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    Fears? How about “knows” it will be set back. Fuck this motherfucking timeline. Get me off! Seriously, someone please get me off so I can feel relieved.

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    Would disabled people also be considered to be part of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion? Don’t we offer support for autistic and neuro-divergant individuals in the work place?

    The sad thing is, as health in America falls further by the way side, because it hasn’t been good for a long time (see the obesity chart below), than more people will become excluded under this anti-DEI policy. If you have any needs or support requirements then they will be considered a weakness against your ‘merit’.

    Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity-adult-17-18/obesity-adult.htm

    Btw, we only know this because the CDC published it. Hope that doesn’t stop happening 😬

    The actions taken by this government seem to come from philosophies of individualism such as comparing and judging the ‘merit’ of two or more people, or the desire to shut down supportive welfare services creating an ‘each man for himself’ type environment. This reveals the mind of the people behind the policy who clearly prioritise their own individual needs and desires over others, and to justify it, they want everyone else to do the same.

    But being that small minded is not possible for some. Some people cant help but worry about the welfare of the whole planet, everyone on it and future generations.

    A good leader never stops wondering if all the needs of their people are being met. A wide sense and awareness of humanity is needed that extends beyond the bounds of the individual’s genetic or cultural sphere.

    Even Nationalism is no longer viable because we have global issues like climate change. An ‘America first’ attitude is an Earth last attitude. I know geography is hard, bear with me, but Earth is an important ally for national security! 😉

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      Here here. I have long taken solace in that fact. Any society built around that would fail, human beings don’t work like that. We form communities to take care and better each other.

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    RFK’s voice is concerning, I’ve heard injecting bleach is good for that.

    Just buckets of it. You really gotta go to town. Scientists hate when I say this, RFK, so they’re probably just huge pussies who can’t take it like you can.

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    I’m am so fucking furious that Harris got 6 million less votes than Biden.

    Sure, she was a terrible candidate, but how in the world did Trump not motivate people to vote for her?

    Those 6 million people had to be afraid of what was coming, right? I thought Trump motivated people to vote for Biden. I sure as shit didn’t vote for him with any enthusiasm. I was personally terrified that he’d have a mental decline and hand everything back to Trump, and, well, that’s exactly what happened.

    It all just blows my mind.

    Maybe after the world burns down and the people of the future build the next Rome, they’ll use some examples from all of this.

    I doubt it though. They’d get it perfect and some cult would spring up and shoot it to shit again. I swear it’s hard not to be a nihilist when humanity just goes in circles. For every 100 decent people there’s one monster who crushes them all because he never thinks about what other people might go through. He only thinks about himself and everyone else pays for it.

    I’m also angry as shit that all of the people who stormed the capitol are just off the hook. A few days before they were pardoned my uncle was saying, “He won’t pardon them all. They’ll look at it case by case.” I said, “ok, when he pardons them all I hope that you hear what I’m saying when I say his ego is bigger than his interest in making our country better. I would bet my balls on the fact that it will be a blanket pardon.”

    “We’ll, they’ve got this woman who was talking about looking case by case on Fox the other day…”

    “They’re lying. He’ll pardon them all.” I said.

    He and I will be working together this week. I bet he justifies it. Maybe not, but it’s too late now anyway. The damage is done, is being done, and will not stand a chance of being undone in my lifetime.

    Sorry for this. My brain just hurts. I worry for all of these people who will have their lives ripped apart. It just sucks.

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        I do believe that’s part of it, which kind of bums me out that we didn’t have a primary vs Trump.

        Oh well.

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        We talked today but he didn’t bring it up.

        Tuesday we’re supposed be repairing plumbing somewhere so I’ll bring it up if he don’t.

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      She could have got those votes if she had shown any kind of backbone on israel. Depite how the media and all of those corrupt people try to spin it. The majority of the silent majority can see that situation for what it really is. She came out the day before election day saying she would put a end to it and it was way too late.

      Edit: Where in my statement did I say I didn’t vote for her? I voted for her but ignoring why a lot of people didn’t won’t help. Not acknowledging how badly she handled the situation is kinda stupid.

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      They keep trying to get the moderate vote for the same reason they are so baffled why people see luigi as a hero. They are clueless.

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      At the end of the day saying vote for me because the other guy’s worse is never going to inspire voters. Elections about getting people to vote for you. It’s as simple as that, you have to sell people on you. They have to vote for you. That’s an incontrovertible rule of politics that will never be overcome and the Democrats don’t fucking understand it.

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          Barely. The loss in 2016 and the tight race in 2020 wasn’t enough to sound the alarms. They still tried to win with Harris because she wasn’t Trump, instead of finding a worthy candidate.

          Sorry, man. I despised Harris but still preferred her to win, hands down. But Democrats have only themselves to blame. Trying to blame the voters who refused to vote in Harris just because she wasn’t Trump in dishonest and anti-democratic. It’s the exact posture that will keep enabling Democrats to come forward with these crappy candidates and (unsuccessfully) blackmailing the progressist voters to vote for them.

          Thus, the exact posture that allows Trump to win.

          Third party voters didn’t cost Harris the election. But if it did, you’d better your ass the Democrats would take the next election seriously. And they would win.

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            Lot of words to pretend he didn’t win 2020 by going “don’t you want stability? Aren’t you tired of the bullshit?” His entire campaign was “bring the adults back, get rid of Trump.”

            I never mentioned third party voters I don’t get why you’re grinding that axe

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      she was a terrible candidate, but how in the world did Trump not motivate people to vote for her?

      Easy, as you said: she was a terrible candidate

      They wanted to get that first woman “status quo” president again. It lost them more votes than it won. I can’t believe they didn’t even have another round of primaries.

      When they shut out bernie they really fucked the party. This timeline is their fault as much as anyone else’s.

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        AOC would have been a better “woman” candidate

        The problem was that they needed someone to the right of Biden

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        You’re goddamn right about that. I have voted for Bernie every time I could.

        In the beginning of the last primary when he had that lead for like a week, I was so happy that I cried every time I heard “front runner Bernie Sanders”.

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        Dems are controlled opposition and everyone knows it.

        I still vote for them, at least until a better alternative comes along. But we have to build better systems because the establishment will not save us.

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      will not stand a chance of being undone in my lifetime

      I feel that in my bones. There’s so much backward progress, that it feels like I’ll never see any fruit of what I’m fighting for; just trying to regain some ground at this point. I’ve given up on my own timeline and am simply fighting for future generations. I may never see it, but I’ll be damned if I concede

      It still hurts though, seeing how much progress is being lost and feeling helpless to stop the backslide. It’s mind-numbing to think about, honestly

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    I don’t understand why someone rich like Brainworms even wants to meddle with our health system. Not only does he have no qualifications, but doesn’t he have better ways to spend his time?

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    Do y’all remember when “HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy” would have been a punchline?

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        How can we have our circle jerks if we have women mocking our masculinity all the time? You know what they say, a dude’s hand on your dick is worth two women in the kitchen. Praise Jesus.

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      autistic people have a community and share skills / strategies / ways to compensate / ways to communicate their needs without feeling or being treated like inferior beings

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          the quality of community can reasonably be expected to get worse as the government invents their own understanding of autism based on flimflam and bullshit, thereby worsening diagnostics, inviting fake cures, and creating new and stupider stigmas

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          They’re talking about the years its taken to fix the damage caused by one ass-hat saying autism is caused by vaccines. There have been hundreds of studies showing there is no link. Stop wasting time and resources on this, and use it to study other possibilities.

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            I once heard that autistic people are us evolving. That with autistic people they are great at one thing, just lack in others. Don’t know if true or not, but nevertheless autism isn’t something that should be cured. That like saying they will cure gay people. I am tired of these fucking assholes trying to halt progress. Can we please keep this motherfucker out?

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            The (false) link is damaging to vaccine programs but it has no impact on the perception of Autism. Why should Autism communities care more than anyone else?

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              Personal story. My daughter is on the spectrum, non verbal. When my father found out, he told me I was a terrible parent for vaccinating my kids.

              I think autistic people have a right to be upset that these fucking monsters are saying “don’t vaccinate, or you could end up being like them” The target for this are vaccines, but they’re using autism as the bogeyman

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      Standard “treatments” moving away from what would be referred to in most other contexts as abuse. Seriously, it’s messed up what they used to do.