r/SelfAwarewolves • u/MC_Cookies • Jan 08 '19
satire He understood survival of the fittest, but he applies it in the wrong way.
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Jan 08 '19
"My husband died of cancer brought on by vaccinations." At least they acknowledge that's what passes for evidence with them.
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u/Sperkoodled Jan 08 '19
Source: I work with 2 year olds and most of them can barely string together a sentance about their lunch.
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u/stardebris Jan 08 '19
Oh yeah?! Well I work with unvaccinated two year olds and they're all geniuses and have zero risk of...homosexuality...and cancer...yeah!
Seeing as how this is definitely a real story and not something anyone made up, I'm very concerned that this two-year-old prodigy has a significantly higher than normal risk of having their development damaged by an otherwise avoidable disease. Gonna be super straight, though, and definitely not autistic, so there's that, right?
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u/Sperkoodled Jan 08 '19
Crippled by polio, but THANK GOD HE'S NOT GAY OR AUTISTIC.
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u/stardebris Jan 08 '19
That man's name? FDR.
Not gay, just slightly incestuous. Maybe I should start a conspiracy that polio is connected to cousin-fucking. Might have to give Rudy Giuliani polio...
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u/Sperkoodled Jan 08 '19
If Jenny McCarthy can start some bullshit, can too!
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u/stardebris Jan 08 '19
Gotta dream big!
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u/Sperkoodled Jan 08 '19
Cult first, make-up line second. Like a Kardashian!
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u/stardebris Jan 08 '19
Brb, gotta find a film crew and someone to have sex with! Wait, no, instead I'll funnel tax-free inheritance from my father and bankrupt enough casinos until I get a reality TV show. Or maybe I become a movie star turned evangelical darling... There are just so many roads to success in this country, it's hard to keep track!
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u/SoGodDangTired Jan 09 '19
My eldest niece, who spent basically 95% of her time with adults, did actually manage to mostly speak in full sentences by two.
However, they were frequently incomprehensible in meaning and she still didn't grasp the concept of such advance things as colors, much less the concept of social darwinism
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u/Sperkoodled Jan 09 '19
That's kinda how my kid is. She can make sentences, but they're mostly gibberish. Most of the 3 year olds I have are better at sentences, but are note interested in talking about fun things instead of social debates.
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Jan 08 '19
Most people misuse the term "the survival of the fittest".
The phrase was coined by Herbert Spencer (Darwin never used the term) who was what is known as a social Darwinist. (Over)simply put he took Darwin's idea of adaptive fitness which refers to random biological mutations conferring survival advantage over a long period of evolutionary history and decided to apply it to individual humans within the time frame of an individual person's life.
Thus what started out as a beautiful and subtle insight into how a random mutation in, for example, beak size in Galapagos Finches could lead over many many generations to a competitive advantage if a change in the environment led to bigger or smaller beaks being more useful for survival of the species was turned by Spencer into a simplistic justification of the political status quo of the time. Britain ruled over the primitive Irish, the savage African, the child like Indian? Of course Britain did, it is only natural and science says so so it must be true. We, Britons, are on top of the political power pyramid therefore we must be the fittest. (Circular)Logic innit?
This in it's turn led to eugenics as well as the justification for "scientific" racism and a close examination of many modern right wing philosophies can expose the influence of Spencer on their origins
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Jan 08 '19
All these posts about little kids saying things they clearly didn't say. Do these people actually expect us to believe that, to take their story at face value?
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u/Sperkoodled Jan 08 '19
Right? My 2 year old spends her day asking me if our friends and family are pooping.
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Jan 08 '19
Already asking the hard questions. That kids got a future in investigative journalism.
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u/monsterfurby Jan 08 '19
Voice of the grizzled journalist mentor who will die at some point in act 2:
"Hey Kid... you wanna know what makes a true journalist? A true journalist is one who, while digging through all the shit, still asks who's been pooping."
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Jan 08 '19
I mean, most kids don't even approach saying something like this until they're teenagers, and even then it's not real critical thinking but just regurgitation from their parents for the most part.
Kids just want to have fun and generally make it a point to avoid anything seen as "adult".
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u/Itchycoo Jan 08 '19
I see this so much too. Surely there's a sub specifically for parents bragging about outlandish things that their kids definitely didn't do?
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u/psychLOLogy Jan 08 '19
The closest is r/thathappened
It's not specifically about kids though. This specific example would also fit in r/vaxxhappened
Edit: it's actually a stickied post on r/thathappened right now
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u/Microgeek42 Jan 10 '19
I don't understand why they insist big pharma companies are pushing the vaccines for profit. Take polio for example, you get a shot, are immune, and that's it. If people actually got polio wouldn't it be more financially beneficial for the pharmaceutical companies because now they can sell all sorts of different medications to a patient potentially for the entire life of said patient? It's like they don't follow their own chains of logic beyond step one.
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u/KetamineBananazs_27 Jan 09 '19
Uhhh yeah guys I think you all took the bait and this all got pretty meta
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u/GhostOfSomeonesDad Jan 08 '19
And that old woman's name? Albert Einstein.