• 0x0@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    They’re not dying, they’re just earning Darwin Awards.

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      22 hours ago

      Really wish you guys would stop subscribing to eugenics as an own against fascists. I know you’re gonna say it isn’t, because you guys always do, but the obvious joke here is that they’re stupid and make stupid decisions because they are stupid and are purged from the collective genepool because they are stupid. Do you seriously not see the problem with reproducing the notion that political and cultural forces are in fact consistent with the natural world, or that people who are “stupid” are weak and unfit to be part of human evolution?

      Yes, anti-science beliefs are not a sign of scientific (or emotional) literacy, and the people who refuse medical science on the basis of politics likely do not understand either topic very well. It is worth noting that the recent Ebola outbreak in the DRC was met with violence from locals who did not trust the medical institution (and this has happened before), which also results from a misunderstanding of what that institution is and how it works: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/29/g-s1-124359/ebola-outbreak-trust-death-burial-democratic-republic-congo. Their mistrust is also earned by centuries of EuroAmerican imperialism and decades of capitalization on the material and political insecurities in the DRC.

      There is certainly good reason to attribute more responsibility to privileged white people in the US imperial metropole, but your joke makes the exact opposite point, which is that people who are too “stupid” to accept medical science are naturally inferior to those who do. Can you see the problem with taking that assertion for granted as a “joke?”

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          19 hours ago

          Yeah. This is where I’m at.

          They burned through all my goodwill. And I really did used to have some set aside for them.

          Now I really don’t care if they die. Sounds like a them problem.

        • orioler25@lemmy.world
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          22 hours ago

          Yes. I give a shit about challenging racism, genocide, or any other forms of naturalized violence under colonialism and capitalism. Apathy is for liberals.

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        19 hours ago

        Hey… if you think choosing RFK’s “scientific” advice is being illiterate when it was clearly a political stance who am i to judge… you’re wasting your keyboard though, i have absolutely no sympathy for those who show none and applaud any moron who thinks drinking bleach will cleanse COVID because some incompetent businessman - not a doctor - said so.

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          Love that you couldn’t even control yourself long enough to read up to how this connects to racism and colonialism and decided instead to admit that you don’t care if you advocate for white supremacy to own the MAGAts.

          It’s fine to call them stupid, dummy, it’s bad to assert that intelligence is naturalized and unfit members of society deserve to be purged from existence. News flash: that is anti-science (and science and anti-science are both political btw), dicknuts.

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    22 hours ago

    Both of my conservative parents died because they ignored their doctors and thought they knew better than professionals.

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    Why are you still trying to convince these idiots medicine is good? Just let them die

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    I bet rich conservatives aren’t. Because for them it’s just a grift and they will get the newest stemcell medicine as fast as possible regardless.

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    Can we make this a law?

    Partisans have to follow ideological discipline… if conservative, you must:

    not get vaccines
    Not have abortions
    Not be allowed subsidized food or health care
    Follow all tenets of your Christian religion
    Etc…

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        As long as also the liberals follow the same law practing what they preach, it would be interesting to see who will survive in the end.

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          it would be interesting to see who will survive in the end.

          This isn’t even a debate. Liberals, because they listen to scientific experts. And they’re more likely to achieve a higher eductaion.

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          I fully agree, but am having trouble coming up with examples for the liberals like i could for the conservatives…

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      I knew at least 10 Conservative people who are now dead because of their devotion to the prosperity gospel. Problem is, once they were too sick for it to matter, they begged for medical attention, which you and I paid for.

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    19 hours ago

    The “I Don’t Give A Fuck About Anyone But Myself” crowd is dying at higher rates?

    Well that’s just, um, well…you know.

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    Oh, the regime will make sure we catch up. I’ll give it another 5 years, modern medicine will be available only to the very rich.

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    23 hours ago

    “By the 2020s, conservatives were dying at significantly higher rates than liberals, with the gap concentrated in internal causes (for example, heart disease, cancer and stroke). The divide since 2020 is substantial: while only 0.2% of ‘very liberal’ respondents died of internal causes between 2020 and 2022, the probability for people who identified as ‘very conservative’ was 1.14 percentage points higher (P = 0.021; 95% confidence interval (CI), (0.18, 2.11)). This gap is not limited to deaths from COVID-19 and is not reducible to demographic or geographic differences between the groups, nor is it a pure function of ageing: previous cohorts’ death patterns in older data did not show a similar correlation between health and ideology before 2010.”

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    Not all conservatives I know are smokers but 99% of the smokers I know are conservative.