Republicans urge the ignorant to ‘just say no’ to science
Republicans urge the ignorant to ‘just say no’ to science
Too many Americans now don’t trust the credentialed “elitists” with their graduate degrees and years of research. They’d rather go with the charismatic dunce who cheated his way through high school and can barely speak in complete sentences.
Nationally, a study by Yale researchers determined that “the excess [COVID] death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters.”
They are literally being deceived to death.
This is a natural outcome of conservatism, what is conservatism trying to conserve? The existing power structures in society of course. So the power of God over man, of men over women, of white people over other races, and of rich over poor. Science must be rejected because science gives evidence against the supremacy of god, men, the white race and the rich.
95About the whole God thing
https://newrepublic.com/post/174950/christianity-today-editor-evangelicals-call-jesus-liberal-weak
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This has been their platform literally forever; rather than have to learn anything or improve themselves, just deny that knowledge or betterment exists.
79Yep. One of the 3 core Republican party slogans is this:
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
20Didn’t work for drugs, definitely not going to work for science. Like a quarterback who keeps running the same three failing plays.
11Matt Canada enters the chat
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the right wing racists are using a same tactic in Australia to block the indigenous people from having a voice in parliament with a 'if you don't know vote no' campaign. we're having a referendum which means we're changing the constitution, the gist is we're going to finally properly recognise the aboriginal people (the ones that lived here for 60k years plus) and give them a permanant ability to voice their concerns in parliament.
it's disgusting and transparent for the anti information angle, however it sadly seems to be working and now likely the people that have endured mass genocide will again be silenced by the white right elites. Australia will remain one the most racist places on the planet.
64First and foremost, I'll be voting yes.
The problem with our referendum is that it appears to burn a lot of political capital for the sake of gesture politics that is unlikely to change anything of substance. The voice has no teeth and almost everything about it will be determined by the courts at the time.
Now, it's better than nothing, and I don't expect it'll come at the expense of the lack of better alternatives on the horizon, but it's frustrating we can't do something more meaningful.
12A reminder: it's what the First Nation Council asked for. It's a decade of work that has been approved and agreed upon by everyone involved.
That is, what you're complaining about are features, not bugs.
Edit: also, for it to have teeth in the future, Australia needs to get more Greens or other suitable 3rd parties into power which support The Voice.
While hopefully Australia will get The Voice, which will mean it won't be able to be easily removed - what's important (as always) is voting for the future of Australia and not coal.
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Voice also won't do anything though. If politicians want to hear the voice of the people they can go listen to them.
The companies ruining indigenous land have been financing the voice referendum, an advisory body like that could easily be used to justify themselves. It's gone that way before. "Progressive No" has the best opinions, listen to Lidia Thorpe and those that put treaty first, both sides want to assimilate indigenous people into settler colonial society. Both a yes and no victory will be a success for the racists.
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You can’t fix stupid.
/“It's Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.” – Mark Twain
62If you squint and slightly misinterpret it, Darwin says stupid will fix itself eventually.
You just have to not save it at the last second.
17Unfortunately they compromise herd immunity for the people who can't get vaccinated for legitimate reasons, so they're intent on taking a few of us with them.
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Isn't killing your constituents a bad long term political strategy?
51They don't plan to win with votes.
Republicans no longer believe in the Republic.
73They're all in with this guy Gerry. He's manderin' all over tarnation!
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stupid people breed more, so so long as the birth rate among republicans less the excess death rate outstrips the birthrate plus the excess survivial of the democrats then they will increase their vote share.
whether that's the case or not i don't know but they have other pokers in the fire. attacking education in multiple ways for instance. dragging the next generation down to their level.
Their well documented gerrymandering
Their attacks on the fabric of democracy itself. if you can't win elections, get rid of them.
Their stacking of the courts
17In true Republican fashion however, they've flubbed it. The youth is overwhelmingly for Democrats and outright loathes Republicans. Either controlling the poor hasn't turned out that effective for them*, or it's too early to see results. And in the meantime, they're killing their already aging and dwindling base.
*I think they've failed to brainwash young poor children. The vast majority of people I graduated high school with a decade ago, in the Midwest, have become clearly liberal and Democrat. Even the ones who were conservative in school.
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Covid was a great litmus test for that question and republicans failed miserably
17Republican politicians live by "I'll be gone, you'll be gone" at the end of the day.
They know the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag.
10My parent actually said this to me.
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You're kidding yourself if you think they have any long-term policies. Anything they're doing is to have an immediate effect, even if they're doing it at the cost of their own well-being.
4Well they aren't smart.
1That's why Fox News famously started touting the vaccine after it came out. They realized their base was dying out faster than democrats. This backpedaling helped push co serrations away from fox News to other sources.
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They see science as an antagonist belief system to theirs. They don’t understand what science is and they don’t want to.
43Isn't science just a prediction and utilization of observered phenomenon? Original sin is obtaining knowledge, aka don't question. It's so dumb
14Yea, I explain it to the lay folk as a tool for understanding our world, not a system of belief. However to most of these people ignorance is purity, so it’s an affront to them regardless.
11Original sin is gaining knowledge of only good and evil, and what the difference is. Eden was a paradise of amorality where humans could live without worrying about whether an act was good or evil. They would have been wild animals living on instinct, doing whatever felt pleasurable, and avoiding things which cause anguish. Instead, they ate the fruit and became ahsamed of all of the things they'd done, even of simply being naked. Then God cast them out for disobeying him.
It had nothing to do with knowledge in general. Original sin was disobeying God. You should understand the myths you're mocking.
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"BoTh SiDes ArE thE sAMe" - Half the posters on reddit and lemmy.
8From the time they're born until the day they die conservatives are taught that intelligence is a sign of weakness and that the only right answer to and problem is unwavering ferocity.
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34It's literally an issue of them not understanding it. Most progressive policies when explained to them they agree with, they've just been taught to hate names. It's just so hard to teach people.
21This is pretty much it. The difference between a lot of younger people, and a lot of older people, is that while I will hear a term I don't understand, and pause for a minute to research what it is, someone like my dad would go "I don't understand any of this dogshit, get off my porch"
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No cars either, if Moses can walk a desert for 40 years you can walk your ass to the quick-e-mart for your chewing tobacco and lottery tickets.
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I, for one, respect their right to die early of easily preventable natural causes. I don't like that conservatives are a danger to everyone else, but they were deadly toxic long before Covid.
29I know some people on the left have to be the "better" person and all thay but honestly with all the damage republicans have and are doing, I honestly am happy they died of their own stupidity. Prevents them from doing more harm.
Fuckem.
8If they didn't compromise herd immunity this would be 100% true, but unfortunately they do.
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Freedom baby
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23a bare majority of Republicans told a Politico poll that they think the COVID vaccine is safe and effective — 52%, to be precise
Still somehow quite the indictment against Fox News.
11I hope that they say no to medicine so that getting a GP gets easier.
8They'll still go to the doctor. They'll just bitch and moan more and take up more time.
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They've done this for 50 years, what makes this news?
8It needs to be said every day.
5This is the Politics community. If you're looking for news, the News community is thataways -------------->
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Just say no to lifr
5In the words of Captain McDowell, let the good god Darwin sort it out.
3The ignorant vote for them. They know it too.
2American Left should encourage anti-science among the Republicunts. Warfare nowadays depends on science and technology. Being antiscience also means antivax and anti modern medicine. This will weaken them and kill off their young. Once they have regressesd enough, time to enact the Next Phase.
-4Yet in the end Biden adopted DeSantis' approach to COVID control, ignore it exists, stop testing and the numbers will go down, open everything and let herd immunity take over, and let it run rampant
-56After the omicron variants became dominant and it became apparent they were inducing much less severe illness, yes. What's not arguable is that closing down schools, businesses, etc took a heavy toll in many ways, regarding mental health, socialization, education, economics, and more. Was it justified to protect lives? Yes. But at what point is it not justified anymore, if not after the less severe variants become predominant?
Anecdotal evidence here...I work in a hospital, and we had many positive cases that resulted in severe illness and long COVID or even death for the first year+ of the pandemic. Conversely, there's been another wave recently, and we've had a ton of positive patients, but not a single one was there because of COVID, they were there for other reasons but happened to also have COVID.
My point is I've taken COVID seriously from the very beginning, and I also fully support the Biden Administration's approach.
30Things were clearly different after the vaccines, though. It's a much different disease to those who have been vaccinated and boosted.
21This is what happened. We have vaccines now, and masks are readily available. We also learned that many jobs can be done remotely. They tried as hard as they could to educate the constituents. People already picked their sides and are as informed as they are going to get.
So if you want to keep yourself safe, great. If you want to be crippled by or die of a preventable disease, have at it. Freedom for all.
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The country was opened back up before Biden was president.
"Thanks, Biden" is the new "Thanks, Obama," apparently.
10No services that I use were taking in person visits before late 2021. My kid didn’t go back to public school until Oct. 2021.
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yeah kinda but not until there were vaccines to protect people.
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