Nationally, a study by Yale researchers determined that “the excess [COVID] death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters.”
They are literally being deceived to death.
This is a natural outcome of conservatism, what is conservatism trying to conserve? The existing power structures in society of course. So the power of God over man, of men over women, of white people over other races, and of rich over poor. Science must be rejected because science gives evidence against the supremacy of god, men, the white race and the rich.
They don’t love being lied to. They love being told they’re great and wonderful and better than “others”. That that is a boldface and egregious lie is not the part they focus on.
No, they are literally thrilled by being lied to. That’s why we have Qkooks, Birtherkooks, Bircherkooks, Sandyhookkooks, Start the Steal kooks, Hermancainers etc. Conservatives keep making up 100% total hoaxes over and over and over. They think dishonesty is a virtue and honesty is a vice. It doesn’t even matter if yesterdays lie “it was Antifa” completely contradicts today lie “they were tourists”. All that matters is the thrill they get by not having to acknowledge reality in this particular moment.
About the whole God thing
https://newrepublic.com/post/174950/christianity-today-editor-evangelicals-call-jesus-liberal-weak
This has been their platform literally forever; rather than have to learn anything or improve themselves, just deny that knowledge or betterment exists.
Didn’t work for drugs, definitely not going to work for science. Like a quarterback who keeps running the same three failing plays.
the right wing racists are using a same tactic in Australia to block the indigenous people from having a voice in parliament with a ‘if you don’t know vote no’ campaign. we’re having a referendum which means we’re changing the constitution, the gist is we’re going to finally properly recognise the aboriginal people (the ones that lived here for 60k years plus) and give them a permanant ability to voice their concerns in parliament.
it’s disgusting and transparent for the anti information angle, however it sadly seems to be working and now likely the people that have endured mass genocide will again be silenced by the white right elites. Australia will remain one the most racist places on the planet.
First and foremost, I’ll be voting yes.
The problem with our referendum is that it appears to burn a lot of political capital for the sake of gesture politics that is unlikely to change anything of substance. The voice has no teeth and almost everything about it will be determined by the courts at the time.
Now, it’s better than nothing, and I don’t expect it’ll come at the expense of the lack of better alternatives on the horizon, but it’s frustrating we can’t do something more meaningful.
A reminder: it’s what the First Nation Council asked for. It’s a decade of work that has been approved and agreed upon by everyone involved.
That is, what you’re complaining about are features, not bugs.
Edit: also, for it to have teeth in the future, Australia needs to get more Greens or other suitable 3rd parties into power which support The Voice.
While hopefully Australia will get The Voice, which will mean it won’t be able to be easily removed - what’s important (as always) is voting for the future of Australia and not coal.
Voice also won’t do anything though. If politicians want to hear the voice of the people they can go listen to them.
The companies ruining indigenous land have been financing the voice referendum, an advisory body like that could easily be used to justify themselves. It’s gone that way before. “Progressive No” has the best opinions, listen to Lidia Thorpe and those that put treaty first, both sides want to assimilate indigenous people into settler colonial society. Both a yes and no victory will be a success for the racists.
You can’t fix stupid.
/“It’s Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.” – Mark Twain
If you squint and slightly misinterpret it, Darwin says stupid will fix itself eventually.
You just have to not save it at the last second.
Unfortunately they compromise herd immunity for the people who can’t get vaccinated for legitimate reasons, so they’re intent on taking a few of us with them.
Unfortunately, my wife’s niece has leukemia and as such doesn’t really have her own immune system, so not only can she not get the vaccine, she would almost definitely die if she got covid.
When we got married, we decided masks on for the event, and that made our first choice maid of honor to flip her shit on us about how we’re not kuzzling her, and called us sheep. Then she got a face tattoo.
A few of her family members decided to no longer speak to us over masks, even though they KNOW her family and know her niece is immunocompromised.
Isn’t killing your constituents a bad long term political strategy?
They don’t plan to win with votes.
Republicans no longer believe in the Republic.
stupid people breed more, so so long as the birth rate among republicans less the excess death rate outstrips the birthrate plus the excess survivial of the democrats then they will increase their vote share.
whether that’s the case or not i don’t know but they have other pokers in the fire. attacking education in multiple ways for instance. dragging the next generation down to their level.
Their well documented gerrymandering
Their attacks on the fabric of democracy itself. if you can’t win elections, get rid of them.
Their stacking of the courts
In true Republican fashion however, they’ve flubbed it. The youth is overwhelmingly for Democrats and outright loathes Republicans. Either controlling the poor hasn’t turned out that effective for them*, or it’s too early to see results. And in the meantime, they’re killing their already aging and dwindling base.
*I think they’ve failed to brainwash young poor children. The vast majority of people I graduated high school with a decade ago, in the Midwest, have become clearly liberal and Democrat. Even the ones who were conservative in school.
Republican politicians live by “I’ll be gone, you’ll be gone” at the end of the day.
They know the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag.
