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Social media gave all of us a platform. And since everyone has an opinion on everything, we have to be more careful when consuming content—not all of it is valid.

Probably nothing proves this point better than the subreddit 'Facebook Science.' Gathering the dumbest statements they can find on the internet, its 50K members constantly show that there are no limits to human ignorance

"[This online community is] about the science-denying pseudo-intellectuals who think they know better than centuries of scientific understanding and aren't afraid to leave comments arguing even the most simple of concepts," the subreddit's moderators write on its 'About' page.

Theories? Evidence? Experiments? Reputable scientific methods aren't welcome here. This is the epitome of "My friend in the bar says..."

For more painfully ridiculous false statements, check out Bored Panda's first publication on the subreddit.

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Efforts to flood the world’s media with dishonest information or malicious content go to the very top.

Donald Trump derided any critical news coverage as “fake news” and his unwillingness to concede the 2020 presidential election eventually led to the January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol.

For years, radio host Alex Jones denounced the parents of children slaughtered in the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newton, Connecticut as "crisis actors." On August 5, 2022 he was ordered by a jury to pay more than US$49 million in damages to two families for defamation.

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Who Wants To Start A Magnet Business With Me(Credits To R/Vaxxhappened)?

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Someone Does Not Understand How Fruit Trees Are Seasonal

Someone Does Not Understand How Fruit Trees Are Seasonal

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I believe there are climates in which it would be possible for there to be fruits (from different trees) all year. However, planting fruit trees on sidewalks would result in piles of rotting fruit. Perhaps in public parks.

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Ohio Back At It Again With The Real Science™

Ohio Back At It Again With The Real Science™

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If this is true... the poor women of Ohio! Especially those who can't leave and leave the incredible misogynistic men (and their few brainwashed femal followers) to have the whole, then childless state to their own. Ruling it like they fancy until they extinct.

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According to Mathieu O'Neil, Associate Professor at the News and Media Research Centre of the University of Canberra and Michael Jensen, Associate Professor at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis of the University of Canberra, three schools of thought have emerged to address this issue.

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"The first suggests disinformation is so pervasive because distrust of traditional sources of authority, including the news media, keeps increasing," the academics pointed out. "When people think the mainstream media is not holding industries and governments to account, they may be more likely to accept information that challenges conventional beliefs."

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Worst Idea I've Ever Heard. Please Don't Give Me The Vaccine, Oh No, Please Dont

Worst Idea I've Ever Heard. Please Don't Give Me The Vaccine, Oh No, Please Dont

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Facebook ‘Scientists’

Facebook ‘Scientists’

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you look hard enough you could find "evidence" for most ridiculous "theories". The world is crazy.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I guess she still doesn't understand peekeboo or hide-and-seek either....

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"Secondly, social media platforms' focus on engagement often leads them to promote shocking claims that generate outrage, regardless of whether these claims are true," O'Neil and Jensen added.

"Indeed, studies show false information on social media spreads further, faster, and deeper than true information because it is more novel and surprising."

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This Is No Asteroid Hole

This Is No Asteroid Hole

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The Dumb S**t That Shows Up On My Facebook Feed

The Dumb S**t That Shows Up On My Facebook Feed

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not like humans famously managed to design globes before there were images of Earth taken from space.

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I Would Like To See Your Evidence, Lindsay

I Would Like To See Your Evidence, Lindsay

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And lastly, the role of hostile and deliberate disinformation tactics cannot be overlooked.

"Facebook estimates that during the 2016 US election, malicious content from the Russian Internet Research Agency aimed at creating division within the American voting public reached 126 million people in the US and worldwide," O'Neil and Jensen said to illustrate this point.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It means that stupid people from all over the world have found a platform to come together, and validate each others dumbassery, until they convince themselves that they are right.

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Danni
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, that can't be right! where are the elephants and the tortoise?! UGH!

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Daniel Yamada
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Neither of them is accurate. But the second one is at least attempting to be accurate. Earth is not a sphere. It is an oblate rotational ellipsoid.

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debrina blackmoon
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thanks; I knew about it not being a sphere many years ago in middle school but forgot the actual description.

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Joeshar
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If the gravitional forces bend the Earth like that we should have earthquakes 10-100 times bigger. Do you observe other planets bended like that? Moon should be shatterred until now.

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Kathryn Baylis
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gee, I thought that bunch swore up and down that the Earth was flat.

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* ~ l a s a n y a ~ *
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the earth is now a lightly colored blob. thanks for 'enlightening' us facebook

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similarly
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is true that the earth is kind of lumpy, and not very symmetrical. For example, the highest mountain from sea level is Everest. The highest mountain measured from the center of the Earth is Chimborazo. However, the Earth isn't QUITE as asymmetrical as the picture on the right.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a test. Only a test. If you fail the test, please don't vote, drink or drive.

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Phoebe Stein
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The earth isn't a perfect sphere, but it DOES NOT look like that!

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Batwench
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair, our planet isn’t perfectly sphere shape. It does but bulge out in places. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/earth-round.html#:~:text=While%20the%20Earth%20appears%20to,poles%20by%20about%2070%2C000%20feet%20.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If earth was 2.5 cms in radius, it would be perfectly round. You wouldn´t even be able to feel the Himalaya. The Mt. Everest would be about 3 thousands of a millimeter high. So even if the earth is not perfectly round, it looks perfectly round on any photo. The image is bullsh..

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The only real earth is the donut one that is hollow inside and flat on the other side. Don't ask questions, it just works.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's why the tides go in and out, it's the moon's gravitational pull.

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suptho
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe they’re saying Earth is not a sphere? Or, they’re really good at Photoshop?

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Alienking06
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While this is true in theory, it is very exaggerated. Earth is actually more spherical than the average cue ball.

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Yayheterogeneity
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one is not completely wrong! The world is not a perfect sphere but has dips and crevices.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think so, but I'm wrong about plenty of things. Last I heard, The sun is mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees. I'm probably wrong, but this is the answer I've had stuck in my head for years, can't shake it even when I want to.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is only one continent and that's north america. The rest of the continents are black voids.

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This Family Friend's Facebook Account Is A Gem

This Family Friend's Facebook Account Is A Gem

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's hard enough to explain real animals like platypus, now we have to explain the elusive duckycorns?

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Terrible Science, But I'd Watch This Movie

Terrible Science, But I'd Watch This Movie

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Iced wall, monsters on the other side our weapons are no good against them...Now where have I watched this???? https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/game-of-thrones-the-wall-explained.html

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Covid 19 Does Exist

Covid 19 Does Exist

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Edit only to add thanks and for clarification. My SO was a kind dear man, who played Santa Claus at nursing homes and literally rescued every lost kitty he ever met. We had very good years. And I live in assisted Living. That's why I lost so many. Plus we were very hard hit. We're rural, and in the first wave we had 75 cases. It's still active. I want to make this person to forcibly French kiss a known COVID ridden petri dish every day for 14 days. I lost my SO of 16 years, and 27 other friends to COVID. The only reason I really wouldn't do it,is I don't know any COVID petri dishes I dislike that much. This one infuriates me. .

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So what can we do? Bradley Crocker, Lecturer & Ph.D. Candidate in Health Psychology at McGill University, thinks that in order to be saved from misinformation, we need to be exposed to it.

"Efforts to remove and label misinformation on social media platforms may help, but a more pertinent question is whether these efforts can match the rapid pace of misinformation spread," Crocker wondered. "In response to the growing pressure to control misinformation on their platforms, social media giants have generally relied on reactively removing or labeling false content after it’s widely noticed and reported."

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"The Lack Of Humility Before Nature That's Being Displayed Here, Uh... Staggers Me."

"The Lack Of Humility Before Nature That's Being Displayed Here, Uh... Staggers Me."

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The Government Wants To Control Your... Brians?

The Government Wants To Control Your... Brians?

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Corona Cult

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Of course that's only if you use english alphabet, yet another proof that english is the language of Satan.

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Even if social media giants manage to crack down on misinformation on their platforms, what about the rest of the internet?

Rumble, for example, offered to host Joe Rogan on its video-streaming platform with no censorship.

What's to stop content creators and common users from turning to websites that are outside the jurisdiction of democratic lawmakers?

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F**k, I Must Have A Negative Iq Score

F**k, I Must Have A Negative Iq Score

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For f**k's fatherly sake, my fruity IQ is so freaking low now, it's fifty feet into the ground.

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Viruses Are A Myth

Viruses Are A Myth

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Health Tips From The Insane

Health Tips From The Insane

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Your body shouldn't be hit by hard objects" Yeah, I'd like to avoid that when I'm not on my period, too...thanks

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Til You Can Cure Cancer By Screaming In A Cave

Til You Can Cure Cancer By Screaming In A Cave

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know about curing cancer, but this list is making me want to scream in a cave until I feel better.

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"If encountering online misinformation is inevitable, our best approach to mitigate its effects may be to improve users’ abilities to recognize and dismiss it," Crocker said. "One of the most promising ways to do this uses experiential learning, stemming from something called inoculation theory."

"Inoculation theory is based on an analogy between resistance to persuasion and resistance to contagious disease. Just as exposing individuals to a weakened pathogen helps to protect them against severe illness (vaccination), tactfully exposing individuals to weakened forms of misinformation can improve their ability to recognize and resist it."

So I guess, in a way, the subreddit 'Facebook Science' is making the internet not only more fun but also safer.

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No, He Would Be Dead

No, He Would Be Dead

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Soooo... shall we throw a pregnant women into a blackhole to get a Superman?? when are we doing that??

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Manufactured Government Fog

Manufactured Government Fog

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every time someone starts throwing the term "Orwellian" around like this I feel pretty damn confident in assuming they've never read a word that man actually wrote.

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They Probably Think It’s Dead Babies

They Probably Think It’s Dead Babies

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That Settles It. The Fires Are Fooling Us

That Settles It. The Fires Are Fooling Us

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fires are not allowed to cross the border without a visa - well played, Mexico!

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Wake Up

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#idonotconsent

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Posted on FB, which tracks you and knows just about everything about you.

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Globe Lies

Globe Lies

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This globe is only meant for decorative purposes in exactly the same way your chihuahua is not meant for guard duty.

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Yes, I'm Sure About That. You Forgot To Mention The Extremely Low Density Of The Atmosphere Up There

Yes, I'm Sure About That. You Forgot To Mention The Extremely Low Density Of The Atmosphere Up There

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Expert Scientists Bad Because Fictional Boat Better Than Real Boat

Expert Scientists Bad Because Fictional Boat Better Than Real Boat

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wasn't the Ark designed by the Almighty Himself according to the Bible?

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I Posted This On R/Flatearth Someone Told Me I Should Post It Here Too

I Posted This On R/Flatearth Someone Told Me I Should Post It Here Too

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There's A Lot To Unpack In This One

There's A Lot To Unpack In This One

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We learned that the racists, misogynists, narrow-minded idiots, and plain ol' douchebags are even more asinine when they don't have anything better to do. Someone should've sent them fidget spinners.

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This One Made Me Irrationally Angry

This One Made Me Irrationally Angry

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This Was Posted Seriously

This Was Posted Seriously

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Really? I thought they were stolen from their carrot parents by the liberal elite who eat them!!!

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Just A Theory!

Just A Theory!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think a lot of people are confused by "theory" not meaning the same thing in the hard sciences, the soft sciences, and colloquial usage.

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Lmao My Kids Would Freak Out If I Taped This To Them

Lmao My Kids Would Freak Out If I Taped This To Them

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*sigh* here comes the ginger patch again. It least it’s not garlic in my nostrils

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Nasa Just Need To Use Toilet Seats, It’s Cheaper

Nasa Just Need To Use Toilet Seats, It’s Cheaper

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#48

"I'm A Climate Denier. I Don't Have To Be On The Defensive"

"I'm A Climate Denier. I Don't Have To Be On The Defensive"

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Vacines Bad

Vacines Bad

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love how the only evidence these people have is "I don't like the billionaires, so they must've made a vaccine to kill us all".

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I Cu Out There Not Using Copper Cups

I Cu Out There Not Using Copper Cups

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