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This is going to be fun watching over the next four years. LOL. You just gotta laugh.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They complain so much even when they have exactly what they claim they wanted. They wanted raw milk, they got it. But somehow all the non-raw milk drinkers are "ruining" something for them? Weird.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Deep insecurity.

They see others doing the right thing & that makes them doubt their entire "purpose" or world view.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Maybe we can speed the process up by convincing them to eat raw chicken, too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chicken sashimi is a delicacy in Japan, and so easy to prep at home! Just leave your chicken breast out until it assumes room temperature, slice into thin strips, and serve over rice or with seaweed!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

At least the Japanese usually use only specially grown and treated chicken for that. Trying that with American supermaket chicken would be a daring idea, to say the least.

And even in Japan they have serious issues with torisashi and consider banning it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The best way to consume raw chicken is in cocktail form, specifically the pollo colada. It's like a piña colada, except you substitute raw chicken for the pineapple.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

libs want to ban raw chicken smoothies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Mama's Coconut Chicken

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've noticed lately around me too that "conservatives" will pull out a cig and start smoking it (as a "defense" mode or something...or maybe because I have a mask) & it feels like it's to take a side in some kind of "culture war". Killing themselves to "own the libs". Brilliant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s also really weird because when I was growing up cigs and coffee, at the same time, was like an inner city liberal stereotype.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Antivax used to be a lefty granola thing too. The rules don't make sense anymore.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Far righters just love to suck those cow pink tities and pretend like they are not furry

[–] [email protected] 120 points 3 days ago (6 children)

It's obvious why they're suddenly obsessed with Raw Milk. It's the same reason they were suddenly Anti-Vax, anti-Mask, and anti-plague-control.

Democrats said a thing, Republicans immediately reply with the opposite.

Democrats said Vaccines prevent disease, Republicans declared vaccines are poison. Democrats said wearing a mask can reduce the transmission of airborne pathogens, Republicans said masks will kill you and are illegal now. Democrats said "Don't drink raw milk, it can transmit deadly diseases." Republicans declare "You can take the raw milk from my cold dead hands."

I honestly expect that if Democrats released a PSA against jumping off cliffs onto jagged rocks, because the fall could be dangerous, Republicans would immediately start taking picture standing on the edges of cliffs with the caption of "Don't tell me what to do."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

You forgot the one about gas stoves in homes.

To be fair, there are so many examples of this lately, it's impossible to keep track of them all.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

I said it a million times, if Obama simply came out in favor of lowering the minimum wage then we'd all have six figure salaries.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Humans are famously garbage at comprehending statistics, and most Darwin Award winning conservative behaviors are born of it.

Take any mundane thing that was part of a status quo of a previous era in recent memory. Anything at all. Research comes out suggesting that thing has a small, but non-negligible risk to be quite harmful. So we collectively shift to a new behavior that tries to eliminate the risk. A shift that, in most sane and civil peoples' opinions, is so unobtrusively small that any theoretical benefit we're trading away is probably well worth the risk elimination.

But oh, a certain group of people will bitch and moan and scream and piss all over themselves in rage over how you dared to take away something so integral to their culture and lifestyle! The risk aversion is never worth the vain fringe benefit of whatever perceived quality was lost because the risk is completely invisible until it actually hits them personally.

Milk used to taste so great! God's gift to the world! Then we all started boiling it and now it tastes worse! And for what? Because a couple of weak-bodied cosmic lottery losers were getting a few tummy aches? The vast majority of us are all suffering over nothing! Life was so much better when we weren't all scared of things that won't happen! We did it for millennia and we turned out just fine!

Then you point out all the people actually getting hospitalized from pathogens in raw milk, the very thing we were trying to avoid in the first place, and if they even believe you at all they simply consider it an acceptable price to pay. Better to live in a rich and interesting society where you're free to risk harming yourself and others than a milquetoast one where imperceptible threats have been preemptively eliminated at great cost.

And then they turn around and work to ban books that mention trans people or ban porn websites to save the children or some other dumb shit.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Imagine being so vapid that the extent of your understanding of the world boils down to just being contrarian.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's much easier than thinking.

Don't get involved with people who enthusiastically shit on others' ideas, while having none of their own. Can't count how many times I've countered a complaint with "Ok, what would you do?" only to be met with those empty eyes that tell you there's nothing happening behind them.

Some people just think conversation is defined as bitching.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Combined with H5N1... thy won't be missed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

I for one welcome the new natural selection process. Can we do more of these?

"only eat mushrooms with redcaps for a week to detox your body" "building up infection immunity by sitting in an ice bath of shit"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (4 children)

At least with this one they're only killing themselves and their own kids.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I have lived with lactose intolerance for almost half my life. For a while I drank raw milk, and could digest it. What I read is that while it does have lactose, it also still has the enzymes to digest it, that are lost when it is pasteurized.

But these days I don't bother with any milk from cows, I like oat or coconut milk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but the second half of this AI-generated summary is crap. Lactose and milk proteins that cause intolerance don't go away with pasteurization, you get sick with UHT milk too.

[–] [email protected] 207 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (18 children)

Okay so they're not getting vaccinated and now they're guzzling unpasteurised milk whilst cattle all over the US are dying of this latest bird flu?

I'm starting to think this right-wing shift might sort itself out

(Before anyone says, I know this is very bad for avoiding another pandemic which won't care about how you vote)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They think raw milk is natural, but would they still feel that way if they knew how selectively bred all dairy cows are at this point? The DNA of the dairy cow is where the milk manufacturing pipeline begins. We didn't select for sanitary milk from the udder because we knew it could be pasturized later in the pipeline.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

These people fundamentally don't understand nature. We had cows for 8,000 years or so, we existed at least x200 that. So it's 0.5% of our existance which means it's a relatively new technology. Even if you appeal to naturalism here it makes absolute no sense.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago (4 children)

It's because the gubmint told them they can't have it and, like petulant children, they just wanna do what they've been told they shouldn't.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because it's the dumbest fucking thing they could do that doesn't show immediate harm to them in the short-term.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I’m sure it’s usually ok. That’s kind of the problem: if they only get sick 1 in 10 times, for example, they won’t connect the two enough to learn their lesson. Humans are dumb that way, and looking at prevalence of disease in the population is apparently now “woke liberal bs”

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (4 children)

We should have a weekly celebration where conservatives drink raw milk together. Just guzzle it all down you idiots.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I hear it's tastier with horse dewormer.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

They richly deserve tuberculosis. Too bad it'll also afflict innocent people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The cheap illegal labor working on the large MAGAt supporting dairy farms will deliver the raw milk.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (14 children)

There might be one or two far leftists here. Seriously curious, does anyone here think drinking raw cow's milk is a good idea? Why?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I grew up drinking raw milk because we were milking 50 head of cows every day. Why make a 50 mile round trip to buy something we 500 gallons of right there in the yard. No one died or even got sick from it. Is it better for you? I don't know or care. It's what we had and the price was right. And it's VERY unlikely any of you would actually want to drink it. And this includes the magahats also. It tastes nothing like the stripped down and flash pasteurized milk you are used to.

That said, for the commercial milk you buy and drink, it's an absolute must to pasteurize the milk. It's going to take a week for that milk to get from the dairy to your refrigerator and you expect it last another week or two. And so food safety demands it.

In any case, it's not illegal to drink raw milk. You just can't sell it to other individuals. If you want raw milk all you need do is to simply get your own cow and milk it. Then you can drink it all you want.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Gullible fucks. How many of them would die if they were told that they can boost their immunity by sticking their house keys in a power outlet.

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