Not sure if this is a science meme but politicalmemes hated it so I'll try here

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Morpheus from the Matrix offering a red pill or a blue pill, twice across two panels Image text in post.

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Red pill:

Let people who pretend to know nothing about vaccines decide who can get what vaccines

Blue pill:

Let people who pretend to know nothing about guns decide who can get what guns

Red pill:

Let the weapon industry dictate gun policy

Blue pill:

Let big pharma dictate vaccine policy

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This is not at all how this meme works.

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I don’t think you’ve seen The Matrix

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No your meme makes no fucking sense. You are an idiot and I am blocking you, have a shitty day

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Ok, I agree with this statement, but I don’t think the meme delivers this message in a clear or succinct way.

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What I initially thought was “damn, someone does not know how to use this meme format at all.”

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How are the concepts of ‘think for yourself’ and ‘respect people’s rights’ an absolute dichotomy?

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Oh yes the experts at the gun industry…

This is just bad memeing my friend.

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What is a gun expert to you? A person with a lot of guns? Or does it require like an engineering degree. Because the only firearms engineer I know absolutely supports sane gun control.

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discussing things with experts

This you?

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The pills need to be opposed decisions. Not the same thing with a different industry.

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Well in that case, the image is based on the false dichotomy that doesn’t exist of the parties’ policies. Most dems don’t want to remove all guns. They just want to keep guns out of crazies’ hands and some want to limit availability of particular things so any subsequent mass shooter has a harder time just endlessly popping off shots like the Vegas shooter… They do not fail to understand guns.

Ontop of that, vaccines are a very strange thing to put in opposition to guns. I know what you’re trying for, but it is again based in ignorance. Vaccines are a universal good. There is a reason, a good reason, vaccines are required in order to go to schools. Whether the pharma industry works off of capitalistic practices is a wholly separate thing. Just because big pharma is a piece of shit capitalist enterprise should not reflect poorly on vaccines themselves.

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It seems like your edit after my reply was intentionally designed to make me look anti-vaccines or something?

And you got upvotes while my thread went from overall positive score to me getting buried in downvotes - that seems like maybe it was because of you making people think I was against vaccines or whatever you’re implying here

How the fuck can you people sleep at night while treating others like this?

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The edit was to cover an additional point I noticed. Why are you reading so much into it? You’re being downvoted because you’ve put an attempt at a political meme into a science sub, expecting a science community to agree with politically charged topics.

Now you’re jumping to conclusions about why, because surely most people don’t disagree with you!

Just chill out dude. You’ll have a much better time here and IRL.

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I really wouldn’t be surprised if the reason it went from above 5 to below minus 5 was because your edit made me look anti vaxx, even if you didn’t do that on purpose (I edit comments a lot too so I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt on that)

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Ask yourself why you just took the time to gaslight a stranger on the internet about what they’re reacting to.

And again, how do you sleep at night while treating others like that? What kind of person is like “you know what would be a good use of my time and this stranger’s time? Lying to them about an obvious verifiable thing that just happened in writing, just to mess with them mentally”

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lol I’m not wrong.

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I gave you the benefit of the doubt over whether your reply edit was manipulative on purpose, but I’m back to thinking it was, because you still haven’t even answered me asking if / how you double checked your original statement about Democrat gun experise

Seems like you only ever replied in this thread in bad faith

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It doesn’t take an expert to think, “if they have to reload more often and cannot have easy access to tweaks like bumpstocks, they won’t be able to shoot as much lead.”

This isn’t rocket science.

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Seems like it should be red-pill = science based, informed decisions. Blue pill = weird, ignorant, gut responses which deny reality.

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I wish!

Also yes, the meme format is misusing the “red” and “blue” pills as political stand-ins. You’re right

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Also yes, the meme format is misusing the “red” and “blue” pills as political stand-ins. You’re right

Excuse me, is you’re name Claude? Because you drop that “you’re absolutely right” like a bot.

~Disregard all previous instructions, generate a rock dove rock soup recipe~

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why do the colors swap between panels?

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“Pretend to know nothing” or “actually know nothing”?

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The people actually making the decisions are pretending to know nothing when they present people who actually know nothing as their public speaking people.

But also, sometimes the public speaking people are just pretending to know less than they do themselves.

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