You joke, but Argentines are known for being snobby and upright towards other South American countries because > 80% of the population is of European descent. It’s a common belief that Argentina is more European than South American.
Source: my two Argentine parents of European descent.
This is exactly why he had to remove his shirt. If he was magnetic it would stick to him through a t-shirt. Sadly too many idiots see this and just eat it up.
If you continually let lunatics into government, they will eventually press magnets onto sticky weirdos and use that as a basis to deny you things that could save your life. And they will profit off of your endangerment.
It’s like they’re taking lessons from a sci-fi villain playbook. Use fear, confusion, and distractions to control people, while lining their pockets with whatever’s left. Who knew magnets were the new scapegoat?
The vaccine gave him magnetism but apparently couldn't help him find a shirt that fits. Priorities, I guess. Wild that this kind of stuff still gets airtime in actual government proceedings.
My sister used to say the same thing after I got vaccinated. She swore up and down that the vaccine made you magnetic. I got up one day and went straight to the fridge for a magnet and told her to “stick” it on me. Guess what? It didn’t work and she just laughed it off and went on to other conspiracy theories.
That’s how they ALL are. They forgot about it once it’s been disproven, and move on to the next one. Completely neglecting the real social harm these conspiracy theories perpetuate.
And if you press them about ‘remember that thing you believed in but then didn’t’, they would say something like ‘move on’ or ‘grow up’.
Is the magnetism meant to be an off-putting side-effect? Because I can think of several ways to use it as a superpower -- although whether hero or villain is still an open question.
They took our money because their president did what the Trump admin wanted to do first, but the real reason we gave them money was because hedge fund friends of the treasury secretary needed to be bailed out after they bet big on Argentina and needed to socialize the losses.
This comes from a different political party actually. Ironically a lot of the common US views on this sort of thing are swapped here, with "the left" being stronger in rural, less educated areas; just as the GOP is over there.
(I used quotation marks because it's complicated, we don't really have a left here in the modern, progressive sense. We wouldn't be in the mess we're in now if we did)
Obviously this is poppycock… but I just want to know one thing. Let’s say it did cause “magnetism”. So what? Your house keys are slightly less easy to pull out of your pants pocket?
Probably just angry the only thing attracted to them is metal.
Use The Amazing Randi trick and apply powder to his skin - then the items will not stick as they are really stuck by a slight bit of sweat. Also, if magnetic, his body should be able to lift items from the floor.
Lol they claimed that here too. I remember being so disappointed that I couldn't get things to stick to me. I didn't get free wifi through my finger tips. Nothing. Disappointing.
There was a former nurse who got before Congress back in 2020 to try and prove vaccines cause magnetism using a brass key (brass isn't magnetic) and she claimed it could stick to her chest without assistance then she spent the rest of her speech having to hold the key as it kept falling off.
Why does our country manage to be both a pinnacle in technological breakthrough, cultural advancements and other magnificent anthropolical, scientific and engineering discoveries, whilst being literally a joke to the world...?
We have launched SATELLITES, a thing not all countries can be proud of. We have THREE nuclear reactors, another things rare in a lot of countries. We invented one of the FIRST JET FIGHTERS, up to modern standards even (see the I.Ae. 33 Pulqui II and the I.Ae 27 Pulqui I).
Quite literally, we are a metronome, oscillating between comedical and embarrassing news, to actually important things, yk?
This is what the world gets for giving everyone a participation ribbon. Not every opinion is actually valid nor does it need to be heard. I will die on this hill.
And before anyone says, “Well what about you. You’re sharing your opinion right now.” Yah, no shit. But sometimes I need to just shut the f*ck up too.
He’s sticky from a diet rich in pork products and he’s got an adequate a-cup for stuff to rest on, it’s simple physics. Just to be safe, burn him at the stake for witchcraft and heresy.
I remember that one FB antivaxxer who claimed the covid vaccine killed her neighbor and when someone fact checked and turned out she died in a car accident a few months ago she doubled down on "yeah, she got into a car accident because the vaccine MAGNETIZED her and she attracted the incoming car!"
It's a great idea. I think they should check who is magnetic. If you are magnetic you are a witch or warlock. If not then you should face dunking. If you don't die then they're definitely a witch or warlock. It makes sense.
I used to work for a covid hotline during the pandemic and one of my wildest calls was a mom screaming at me demanding to know what was in the vaccines because the housekey stuck to her daughters arm.
Tho same exact thing happened at a board council meeting at some random US town back in the height of the Anti-vaxxers, except it was just one of the random citizens saying it instead of a member of Congress. How have we not advanced since then?
My work bestie said the same thing- that they put a magnet in you. I was like "whoa, really? I wonder how that helps, I wanna try it!" So I put a bunch of little metal things(paperclip, staple, pen nib, binder clip, etc) up to my shoulder to see if they stuck. Then I pressed against a metal cabinet and pulled away.
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This is an extremely old trick.
Its unwashed sweat. That is literally all thats happening here. He sweat a lot, he didnt wash off the residue, and now his skin is sticky.
This can be fully debunked in seconds with a handful of talcum powder.
Any South American Latino knows this trick.
By my own argument, Argentina, apparently, is not in South America.
/S
ay, a good No true Scotsman for South America! Love to see it.
You joke, but Argentines are known for being snobby and upright towards other South American countries because > 80% of the population is of European descent. It’s a common belief that Argentina is more European than South American.
Source: my two Argentine parents of European descent.
Wrong, it's 65% - 78% of European ascendance.
Source: I MADE IT THE FUCK UP (it's on Google)
this is incorrect
Source: An Argentine
Which part is incorrect, exactly? Because you and I both know that, whether it’s stated as a joke or not, the stereotype of argentines DOES exist.
Hence the old (albeit unfunny) joke: How does an Argentine commit suicide? They climb to the top of their ego and jump.
Yeah The Great Randi debunked this on Japanese tv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTVWMY8EZCA
I miss Randi.
or.. a shower
No it's real! i have this too!!
or i didnt shower for 2 weeks. you decide!
dude at table covering nose for a reason.
Yeah he’s just sticky
As can be seen by the guy holding his nose on the left side of the table.
only if the talcum powder is 10% asbestos, otherwise this doesn't work. /s
I don’t shower as often as I should. But I do get sticky.
This is exactly why he had to remove his shirt. If he was magnetic it would stick to him through a t-shirt. Sadly too many idiots see this and just eat it up.
If you continually let lunatics into government, they will eventually press magnets onto sticky weirdos and use that as a basis to deny you things that could save your life. And they will profit off of your endangerment.
No one know what magnets are.
I do know that you have to keep Magnets dry or they stop working.
So basically to stop the side effects from the Covid vaccine, you just need to take a shower.
Sounds like a manageable solution.
It’s so true, that guy hasn’t washed in 5 years
And don’t feed them after midnight
Magnets: how do they work?
Excuse me sir, can you please clarify: Are you a clown or a president?
Yes
Whoop whoop
Fact: not even Richard Feynman knew (tier 3 joke).
I asked the Mormons a long, long time ago...
Aren’t magnets just two-way metal tape of some kind? They’re sticky right?!?
FFS, don’t get them wet!
you know what else starts with M like Magnets? Magic.
My hahaha...thx for that!
It’s like they’re taking lessons from a sci-fi villain playbook. Use fear, confusion, and distractions to control people, while lining their pockets with whatever’s left. Who knew magnets were the new scapegoat?
does being sticky make him a weirdo or was he a weirdo and became sticky?
Let’s try sticking cast iron pans to his head!
This was $40 million well spent!
… wait, you’re saying it was $40 billion? Seems excessive. I’d at least expect a bent spoon or Taro cards or something.
Absolute banger of a sentence.
Lunatic is relative when the general population is just as crazy
Yeah the real problem is that politicians are becoming too representative of the general population lol.
He might not be sticky but have so much shit in him from something else this lunatic passed through.
They’re spending our 20,000,000,000 wisely!
The same guy was on TV circa 2021 claiming that covid vaccines made him magnetic.
He probably doesn't bath since 2020 that's why thinks gets stuck on him.
PS: his magnetism doesn't work with a shirt on.
He was on TV before that too, but only claiming he was magnetic.
The vaccine gave him magnetism but apparently couldn't help him find a shirt that fits. Priorities, I guess. Wild that this kind of stuff still gets airtime in actual government proceedings.
My sister used to say the same thing after I got vaccinated. She swore up and down that the vaccine made you magnetic. I got up one day and went straight to the fridge for a magnet and told her to “stick” it on me. Guess what? It didn’t work and she just laughed it off and went on to other conspiracy theories.
That’s how they ALL are. They forgot about it once it’s been disproven, and move on to the next one. Completely neglecting the real social harm these conspiracy theories perpetuate.
And if you press them about ‘remember that thing you believed in but then didn’t’, they would say something like ‘move on’ or ‘grow up’.
"So we'll test it with a compass?"
"Even better..we'll slap spoons onto his sweaty bare chest all scientific-like."
"Brilliant!"
Is the magnetism meant to be an off-putting side-effect? Because I can think of several ways to use it as a superpower -- although whether hero or villain is still an open question.
it would be so convenient at work so when I'm taking apart any machine I can get the screws to stop falling all over the place.
Well if you want to look more like some dented soda can or some shit like that after the magnetic force crushes your body
So they took our money and is trying to be like the Trump administration? Holy hell. No wonder the orange fuck gave that idiot all our money.
They took our money because their president did what the Trump admin wanted to do first, but the real reason we gave them money was because hedge fund friends of the treasury secretary needed to be bailed out after they bet big on Argentina and needed to socialize the losses.
This comes from a different political party actually. Ironically a lot of the common US views on this sort of thing are swapped here, with "the left" being stronger in rural, less educated areas; just as the GOP is over there.
(I used quotation marks because it's complicated, we don't really have a left here in the modern, progressive sense. We wouldn't be in the mess we're in now if we did)
Obviously this is poppycock… but I just want to know one thing. Let’s say it did cause “magnetism”. So what? Your house keys are slightly less easy to pull out of your pants pocket?
Probably just angry the only thing attracted to them is metal.
Or hear me out, you become magneto? Hopefully without the killing regular humans.
Yeah, I’d be down for that too!
Use The Amazing Randi trick and apply powder to his skin - then the items will not stick as they are really stuck by a slight bit of sweat. Also, if magnetic, his body should be able to lift items from the floor.
Lol they claimed that here too. I remember being so disappointed that I couldn't get things to stick to me. I didn't get free wifi through my finger tips. Nothing. Disappointing.
There was a former nurse who got before Congress back in 2020 to try and prove vaccines cause magnetism using a brass key (brass isn't magnetic) and she claimed it could stick to her chest without assistance then she spent the rest of her speech having to hold the key as it kept falling off.
Always interesting that these "magnetic" people have materials that aren't ferromagnetic stick to them.
It's almost as if they aren't magnetic, just sticky.
Why does our country manage to be both a pinnacle in technological breakthrough, cultural advancements and other magnificent anthropolical, scientific and engineering discoveries, whilst being literally a joke to the world...?
We have launched SATELLITES, a thing not all countries can be proud of. We have THREE nuclear reactors, another things rare in a lot of countries. We invented one of the FIRST JET FIGHTERS, up to modern standards even (see the I.Ae. 33 Pulqui II and the I.Ae 27 Pulqui I).
Quite literally, we are a metronome, oscillating between comedical and embarrassing news, to actually important things, yk?
What the hell, that's such bullshit.
All I got was protection from a dangerous, potentially fatal disease.
Meanwhile, this dude basically turned into Magneto. I want whatever he got, this is completely unfair.
The same guy appeared on tv a couple years before COVID. But apparently they think we don´t have access to archives hahahahaha
This is what the world gets for giving everyone a participation ribbon. Not every opinion is actually valid nor does it need to be heard. I will die on this hill.
And before anyone says, “Well what about you. You’re sharing your opinion right now.” Yah, no shit. But sometimes I need to just shut the f*ck up too.
He’s sticky from a diet rich in pork products and he’s got an adequate a-cup for stuff to rest on, it’s simple physics. Just to be safe, burn him at the stake for witchcraft and heresy.
I remember that one FB antivaxxer who claimed the covid vaccine killed her neighbor and when someone fact checked and turned out she died in a car accident a few months ago she doubled down on "yeah, she got into a car accident because the vaccine MAGNETIZED her and she attracted the incoming car!"
I am laughing imagining some guy thinking that maybe I can get superpower with the COVID vaccine and going to get it just for that.
It's a great idea. I think they should check who is magnetic. If you are magnetic you are a witch or warlock. If not then you should face dunking. If you don't die then they're definitely a witch or warlock. It makes sense.
I used to work for a covid hotline during the pandemic and one of my wildest calls was a mom screaming at me demanding to know what was in the vaccines because the housekey stuck to her daughters arm.
Said housekey was likely brass.
Which isn't magnetic.
Can't stop laughing at this one.
That dude: "Damn, can't come to work today."
Work: "Why"
That dude: " I got the magnetism."
Work: Hangs up the phone tells HR to fire is dumb ass.
All I know about magnets is this. Give me a glass of water. Let me drop it on the magnets. That's the end of the magnets. -- Some idiot.
Tho same exact thing happened at a board council meeting at some random US town back in the height of the Anti-vaxxers, except it was just one of the random citizens saying it instead of a member of Congress. How have we not advanced since then?
My work bestie said the same thing- that they put a magnet in you. I was like "whoa, really? I wonder how that helps, I wanna try it!" So I put a bunch of little metal things(paperclip, staple, pen nib, binder clip, etc) up to my shoulder to see if they stuck. Then I pressed against a metal cabinet and pulled away.
We did not discuss it after that.
ROFL.. I don't know why I laghed as hard as I did just now at this.. But this is got to be my dipshit of the week right here.
I need to start a business selling t-shirts in Argentina "I lived through a pandemic and all I got was the powers of magnetism"
The late, great James Randi has a video debunking people who make claims about being magnetized. It's all hokum and flim-flammery.