4 ms·
They are fundamentally absolute fucking goofballs. This administration is the best argument for DEI I’ve ever seen in my life, if it had anything to do with av
by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
They are fundamentally absolute fucking goofballs.
This administration is the best argument for DEI I’ve ever seen in my life, if it had anything to do with avoiding this.
Just the other day, RFK’s top vaccine nutjob (new chair of ACIP, Robert Malone) tweeted something to suggest that the Amish’s existence despite waves of infectious disease and ~no~ low vaccination is evidence that vaccines aren’t necessary.
Apparently ignorant[0] of the fact that the Amish are notoriously cloistered and isolated from the rest of society.
[0] By “ignorant” I don’t mean “has never heard the idea,” but that the degree of motivated reasoning has rendered his mind actually incapable of integrating this fact — like many others — into his world view. I’m drawing this distinction because I don’t think this is a matter of smart people pretending to believe stupid things. They are actually, at rock bottom, very stupid people, rendered such by their own ideological commitments if nothing else.
- krapp 1y ago"no vaccination" is incorrect. The Amish do have lower vaccination rates than the general population, but many do vaccinate.
- duskwuff 1y agoAnd those that don't are often subject to outbreaks of preventable disease: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1602295 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1602295
- BLKNSLVR 1y ago> This administration is the best argument for DEI I’ve ever seen in my life I'm going to steal and re-use this beautifully succinct observation in as many ways as I appropriately can. 100 internet points to you.
- tombert 1y ago> Just the other day, RFK’s top vaccine nutjob (new chair of ACIP, Robert Malone) tweeted something to suggest that the Amish’s existence despite waves of infectious disease and no vaccination is evidence that vaccines aren’t necessary. What a strange argument. Did anyone suggest that people would stop existing if there weren’t vaccines? We haven’t had vaccines throughout most of human history. People just (correctly) think that not being vaccinated will lead to a lot of unnecessary deaths.
- const_cast 1y ago> This administration is the best argument for DEI I’ve ever seen in my life Right, they've essentially implemented reverse DEI: always hire the agreeable white man, no matter what. Which was essentially the status-quo in the fucking 60s. Now we have a bunch of old white men who can drink more than they can read running our government into the ground. They're all very horribly unqualified. But, they are essentially breathing doormats, which I think is vital to an authoritarian regime.
- rsynnott 1y agoAutocracies notoriously value loyalty and compliance over competence.
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoYeah, too much of the vibe around autocracies is that people don't like 'em because they're big ol' meanie heads. No. They're bad because they're literally bad at governing. They make bad decisions. Democracy isn't good because it makes people feel good, but because in the long run democracies make far more adaptive decisions, and just hobbling along imperfectly over long periods is how you actually achieve growth.
- rsynnott 1y agoWell, I mean, it's _both_.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y agoOne is a precursor for the other. Being mean and inflexible is their means of avoiding personal growth, which leads to the incompetence. Of course, they are exceptionally competent at being mean and inflexible because it’s what they practice in their lives. But I think the point they’re making is that it’s moot that they are mean and inflexible if those traits make a good government. It is at least more relevant that they are incompetent at governing; even if both points are likely to fall on deaf ears and even if one naturally follows the other.