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This is why we must freeze USDA funding, halt all public health communications from our federal government, and urgently (TOP PRIORITY!!!) scrub all mentions of
by llamaimperative 2y ago
This is why we must freeze USDA funding, halt all public health communications from our federal government, and urgently (TOP PRIORITY!!!) scrub all mentions of the word "women" from every public-facing piece of scientific content we can find.
- Xunjin 2y agoI hope they stop this cultural war and focus on the real problems that actually affects the population,for example, high prices.
- llamaimperative 2y ago[flagged]
- UncleMeat 2y agoMusk and Trump have both publicly said that people will need to accept higher prices.
- llamaimperative 2y ago(After getting elected on promises to lower prices on day one)
- Xunjin 2y agoI'm not doubtful that happened, but could you provide a source?
- asveikau 2y agoThe recording I saw was Trump saying we need to accept pain. He's asked frequently why his actions make very little sense and he typically responds incoherently.
- tzs 2y agoI don't have a specific cite but I saw it in quotes from when he was announcing 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico. He said they could cause price increases and pain in the US but that they would cause more pain in Canada and Mexico.
- verdverm 2y agoIts in one of his screeds on Truth or Musk Social Colbert has a good bit and quip about it
- dekhn 2y agoTrump said it directly in a news conference. https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-trade-surplus-3010e6368545e2976feb5ac6b41e528e https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china... "We may have short-term, a little pain, and people understand that,"
- butlike 2y agoPlease stop the precedent of saying both their names in the same breath
- SketchySeaBeast 2y agoThey seem to be joined at the hip now, what with Elon being granted carte blanche. If it helps, I prefer "fat man and little boy".
- rsynnott 2y agoPoor ol' JD Vance is presumably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_Man_(nuclear_bomb) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_Man_(nuclear_bomb) (The _third_ WW2-era bomb design, an impractically long plutonium gun-type. Much like Vance, it was rather pointless and impractical, and was never really heard from again.)
- jayd16 2y agoPrepare to keep hoping.
- lawn 2y agoThe cultural with tariffs you mean?
- rcpt 2y agoPrices aren't high on anything except for housing. No politician, either past present or future, will ever run on a platform of reducing housing prices.
- llamaimperative 2y agoHere are several specific proposals to do just that: https://nlihc.org/resource/harris-campaign-releases-plans-lower-housing-costs https://nlihc.org/resource/harris-campaign-releases-plans-lo... Not a fan of credits to buyers (just inflates prices further) but I'm a big fan of credits to developers, streamlining permitting, and making some federal land available for development. Regardless of whether you think these are good policies or an effective platform, it is patently false to say no one would run on such a promise.
- rcpt 2y agoThose are all great policies. And yes credits to buyers is pretty stupid. But this is still a far cry from "vote for me and your home value will go down".
- llamaimperative 2y agoBecause why would you say that? You would say "we're going to build more housing."
- rcpt 2y agoPeople say that about eggs.
- llamaimperative 2y agoWell no, one person (a moron and a liar) said that about eggs
- wholinator2 2y agoEggs are not treated as the most important investment of your life, the value of which you hedge the entire rest of your life against, and which is expected to increase in value to support an growing rather than shrinking lifestyle. Eggs are nothing like houses economically
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- rsynnott 2y agoThing is, that would be difficult, whereas randomly breaking government agencies is quite easy. If you happen to be Donald Trump, and you're looking for ways to please your supporters, culture war nonsense is the easy approach, provided you don't care at all about the consequences.
- Nasrudith 2y agoThose who would give up essential liberties for cheap eggs deserve neither and will lose both.
- Spivak 2y agoI did think it was funny that they included 'women' and 'female' in that list. Medicine is gonna have a hard time with that one, "this drug has some adverse effects with uhh… ovulating persons?"
- llamaimperative 2y agoI don't find it funny at all.
- dpkirchner 2y agoI found it exactly in line with everything I know about right-wing politics.
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- elgenie 2y agoThe candidate “solution” to that problem is to remove any representation requirements in medical trials, so adverse effects that manifest just in specific subgroups aren’t found. I wish I were joking.
- jl6 2y agoThey didn’t include 'women' and 'female' in that list.
- llamaimperative 2y agoConsider for a moment: what if it did include those terms? What do you think it'd indicate if some hypothetical government decided to hunt down those words across the scientific literature and subject them to review? Would that indicate something meaningful to you? Now keep that thought in mind... and now acknowledge that that hypothetical government is actually the current one. Pay close attention to what your mind is doing and let us know if you notice any interesting contortions that somehow draw a line between the obviously fucking insane hypothetical government you were imagining a second ago and the current real one. Report back! https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/02/05/nsf-hunts-female-other-flagged-terms https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/02/05/n...
- xrd 2y agoLook, we all know these were chickens hired because of DEI under Obama.
- dpkirchner 2y agoThey're all female!
- PaulHoule 2y agoIt's the kind of thing that today's right-wingers would accuse today's transgenderists of wanting to do. I think you'd have a hard time expressing traditional values if you couldn't say "woman".
- llamaimperative 2y agoThe internal incoherence is a feature of a cult, not a bug! The more deliberately twisted shit they can make you believe, the more dependent your entire cognitive architecture is on them.
- PaulHoule 2y agoIt's a mirror of the thoughtless language engineering of their opponents, it's like calling people "latinX" without asking them first.
- llamaimperative 2y agoA minor difference being that one is a bunch of bluehairs Twitterati and social science professors using a goofy word and the other is a systematic purge of scientific literature and government data... Minor difference though!
- PaulHoule 2y agoActually I'd argue that left-wing language engineering contributed to right-wing lunatics getting in control. This poll says 56% of Hispanics in the US are uncomfortable with 'LatinX' https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/study/31120958/questions#b3a5e106-753b-4c22-b10f-4f02c096dc11 https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/study/31120958/questio... These are a swingy group that could go either way. This podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/will-tariffs-end-trumps-honeymoon/id1077418457?i=1000688664252 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/will-tariffs-end-trump... describes polls that make it clear that Americans think that Republicans care about the issues that matter to them and that Democrats don't. "Woke" talk contributes a lot to the latter. The good news for them though is that now that they see Republicans in power talking crazy like this, Democrats will look more normal to people. But if people on the left muzzled their own fanatics years ago we'd have woken up in a different America.
- niceice 2y agoSource for the claim they are removing the word "women" from every public-facing piece of scientific content?
- WillPostForFood 2y agoThere is no real source, it is a lie. https://chcoc.gov/content/initial-guidance-regarding-president-trump%E2%80%99s-executive-order-defending-women https://chcoc.gov/content/initial-guidance-regarding-preside... The order is to remove gender ideology, i.e. trans. Switch gender back to sex (binary).
- llamaimperative 2y agoIt’s funny because the terms diverged as a matter of empirical necessity of describing certain types of people who clearly didn’t fit into binary categories. Biology is hard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- llamaimperative 2y agoYou can look it up. They’re not directly removing the word, they’re using it to trigger “reviews”, and then purging stuff they found to violate their ideology. I can tell you there’s already been critical guidance from the FDA on clinical trials that have been removed because they have the word “diversity,” as in “a clinical trial’s population should aim to reflect the diversity of the population to which the drug will ultimately be marketed.”
- niceice 2y agoThanks for confirming that claim is false.