• ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    The rest of the world should forbid all travels in and out of the US. And bring back lazarettos for those that must travel there.

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    I’m not surprised. Carl Sagan saw this coming in 1995

    I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

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        Jesus. A guy keeps roadkill in his fridge 365 times and it’s all he’s remembered for!

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            18 days ago

            if hes not washing his hands, and many accounts said he doesnt. they probably all got an infestation.

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              Sooo, the darndest thing happened. I actually got really bad food poisoning like right after this comment. I’m still sick, two days later. But guess what? I still wash my hands after using the bathroom. I hate people that don’t wash their hands. WASH YOUR FUCKING HANDS, PEOPLE! WITH SOAP!

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                he probably gave parasites to his family members, and they probably woudnt know it,b ecause parasites dont cause immediate symptoms, unless the infestion is heavy.

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    19 days ago

    Sounds like we’re going back to the “four humors:”

    The “four humors” are a classical theory, developed by ancient Greek physicians like Hippocrates, that suggests human personality and health are determined by the balance of four bodily fluids: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. An excess or deficiency of these humors was believed to influence both temperament and susceptibility to illness.

    This theory was influential in ancient and medieval medicine, influencing how people understood and treated illness and even personality. While no longer considered a scientifically valid theory of human health, it’s a significant part of the history of medicine and offers a glimpse into ancient philosophical and medical thinking.

    Except now we are actually using a contemporary version of it to rule our health care system.

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    Now we’re at the core of it. These morons never believed in germ theory at all. Nevermind the fact that at this point you can actually look at germs in a microscope.

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      You can also just expose someone to a pathogen and predict the outcome based on the pathogen. Like the doctor who proved that Helicobacter pylori causes stomach ulcers and cancer by taking a shot of broth laced with the bacteria and, predictably, got stomach ulcers, which he successfully treated with antibiotics.

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      They don’t believe in things they don’t understand, and they don’t understand things they can’t see with their own caveman senses.

      We crawled out of 30,000 years of trying and failing to start a civilization, we almost went extinct, we lost countless billions of lives to war, murder, famine, disease and hardships of a natural world that doesn’t want us to live. Just to get to this point where a handful of coked-up, mentally handicapped rich fucks can decide all those countless sacrifices were for nothing.

      It genuinely boggles me that Americans are at all accepting of this. Where the FUCK are my countrymen who see how stupid and dangerous this is? We should all be storming HHS and dragging RFK and his unqualified goon squad out to the lawn. Seriously. I am not kidding. Modern medical knowledge is too valuable to let some unelected clown who has zero knowledge or training to just decide to roll the entire thing back because his other clowns sowed distrust among our stupidest.

      If we don’t rise up and do something, I strongly feel you all deserve what the consequences will be.

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        Where was this kind of talk when your country destroyed countless democracies around the world? I never heard a peep from Americans regarding dismantling democracy in South America or in the Middle East or in Asia or in Eastern Europe.

        The USA has always been a terrorist organization to the world that is not in their club, and now that the chickens have come home to roost, you are pickachu face surprised?

        Nazies paraded in the streets of New York in the 1920s, ffs, this is not a new thing.

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          Okay, America bad, got it, very fresh take adds so much to the present conversation and context of current events. Point taken, nobody here will ever say anything again. We’re all bad and so very evil. You win.

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            Your people can’t even come to terms with slavery. How can you even talk about the current situation without facing the fact that your country was founded on the enslavement of Africans and genocide of indigenous?

            There is no fresh take. The fact that you claim there is one is on you.

            Hitler modeled laws based on American jurisprudence, and you want to talk about the present?

            Until American exceptionalism is no longer, the world isn’t safe from You.

            As expected, you believe this is a competition and you need a winner and a loser. Sarcasm doesn’t work as a defense.

            You want to fix things? Face the past as a nation and heal with those you oppress in your own country. After that, maybe the world will trust you again. How you get there is on you. As I see it, your country won’t last another 100 days of this, let alone a whole term.

            But trump just allowed segregation again and is saving affricaners, so there is that. Tic Toc Tic Toc

            Where is the Boston tea party of old? Where is the crossing of the Potomac? Where is John Brown? Where is the underground railroad? Where is the moon landing? Where is Iwo Jima?

            All gone and replaced with a nation of mindless consumers wanting a quick fix to shelter them from the reality they have created onto themselves from years of tyranny, exploitation, and oppression of others.

            The Empire is dead, long live the Empire.

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      I don’t think I ever knew he was also diagnosed with Mercury poisoning. Pretty sure that has cognitive impact

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    18 days ago

    pharmaceutical industry pushing patented pills, powders, pricks, potions, and poisons

    Look, I’m not here to defend the pharmaceutical industry, but at least they’re fucking REGULATED.

    Unlike, say, the supplement industry which he so loves… That’ll tell you: take these 50 expensive potions and you’ll get better, not the thing that has been rigorously tested & proven over generations.

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    Well, in that case he surely wouldn’t mind getting a shot of rabies virus, probably mixed with Ebola and Marburg. Just germs, nothing to worry about!

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      It’s not that they don’t think the diseases exist, it’s just that they’re invisible so are undoubtedly evil spirits, and thus all tactics you would use against evil spirits are equally effective.