can't get over "yeah, he had Covid but we still don't KNOW what exactly killed him" I completely identify with the person raging in the last slide.
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u/maxreddit Sep 27 '22
Of course he's not sure! It not like contracting a modern plague causing you to barely be able to breathe makes you more likely to die from other stuff! Basic science has taught us that a person can only be affected by one disease at a time, that's why we infect people who have brain cancer with the flu, then the cancer will have to wait for the flu to finish before damaging infectee. The science of "disease politeness" is very well known!
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u/hell2bhbtoo Sep 29 '22
How do you become so wise in the ways of science, Sir Knight?
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u/maxreddit Sep 29 '22
I mostly pieced it together from snapple caps and articles from the internet's most accurate and fact-checked source of scientific information, AO3!
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u/ifallforeveryone Sep 28 '22
The people who buy into this nonsense are the exact people who also believe in phrenology.
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u/itsmejuji Oct 03 '22
I never understood the padlocked mask thing? Do these people not know how masks are put on and removed? Or do they think the padlock will magically prevent you from simply pulling the mask strings off your ears? If anything, I think the padlocked mask thing is more symbolic of a made-up victim complex. "Look at me, I'm a victim, I'm trapped. I couldn't possibly just take this mask off!"
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u/My-Inner-sherbert Sep 28 '22
In the context of Islam I can totally see this applying. In the context of having to wear one to be considerate of your neighbours in public if you may be sick, is plan stupid.
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u/x575446 Sep 27 '22
No, but I did know that people living in arid locales have known that covering one's nose and mouths kept them from inhaling dust, sand, and other airborne crap for thousands of years.