less than five hundred years ago even the most powerful monarch was at the mercy of childhood disease and weather. now we can do literal concrete things about both and are in fact actively choosing to die of childhood disease and weather
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Or this people willing to die from lack of a transplant rather than be vaccinated. If the chance is potentially life with a side of vaccine or certain death, I’m not sure how a vaccine could make a person more dead.
It’s like they invented “Extinction Instinct” (just coined), I which I define as a perverse desire to put everything above the survival of the species and in some cases themselves - for no good reason!
The whole thing would seem to be idiotic, until you remember that historically, societal collapse is what creates the opening for fascism to seize hold.
if you want to feel even worse about this, I would argue that we possess the technological and productive capacity to build a post-scarcity society. Even our current, fucked-up political economy, in many ways is already partially post-scarcity.
We have the capacity to *produce* enough for a post-scarcity society. Distribution is unfortunately very tricky and fraught with risk—even if you try to give it away, the resource itself in sufficient quantity can give rise to re-establish new forms of hierarchical power relations
I don’t think enough people understand that a “humane genocide” is part of the plan for us. If we freeze, starve, catch vaccine preventable diseases, can’t afford insulin, die in a storm, etc. those are all “natural” deaths.
They are inventing a new method of genocide, one that consists of controlling medical treatment. Spreading disease as a tactic is old; withholding treatment had to wait until there were treatments that were actually effective.
It’s never been about efficiency. It’s tearing down the US strength, security, economy, health and education for the benefit of the tinpot war criminal and allow the uberrich to pick up assets cheap in a recession.
Tariffs are to extort companies for bribes and break alliances.
Tbf standard of care treatment for his particular cancer is absolutely brutal (Whipple procedure, look it up) *without* guaranteeing lasting remission/survival. Not a Jobs fanboy but his is not really a case of someone irrationally choosing death by refusing curative therapies.
To be fair pancreatic cancer is extremely deadly, and when he got it, there was a high probability of death no matter what he did...we're only now reaching the point where immunotherapy has advanced enough that it's no longer a death sentence.
Yeah. He put off the treatment with the best chance of helping him for alternative woo, but that best chance treatment still had low odds of helping and was very unpleasant to boot. A lot of people skipped it altogether because it just wasn't worth it to them.
Even before the cancer he was doing all sorts of weirdo diets like eating nothing but fruit which turned him orange. Ashton Kutcher tried that and ended up with pancreatitis
Think the answer is "yes". He had both an uncanny understanding of what consumers would respond to and the largely accidental good fortune to be surrounded by people with enough skills and resources to competently execute on what would normally be completely unrealistic demands.
I’m so fed up with this country. I didn’t go into medical debt to help people who cannot be helped. How did we get to such a place that scientists (of which I include MDs) are no longer trusted? RJK Jr. thinks measles are caused by bad diet. That was a headline today. Why did I go to med school?
One can’t be that rich and powerful and also SO stupid simultaneously to not take any medical advice from the world’s best oncologists. He must’ve wanted to die. Or, he wanted to throw skepticism to the medical field. Homeopathy is curative! Did Gates and RJK Jr. run in same circle?
Great way to say it. Imagine a history lesson to any surviving children 200 years in the future, something like “the dinosaurs were killed by a meteor then came humans who caused the next great extinction event and left the last few survivors living in caves exactly where we started.”
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It’s still a great time to be alive.
Washington carrots anyways
https://apnews.com/article/usaid-trump-burn-order-shred-classified-documents-f042a51c0a9f74c96b0259b51a0d4a83
Hold your horses there. I think you’re on to something. Even the heads of state you say???
This sounds worth exploring.
We *choose* to allow poverty and disease.
They are engineering a permanent serf economy. We will be serfs to their monarchy in a Network State if we don’t stop them.
You’re also right when you say “They don’t care.” Not one bit of care. These firings, viruses are part of the plan.
The monarchs have multiplied and now every small business owner believes themselves to be a royal.
Decades of propaganda spread this moronic message and now we're experiencing the terrible results of this information plague.
Yet, some of us prove to be foolish.
Tariffs are to extort companies for bribes and break alliances.
They are choosing that, and killing us very much against our will.
Sounds familiar.
Seems really foolish. But that is where we are.