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[–] Tezzerets_Tea_Time@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Warrior Essentials" is exactly the name of a snake oil brand id expect moron maga alpha wannabes to ignorantly fall for. They're so fucking easy to grift.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I gOt 3% Scandinavian DNA, i'M a vIkiNg!1!

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

If anyone is calling you a warrior they're scamming you. It's bizarre to me how many people don't get that.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 302 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha This guy just discredit any future movie involving an FBI agent for the next 75 years. We knew america had a under-education problem, but man you guys are something.

[–] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 109 points 5 days ago (28 children)

Germany just had a sweeping far right election, and Argentina has had a libertarian at the helms for a bit now. A ton of south Asian countries have had hardcore conservative views for a while now, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Canada shifts right next election. There are basically few corners of the earth where populism/right wing ideology isn’t growing and expanding. This isn’t an American education system problem, it’s world wide. The political elites in your country just have you convinced that it’s America that’s now the problem, which then creates a new wave of populism in your country. It’s a self eating snake.

Not that I’m disagreeing that our slapping of allies isn’t problematic. This is just something that is clearly growing everywhere and the people of Lemmy love saying “America bad” as the same exact shit is happening in your country. If you’re an American expand your news beyond our shores. The grass is unfortunately turning to shit everywhere. We’re in for a rough decade together.

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 117 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Germany just had a sweeping far right election

you can't say 20% a 'sweeping'. The situation is worse at other places. And thanks to true multi party democracy, AfD probably won't be in government anyway.

[–] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 78 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I hope so for Germanys sake. A 9% increase from the last election, for a party that’s 12 years old… that’s pretty sweeping to me. Not to mention that it’s more so the southern parts of Germany that have an even stronger percentage of AfD support.

Again, I’m not wanting a right shift for these countries, but it’s become clear that things are. We could stick our head in the dirt and say it’s only America, but that wouldn’t be true, and that’s what I was getting at with my comment.

[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago

Party is new, ideology is old.

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[–] Mannimarco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The US is literally in control of fascist now, it's not nearly as bad in Germany, not that it's good but there is a big difference

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[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I guarantee he doesn't actually believe this shit. He's just a grifter grifting just like the rest of the Whitehouse circus cast. The only exception might be Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That freak show might actually believe the shit he spews.

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[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago

I am torn between wanting to understand the logic behind this and not wanting to engage with anyone stupid enough to believe this.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 58 points 4 days ago (1 children)

These people literally don't know what mRNA is, they believe it's the same thing as DNA because it sounds vaguely similar. It's good to see actual experts calling him out though! We really need more of this.

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[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 54 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I wish I could set aside my convictions and care for others to make money this easily.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

I feel like this is the key reason why the worst people are the most successful. I cannot count the number of opportunities I've passed over in life that would have just required me to lie to someone, to inflate my worth, to take something that I haven't earned, and so on. It's so natural for me to think in terms of morality and equity behind my decision making that I don't even consider alternatives.

And thus I'm over 40 and broke and will die working.

edit: just in retrospect, I figured I would mention my father. He was a man who was remarkably similar to our current president/king. Same hair and everything, the only difference was he drank like a fish. He had ZERO qualms about lying, he carried bizarre lies to his grave just to keep anyone the satisfaction of calling him out on even the smallest things. Lying came so easily to him that he built a multi-million dollar empire on lies, on borrowing money from one lender to pay another, of drug dealers and gangs and organized crime, of the very worst people in the world following him around like scavenger jackals hoping to catch a shred or crumb from the waste and excess my father surrounded himself with. I watched millions of dollars pass through his hands (and up his nose) and he never felt anything about it, he felt like it was never enough, that he deserved more and the people who suffered for it deserved their pain. I am telling this story because a lot of people think it's not real, that there are not truly dishonest people in the world, and everything we're all so contentious about is just misunderstandings and differences of perspective.

NO. There are lying liars who will look you in the face and tell complete falsehoods to you and smile as they do so, and they will delight in it. You are not aware of human darkness and you need to get it together. You NEED to understand how bad people can be, and how much people really LIE.

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[–] stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sure, but does it have electrolytes?

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 5 points 3 days ago

It's got what ~~plants~~ idiots crave!

[–] NorthernDreams@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Looked at the site. It is vitamins, salt, food extracts, and Spermidine. Spermidine is a polyamine. I remember the first time I resuspended some in lab, it became clear from the smell why it is called SPERMidine. Wonder if the customers know there is a cheaper way to get a daily oral dose of Spermidine.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

Trump's dreamteam got an infinite supply of it from sucking eachother off.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 129 points 5 days ago (15 children)

“you believed my medical lies once. you’ll fall for it again!”

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[–] Hyphlosion@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago

I’m getting World War Z vibes from this.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 111 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Gotta love people who don’t want to take a vaccine that was designed by the absolute top experts in the field and extensively tested, but have no problem popping pills some grifter on the interweb sold them.

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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 85 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

"Warrior Essentials"

"Spike Gangsters"

Do the incels he's trying so hard to market to understand how stupid these names are?

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[–] NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca 40 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Of course the URL has to appeal to the wannabe driving his lifted pickup truck, it has the word warrior in it. You get all these meatheads with delusions of being some sort of Spartan badass because they took 300 as a documentary.

[–] SleepyHarry@sh.itjust.works 27 points 4 days ago (5 children)

And ironically enough they have more in common with the Persian "soldiers" which are just fodder for their God King.

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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 95 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We're fucked. This guy is now in charge of the FBI and now has the power to investigate and charge people with federal crimes.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 76 points 5 days ago

But more important, the power not to investigate people. Wink wink

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Imagine believing that taking ANOTHER medicine that is definitely totally unproven (but the commercial has a guy in a lab coat reading a script, so you know they absolutely "did their homework"- even if this didn't phase them before- but it's ok when they already believe it), just so you can make sure you're more vulnerable to a disease.

These people have noticed no ill effects, yet they'd rather pretend to get rid of that and take on a new risk.

And when the pill is later proven to not do anything (if it hasn't already, hell if I know just from seeing this), they will claim the vaccine was pointless when they still don't get COVID.

I hope and wish this pill is super poisonous and they have a hellish vomit sickness that wrecks them for days. Some of them will claim they're proof to suffer to get the vaccine out, but it will give others pause for sure.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I looked and it's made of natto? And aspergillus? Isn't that what ferments sake? Maybe just go out to a Japanese restaurant. And the advert then says the only proven blah blah blah get the spike protein out is autophagy, which would imply that simply fasting would work, so even if you believe it you could just buy nothing and not eat for a few days, save money instead of spending it.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 59 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I don't like being alive, I already didn't, but I like it less now. I crave the afterlife.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 37 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I also choose that guy's dead wife

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 43 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wait until he finds about the big room full of brass pipes feeding oxygen and nutrients to the brain of J Edgar Hoover, from where he is still running absolutely everything.

[–] azi@mander.xyz 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Elon enters the FBI's inner sanctum and must solve the Vat's riddles three in order to prove he's not a gay communist

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[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Get ready for the scam economy to go into overdrive to take all that you have left.

[–] uberfreeza@lemmy.world 57 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, I read one of their scientific studies on the website. The first one I read was a literature review (no tests were actually done) that said "one study says the supplement does nothing and another two sources say the study was done wrong so it could maybe be beneficial???" Wow. Such strong evidence.

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[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 61 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Shedders? Do these people think vaccines are contagious?

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 48 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes, pay attention to mention of "shedding". They think that vaccination causes the PT in question to shuck it off as though they were Pigpen from Charlie Brown cartoon.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

they should wear a mask, so they don't catch it

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[–] notthebees@reddthat.com 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's not even applicable to most vaccines.

Basically polio spreads through poop, and this is your shedding. Oral Polio Vaccine does this as it's a weakened form of the polio virus and exhibits the same spread and provides vaccination indirectly to others. The US uses E-IPV, which is inactive and harmless and doesn't have this spread.

You'll only find OPV being used in countries with very inadequate medical access as it can be administered orally(hence the name). Only downside is that if you are very immunocompromised, there is a non zero chance you get polio and a chance you suffer from paralysis.

Flu vaccines, covid vaccine, literally anything else doesn't have this "shedding". It's literally one vaccine that isn't even administered in the united states.

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is that actually him? Just yesterday I fell for "Kash Patel News" on Twitter, and found his right handle there is Kash_Patel, but this seems to be a different platform.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

seems like the platform is called truthsocial, there are links in here:

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trump-fbi-director-kash-patel-vaccine-detox-supplements-rcna182434

I would assume if this account was not real he would have sued them for using his name for commercial purposes

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[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 40 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Is their logo "uwu" or is it the shrug emoticon?

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[–] jve@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 3 days ago (5 children)

it's the theory that vaccinated people "shed" their vaccinations to other people, which is complete bollocks.

[–] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago

I wish it worked like that, at least then these headasses wouldn't be dragging everyone else down with them when they decide not to get a shot

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Vaccine shedding actually is a thing, but it's 1. only really linked to the oral polio vaccine (which itself is not common in most of the world) and 2. even then it's extremely rare.

It also requires an attenuated virus vaccine, which means it has a zero percent chance of happening due to mRNA vaccines. In other words, it's just more lying and fearmongering from bullshit scam artist grifters.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago

peak scammer performance

[–] T156@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The company logo doesn't look like a W, it looks like an electrical diagram icon for a lightbulb, or one of those energy-saving curly bulbs.

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 32 points 4 days ago

Seems like something the Ninja Turtles would need.

[–] sumguyonline@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago

Vaccines are evolution at work. So long as they work, you live longer and have a higher chance of reproducing. This is not a difficult concept. My genetic line is going on as long as I can throw it.

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