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Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

More and more does it look like we are going to need a huge general strike with everyone refusing to work for about 2 months. It may cause a lot of people to go homeless if anyone can enforce evictions and many may starve. But the immediate move for companies while the markets crash into the Trumppression would have to be for billionaires to try to forcibly move their companies over seas in attempts to save anything they have left.

The alternative is 100 years of massive viral/bacterial spreads that wipe us out in essential plagues while wealth disparity forces large swaths of the country into slavery.

I really hope it doesn't come to either.. but that's what this administration is forcing the population into.

Edit: Note earlier this year this administration already made massive cuts to NOISH, some of which were reversed, which is the administration that under/in the CDC that pushes research to OSHA to help ensure the health and safety of workers.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 20 points 5 months ago

Sure, here's my name, address, phone number, and declaration of intent. Take me away, future govt. and their self-curated list of political roundups! I approve of the idea but not the means of confirmation. Tell us when and I'm game.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

Please stop sharing this website. It's a fucking op

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 13 points 5 months ago

I know back in the day when things were bad people organized and prevented evictions from being enforced. I'm not sure how hard that would be to do today, but it might be something we need to do and figure out again.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 months ago

General strike needs to be more than a walk out. Keep doing the job fot the people but not state or corporation!

Keep making coffee, free til you run out, for everyone but cops. Courtesy of the union.

Keep teaching kids, but teach the .most subversive shit you can.

Keep treating patients, and just make shit up to insurance.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The shutdown doesn't give them any extra power to fire people, in fact one could argue there's less.

So they basically doing "let is is cut Medicaid for millions or we will fire these unrelated people"

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Let us kill the sick or we kill the sick

Well, you can't be asking for an option that doesn't kill the sick! Fuvking commie!

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

And Republicans have had the fucking gall to say for decades that anyone besides them "hates America". How the fuck is what they're doing not domestic terrorism? They are doing everything they possibly fucking can to kill and maim this country, both its citizens and its strength as a country. It's so fucked up it's hard to believe it's happening. And millions of fucking morons think all this shit is good. What a sick joke. Honestly it's hard to fathom even formulating a more evil plan than what these suck fuck fascists are rolling out. It summons a hatred deep in me that scares me.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They already said it in 2022

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Because they say everyone else is the terrorist. And beat everyone over the head with it.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair, I hate America a little m9re each day.

Not as much as they do just yet, but a lot.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cool thanks for this great input

You're welcome!

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Have you ever considered the possibility that the "protest voters" were a Conservative/Israeli/Fascist/Russian PsyOp to turn Democrats against "the left"? That you are being played like a fiddle?

I doubt the election was legitimate regardless, but I have seen zero evidence these phantom "protest voters" had any impact on the election, yet in every thread in the last year someone makes an effort to blame "the left" more than anyone else. How are you so sure they're to blame? Why do you think they occupy your mind so vehemently?

How long until you blame ((antifa)) for Trumps martial law, after responding to their terrorism with terrorism?

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 5 months ago

The election definitely wasn't legitimate. Trump bragged, on air, about it being rigged.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're all over the place lol. First you say they don't exist. Second you say they can't be blamed, to which I say: I am informing protest-non-voters what they voted for. Third is a strawman. Ciao.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Democratic leadership has no problem with anything that's happening 🤷🏻‍♀️

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They shut down the fucking government over what's happening, you troll.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Always the ml user. If you think Harris would be doing this..

Ciao.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Read again, more carefully. You completely missed my point

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Trying to turn it into the center for disease collaboration

Center for obedience to diseases.

[–] Arancello@aussie.zone 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Hmmm. This reads a lot like a solid candidate for the Darwin awards but at a national rather than an individual level. Gutting disease mgmt will inevitably lead to some nasties. While they run their course, those who thumb their noses at disease mgmt ( including vaccines) will not have a good time. With luck, the anti-knowledge gang might diminish in volume!

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It would be terrible if RFK was to contract a fatal but previously easily managed virus .

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

He would just buy help from top European scientists.

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 9 points 5 months ago

Grandfather Nurgle approves.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The smart grift would be to make more offices and departments and administrations, and then start contracting that work out to private shell corporations. I’m not quite sure how this is supposed to work.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 16 points 5 months ago

Trump is a puppet, Stephen Miller wants to be Stalin and make a white Christofascist ethnostate, and Peter Thiel wants to literally buy pieces of the country to start network states.

Anyone that is trying to grift is not in on it.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

It can only good happen.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Are we absolutely sure this guy's body hasn't been taken over by a billion little Laurence Fishburnes? Because you can't get much more "pro-virus" at this point without smearing viral substrate on random folks on the street.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

Then they retracted a bunch. Morons.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've always wanted to die of dysentery.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

As many states as possible need to just start cutting off as much influence from the feds as possible. Preferably including arresting and/or disappearing fuckwads like Kennedy, they ain't just dangerous they are an active threat to humanity, especially Kennedy.

[–] ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What? Does Nurgle have a super PAC or something?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The brain worm was a Nurgling

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

If you had any respect for the 2nd amendment defenders, his the fuck can you have any left at this point?

[–] withabeard@feddit.uk -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A cursory search and I couldn't find anything. I might have to go digging. But...

I'm sure during the COVID lockdown years, as I was reading more into pandemics, there was a scientific conclusion that we'd not yet seen a major worldwide pandemic event that started in the Americas.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago