It usually pisses me off immediately, it feels like I’m discussing with 12 years olds, but it’s mostly when they use them as nicknames, as you said.
And constantly.
Jokes and occasional puns, that’s fine, I still find most are not funny to begin with but that’s personal taste.
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I share the same pet peeve, but I have to admit a few clever ones deserve to survive and you bring a good contender
You’re hopeless and after this I’m done arguing with a wall.
You go learn science.
Being vaccinated doesn’t make you 100% safe, that’s a fact. Even if it did, when shit is left free to roam in a herd of unvaxed morons it can mutate.
Beside all that, I’m not hiding or running, I’m staying in my country or going places with mostly reasonable people roaming about.
It’s really truly that fucking simple.
You’ve already been answered plenty and I don’t think you’ve been listening anyway, but for what is worth I wasn’t advocating against vaccines, I’m on top of mine (covid included) and I’m always very vocally in favour.
I still avoid putting myself in the way of contagion when I can, and right now that includes staying out of the USA or any country that puts antivaxers in places of authority.
Vaccines usually aren’t a 100% shield. If enough people around you are unvaccinated, you may be at risk too.
Immunity comes in numbers.
That without counting potential mutations in such a favourable environment.
I’d stay out of the US for the foreseeable future.
I grew up in a fairly conservative household. I used to read the rags my parents considered newspapers, people in my social circles and schools were mostly middle to upper class, and I idolized my father.
It took me a long while to realize I was seeing through distorted glasses, even after I started mingling with different viewpoints.
There always was a gut feeling that something didn’t add up, cognitive dissonance maybe.
I sometimes wonder what kind of person I’d be had I not been high on the neurodivergent spectrum and pushed on the outside.
Privilege and social echo chambers make for pretty efficient blindfolds.