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  1. there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that she doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.

    It aired in 1990.

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  2. Come on AP. He slashed $500 million in funding for mRNA technology and then strung a bunch of words that sound good if you know literally nothing about vaccines, but this statement is actual science fiction and reporting it without saying this isn’t how immunity works at all is frankly dangerous.

    Speaking hours later Tuesday at a news conference in Anchorage, Alaska, alongside the state's two Republican U.S. senators, Kennedy said work is underway on an alternative.
He said a "universal vaccine" that mimics "natural immunity" is the administration's focus.
"It could be effective — we believe it's going to be effective - against not only coronaviruses, but also flu," he said.
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  3. There will be a massive secession crisis if Democrats ever gain power again. "Non-MAGA" Republicans won't save us, they will happily egg on this crisis until the country is torn apart. If Democrats never gain the Presidency again, well then we never "came out of it"

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