this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2025
905 points (99.5% liked)

Not The Onion

14415 readers
2471 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a prominent Republican congresswoman and a staunch ally of Trump, suggested a return to "measles parties" for children. She criticized contemporary attitudes towards vaccination, stating, "Now, they demonize parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids."

(page 4) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] yarr@feddit.nl 11 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I propose a herpes and SARS party for her.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

How about ebola? I hear those parties are crreaaaazaayyyy

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

better to start kissing everyone with cold sores, and give everyone mono, or CMV, and chickenpox at the same time, since all of those are herpes viruses. they can try herpes B virus(but this comes from a wild animals.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

When did we start rewarding politicians for being angry and stupid?

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So what's her deal, anyway?

TL;DR: 10 pounds of crazy pressed into a 5 pound sack.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Greene has promoted antisemitic and white supremacist views including the white genocide conspiracy theory, QAnon, and Pizzagate. She has amplified conspiracy theories that allege government involvement in mass shootings in the United States, implicate the Clinton family in murder, and suggest the attacks of 9/11 were a hoax.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Reading from the russian script she was given to.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

She is, indeed, a blivet

[–] IronJess@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago (8 children)

This is why Republicans are stupid, a vaccine is a controlled and safe measles exposure with some risk that is 1 in a 100. You are doing the same thing with measles parties but more reckless dangerous levels of infection and putting your kid at risk of death like 1/15 if you send them to the measles parties.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

There have been no deaths shown to be related to the MMR vaccine in healthy people. Tons of kids will die from measels

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I should start selling pillows. Not comfortable pillows. Just a brand of pillows to scream into when life hands you no other options for releasing your frustration.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You could call it "My Pillow." That brand name should be coming free pretty soon.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

i would call it your pillow.

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] Lon3star@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

She's a fan of Metallica's first studio album

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

In a regular reality someone as willfully ignorant as that slag would have Darwined themselves out of existence

[–] Embargo@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't you fucking dare demonise the demons!

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah, they aren't even real!

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

It's gonna take MORE than all my kids DYING for me to LEAVE the Republican Party!

[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Taking medical advice from MTG? 💀💀💀

Letting her run your country? 😥😥😥

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, that is certainly one way to vax a community against most contagious diseases. And I will admit that it’s better than not vaccinating at all. But not by much. The standard vaccine protocol would be cheaper and more effective.

Damned fool of an idiot.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's actually worse because measles infection wipes out your immunity for other infections. Not to mention that even if you don't die, 40% of people with measles infections end up needing hospitalization.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

I wish them all a very happy and well deserved outbreak.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›