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Last Thursday the FDA started raiding queer businesses and bars to crack down on the sales of Amyl Nitrate (Poppers/Video Head Cleaner) . Haven't seen many people talking about that. Also RFK is claiming that the "first thousand people who died of aids were adsitected to poppers" which is impossible since VHS cleaner isn't addictive and it's impossible to prove anything about the "first thousand people who died of aids" since nobody knows who those people were.
On simailr news the Trump administration is trying to get the CDC to eliminate their HIV prevention division, which has already suffered from DEI cuts and the NIH has already terminated grants related to PrEP reaserch.
rfk jr also believes that HIV doesnt exist and that AIDS is caused by poppers. i work in hiv/aids healthcare and the federal grants (SOME OF WHICH TRUMP HIMSELF BEGAN IN HIS FIRST TERM!!!) that give my patients their essential medications, housing, transportation, nutrition assistance, and more, are constantly at risk.
Why USAID ending is a good thing, actually.
USAID has provided global benefits to humanity in the form of medical intervention and response to food shortages, but covers up the fact that USAID prioritizes destabilizing governments to allow US corporate interests to keep exploiting the people from these countries and prevent their economies and governments from becoming self sufficient.
Whenever a country has elected to reduce their reliance on US AID, they are immediately hit with sanctions. If it was an option to continue the true humanitarian efforts without the sociopolitical economic meddling of a foreign superpower in the elections and government of developing nations, we could argue for the restructuring of USAID. As it stands, that is not currently an option.
USAID is a form of American imperialism. Deconstructing it will weaken US global power and that's a good thing.
The rise of NeoLiberalism and how it ruins everything.
#neolibertarianism#fuck neoliberals#neoliberal capitalism#neoliberalism#own the libs#american politics#us politics#uk politics#economics#friedrich hayek#ronald reagan#fuck ronald reagan#reaganomics#margaret thatcher#neoliberal fascists#donald trump#elon musk#politics#resistance#youtube#democrats are also neoliberals#capitalism is the worst#topple capitalism
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Holding up snarky signs doesn't seem to be working.
For me, it isn't about whether this action is appropriate or not. It's about how this kind of action is inevitable.
I'm going to let Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. explain in a quote no one seems to post during his annual holiday.
"It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear?"
If you only speak up about a supercharger catching fire and ignore the unheard, you are prioritizing a thing over people.
"It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear?"
You need to pay more attention to JD Vance.
He's admitting globalization was started with the intention of offshoring slavery. He is admitting that we as a nation have been domineering the globe under eugenic beliefs this entire time. He's exposing the fact that we are all complicit in the belief that the people in the world whose labor we have extorted for our wealth are unworthy and unintelligent. That we took for granted that our underpaid and exploited workers in other nations were too uneducated and genetically inferior to ever catch up to the United States.
This is our legacy spoken out plain and simple. Here is America's darkest underbelly. This is not partisan, this is the United efforts of the Republican and Democrat parties.
And this isn't solely on us. This is a reckoning for the entire Global North.