Corporations have been saying Let Them Eat Cake for a long time.

A message to all people who try to boycott companies like Kellogg's or Burgerville that are working hard to stop unions because they want to keep abusing workers:

I feel ya, but I can also just about guarantee you that you're already supporting this company, you just don't know it. And I can also guarantee you that boycotting any company in this day and age is effectively impossible because every brand to exist (including store brands) are owned by one of three or four mega-corporations that keep buying and selling brands off one another and are deeply in cahoots with one another. It's still a good thing to try to boycott brands as a way to show them your displeasure, but it is ultimately pointless in most cases.

In that way it's like voting in a two-party system like the US, where both parties are ultimately working for the same billionaires; do you want to vote for Original Flavor Fascism or Diet Fascism?

This is what our world has come to: where we have to find other methods to fix problems. Voting with your money doesn't work. Voting with your votes doesn't work. We're probably best off following in the footsteps of the French Revolution and uh, cutting the snake off at the head, as it were.

Fuck I hate stupid people.

Some fool on FB responded to a meme about how everyone used to line up eagerly for vaccines against polio, etc. Her response was "Difference is, those vaccines actually worked." Here was my response:

If you're referring to the fact that the covid vaccine doesn't prevent you getting the disease, just prevents you dying from it or having one of the horrifying disabling side effects from it, where the original vaccines nearly wiped out the diseases they were made to fight (and made smallpox extinct in the wild), the difference is that viruses evolve at a rapid rate. We've been in an evolutionary arms race since life began, and when vaccines were invented they were the evolutionary arms race equivalent of the nuclear bomb. Just because diseases like covid-19 are now the evolutionary arms race equivalent of foreign hackers setting our nuclear power plant generators to overload, and our vaccines now only do the equivalent of stop the reactors going critical in the nick of time doesn't mean the modern vaccines are worse or ineffective. It just means that the enemy is nastier and more clever than the ones that the early vaccines were made to work against. Just like the fact that we now have to fight actual real life hackers to prevent them making our nuclear power plants melt down doesn't mean we should stop using anti-hacking methods, and doesn't mean we should start trying to nuke the hackers who -- due to their cleverness -- could be right in our midst and so nuking them would mean nuking more innocent people than enemies.

TLDR: Modern vaccines are built to fight modern diseases, and saying that the modern ones are less effective than the old ones is like saying we should nuke enemy hackers.