• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      14 hours ago

      Damn.

      Hard agree.

      It really does have some breathtaking landscapes… but it also really is largely populated by … pretty much direct descendants of either the Klan, or the Mormons that were too insane for the mainline Mormons.

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    15 hours ago

    So much of modern conservatism is based on intentionally un-learning the hard-learned lessons if the past.

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    You know, its funny.

    In many ways, we in the US are just doing the 1910’s, 20’s, 30’s, all over again.

    A big thing back then is what we now call scientific racism, eugenics.

    Generally speaking, it was a bunch of unfounded psuedo science that purportrd to stem from Darwin’s theories, but… didn’t really actually have any sensible data or theory backing it up.

    … the difference is that this time, eugenics part two electric boogaloo… its largely, not entirely, but to a great extent being used by ignorant bigots to hurt themselves, instead of other kinds of people.

    So… would the meta of this be that eugenics and psuedo science and anti-intellectualism actually are a functional, definable evolutionary or maybe social mechanism, it just… basically works in the opposite way that morons think it does?

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    It’s a bit early, but they might win a Darwin award yet. Still a thing are they?

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    18 hours ago

    I drove through Idaho.

    Are there 60 people there, outside of Boise? I remember driving for miles and miles without seeing another car or even having the horizon change. Nebraska and South Dakota were populous and varied by comparison!

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      Uh, wow, okay buddy, do your research! You can drink raw milk just fine! You just gotta heat it up to kill all the bad bacteria! I just wish there was some sort of way to do it faster than boiling, but obviously science hasn’t evolved that far, and I need my milk to prove I’m not a DUMBOCRAT (A lot of people don’t know dumb has a b in it. Why don’t my kids talk to me anymore?)

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      I’ve had enough. I don’t care. If stupid people want to drink raw milk, take dewormer, don’t vaccinate, etc. let them do it.

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      24 hours ago

      It’s hilarious that he was supposed to spoil democrats and ended up spoiling Trump- so they offered him the current job.

      This is why we can’t have nice things.

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          Well…it claims to cover everything. Until something happens. Then suddenly the cup of water you got was out of network and the fart you did was denied because it required prior authorization.

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              Ah yes, the millions of people who have shared their stories about their experiences are invalid and ignored because you haven’t personally experienced it. Standard Republican logic.

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                  I must have misunderstood what you meant by “far-fetched” then, because to me that reads like you saying the endless stories aren’t true.