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    If the future of medicine is light then I don’t want to see any of you MAGAt morons in a hospital or doctors office. Go sit outside and pray away your sickness in the sunlight, dumbasses.

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    Anybody who speaks about spiritual nonsense in conjunction with health matters is a quake and should NOT be surgeon general. Then again an anti-vaxxer is in charge of the CDC so I’m not surprised at that this point.

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      anti-vaxxer, brainworms controlling a human meat suit. and then a snakesoilman controlling medicare and medicad.

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    People laughed when leftists talked about the yoga studio to fascism pipeline…

    In all seriousness this is utterly fucked.

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        Yeah, there’s a big difference between “this herb has some naturally occurring anti-inflammatory compounds” and “this berry is a cure for cancer and lupus and the common cold.”

        Regarding yoga, stretching and bodyweight exercises are definitely a good part of fitness, but the mystical side of it is complete horseshit.

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          I remember seeing a doTERRA ad some hon had put up at a Mexican restaurant. In English it said normal stuff about how aromatherapy helps with mood, maybe a vaguely defined “energy levels” but no legally defined health claims. En español it was literally claiming that the doTERRA oils could cure cancer!

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      Naomi Klein talks about this in Doppelgänger, and it’s really interesting. She argues, compellingly, that the yoga/spirituality/wellness types were never so much truly left-wing as they were counter to the medical establishment. Which wasn’t inherently harmful - yoga and meditation are good, and modern medicine doesn’t solve every problem. But then COVID came along, and it stripped away all the control these people felt they had over their health. And then it became revealed that they were never so much far-left as they were far out.

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        the current yoga is a white womans assumption that they can connect witht he universe, its basically co-opted from the religion from india, which is a different thing and turned into a huge industry for targeting mostly woman of a certain demographic.

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    The lockdowns and subsequent vaccine drama turned a huge amount of previously assumed “liberal” new-age dumbasses into full-throated right-wing dumbasses. It was surprising to watch at first, but it makes sense when you think about it.

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      i watched some yotubers turned to rabid magats, after all the vaccine drama+ some controversy that kickstarted it all from thier declining channel, they couldve connected with alot of POC in the community, im guess thier true colors of sucking off trump and musk was thier true value.

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        No?

        It’s basically just anti-academic.

        If you can just invent arcane knowledge that only you know then you’re smarter than everyone and can do anything you like.

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        Basically the whole contingent is anti-authority, and con’s were able to capitalize on that by feeding the pushback against vaccines and masks.

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    I’ll let my transplant team know it wasn’t new lungs I needed, and three people’s worth of blood and six months in ICU and three weeks on ECMO, it was just light I was lacking… silly me!

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    is she talking about global warming and people fucking up the nature? Isn’t that like extremely woke?

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    Conservatism doesn’t mean right-wing. It’s reality as a team sport.

    Reasoned argument is a learned behavior. This nonsense is humanity’s default.

    They think that’s all you’re doing, because they think that’s all there is.

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    I too say dumb shit when I’m high, I never thought I could get a high level government job for saying dumb shit while high.