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Lest the sheer irony escape even some HN readers, the political right tends to actively oppose, and has stymied past attempts at, the broad provision or even ex
by treetalker 1y ago
Lest the sheer irony escape even some HN readers, the political right tends to actively oppose, and has stymied past attempts at, the broad provision or even expansion of reasonable and either free or affordable healthcare that is real and could make a real difference in our citizens' health. But no! The real problem, somehow, must be that some cabal is holding out on their Star Wars bacta tanks.
Chalk it up to lack of education — then ask who puts a professional wrestling executive in charge of the Department of Education and then hobbles it.
- UncleMeat 1y agoI actually don't think that this is super meaningful. The qanon-esque conspiracies are free floating. The actual conspiracy does not matter and it will happily move to some completely different topic over time. The conspiracy could instead be that Hillary Clinton is using the Ring of Power to turn people's kids trans and it would serve the same function. So I don't think that pointing out the ways that the Trump administration is materially harming people's health does anything. The point of the medbed conspiracy isn't to solve healthcare. The point is to define "them" as the source of general suffering faced by people. Same as the adrenochrome conspiracies aren't actually about rooting out child abduction but instead let people define some external cause to why they lost their kids in a custody battle after losing their minds online and having their kids bathe in bleach.
- ZeroGravitas 1y agoAlso, people are surprised by this when he said things of a similar calibre of crazy during an hour long UN speech last week and everyone shrugged because about a third of the US population believe it too.