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The Anti-vaccine Right Brought Human Sacrifice to America
Atlantic ^ | Jan 25, 2022

Posted on 01/25/2022 6:42:54 AM PST by BusterDog

In the early phases of the pandemic, as the coronavirus spread in the United States and doctors and pharmacists and supermarket clerks continued to work and risk infection, some commentators made reference—metaphorical reference, fast and loose and over the top—to ritual human sacrifice. The immediate panicky focus on resuming business as usual in order to keep the stock market from crashing was the equivalent of “those who offered human sacrifices to Moloch,” according to the writer Kitanya Harrison. That first summer, as Republicans settled into their anti-testing, anti-lockdown, anti-mask, nothing-to-worry-about orthodoxy, Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democrat, said it was “like a policy of mass human sacrifice.” The anthropology professor Shan-Estelle Brown and the researcher Zoe Pearson wrote that people who continued to do their jobs outside their homes were essentially victims of “involuntary human sacrifice, made to look voluntary.” Meanwhile, people on the right likewise compared the inconvenience of closing down public places to ritual sacrifice.

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Oh my.
1 posted on 01/25/2022 6:42:54 AM PST by BusterDog
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Roe v Wade codified human sacrifice in all 50 states...


2 posted on 01/25/2022 6:44:48 AM PST by kosciusko51
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70,000,000 unborn human babies sacrificed, but that’s a GOOD thing, right Atlantis?


3 posted on 01/25/2022 6:45:34 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: BusterDog

Nah. You Socialist Demoncrat abortionists and euthanasia enthusiasts have The Death Market cornered!


4 posted on 01/25/2022 6:45:43 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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I think what these people fail to appreciate (or are hiding) is that a significant portion of the jab-resistance is on the far left. Those folks have been keeping fairly quiet—until recently.


5 posted on 01/25/2022 6:46:50 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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well considering the mrna vaccines were developed using aborted baby parts,,I would say the pro-jab people are the ones doing human sacrifices,,,


6 posted on 01/25/2022 6:47:13 AM PST by Craftmore
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To: BusterDog

The article is the “ritual sacrifice” of sanity.

Total word salad...


7 posted on 01/25/2022 6:48:01 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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So the new progressive talking point is that keeping the populace fed, clothed and housed during the panick-demic was, “like a policy of mass human sacrifice.”


8 posted on 01/25/2022 6:48:16 AM PST by throwthebumsout
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The mass formation psychosis clearly has hit the editors and writers of The Atlantic pretty hard.


9 posted on 01/25/2022 6:50:23 AM PST by Jay W
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And if Trump were still President this author would probably be writing the opposite. This vaccine was the devil back when he was President to the Left.


10 posted on 01/25/2022 6:50:52 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: BusterDog

National Divorce is the answer.

I dont want to live in their world, and they don’t want to live in mine. Why stay together?

No Civil War, just Civil Separation.

Choose Freedom. Choose Peace.


11 posted on 01/25/2022 6:54:03 AM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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These people are just stupid. Worse, they think we are as stupid as they are. Moloch was ritualized child sacrifice. the number of children who have died due to covid is on the order of hundreds over the last two years. A tiny fraction of the number deaths to children from the flu in normal years
12 posted on 01/25/2022 6:54:49 AM PST by rdcbn1
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According to the CDC’s own numbers, covid has a 99.74% survival rate...

https://www.nbc26.com/news/coronavirus/cdc-estimates-covid-19-fatality-rate-including-asymptomatic-cases

...and the overwhelming number of people who died had four or more comorbidities...

https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-director-admits-over-75-of-covid-deaths-in-people-with-at-least-4-comorbidities


13 posted on 01/25/2022 6:55:36 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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Leftism is a death cult. Darkness, negativity, ingratitude and the destruction of all that is good, decent and valuable. Death.


14 posted on 01/25/2022 6:56:04 AM PST by all the best
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Uh, hey atlantic..... Which ones are “anti-vax”? How about “anti-mandate”? As usual, steve jobs widow ain’t as bright as she thinks. But that seems standard for these uber rich assclowns. Is it guilt for being so wealthy that pushes them to belittle and work against conservative causes?


15 posted on 01/25/2022 6:56:32 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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The wilder their claims, the closer we are to the end of their mass paranoia.


16 posted on 01/25/2022 6:56:34 AM PST by struggle
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To: all the best

Leftism is also a stupidity cult.

They want to intimidate others into being as stupid as they are.


17 posted on 01/25/2022 6:59:22 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: BusterDog

What a crock of shit.


18 posted on 01/25/2022 7:02:47 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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The Atlantic must have a internal contest to create the most crazy attack on Americans.
This is fully on crazy.


19 posted on 01/25/2022 7:10:17 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Antoninus

The bigger surprise is the alignment of the far right and far left elements.


20 posted on 01/25/2022 7:17:01 AM PST by joesbucks
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