Sludgehammer

I betcha you could find some quotes from Charlie talking shit about Trump from back before the Republicans bent knee to him.

I'd argue it comes down to three factors:

One, the rejection of modernism. People will argue that things were great in the past and now we are a fallen people (thus the popularity of the MAGA rallying cry). Obviously then, everything modern is suspect as it may be part what robbed us of our 'greatness'.

Two, machismo. Among many illness is seen as punishment for some nebulous moral failing. You're sick? Oh, you must not of eaten right, or you didn't work out enough, or god is punishing you, etc. As such protecting yourself from disease is un-manly. You saw this a lot during COVID, masks were "face diapers" and Covid was "just the flu" and only the "libtards" were getting the vaccine (which via point one was was branded the "clot-shot"). Covid was seen kind of like a "Snake handling" ritual, proof that you are "moral" enough to live through it as well as proof you don't fear death.

Three contrarianism. We all know this one. "If it's popular it must be bad!" is a creed has holds a deep grasp in the psyche of many. Usually it's pretty trivial, it doesn't really matter if you liked but hated them when they hit the mainstream. However when contrarianism starts getting applied to lifesaving medical procedures you start having problems.

Ohh.... it's a bridge! I was wondering what they had against that one particular patch of road.

Basically Nvidia put out this video with much fanfare about DLSS 5 being the future . Pretty much everyone has been mocking how it changes lighting, artstyle, character facial features, and introduces that weird AI blurriness in every instance shown.

Oh no, my jet setting lifestyle is in peril! How ever shall I cope? /s

Okay... so follow my logic. God made man in his image, then some time later, made woman in mans image. Therefore, we should at least expect God to be as different from a man as a man is from a woman. I would in fact argue that we should expect God to be even more different, as going from a mortal being to a different mortal being is less of a jump as going from a immortal omnipotent being to a mortal being.

Well, of course! The CEO is the most important employee because he does the most work in a company. The extra five million in his pockets will motivate him to put in the extra hours needed to personally turn around this profit slump! /s

Yeah... I've seen that one

And these are the programs the Techbro billionaires want to have running society.

We really need to get him a toddler activity center to keep him occupied.

Yeah, I've been referencing Ur-fascism more and more for some reason.

Of course they didn't care, they have a arrest quota to fill. The fact that they're arresting innocent people that will later be released at great cost for the government doesn't matter, we must have action for actions sake.