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    3 months ago

    Just as expected, if you elect parasites to office you get parasite friendly policies.

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    Didn’t RFK have a brain parasite at one point? His parasite advocacy makes a lot more sense if you consider that he really might just be a brain worm piloting a vaguely human shaped mecha.

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      The trouble is, the source of the brain worm story was … him. So if you believe it, you’re taking a brain-worm-victim’s word on his condition.

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        The brain worm story came up during a divorce trial. He argued that the worm lowered his income potential and he should pay less alimony.

        Also he didn’t have an actual worm munching at his brain. What he had was a tapeworm cyst. When a tapeworm egg is ingested they hatch as larvae that will pass through the intestinal wall and migrate, usually to the muscles, where they form these cysts. If something eats the meat with the cyst then the worm will pop out and turn into an adult. Now the worms don’t really control where they will end up so sometimes they can end up in the brain or the liver or other organs. The cyst can remain for a few years but eventually it will die.

        The tapeworm egg could have ended up in his gut in a few ways. He could have had an adult tapeworm and picked up some of the eggs it lays by not washing his hands properly. He could have eaten vegetables that were fertilized with human feces and which were not washed properly. He could have ate someone’s butthole and that person had a tapeworm.

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    America is what happens to every corporation when the middle management have finally all been promoted over the threshold of their actual abilities.

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      Zaphod wasn’t supposed to have actual power, this is what happens when you give the con men the keys to the kingdom

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    If nothing else, their incompetence will give us all the proof we need about why these agencies need to be run by experts and why they need to exist and be funded. I never thought I’d see the day we had to learn the hard way why greed and selfishness can’t be left to run amok. Sounds exactly the way right teaches their kids, the hard way.

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      Sadly it won’t, have you learned nothing, people learn NOTHING and would fall for another Trump again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again x 10^100

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    I’ve thought about this since the beginning, they’re trying to cull us without having to do it with their own hands. They know exactly what they’re doing when they stop monitoring things like dangerous, deadly parasites.

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    Fun fact: Your asshole makes the same exact movement as your mouth does for both ‘poop’ and ‘explosive diarrhea’.

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    Keeping tabs on what the CDC hasn’t been testing for may now be the most efficient way to determine what diseases are circulating.

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      That’s not how any of this works…

      We studied the shit that was likely to have an outbreak

      Republicans cancelled all the studies for anything that wasn’t an active outbreak.

      With no one keeping an eye on anything, outbreaks are happening, and we don’t have early warning signs before an outbreak.

      Like, the CDC doesn’t waste a lot of time studying things that are extinct, and everything not extinct is “circulating”, just hasn’t had an outbreak on.

      It’s like you believe the Republicans bullshit that these studies aren’t needed

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        I don’t want to speak for the person you replied to but I just want to point out that this was probably a joke, with the implication being that the CDC is currently ineffective due to current administration policies, and aligning with your viewpoint.

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        This is unrelated to the topic, but I must ask.

        Why do you separate your sentences with line breaks?

        It’s incredibly awkward and unnecessary.

        Thanks.