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The Subreddit That Catalogs Anti-Vaxxer Covid Deaths

15 points by johanam 5y ago

honkdaddy 5y ago
In the past five years or so, reddit has really become a very hateful and bitter place. More than ever before are dissenting opinions met with snark and vitriol, and positive, charitable discourse has generally disappeared. I ultimately felt much better after deleting my account.
- m-p-3 5y ago
  It highly depends on the subreddits you subscribe to. The defaults and many big subreddits are a cesspool of vitriol, but some others have a great community.
  - honkdaddy 5y ago
    Definitely agreed. Any particular favourites these days? Would love to find some current events or general interest type subs. /r/TrueReddit used to have some good discussion, but I find it similarly snarky and uncharitable these days.
    - 100011_100001 5y ago
      What are you interested in?
    - sixothree 5y ago
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- jfengel 5y ago
  I feel like the US has become a very hateful and bitter place. One could say there was an inflection point in that about five years ago, though it has been going on much longer. I suspect that Reddit is reflecting that, rather than driving that. But it seems to happen to almost all sites eventually, unless they go to great lengths to avoid it.
  - Ekaros 5y ago
    I would put it 7 years ago, at least with media and aggressive narrative crafting against certain groups.
  - sixothree 5y ago
    I would say it started with the tea party protests. Everything about them was a protest looking for an excuse.
    - krapp 5y ago
      The Tea Party was hijacked by the Republicans, who attempted to galvanize American racial, xenophobic and anti-leftist fears against Obama in predictable race-baiting fashion. They failed to prevent a second term, but Trump's populism capitalized on the seeds of white rural discontent, reactionary fear and paranoia that they planted. I think all of this is the result of the presence of a Black liberal (not even a leftist, mind you, but Stalin incarnate as far as the right was concerned) in the White House causing a cascade failure in American culture, and it's kind of beautiful to see.
eigengrau5150 5y ago
I love /r/HermanCainAward because it dispenses with the mandatory charity and forgiveness we're expected to muster for people whose willful ignorance and embrace of anti-intellectual ideologies gets them killed because we're supposed to be "better than that". I'm not interested in being "better than that" and I honestly believe that every dead conservative makes the world a slightly better place for their passsing because now they're out of the way. I love the smell of dead antivaxxers in the morning. It smells like eventual victory.
100011_100001 5y ago
That subreddit is fine. It's documenting COVID deniers getting smacked upside the head with reality. This post summarizes the spirit of the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/psyp4w/for_those_who_say_the_hca_are_immoral_lets_see/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/psyp4w/for... The tl;tr version: This sub Reddit is a consequence of the anger and frustration rest of us feel by repeatedly suffering because of your hatred, your ignorance, your irresponsibility, your lack of compassion and empathy and your childish defiance that you all wear like badges of honor. At least until you end up in the ICU on a ventilator, then suddenly it’s all “COVID IS NO JOKE!”and begging for Prayer Warriors. All these things, as well as others too numerous to mention, have made this dark place we’re in possible and has allowed for the creation of the HCA. So, if you’re looking for someone to be outraged at, just take a look in a mirror.
- Jtype 5y ago
  So fighting hate and lack of compassion with...hate and lack of compassion? This is fine with you? Is everyone who isn't vaccinated hateful and lacking compassion? At this stage of the pandemic it's clear that the vaccines won't lead to herd immunity. I have personally seen a significant amount of vaccinated to vaccinated spread. For some folks the dangers of the vaccine may be higher than Covid, for example an 18 year old male who already had Covid. I am personally pro vaccine. While I don't believe it will stop the spread of covid I think it will likely slow the spread. More importantly, I believe that it will provide extra protections to those who are vaccinated. Even though I don't agree with a lot of the arguments against vaccination, I don't think they should die, and I certainly won't celebrate it. It disgusts me that anyone would celebrate that. I think it's shameful.
  - hachari 5y ago
    “So fighting hate and lack of compassion with...hate and lack of compassion? This is fine with you? Is everyone who isn't vaccinated hateful and lacking compassion?” People can only sacrifice so much for the people spitting in their faces.
    - 5y ago
shapefrog 5y ago
People who cry about others having no empathy having no empathy or those that rant about everyone being triggered little snowflakes being triggered. Its all the same really. I know everyone wants to believe that the other side are worse than them, but they are all as bad as each other. The real problem is with how more and more people are clustering out at the extremes.
- carvking 5y ago
  It's very carefully marketed "othering" from the government + media. And everyone is playing along. We all want a scapegoat for our problems. Good to find a scapegoat for some of that built up anger because your boss is an idiot ?

15 points by johanam 5y ago

In the past five years or so, reddit has really become a very hateful and bitter place. More than ever before are dissenting opinions met with snark and vitriol, and positive, charitable discourse has generally disappeared. I ultimately felt much better after deleting my account.

m-p-3 5y ago
It highly depends on the subreddits you subscribe to. The defaults and many big subreddits are a cesspool of vitriol, but some others have a great community.
- honkdaddy 5y ago
  Definitely agreed. Any particular favourites these days? Would love to find some current events or general interest type subs. /r/TrueReddit used to have some good discussion, but I find it similarly snarky and uncharitable these days.
  - 100011_100001 5y ago
    What are you interested in?
  - sixothree 5y ago
    AccidentalWesAnderson dataisbeautiful datasets ImaginaryColorscapes retrocomputing
jfengel 5y ago
I feel like the US has become a very hateful and bitter place. One could say there was an inflection point in that about five years ago, though it has been going on much longer. I suspect that Reddit is reflecting that, rather than driving that. But it seems to happen to almost all sites eventually, unless they go to great lengths to avoid it.
- Ekaros 5y ago
  I would put it 7 years ago, at least with media and aggressive narrative crafting against certain groups.
- sixothree 5y ago
  I would say it started with the tea party protests. Everything about them was a protest looking for an excuse.
  - krapp 5y ago
    The Tea Party was hijacked by the Republicans, who attempted to galvanize American racial, xenophobic and anti-leftist fears against Obama in predictable race-baiting fashion. They failed to prevent a second term, but Trump's populism capitalized on the seeds of white rural discontent, reactionary fear and paranoia that they planted. I think all of this is the result of the presence of a Black liberal (not even a leftist, mind you, but Stalin incarnate as far as the right was concerned) in the White House causing a cascade failure in American culture, and it's kind of beautiful to see.

eigengrau5150 5y ago

I love /r/HermanCainAward because it dispenses with the mandatory charity and forgiveness we're expected to muster for people whose willful ignorance and embrace of anti-intellectual ideologies gets them killed because we're supposed to be "better than that". I'm not interested in being "better than that" and I honestly believe that every dead conservative makes the world a slightly better place for their passsing because now they're out of the way. I love the smell of dead antivaxxers in the morning. It smells like eventual victory.

100011_100001 5y ago

That subreddit is fine. It's documenting COVID deniers getting smacked upside the head with reality. This post summarizes the spirit of the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/psyp4w/for_those_who_say_the_hca_are_immoral_lets_see/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/psyp4w/for... The tl;tr version: This sub Reddit is a consequence of the anger and frustration rest of us feel by repeatedly suffering because of your hatred, your ignorance, your irresponsibility, your lack of compassion and empathy and your childish defiance that you all wear like badges of honor. At least until you end up in the ICU on a ventilator, then suddenly it’s all “COVID IS NO JOKE!”and begging for Prayer Warriors. All these things, as well as others too numerous to mention, have made this dark place we’re in possible and has allowed for the creation of the HCA. So, if you’re looking for someone to be outraged at, just take a look in a mirror.

Jtype 5y ago
So fighting hate and lack of compassion with...hate and lack of compassion? This is fine with you? Is everyone who isn't vaccinated hateful and lacking compassion? At this stage of the pandemic it's clear that the vaccines won't lead to herd immunity. I have personally seen a significant amount of vaccinated to vaccinated spread. For some folks the dangers of the vaccine may be higher than Covid, for example an 18 year old male who already had Covid. I am personally pro vaccine. While I don't believe it will stop the spread of covid I think it will likely slow the spread. More importantly, I believe that it will provide extra protections to those who are vaccinated. Even though I don't agree with a lot of the arguments against vaccination, I don't think they should die, and I certainly won't celebrate it. It disgusts me that anyone would celebrate that. I think it's shameful.
- hachari 5y ago
  “So fighting hate and lack of compassion with...hate and lack of compassion? This is fine with you? Is everyone who isn't vaccinated hateful and lacking compassion?” People can only sacrifice so much for the people spitting in their faces.
  - 5y ago

shapefrog 5y ago

People who cry about others having no empathy having no empathy or those that rant about everyone being triggered little snowflakes being triggered. Its all the same really. I know everyone wants to believe that the other side are worse than them, but they are all as bad as each other. The real problem is with how more and more people are clustering out at the extremes.

carvking 5y ago
It's very carefully marketed "othering" from the government + media. And everyone is playing along. We all want a scapegoat for our problems. Good to find a scapegoat for some of that built up anger because your boss is an idiot ?