Team blue pill candidate : has allowed measles vaccination to get so low that a measles epidemic can actually happen, and is starting to happen.
team red pill : promises to get rid of measles vaccine requirements in schools
team horse dewormer pill : thinks team red pill doesn't go far enough, wants to outlaw the vaccines entirely & have nuremberg style executions for doctors/etc who promoted it in the first place
I should dig up my post on phantom memory, which is, ironically, not online anywhere.
@pluralistic
> @raaleh often reminds us, the left is the ideology of object permanence - to be a leftist is to hate and mistrust the CIA even when they're tormenting Trump for a brief instant.
> Or to remember that it was once possible for a working person to support their family with their wages: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/27/six-sells/#youre-holding-it-wrong
> The thing is, object permanence is hard. Life comes at you quickly. It's very hard to remember facts, and the order in which those facts arrived - it's even harder to remember how you felt about those facts in the moment.
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> @internetarchive which ] https://x.com/doctorow/status/1792962823406100684
@1goodtern
>This is awful.
> On top of everything else these families are having to deal with - including the serious illness of a child - they are being placed under suspicion and being threatened with their children being taken into care.
This can't be right. https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths/status/1791131339023937976