Essentially, for Republicans, it seems like avoiding raw milk is the new masking — and they’re just not going to do it in order to prove a point.

For instance, in April, Infowars host Owen Shroyer called the Food and Drug Administration a “gangster mafia” who wanted to “make raw milk illegal.”

“So, now that more people are going to local farms and farmers markets and consuming raw milk, this angers the FDA,” Shroyer said. “This angers Big Milk. Say, ‘No, you need to pasteurize milk, it’s a lot less healthy for you.’ See, eventually, they’ll just make it illegal. They’ll just make raw milk illegal. That’s what this is all about.”

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      While that sounds straight forward in theory, these same idiots will give their children this same milk and wind up killing them.

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    You can’t tell me what to do!

    Apparently for some, this is where right-wing political philosophy starts and ends. Everything else seems to be retrofit around this principle, regardless of its rationality. Even if the party in question is giving you sound advice, like not to drink raw milk, and is doing nothing to prevent you from doing so if you please.

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    Democrats need to start attempts at banning more things for them to defend. For example:

    • huffing glue,
    • trepanning,
    • russian roulette,
    • Flavor Aid with Valium, chloral hydrate, cyanide, and Phenergan.
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    Once upon a time this was called “virtue signalling” but I think “vice-signalling” is better. A historian named David Perry defined it as such:

    a public display of immorality, intended to create a community based on cruelty and disregard for others, which is proud of it at the same time.

    In other words, being an asshole just to prove you belong with the other assholes in the rectum. And then you realize that everything the right does (and has been doing for decades) to “Own TEh LiBz!” can be ascribed to this:

    • Drinking raw milk
    • Anti-masking
    • Anti-vaxxing
    • Destroying their Dixie Chicks CDs
    • Not watching Disney
    • Destroying their Yetis
    • Tanning your Tucker Carlson
    • Claiming the Battle Flag of Virginia as their heritage
    • Etc.

    That’s why right-wing boycotts are usually ineffective- on the surface they might be mad about something, but since they’re only performative said boycotts don’t last long.

    On a deeper level, however, this is more disturbing as it’s another step on the road to fascism. Fascist groups are all about their purity and so members are driven to prove their inclusion in the in-group lest they be purged next. This creates a downward spiral of more and more extreme acts to maintain that facade of inclusion, which gets worse and worse for the people who have to exist with those assholes.

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      Someone needs to tell them that the libs are extremely owned when they not just tan their undercarriage, but when it gets a nice, red hue in the entire area. To the point where there is later peeling.

      The libs really, really, really hate this. Spread the word!

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      | Tanning your Tucker Carlson

      This could also work as a euphemism for exposing yourself in public. As in, “Bobert’s husband went jail for tanning his Tucker Carlson in front of some teenage girls at bowling alley.”

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    Uh, “new”? The lunatic fringe has been at this kind of thing since at least the 90s. Now, they just might be flooding the zone with shit, as Bannon so colorfully puts it, a bit more successfully and mainstreaming their bonkers position on raw milk to the typical RWNJ, not just the Hatriot Radio/Black Helicopter types from the 90s…

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      Yep. I’ve told this story before but I’m turning into a rambling old man so I’ll tell it again. Several years ago I got into making my own cheese as a short lived but delicious hobby. It’s legal for me to go buy raw milk from farmers so I did. A lot of the people I ran into while getting it were absolutely bonkers q-nut types.

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        It’s more recent (2016), but Schitt’s Creek had an entire story arc around raw milk for an episode. It doesn’t get into the black helicopter crowd stuff, though.

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    So. If we do nothing, Republicans will go drink raw milk? Sounds ideal! Unless they also want the rest of us to drink raw milk. I’m vegan so it doesn’t affect me, but sounds like a thing you just let them go crazy on. Then we can talk about COVID25 and the rise of madcowcovidbirdflu v2.1.

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    Just wait until they notice beef is coming from cattle too … ;-p

    Reminds me of ‘Soylent Green is people!’

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    It’s weird. They used to take such great pride in not being like the French.

    Then again, they also used to think the Iraq War was a great idea (unlike those filthy French).

    Do they even eat chocolate that taste like barf anymore? Man, if old Hershey was still around, he’d set them straight. Or the other thing. Either way, he’d do it decisively.

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    Also, “Big Milk”? LOL, these are probably some of the same dumbphucks that agitate against almond milk, oat milk, soy milk, etc…

    Good god, these people are so stupid.