Among the many vectors of attack against Medicare for All my personal favorite was the “but think of all the insurance jobs we’d lose if we put the insurance industry out of business.”
Which as they come was memorable because A) it was so cynical and brazen and B) it contained them fully admitting a public option would bankrupt them, which is 100% unvarnished truth from a nest of vipers. Nice!
Anyways back to the idea that giving people healthcare is actually immoral because it takes a job out of the mouth of the working American.
Just imagine. Imagine for a minute. Imagine if we indulged these batshit conservative ghouls for a month. Imagine if everyone took “personal responsibility” and dialed back our consumer spending on anything unhealthy.
This country makes unhealthy shit like its real goal is to manufacture bad health outcomes. It’s brazen. If we boycotted bad shit there’d be nothing to buy! So boo hoo and sorry for all the workers at Nestlé or Con Agra or whatever if such an event comes to pass. Whole industries would heave and collapse like mountain ranges. Rip, bozos.
Its all eugenics! Euginicists from the top down!He does know. They all know. They just want to kill disabled people without consequence.
Mr. Brainworm might actually be that stupid. Rich and powerful have genuinely wacky ideas on health. Remember Steve Jobs killed himself by not seeking oncological help for his cancer.
It’s two fold. These ghouls are devoid of both brains and morality.
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T-Minus a couple months out from telling cancer patients to do a juice cleanse.
“Steve Jobs did it, so it clearly was the right thing to d-what do you mean the cancer killed him”
Yeah he was rich and invented computers, his treatment is the only true treatment.
How did this pseudoscientific alternative medicine bullshit get so mainstream?
Dark Money
The failures of capitalism not being recognized as the faults of capitalism so people try to rationalize the world around them without the help of material analysis and also Oprah.
Why is Oprah popular and why do so many dark things being popular start with her?
She is popular because she claims to have come from poverty so she is the bootstrap queen. Also she very publicly struggled and won against obesity, credit where credit is due.
The dark things on her show come from a woo mindset. Her audience wants easy answers like seeing Drs Phil and Oz talk complete shit easy solutions to complex problems. So she ends up with murderous cult leaders on sometimes when they’re getting started, because they offer the same bullshit.
She is popular because she claims to have come from poverty so she is the bootstrap queen. Also she very publicly struggled and won against obesity, credit where credit is due.
I feel like this isn’t a total explanation. I know many people who are poor and have lost weight, but they don’t have a giant audience for it.
She was the first black woman to host (and eventually produce) a nationally syndicated talkshow. Not only that, it was one of the first talkshows not focused on celebrity gossip and entertainment promotion. Oprah zeroed in on social issues and problems faced by everyday people, something no one else was doing outside of dedicated news programs. And it was being done on daytime TV when cable was still new.
Unfortunately, she lacks material analysis and her class interests became aligned with capital. Because of this, Oprah can’t identify problems and solutions the way socialists can. This always leads to woo-woo shit, just like how liberalism always decays into fascism.
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Are they incredibly charismatic? Do they make you feel like you’ve always been best friends when you met them? She’s a talented entertainer, she’s just unleashed a lot of dogshit into humanity. She probably means well. Eh.
I’ve never watched the show and such qualities were not included in the list of why she was popular. The clips I’ve seen make my skin crawl.
The OG Nazis also believed in all sorts of quackery.
Medicine is privatized and thus too expensive for many people, so they cope with hokum.
I have no idea how this happens to rich people who can actually afford to go to the doctor.
The rich people find it attractive because it harmonizes with their eugenic and personal responsibility-focused understanding of society.
Capitalism is also hyperindividualising, so they become convinced they don’t need to rely on doctors or experts.
i think it’s a chicken-egg thing. everyone is terrified of being bankrupted by going to the doctor, even if it’s more subconscious, visceral thing.
"so it can’t be the system because i am told through threat of death and imprisonment that the system is the only one that works
so it has to be the doctors and experts. who else could it be?" - normie thought process
plus since the entire process is designed to drain your wallet (required every 30 day visits for ADHD meds, layers of specialists, surprise bills) some people just self-medicate. Some of these people are even somewhat educated in doing so. doors are slammed shut and you seek alternatives (trans women getting hormones, myself).
Inevitably you end up submerged in the same hokum communities just to keep up with safe sources (kratom is a great example of this, full of anti-regulation hippie CHUDs and for good reason)
What do you mean about kratom? I take it to decrease my cravings for alcohol, I used to be a severe alcoholic. But I don’t have a clue what a hippie CHUD is.
kratom is fine but the community around it’s discussion is swirling with the same right wing poisoned anti-medical science types. because of lack of access to pain medication and health care people get sucked into that world
I see what you mean, thanks.
everyone is terrified of being bankrupted by going to the doctor, even if it’s more subconscious, visceral thing.
But what’s weird and what I’m confused about is how rich people get like this.
RFK Jr has never even once in his entire life been worried about going bankrupt because he had to go to the doctor, so what the fuck is happening in his brain that’s making him like this?
See also: Steve Jobs killing himself by drinking smoothies instead of getting treatment for his cancer.
Pure ego fueled by capitalist dogma and contrarianism. Capitalists view people’s worth according to how much money they have instead of viewing human beings as inherently valuable. They eventually have more money than doctors, who they start to look down on the same way petite bourgeois and chuds look down on cashiers, janitors, mechanics, and so on.
When doctors don’t give them answers they want to hear, the wealthy start thinking doctors are wrong and they can figure things out on their own. After all, “If a doctor was smart, wouldn’t they be rich like me? They aren’t so therefore they’re no different than unskilled labor!”
And because they have to do the opposite of what the doctor tells them, they get into conspiracy woo-woo fuckery. Couple this with being surrounded by people whose jobs depend on being liked, these capitalists get nothing but praise and ass kissing, reinforcing their illusions of being geniuses.
Right wingers in general are susceptible to magical thinking and insane theories on things. The marriage between their religious/political dogma and it’s susceptibility to stuff like numerology or finding symbolism/hidden meanings in things that aren’t there (Qanon is the best example but they froth at the mouth at anything these days) is perfectly paired with woo alt medicine bullshit. It all perfectly lines up.
You see rightists believing in woo in countries where healthcare isn’t overly expensive like AmeriKKKa too. The Americans have spread these ideas all over due to the internet.
So, look, the highest levels of the federal government is being run by con men. Not the typical con men that normally run it, but, like, every day snake oil salesmen who want to realign your chakras with crystals made of cast molded acrylic. I’ve known chiropractors claiming they could cure- not manage, CURE- T1D with spinal adjustment and oral vitamins, which, of course, they’d be happy to sell to you for the low low price of $100/mo. Sounds crazy, but I think the reason why alternative medicine is so big in the US is that, relatively speaking, it’s much more affordable and accessible than the evidence based stuff. Only it’s now hit enough of a critical mass of con men, big business, and support in the population and government that it’s going to start eating evidence based medicine to break into the profits there. And I think they’re gonna do it, because the medical field is largely reacting to this the same way that centrists do right before Trump bulldozes them: scoff, disbelief, appealing to shame (which doesn’t work on the shameless). Scoff and awe, you might call it. They’re not organizing a meaningful resistance because they don’t yet fully believe this is really going to happen to them, and won’t believe it until it does.
Start your own cooking show then a******
“Homeless people should just get a house. What is wrong with people these days? I mean look at cancer patients, have they tried not having cancer? It’s not rocket surgery here folks…”
Trump after being shown every angle of JFK’s assassination and the implication being totally lost on him.
”I just wouldn’t have gotten shot “
Praise nurgle!
Hell my wife has type 2, but her body produces almost no insulin and she has to supplement with both insulin and drugs that stimulate the little insulin production her pancreas is capable of. We can eat perfectly, and her sugars will still be fucked without her medicine. The medicine means she doesn’t hit 300 from eating veggies and meat, but it still spikes no matter what she eats.
Meat and veg contain nearly no carbs though. Insulin is the “key” allowing for cells to uptake glucose, aka carbs, from the blood to make ATP. So a rise in ones blood glucose after a meal of just meat and veg doesn’t exactly make sense. I’m type I, so my islet cells have been killed off by my immune system, meaning I can’t produce insulin. Type II is associated with the cellular insulin receptors not working as efficiently, which the body attempts to fix by increasing insulin production. Unfortunately, this increased metabolic demand leads to dysfunctional islet cells over time due to the prolonged cell stress. I know it’s a small thing, but diabetes is an invasive disease and the more you know, the better control one can maintain! Maybe check the sauces used in the meat and veg meal? This is likely the source of the carbs leading to the high blood glucose level after eating.
No, no he doesn’t.
I don’t think knowing the difference would help him. I think he’s totally fucked.
What’s up, is insulin expensive to make or something?
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