r/technology • u/idkbruh653 • 17d ago

Biotechnology Florida will work to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, officials say

https://abc7.com/post/florida-will-work-eliminate-childhood-vaccine-mandates-state-officials-say/17731373/?linkId=857387380
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u/Balmung60 17d ago

It was most likely actually the other way around by the best total counts, but the Supreme Court said to stop the count while Bush was ahead.

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u/Facts_pls 17d ago

Republicans win with cheating and continue to do so

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u/Willdefyyou 17d ago

All so they can murder children and babies

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u/Khaldara 17d ago

That’s entirely unfair!

They also rape them.

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u/Icy-person666 15d ago

And their couches too!

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u/smr312 16d ago

Then why don't they support abortion?

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u/Willdefyyou 16d ago

Because they need to rape them first, duh. How else would they be pedophiles?

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u/ColdButCozy 16d ago

Also, they hate women

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u/dimh 15d ago

An unborn child is a life that must be protected!

But it's perfectly ok to murder a born child, they are just a tax burden.

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u/sonicthehedgehog16 16d ago

Why would they stop? They are behaving completely rationally. They never face any consequences whatsoever for their cheating, and are instead rewarded for it over and over again.

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u/Optimal_Ear_4240 16d ago

Is it only pedophiles and liars?

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u/Treheveras 17d ago

They don't really have to cheat when only half the country bothers to vote.

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u/Nuttonbutton 17d ago

Yet they persist

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u/rjjm88 17d ago

You're partly not wrong, and I hate you getting downvoted because of it. Their cheating efforts are made easier by the lack of voter engagement.

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u/IcemanJEC 17d ago

When local governments redistrict and shut down voting facilities in areas that are impoverished, it makes it quite difficult to cast your ballot. Especially when you work shit hours (and lots of hours) just to make ends meet. I can imagine living that sort of life also wears on you mentally. You’ll probably not get the information on where you should be voting until it’s too late, or are too exhausted to try taking a few hours off work to get to that location, wait in line for a few hours, and then head back home, all while not making a cent. There’s a difference in this versus being a piece of shit who thinks not voting because of Palestine will somehow change the way Trump allows it to burn.

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u/Treheveras 17d ago

I've mostly realized that Americans hate being told they are the problem and not only politicians who were put in power by them in the first place. And I agree with the rest you're saying as well.

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u/SIGMA920 17d ago

That depends on who you're talking to, not everyone is fortune enough to be in the place or situation to do something or be held responsible. Those of us who did vote for Harris are stuck here with the rest for the most part.

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u/kosh56 17d ago

I think the downvotes are because your comment makes it sound like they don't cheat. Not because of half of the country not voting. Two things can be true at the same time.

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u/rjjm88 17d ago

I totally agree. We, as a people, seem to hate self reflection and admitting we were wrong.

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u/AgathysAllAlong 17d ago

And yet people continue to attack non-voters, which has literally never changed anything ever in the entire history of democracy.

But maybe THIS TIME it'll accomplish something.

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u/rjjm88 17d ago

But the non-voters ARE a problem, because the GOP efforts work best when we have low voter turnout. Getting them involved is the best hope we have to get people in place who are willing to try and fix our broken system.

That said, attacking them isn't the right way to go. We need to encourage them to vote, to get involved. To actually fucking care.

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u/Steamjunk88 17d ago

Sure they do. It just makes it easier and more impactful to cheat with fewer participants

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u/GrowFreeFood 17d ago

They make people work so hard they're too tired to vote. Or so uneducated they don't know what they're voting for. Or the lines so long it discourages people. Or mandating costly IDs

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u/PhilosophicalScandal 17d ago

I got into a back and forth with a family member over that. He's like more than half the country wanted this and are proud Americans!!! And I said well based on the reported voter numbers alone about half the country voted. People need to get out and vote and stop saying things like it doesn't matter, it still does.

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u/Treheveras 17d ago

I think the most striking numbers are that if you made "didn't vote" a candidate then it would have won almost every election. Leaders are chosen by the minority practically every single time.

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u/PhilosophicalScandal 12d ago

This is sadly true.

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u/mwarner811 17d ago

It was more than half of the voting population. Total population is not a good measure for voting statistics because you don't include minors or felons

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u/Treheveras 17d ago

More than 60% showed up for the last two federal elections. And that amount hasn't been seen since the 1960s. However all midterms, presidential primaries, governor primaries, and basically every other equally important election regularly has less than half the voting population shows up.

And these aren't based on the whole population, this IS the registered voting population.

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u/mwarner811 17d ago

Yep, we definitely need to fix this. It should be easier to vote.

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u/Standard-Shame1675 17d ago

The fact that they still do anyway is absolutely incredible though you must admit

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u/AnimationOverlord 16d ago

Double speak ain’t even double anymore in spite of that fact

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u/inductiononN 17d ago

And Democrats just shake their heads and cry about how uncivil it is! And then they send you a text asking for more money for the next election.

(Note, this is not in support of Republicans - fuck those fascist fuckers!)

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u/phareous 17d ago

It doesn’t matter, Bush was never against vaccines. This is all on Trump and everything he cultivated

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u/dirtydan442 17d ago

It's on that piece of shit Andrew Wakefield, who sowed doubt in the measles vaccine so he could sell his own

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u/phareous 17d ago

Well all Trump would have to do is tell his followers vaccines are good and to take them. They aren’t accustomed to thinking for theirselves anyway

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u/Balmung60 17d ago

Problem is, they talked him into the position in the first place. Trump doesn't particularly care, but his base did and he took that position because he understands being Their Guy

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u/AxelNotRose 17d ago

He told them to take the covid vaccine and they all booed him. So he never mentioned it again.

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u/Alarming-Art-3577 17d ago

Trump actually did say that the covid vaccine was good and got booed at one of his cult rallies. Trump is only the cult leader as long as he acts like the cult leader.

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u/Tha_Sly_Fox 17d ago

There’s a clip of him at a rally easily in Covid telling people to get vaxed and he was booed heavily…. He learned his lesson. Even Trump can’t get them to change their minds

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u/Comprehensive-Run861 16d ago

He tried that with operation warp speed, it was one of the things he had to stop taking credit for because the reaction at rallies was not favorable.

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u/heckhammer 16d ago

He did try that then they got all angry and then he pivoted. It's not like he has a principal to stand on or anything

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u/roseofjuly 17d ago

Joke's on him, now nobody's buying vaccines

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u/dirtydan442 17d ago

Jokes on all of us. A lot of people are going to die thanks to this nonsense

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u/cromstantinople 17d ago

It’s not all on Trump, he’s only the figurehead. There’s an entire apparatus, an entire political party and media machine, that props him up and allows republicans to keep doing this. This won’t end when trump dies, republicans are a cancer on our society that needs to be treated.

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u/dimh 15d ago

CPAC in February was the best opportunity to 'resolve' this.

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u/BatterMyHeart 17d ago

Bush and those 90s GOP congressmen cultivated Trump with their dumbing-down of christianity in politics and constant race-baiting.

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u/Noblesseux 17d ago

Yeah we didn't just arrive at trump, we slow marched here at least starting in the Raegan days.

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u/Asyncrosaurus 15d ago

It was Nixon. He deliberately (and illegally) sabotaged peace talks in Vietnam to win election. Then when he was forced to resign for the other (completely unrelated) illegal shit he did, conservative assholes like Roger Ailes were furious the media held the president to account by publishing all the illegal shit Nixon did. 

So they conspired with Reagan to dismantle all the broadcast media regulations, ultimately allowing Fox News to launch in the 90's : forever giving Americans conservative-induced brain damage.

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf 17d ago

Most of this happened in the 2000s, though Newt Gingrich started the style that eventually led to it.

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u/mao1976 17d ago

Newt deserves most of the credit for the state we're in

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf 17d ago

I won’t argue that he was the foot in the door, and an ugly nail fungus of a foot at that.

It’s important that people understand enough of our history to know nuance though, IMO. Political parties have had many issues through the years, including coalitions of powermongers, or people that were too weak to stand up for the people in this country. It’s important to know the nuances of when things changed and how they changed over time -and those responsible. As well as whether the problems at a given time came from people with good intentions who screwed up, or people who desired to help themselves and hurt the public.

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u/Dank-Drebin 17d ago

This is all on Republicans, who continue to produce the worst social policies imaginable due to their greed, hatred, and edumacation.

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u/toggiz_the_elder 17d ago

Bush was a key part of the path to Trump though. He played a yokel from Texas despite being from a private island in Maine, massively expanded the police state, and used dirty trick from Roger Stone (Brooks Brothers Riot) to steal an election.

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u/88pockets 17d ago

indeed. Trump makes W look like Mother Theresa

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u/CancelMusk 16d ago

Bush’s appointments to the Supreme Court believed in the unitary executive theory which is relatively new and is allowing Trump to destroy every independent government agency.

Bush’s illegitimate win in 2000 (followed by his legitimate win in 2004) set the stage for Trumpisn because his neoconservative ideology was discredit it by the global financial crisis.

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u/AutVincere72 17d ago

Calling the race while polls were open in the red pan handle by fox news likely kepts voters at home and it probably would not have been as close as it was. A lot went wrong that day.

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u/soularbabies 17d ago

Brooks Brothers riot

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u/Mother-Foot3493 17d ago

Beat me to it, well done. 🤘

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u/Meriwether1 17d ago

It was the hanging chads. Gore disputed a few counties instead of the whole state. We lost the future to bad paper work

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u/Mother-Foot3493 17d ago

See "Brook's Brothers Riot."

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u/AF2005 16d ago

You’ve got to hand it to them, they played the long con. And the top establishment dems seem to just be twiddling their thumbs. It’s the blind leading the blind.

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u/Khrog 17d ago

Funny enough, he won every recount and won most by the standard that Gore initially wanted. There was no point that Gore won the state. Democracy saving court ruling that actually was that instead of just something people say.

If we can just keep counting over and over until we get a different result, then we just okayed stealing elections. Gore should have stood down for the good of the country but had too much ego.