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    12 days ago

    Just as expected, if you elect parasites to office you get parasite friendly policies.

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    Didn’t RFK have a brain parasite at one point? His parasite advocacy makes a lot more sense if you consider that he really might just be a brain worm piloting a vaguely human shaped mecha.

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      11 days ago

      The trouble is, the source of the brain worm story was … him. So if you believe it, you’re taking a brain-worm-victim’s word on his condition.

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        The brain worm story came up during a divorce trial. He argued that the worm lowered his income potential and he should pay less alimony.

        Also he didn’t have an actual worm munching at his brain. What he had was a tapeworm cyst. When a tapeworm egg is ingested they hatch as larvae that will pass through the intestinal wall and migrate, usually to the muscles, where they form these cysts. If something eats the meat with the cyst then the worm will pop out and turn into an adult. Now the worms don’t really control where they will end up so sometimes they can end up in the brain or the liver or other organs. The cyst can remain for a few years but eventually it will die.

        The tapeworm egg could have ended up in his gut in a few ways. He could have had an adult tapeworm and picked up some of the eggs it lays by not washing his hands properly. He could have eaten vegetables that were fertilized with human feces and which were not washed properly. He could have ate someone’s butthole and that person had a tapeworm.

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          I sincerely doubt he bothers to wash his hands if he was being serious about snorting coke from random toilet seats.

          That’s not even the most disgusting thing that he’s said either. I think it’s safe to assume personal hygiene isn’t at the top of his priorities.

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    America is what happens to every corporation when the middle management have finally all been promoted over the threshold of their actual abilities.

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        The Peter principle states that a person who is competent at their job will earn a promotion to a position that requires different skills. If the promoted person lacks the skills required for the new role, they will be incompetent at the new level, and will not be promoted again.

        Does not check out. People keep failing upwards, often to the very top. 🥹

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    If nothing else, their incompetence will give us all the proof we need about why these agencies need to be run by experts and why they need to exist and be funded. I never thought I’d see the day we had to learn the hard way why greed and selfishness can’t be left to run amok. Sounds exactly the way right teaches their kids, the hard way.

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      We already knew all of that. The problem is that under capitalism, the rich make the rules. Until we supplant the capitalist class with a working class government, we will continue to see policies that put money ahead of people.

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      these agencies need to be run by experts

      What experts? The NIH was defunded. 10,000 post docs have left the country. People are retiring or exiting science. No other countries are taking up the slack.

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          The point is while people have been sleeping, Trump has killed science from the very front end of the pipeline of what produces experts. Experts are retiring in droves, and those mid-career are exiting science because they have no future. USA has NO CLUE how bad this is. A lot of science going on in the background keeping you safe is GONE.

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    What a disgrace, considering that just a year and a half ago, the CDC was one of the most important medical organizations in the world.

    The blatant incompetence and boundless greed of this regime are not only responsible for diarrhea and the decline of the U.S. as a center of scientific excellence: the decisions made by these criminals are directly causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

    It is irreparable damage—the kind no one could have anticipated amid this absurdity. The lesson is clear: the U.S. cannot be trusted, as the unscrupulousness of its leaders knows no bounds.

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      Oh, I anticipated all of this. What I didn’t anticipate was how quickly the fall of Rome the United States of America would take place.

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        Yes, it was foreseeable that the MAGA fascists would ruthlessly enrich themselves, and also that there was an immediate danger they would do everything in their power to establish a full-fledged autocracy in place of the usual oligarchy with a veneer of democracy -which is exactly what they are doing.

        Nevertheless, I think the degree of ruthlessness with which these criminals are operating caught the world completely off guard: Many countries, for example, followed the guidelines issued by the CDC right up until the very end - regarding countless medical procedures, such as preventing infections with nosocomial pathogens during catheter insertion, etc.

        No one could have foreseen that this globally important organization would be completely and senselessly dismantled -which is exactly what this deranged conspiracy theorist, who was appointed secretary of health without any expertise whatsoever, did: The CDC effectively no longer exists; at any rate, it is now merely a shadow of its former self, as countless scientists were simply fired for trying to oppose the outrageous nonsense that Kennedy is propagating - this no longer has the slightest connection to science, which is why no reputable scientist can support this course of action.

        It is simply utter madness! Now the world must reorganize itself, which will take years, if not decades.

        And this is just one of countless crimes this terrorist regime is committing against humanity. It is plunging the world into chaos so that the billionaires behind this regime can enrich themselves even more than they already do - by brute force, by nothing but the law of the jungle.

        All of this results in a regression of civilization and robs humanity of achievements that took a very long time to build - from international law to climate protection agreements, humanitarian efforts, and international cooperation in the scientific sector.

        I don’t think anyone could have expected this to happen, because it is nothing short of insanity.

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      just a year and a half ago, the CDC was one of the most important medical organizations in the world.

      It was just a matter of time before we treated the CDC like the SEC or the EPA.

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      Zaphod wasn’t supposed to have actual power, this is what happens when you give the con men the keys to the kingdom

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    I’ve thought about this since the beginning, they’re trying to cull us without having to do it with their own hands. They know exactly what they’re doing when they stop monitoring things like dangerous, deadly parasites.

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    Fun fact: Your asshole makes the same exact movement as your mouth does for both ‘poop’ and ‘explosive diarrhea’.

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    If this system is what I think it is, it’s the wastewater monitoring, which was a tool that helped with monitoring Covid. Remember, if we don’t test, the rates drop.