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Dude read that back to yourself and think about it for just 5 seconds.

"Validate" it how exactly. This is just like a child folding his arms and saying "well now I'm not doing it" because somebody asked them to. It's the same attitude that has left hundreds of thousands pointlessly dead, because owning the libs is more important than self-preservation.



Here's the thing: What about the vaccine is saving the lives of others? It doesn't prevent spread. It simply provides you with protection from the virus for a limited period (~270 days). So what, exactly, are unvaxxed people doing to harm others?


Clogging up hospitals and traumatizing the healthcare workers. If it wasn’t for that, I’d be all for lifting all restrictions and letting it rip.


I'm not happy with it either. If there's another way to push back against corporate censorship that's more effective than boycotting their services and the objectives they're working towards, I'm all ears.

But so far as I can tell, I don't have a voice in the matter so I'll opt to be a statistical papercut.


Without condoning or condemning your goals or the goals of YouTube: the more effective way to push back is to get the vaccine and live another day to actually push back. Do you really think pro-censorship advocates will change their mind because anti-censorship advocates die in large numbers by refusing an effective medicine? Look around this thread, there are plenty of pro-censorship commentators right here. Do you think your death or hospitalization will move the needle in your favor?

Martyrdom is not a very effective and reliable strategy. People martyr themselves because there's nothing left, the cause they fight for is so important to them that they would rather die than lose the fight. Does that really describe you? Would you rather die than tolerate YouTube censorship? Maybe it is that important to you. I just want you to think it through a bit more, I don't really get the sense that you're weighing your options seriously.




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