When flu season starts this autumn it’s going to be chaotic I feel, be careful everyone, limit time around people, mask up, eat healthy and rest well too please.
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Which is probably exactly what they want
At this point the entire CDC is a farce.
Classic republican fashion.
Destroy a system by removing funding, removing the most knowledgeable, or adding in cronies as a “non partisan” ploy
See that suddenly said system is no longer working
Claim “SEe tHe SysTeM NEveR WOrked”
Proceed to fully dismantle and defund said system.
Fuck republicans, fuck MAGA, and Fuck RFK.
We be doomed.
Republicans' pitch has always been: Government doesn't work. Elect us and we'll prove it.
That's the secret with a starve the beast tactic. Either your funding cuts don't impact performance so you can claim there was bloat or your cuts ruin the program so you can say it needs to be dismantled.
Curious what the end game is here. What is ultimately driving the desire to effectively accelerate preventable diseases? The nihilistic side of me is on board, but the realistic and empathetic side of me simply cannot spin a single positive goal out of it.
I guess it’s the whole MAGA “it doesn’t have to make sense, it just needs to stay on message” thing.
Crazy
The nihilistic side of me is on board
What is it that you think nihilism is? Kind of bullshit that it's so often used as shorthand for "person that does a dark depraved thing".
That's not what nihilism is.
Not sure how that was misinterpreted there. Basically the exact initial core definition of it. The belief that nothing fundamentally matters, the values of life in general are cosmically irrelevant, that coupled with the idea that humans are a plague on the planet. Should the population become halved or eradicated by diseases that could have been prevented, I wouldn’t protest.
But it was a tongue-in-cheek comment, on the internet, on a random post on a little used social media platform.
I see it as likely either:
- Wanting to murder wide swaths of the population so that they are less worried about uprisings.
- The Evangelical Doomsday Cult wanting to maximize harm to humanity so that they can bring about their Armageddon.
They're trying to increase their own power by squeezing the existing power entirely into the least amount of oligarchs possible because less people is less people they have to care about to get paid. That or the less people they have to kill to own everything themselves.. or both.
Trump, and MAGA by extension, are actively courting every form of extremist they can. That is the game plan.
Might as well not even have a vaccine panel with the anti-science nuts it is filled with now.