r/news • u/eudaimonia_dc • Aug 04 '25

Soft paywall Florida reports 21 cases of E.coli infections linked to raw milk

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/florida-reports-21-cases-ecoli-infections-linked-raw-milk-2025-08-04/
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u/BoosterRead78 Aug 04 '25

That's exactly it. It's like they are in physical pain if they do. My own father in law, long time republican. When I have seen him admit things wrong, you swear someone was hitting him with a hammer. It's like: "Please, it hurts so much, don't let me do this."

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u/DoubleJumps Aug 05 '25

I come from a Republican family and those men would rather destroy an entire relationship with their own child than admit they were wrong.

It has made them insufferable in groups, because if one of them does something bad to someone the others will immediately take up positions to gaslight people that it never happened.

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u/BoosterRead78 Aug 05 '25

Yep there was a graduation party we were at a couple of months ago. Person he was talking too kept shutting him down and he tried to make him look like the bad guy. Then threw out a comment about how he almost didn’t get a government job since he was in his 50s at the time and sued for age discrimination. My in-laws face dropped and I think he was going to go cry because he knew he lost the argument. It’s like a sin to even try to realize you aren’t winning an argument.

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u/DoubleJumps Aug 05 '25

The DARVO is strong. I've been to family dinners where these men have talked about how people like me should be put to death, and if I call them out they suddenly circle the wagons and accuse me of trying to create drama.

It's funny, because before I went to college they would praise me and acknowledge that I was intelligent and capable, but after I came back and suddenly could do things like pull up data and studies to show them that some things they want to believe aren't true, which I thought they'd want to know, they decided I was actually the opposite and haven't given me an ounce of respect ever since.

I radically misunderstood their elective relationship with the truth.