• TooManyFoods@lemmy.world
    4·
    16 hours ago

    The thing is, a lot of them aren’t being sarcastic. They literally could not believe it, at least when they liked the government, so they didn’t.

  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
    91·
    1 day ago

    It’s ok I’ve lived through enough trauma in my life that further trauma won’t actually make my behaviors worse. I’ll just sleep less and eat less, no way that can be unhealthy.

    • someguy3@lemmy.world
      11·
      21 hours ago

      The Reagan administration purposely ignored HIV.

      As gay men, transgender women, and LGBT people in general were disproportionately afflicted with AIDS, some critics have suggested that Reagan’s lack of action was motivated by homophobia, though other commentators have put forth alternate explanations such as political inconvenience or ignorance. A common belief at the time held that AIDS was a “gay plague”, and many social conservatives of the time, including some in the White House, believed the response to the crisis should center homosexuality as a moral failing. Reagan’s response to AIDS is generally viewed negatively by LGBT and AIDS activists, as well as epidemiologists, while some commentators and scholars have defended aspects of his AIDS response. Criticism of Reagan’s AIDS policies led to the creation of art condemning the government’s inaction such as The Normal Heart, as well as invigorating a new wave of the gay rights movement.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_and_AIDS

        • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
          11·
          1 day ago

          Watch

          It will be all of them. Then he’ll introduce something that has a brainworm parasite in it to “cure” it. The animorph brain work thing.

          I’m telling you guys, that “dead” brainworm ain’t dead.

          • gift_of_gab@lemmy.world
            6·
            23 hours ago

            I don’t think people understand how bad measles is:

            Furthermore, measles’s reproductive number estimates vary beyond the frequently cited range of 12 to 18.[17] The NIH quote this 2017 paper saying: “[a] review in 2017 identified feasible measles R0 values of 3.7–203.3”

            The measles virus can deplete previously acquired immune memory by killing cells that make antibodies, and thus weakens the immune system, which can cause deaths from other diseases.[42][43][44] Suppression of the immune system by measles lasts about two years and has been epidemiologically implicated in up to 90% of childhood deaths in third world countries, and historically may have caused rather more deaths in the United States, the UK and Denmark than were directly caused by measles.

            Just wait until a third of the US doesn’t vaccinate for it – you’re going to have 1980’s levels of deaths to it, and it will be mostly children.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        2·
        19 hours ago

        So here’s what you’re gonna do. You test. And you spread factual information. Oh and you protest. Good news is people won’t be frothing at the mouth celebrating your death, getting folks to not celebrate us dying was like half the battle.

        Oh and an old prostitute once told me that after enough of her friends died she just broke and walked to another city (like days of walking distance). It’s not a good plan A, but don’t throw the idea out prematurely

        • gift_of_gab@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 hours ago

          I’m in Canada, and I do most of those things already, but this is great advice in general. I warn specifically about Measels because I have family who (thankfully, were) immune to the vaccine, so they’d get warnings from doctors like “we’ve seen a rise in people not vaccinating so… avoid bringing (my cousin) to large gatherings of people like concerts, and try to keep them in schools with higher vaccination rates.” They’re teenaged and were finally able to get the vaccine to work (I don’t have the details, just that it worked) but my cousin missed seeing Raffi because some conservative fucks decided they didn’t care enough about children dying to vaccinate theirs.

      • EABOD25@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        1 day ago

        Good statistic to look up for my community. Thanks. And yes. I did not consider the AIDs epidemic

      • MintyFresh@lemmy.world
        15·
        1 day ago

        He was a short lived mascot for burger king meant to compete with Ronald McDonald. His constant talk of things trickling down however made mothers with small children nervous and uncomfortable. He was axed in favour of an Al Bundy themed line of iced teas.

      • EABOD25@lemm.eeEnglish
        36·
        1 day ago

        Ok. I’ve already admitted my mistake, but you tell me how this references the Reagan era in any way.

        • blackbelt352@lemmy.world
          141·
          1 day ago

          Reagan purposefully let an epidemic kill Americans because he didn’t like gay people existing and was courting the religious right wing.

          He knew it was killing American citizens, and withheld any kind of relief to the affected or funding into research the better understand it. But it was killing gay people more than straight people anyway, why stop it if it’s going to rally the religious people, who cares if some other non-gay people get caught in the epidemic? Thats just the price for making america great again. and yes that was a Ronald Reagan slogan first.