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yeah, plenty of news articles out there saying he's dead.

600k followers, 700k on instagram. wonder how many people actually listened to his anti-vax rants and themselves decided not to get vaxxed. sorry but good riddance.

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07-23-2021 , 11:40 AM

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27offsuit

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Good riddance isn't the place to be imho. If you want to chuckle at the fact that he posted 'I got 99 problems, but a vaxx ain't one', sure, but cheering death is just icky.

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07-23-2021 , 12:26 PM

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pocket_zeros

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Originally Posted by 27offsuit

Good riddance isn't the place to be imho. If you want to chuckle at the fact that he posted 'I got 99 problems, but a vaxx ain't one', sure, but cheering death is just icky.

Agreed. These are peoples' lives we're talking about here. Even if their demise came about from bad decisions they still deserve our compassion as human beings.

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07-23-2021 , 12:34 PM

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BilldaCat

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Originally Posted by pocket_zeros

Agreed. These are peoples' lives we're talking about here. Even if their demise came about from bad decisions they still deserve our compassion as human beings.

i'm going to disagree. people with 600k-700k+ followers trumpeting this stuff are arguably actively causing harm.

sure, he could have turned around his tune and been a "look you really should get vaxxed" voice, but i'm finding it really difficult to care.

it's one more ICU bed freed up for someone who needs it.

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07-23-2021 , 12:43 PM

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LKJ

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Originally Posted by pocket_zeros

Agreed. These are peoples' lives we're talking about here. Even if their demise came about from bad decisions they still deserve our compassion as human beings.

I don't feel a ton of compassion for these people, which they don't care about anyway since they're dead. But public reactions to a person's death matter far more to the loved ones they left behind, and actively cheering on deaths is just piling on to any number of those people who don't deserve it.

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07-23-2021 , 01:21 PM

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Howard Treesong

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I have zero compassion for that man, but I don't need to offer an opinion on his death.

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07-23-2021 , 01:21 PM

#17032

AquaSwing

veteran

Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 2,261

What % of his followers are gonna stick with the plan?

"Whelp, since he died that improves my odds of not dying!!"

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07-23-2021 , 01:33 PM

#17033

deepuppo

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Originally Posted by 27offsuit

Good riddance isn't the place to be imho. If you want to chuckle at the fact that he posted 'I got 99 problems, but a vaxx ain't one', sure, but cheering death is just icky.

I mean, wouldn't you be happier without that guy going under the speed limit in the left lane on the highway? I certainly would!

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07-23-2021 , 01:51 PM

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suzzer99

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Originally Posted by BilldaCat

Where did you get 600k-700k+ followers?

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07-23-2021 , 01:54 PM

#17035

27offsuit

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Regardless of how many followers(lol) a person has, they have no responsibility whatsoever to lead those people in any direction. Doesn't matter which way. Most of the time, I don't want them leading sh*t because they are just as dumb and f'd up as their audience.

Howard also nailed the correct/appropriate reaction. Howard, I also just got back from where we and Larry were crawling around in Boston. When you coming back?

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07-23-2021 , 01:54 PM

#17036

whatthejish

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

Where did you get 600k-700k+ followers?

Well first, you buy 300k bot followers.

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07-23-2021 , 01:58 PM

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BilldaCat

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

Where did you get 600k-700k+ followers?

https://www.newsweek.com/tributes-st...ntivax-1612507

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07-23-2021 , 02:10 PM

#17038

suzzer99

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Do we know for sure that guy preached about no vaccines? His timeline seems pretty clean. This is the worst thing I found:

But he sure wasn't encouraging them to get vaxxed I'm sure.

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07-23-2021 , 02:11 PM

#17039

suzzer99

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Yeah I feel kinda bad for Harmon, seems like a normal guy who just got fed a lot of bad info.

https://mobile.twitter.com/stephenharmon

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07-23-2021 , 02:13 PM

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TheJacob

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You guys should set up a scraper to match up obituaries with twitter feeds.

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07-23-2021 , 02:33 PM

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Ungoliant

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Originally Posted by BilldaCat

https://www.newsweek.com/tributes-st...ntivax-1612507

That says the pastor at his megachurch has that many followers. It looks like the guy who died had <1k. Not sure why the article thought it was important to report his pastor's follower count.

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07-23-2021 , 02:54 PM

#17042

suzzer99

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The pastor could make a gigantic difference by recommending the vaccine. His silence on the subject says a ton.

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07-23-2021 , 02:58 PM

#17043

Ungoliant

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Sure, but that makes me feel a lot differently about the guy who died, who may have been an anti-vax moron, but apparently wasn't a massive influencer or anything.

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07-23-2021 , 03:16 PM

#17044

BilldaCat

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Originally Posted by Ungoliant

That says the pastor at his megachurch has that many followers. It looks like the guy who died had <1k. Not sure why the article thought it was important to report his pastor's follower count.

You're right. Speed reading that with the similar last names and the bizarre inclusion of the pastors followers tripped me up. That does change my feelings a bit since this wasn't a guy screaming from a megaphone to 1.3m combined followers.

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07-23-2021 , 03:21 PM

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Tom Ames

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I don't really care if that guy is dead or alive, but he was silenced far too late.

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07-23-2021 , 03:48 PM

#17046

27offsuit

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Vikings OL Coach let go after refusing vaccine

FAAFO

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07-23-2021 , 03:55 PM

#17047

hansmolman

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Hell yea go Vikings! Now win a super bowl one ****ing time please!

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07-23-2021 , 05:32 PM

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27offsuit

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The way things are accelerating right now it looks like there is going to be a waterfall of these highly visible people who didn't get a vax for whatever reason just dying and dying.

Not gonna cheer their demise, but I will smdh.