Why are anti-vaxxers pro-Putin?

[mia]

Why are they rooting for Russia and dismissive of the suffering of Ukrainians?
I live among family members who think like this. It's gotten to the point where our only topic of conversation is the weather or wordle. They get so angry and derisive whenever there is disagreement.
I just don't get it.

[Skittles]

1. pro-fascist cult

yup

[mia]

5. Thank you. n/t

[empedocles]

2. Same reason the pick-up truck convoys are anti-vax?

[dchill]

3. Because they're FOR anything that's Anti-American.

It's automatic now. Even if it kills them.

[Midnight Writer]

16. I think you nailed it. They are conditioned to react against anything sane, humane, or civilized.

[dchill]

17. Precisely.

[Salviati]

4. Because the reason they are anti-vax is because they are susceptible to russian propaganda...

... in the first place.

[genxlib]

19. Ding ding

You win

[tosh]

6. Good god,

please hurry up and rapture these idiots. They are making life more difficult for the rest of us.

[Ocelot II]

7. They are TFG's cult members, so they are for whatever he's for

and against whatever he's against.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. Anti-Enlightenment, Anti-Liberalism, Anti-Democratic

[gldstwmn]

9. It's part of the propaganda they're addicted to.

[Patterson]

10. Deplorables.

[Gore1FL]

11. They have been trained to love Putin for years.

They were trained to hate vaccines for years. The common trait is that they were gullible enough that the training stuck.

[underpants]

18. I'd say their rejection of science is because Trump f'ed so badly

He knows he screwed up but he doesn’t allow that as a possibility in his mind. They are just so in deep with him they have to defend him. The school board thing and books and CRT is all the same. Fealty.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Anti-vax is just part of Putin's propaganda for the GOP.

Putin has talking points designed by his psy-op team to divide the US and create division.

All part of Putin's successful weakening of US democracy.

[TroubleMan]

13. Crank Magnetism

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crank_magnetism

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Overlap of biolab and WEF and globalist conspiracy theories. . . .nt

[roamer65]

15. Because they usually are Dump loving fascists.

They love fascism where ever it exists.

[Beartracks]

20. "Dems favor vax? Then I'm against it. US is against Putin under a Dem Administration? ...

... Then I'm for Putin."



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[Hoyt]

21. Guess I'm fortunate because I haven't met anyone pulling for Putin

against Ukraine, and I live in a rube area. Plenty of anti-vaxers, trumpsters, and racists here, though.

[Brainfodder]

22. Just dumb and playing never ending opposite of democrats games & OK with their stupid prizes?

[FakeNoose]

23. That's how they "own" the libs

There is no other reason as far as I can see.

[Eugene]

24. Putin cultivates the alternate reality shared by the anti-vaxxers, QAnon, etc.

Putin sows doubt, confusion and mistrust liberal democracy and its institutions.

He called the January 6 attack a peaceful demonstration. He has also fed anti-Soros conspiracy theories.

A recent NYT article details Putin's relationship with the far-right fever swamps.

Truth Is Another Front in Putin's War

https://news.yahoo.com/truth-another-front-putins-war-144843563.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/20/world/asia/russia-putin-propaganda-media.html

[Samrob]

25. In a word: TRUMP! They are vindictive and can't admit they were wrong. The only way to make a lie

the "truth" to many is to continue to repeat the lie and allow nothing to the contrary. Deep down they know exactly who and what they are themselves and who and what Trump is. And they love it! He hates and acta against the same people they hate. Nothing is ever going to change that. "It'll take dying to get it done."