free healthcare asap,

Treason!

Sick for the second time in less than a month, and I got my flu and covid vaccines a couple months ago... these guys are ruining flu season for everyone, not just themselves. Admittedly, I could be better about wearing my mask regularly, but I try to whenever I'm in a really congested train or spot.

I have always related to this Isaac Asimov quote from 1980:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

I know it's easy to shit on the US, but the per capita measles infection rate is higher in many EU countries than it is in the US right now. France, for example, had 744 cases from Jan-Jul of this year, Spain had 339, and the Netherlands had 474.

US: 5.6 cases per million
France: 11.2 cases per million
Spain: 6.9 cases per million
Netherlands: 25.6 cases per million

And this includes several more months of data for the US than the other countries

Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Centuries, probably.

Conservatives have been actively suppressing the teaching of Critical Thinking Skills for decades:

The 2012 Texas Republican Party Platform, adopted June 9 at the state convention in Forth Worth, seems to take a stand against, well, the teaching of critical thinking skills. Read it for yourself:

We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/texas-gop-no-more-critical-thinking-in-schools/2012/06

Critical Thinking Skills undermine parental authority. Can't have your kids getting smarter than you, right?

I'm Canadian even, and I've often spotted Joe Biden lurking around my home, hiding behind the bushes. He often carries a syringe full of what I can only assume is some deadly disease or another, and a large burlap sack with a question mark on it.

I've noticed Joe Biden stealing jobs from my neighbours, which he places into the burlap sack, as well as money, babies, and other various items.

I try to avoid him, and have thus far been successful, but I fear that one day he'll either steal my job or infect me with some deadly disease.

He took them behind the barn. The rest he infected by using FEMA to poison the water supply.

Thanks Obama!

My sister in law has a neighbor who flooded his home and immediately blamed the Democrats...I wish I was joking...

Clown planet invented the measles vaccine, so... good luck off-world

I know you’re clowning, but don’t forget that the actual fucking President of the United States tried to claim that drug prices were down 700% just earlier this month and that gullible swamp of sycophants just gobbled it up.

ANTIFA

God didn't give humanity science lol. It's abandoning science for a god that put people in the bad spot.

It happens when you abandon the actual science that God gave us to help humanity ,

Fucking nonsense. Let it go man, it's fairy tales. It's the exact magical thinking that leads to measles outbreaks.

They are following the god that truly loves and cares for the plight of humanity. The great god of death and rebirth Grandfather Nurgle.

The biggest problem is money in politics. Money means rich people get their way.

They want people just smart enough to press buttons on the rich person's factory floor but stupid enough to vote how rich person's news channel tells them to vote.

There are probably enough people that aren't so stupid that you could educate them enough to vote in their interests if you can get to them against all odds. You just have to get through the social media algorithms and mass media blockade that are completely against change that would hurt their owners profit.

Who's going to decide who is smart and who is stupid?

The cure is simple, stupid people can’t vote or at least stupid people can’t be candidates.

How democratic of you.

The cure is simple, stupid people can’t vote or at least stupid people can’t be candidates.

While I agree that in principle this would solve a lot of problems with our current setup, in practice the racists and idiots always end up getting control over who gets to vote and who doesn't, and they end up only allowing people they approve of to vote. It's been tried before and it failed spectacularly due to corruption, like most things.

It just is. It's a given.

Reading causes autism!

MAHA*