The Billionaire Secretly Funding Anti-Trans Advocacy Across The U.S.
The Billionaire Secretly Funding Anti-Trans Advocacy Across The U.S.
Joseph Edelman isn't known for donating to conservative causes, but HuffPost uncovered major donations to groups opposing trans rights.
Having so much money that it's hard to even conceptualize, and you decide its best use is to hurt trans children. Disgusting.
If they were actually concerned about their well being, how about starting with the widespread youth lgbt homelessness across the country? Or you know, actually improving their access to health care instead of working to cut it off?
46Do No Harm bills itself as a group of doctors who are concerned about ideology influencing the medical profession.
And yet they're doing exactly that?? Conservatives really are either some of the least self-aware people on the planet, or conservativism is a giant fucking sham, and I think I know which one it is.
24Conservatives often think of themselves as not political but just normal. They don't think they have ideology, just common sense. Ideology is always something other people do. They're too blinkered to realize they're entirely trapped in one never-reflected-upon ideology among many.
10Projection
6GOP: Gaslight, Obstruct, Project
6a.k.a. the bastion of conservativism.
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Big pharma investor is evil, more at 11.
This guy would be bankrupt if we had Medicare for all
19While I'd love for the country to implement it, I will settle for my state implementing single payer as a starting point. You'd think it'd be easier at the local level, but seems almost as impossible.
7It has to happen. It’ll start somewhere.
The first steps to evolving past capitalism are to provide education and healthcare and housing to all.
7I can't speak to the degree that scale impacts tackling this on a state by state level, but it's exciting to see New York's plan. Massachusetts seems like a state that could expand existing programs to match it, and I think it's reasonable to expect that California would make moves if NY's bid is successful.
There's a chance of bipartisan agreement to allow insurances across state lines if progressives are willing and able to push for their state legislatures to look for interstate compacts on insurance pools and policies. I could see smaller or less populous states getting on board with larger states to further spread costs and populations, which could bring better outcomes to rural populations as well. Once a few states band together and work out kinks in administration it could be much more attractive as an option for additional states.
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this feels so symptomatic of how many people's politics are just vibes.
Edelman is not a high-profile political donor closely associated with conservative causes. The only major electoral donations attached to his name are a handful of contributions of $50,000 or less to Democrats and Hillary Clinton in 2016 and 2017.
The Edelman Family Foundation, by contrast, which he founded in 2017, has showered six-figure grants on conservative organizations such as the Cato Institute; Foundation for Individual Rights and Free Expression; the anti-critical race theory Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism; Prager University, which markets right-wing videos as teaching material; and UATX, Bari Weiss’ unaccredited anti-cancel culture university.
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