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And which handwashing are we targeting with vaccine-denying, ADHD-non-believing, brain-worm-having, RFK junior? Is he going to wrangle the insurance industry ou

And which handwashing are we targeting with vaccine-denying, ADHD-non-believing, brain-worm-having, RFK junior? Is he going to wrangle the insurance industry out of practicing medicine without a license, and end their rampant profiteering over literally essential-to-life services? Oh no he's just going to make it illegal to treat illnesses he doesn't think are real, which basically the entire legitimate medical profession disagrees on. Oh, and make sure that the <100 trans athletes in the entire United States can't compete. Awesome, great.

WalterBright 2y ago
I guess we'll see, won't we? I remember when the government confidently told us that eggs were bad, butter was bad, cereal was good. Now eggs are good, butter is good, cereal is bad. Alcohol was bad, then it was good, now it's bad again.
- ToucanLoucan 2y ago
  Every institution is built of people and therefore inherits their faults. The notion of so called “outsiders” is the intellectual equivalent of shrugging your shoulders and giving up because solving human problems is complicated, and let’s be very clear here: what has been done already and is planned by these outsiders to be done is almost universally terrible. If you want to argue that point, you’re not only arguing with every credible expert in a variety of fields, you’re arguing with the outsiders themselves, who advertise the fact that they want to crash the plane into the river because the pilots have grown too out of touch with regular passengers like you and them, whatever the hell that means. It’s a phrase that means nothing and therefore invites the listener to fill in whatever boogeymen they imagine are causing the problems, and while change will come, I’m highly skeptical that much if any will be good. It doesn’t help that as I outline elsewhere, such outsiders are the preferred actors by people who feel they won’t have to deal with the fallout. People on private insurance aren’t afraid of the government cratering Medicare, because they don’t need it. Let’s be super clear about something else; if you’re okay with unqualified idiots fucking about with systems neither they or you understand simply because you won’t lose anything, you are not pro-disruption. You’re just selfish.
  - the_doctah 2y ago
    When then "insiders" are transgender ideology peddling lunatics, then give me the outsider. I don't need needlessly flowery metaphors to say that.
    - ToucanLoucan 2y ago
      What exactly is the transgender ideology and why is it so threatening to you and/or the country?
  - WalterBright 2y ago
    I'm on Medicare.
    - ToucanLoucan 2y ago
      For your sake, I hope you can say the same thing in six months, though I have ample reason to doubt that you will.
      - WalterBright 2y ago
        Your attempts to personalize the debate don't work on me.
        ToucanLoucan 2y ago
        I mean, it’s already personal for you. Your Medicare being defunded and you not being able to use it feels like it would be the epitome of personal, but whatever. Good luck.
        WalterBright 2y ago
        Give it up, dude.
api 2y ago
ADHD denial enrages me. I know people with it who got treatment and it was life changing. The symptoms are obvious and the treatments are among the best studied with the strongest and most consistent results.

WalterBright 2y ago

I guess we'll see, won't we? I remember when the government confidently told us that eggs were bad, butter was bad, cereal was good. Now eggs are good, butter is good, cereal is bad. Alcohol was bad, then it was good, now it's bad again.

ToucanLoucan 2y ago
Every institution is built of people and therefore inherits their faults. The notion of so called “outsiders” is the intellectual equivalent of shrugging your shoulders and giving up because solving human problems is complicated, and let’s be very clear here: what has been done already and is planned by these outsiders to be done is almost universally terrible. If you want to argue that point, you’re not only arguing with every credible expert in a variety of fields, you’re arguing with the outsiders themselves, who advertise the fact that they want to crash the plane into the river because the pilots have grown too out of touch with regular passengers like you and them, whatever the hell that means. It’s a phrase that means nothing and therefore invites the listener to fill in whatever boogeymen they imagine are causing the problems, and while change will come, I’m highly skeptical that much if any will be good. It doesn’t help that as I outline elsewhere, such outsiders are the preferred actors by people who feel they won’t have to deal with the fallout. People on private insurance aren’t afraid of the government cratering Medicare, because they don’t need it. Let’s be super clear about something else; if you’re okay with unqualified idiots fucking about with systems neither they or you understand simply because you won’t lose anything, you are not pro-disruption. You’re just selfish.
- the_doctah 2y ago
  When then "insiders" are transgender ideology peddling lunatics, then give me the outsider. I don't need needlessly flowery metaphors to say that.
  - ToucanLoucan 2y ago
    What exactly is the transgender ideology and why is it so threatening to you and/or the country?
- WalterBright 2y ago
  I'm on Medicare.
  - ToucanLoucan 2y ago
    For your sake, I hope you can say the same thing in six months, though I have ample reason to doubt that you will.
    - WalterBright 2y ago
      Your attempts to personalize the debate don't work on me.
      - ToucanLoucan 2y ago
        I mean, it’s already personal for you. Your Medicare being defunded and you not being able to use it feels like it would be the epitome of personal, but whatever. Good luck.
        WalterBright 2y ago
        Give it up, dude.

api 2y ago

ADHD denial enrages me. I know people with it who got treatment and it was life changing. The symptoms are obvious and the treatments are among the best studied with the strongest and most consistent results.