• IronJess@lemmy.today
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    14 days ago

    This is terrible news, if he bans vaccines I hope there would be a massive petition for many states to join Canada.

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      14 days ago

      Chevron could actually save us here since courts, not agencies can ultimately decide policy. This could be their entire strategy to “prove” that they were right.

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    Good luck America, the lunatics are running the asylum and that’s not going to be good for anyone.

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    12 days ago

    This guy already has a body count and he will kill and kill again.

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        Fwiw, Autism Speaks eventually shifted their official position and they now endorse vaccination, and no longer fund research trying to find/prove non-existent links between vaccines and autism.

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    13 days ago

    Gonna be an interesting few years if you get another pandemic. The man is batshit.

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    Ok so, when you intend to run a dictatorship and let people suffer at the expense of idiots with actual dead brain worms in their head it’s important to remember that if you kill off people’s children and loved ones and others survive - the ones that survive typically lose their “civility” and take matters into their own hands.

    All it takes is one member of the secret service to lose someone that matters to them by something this administration causes for the administration to be done with.

    At some point, the people guarding the vault will realize that they can distribute the vault amongst themselves and get rid of the individual who owns the vault.

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      The level of propaganda in this country - not only in “legacy” media, but the algorithms on “social” media - is so fine-tuned that they could probably get most people that went through that kind of tragedy to still want to put Fauci in prison and/or kill him.

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      I was just discussing this with a conservative relative. It’s meet in the middle in dead agreement territory.

      A lot if the tariffed Chinesium is going to be PC parts. Think of your mouse. I paid $10 for my ergonomic mouse with extra buttons. I had to replace it last year and it was $15. The guesstimates have prices doubled. Who wants to pay $30 for an $10 mouse? Those increases add up in trying to keep your entertainment source alive. My point is people already can’t buy groceries.

      They’re working very hard to shut down streaming sites like fmovies. Everything has subscription fee now, even single news articles. Again, people can’t afford to buy groceries.

      The last time people were bored with nothing left to do we had riots. In the name of a cause that deserved justice, yes, but the not having anything else to do part contributed a lot to the number of people outside, and stealing diapers.

      They’re creating an environment that will prime people for pushing back by simply taking away free and cheap entertainment.

      Pushing further on the rest (groceries, healthcare, workers rights) is just an ignition switch. We all feel it. That’s the sense of impending doom thats been lurking all year.

      Healthcare upheaval would be a societal nuke at this point.

      And yet that’s where Trump wants to go. And that’s where my conservative relative and I split. Oh no, T is going to solve the problems. Seriously. That was said.

      So politically, we agree an ignition point is approaching. We don’t agree on whether Trump will ignite it or diffuse it.

      Interesting times suck.

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        They’re are only two things I can guarantee Trump desires: self-preservation, and his daughter.

        He wanted the presidency to avoid prison and it worked. I assume he’ll use the military to protect himself and his interests above anything else.

        After that? I don’t really think he cares.

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          Well yes. This is why he picked a dipshit Yes Man for the DoD. So there would be nothing stopping him from turning the American military on Americans.

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      What this reminds me of is all the fucking weirdoes, scam artists, racists, and conspiracy theorists that came to prominence during Obama’s campaign and during his two terms, being put in office as donvict’s revenge against smart people that laughed at him. Donvict looked around at things like Failin’ Palin and Michele Bachmann and the circus of the teabaggers and thought - “I want people like those people to have power”

      Remember Orly Taitz? A podcast I listened to did a “where are they now?” on that clown, and she is still alive. I’m surprised dipshit donvict didn’t give her a role in his maladministration. My guess is that she was more or less laughed off the TV at some point and donvict forgot about her, but donvict, who engaged in the exact same birther bullshit, was given a platform, so he bullshitted his way into office on white male anger over the fact that Obama got TWO terms and no, he wasn’t a “Kenyan usurper”.

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      Shouldn’t have wished to live in more interesting times.

      If only the times we lived in were actually interesting instead of boring, tedious, and deadly.

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        Even the rockets and global satellite internet thing that objectively is kind of awesome is completely ruined by just having the worst people involved. Although I guess it’s classic USA to have your rockets being built by Nazis.

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          "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

          That’s not my department, " says Wernher von Braun.

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            Just wanted to point out how awesome Tom Lehrer (wikipedia) is as a musician/satirist/teacher as well as just a decent human – he relinquished all copyright ownership over his music catalog and currently* has his songs, sheet music and lyrics available for free download at https://tomlehrersongs.com/.

            Here’s the link to Wernher Von Braun where the parent lyrics come from.

            *At the bottom of the homepage is the note:

            NOTICE:
            THIS WEBSITE WILL BE SHUT DOWN AT SOME DATE IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, SO IF YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD ANYTHING, DON’T WAIT TOO LONG.

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          Eh, I’m done thinking rockets are awesome. We’re busy burning the one planet we have down and we’re not learning enough in my opinion from space science to be justifying the pollution it creates. The Starlink satellites are creating way more space junk than we need and risk creating a Kessler syndrome.

          We can worry about space when we’ve handled climate change and mass extinction and topsoil depletion and so on. Until then, it’s just wasting fucking time and energy.

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            The Starlink satellites are creating way more space junk than we need and risk creating a Kessler syndrome.

            Sorta good news on that front. Starlink satellites are in such a low orbit that without regular boosting of their orbit they re-enter in short measure. The bad news is that means there are hundreds of pounds of e-waste re-entering and burning up on a regular basis and there have been studies suggesting it’s damaging the ozone layer.

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            Yeah, I’m leaning towards the same, even though I loved all this space stuff as a kid. Not wanting to sound overly dramatic, but it’s like seeing Musk stealing your childhood or something like that.

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    THIS ASSHOLE AGAIN.

    Imagine a world where this asshat managed to hold up the lifesaving vaccination. The fact that donvict killed more Americans than anyone else in history infuriates me as it is, but the fact that dickhead thinks he has standing for something like this. Just the fucking balls. The sense of fucking baseless entitlement …JFC.