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      5 days ago

      Well, there was a trend among anti-vaxxers to eat dirt and drink piss. So I guess that’s covered!

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    This is the whole crux of MAHA. Make health a completely personal choice by denying any external causes of disease and then when you completely cut any possible health assistance then that’s fine because health is a completely personal choice and responsibility and people should just try harder to he healthy

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      Didn’t forget the part where you get to blame people for their own illness! Being sick now becomes a moral failing because you didn’t do enough to stay healthy.

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        Being sick now becomes a moral failing because you didn’t do enough to stay healthy

        But if you do try to stay healthy (e.g. wearing a mask and social distancing during cold and flu season) you’re a $insult_of_the_week

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        Being sick is a moral failing just like being poor or being ugly. /S

        Btw, have y’all seen the mar-a-lago face? That one IS a personal choice. And WOW what a choice.

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      It’s “prosperity gospel” but for health instead of wealth. I’m healthy because I’m a good person and you’re not because you’re a bad person. It’s literally the same talking points too. Point at the minority of folks in a demographic who actually make genuinely bad decisions and apply that to the group as a whole.

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    He is completely wrong, while being right too. Americans could benefit from a better diet.

    Maybe the American government could provide proper health care and not support junk food industry.

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      Americans could benefit from a better diet.

      Sadly, yes, living a healthier lifestyle is going to be a person’s best option in the wake of health care being even more enshittified.

      Hard to do in a nation where there are food deserts, gym memberships a luxury, and the nearest health care provider is upwards of 50 miles away.

      This, to me, stinks of the same garbage people are fed about recycling, when we all know that it’s the billionaire class and their institutional, astronomical waste and energy usage that is the real problem, not individuals tossing out the dozen soda cans they drink in a week.

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        In my opinion this is why unhealthy foods should be taxed to all fuck and back. Don’t want to spend money on healthcare, tax what’s making people unhealthy. Then with that extra dosh maybe you could fund healthcare a little more. Unfortunately there is no population on earth who’d accept their luxuries being taxed like that.

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          The issue is that health is also a function of free time. Making good, healthful meals takes time and mental effort, and if you’re working two or even three jobs to make the bills, at the end of the day, you likely don’t have enough time or spoons to do much more than toss a pizza in the oven or make some cup ramen or whatever.

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            The reason fast foods are unhealthy isn’t because it’s impossible to make healthy fast food. It’s because unhealthy food hijacks the biological processes that make you want to eat and they are designed to make you eat more than you need to so that in turn you spend more on food. If we massively taxed unhealthy foods to the point where it cuts into profit margins healthy alternatives that fill the niche of “fast food” would come about.

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      yeah taking out the grain subsidies and moving them over to fruit and veg based on lowness of sugar content and highness of fiber and nutrient content. That might be something to do.

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        I get what you’re going for here, but the lowness of sugar isn’t really all that important if we’re talking whole fruits.

        Mangos for example would be considered high in sugar, but I would argue they shouldn’t be discriminated against in comparison to something like an apple. Mangos are also quite filling compared to something like a candy or juice of similar calorie content just like other lower calories fruits such as apples or strawberries.

        Potatoes and other starchy vegetables could potentially get a bad wrap too for similar reasons.

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          I mean if all factors are a part then mangos would get dinged by sugar but upped by fiber and nutrients and its not like any would get zero.

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      He is completely wrong, while being right too. Americans could benefit from a better diet.

      Yes. Let’s actually put some reigns on the food industry, sugar in bread is not normal. Also walkable places that have public transport, but the Auto and Food industries have the Government of America by the short and curlies.

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        the Auto and Food industries have the Government of America by the short and curlies. wallet.

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      people arnt eating cake 24/7, hes just being extremely ignorant out of touch like the rest of the gop, and he ons the grif ttoo.

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    Oh cool. Not eating cake will surely clear up the brain damage from my head trauma

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      This is somehow worse, the “let them eat cake” was said from a very out of touch person who just did not understand. While this is comming from someone who willingly is going out of their way to blame the peasants for the actions that they are doing to those same peasants.

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    That is absolutely useless advice. Guys, if you are worried about the cuts then simply just make more money to give to your insurance companies! Or ask daddy for a bigger trust fund.
    See, easy.

    Right, I’m tired after giving you that FREE advice so I’m off to my second holiday home for a week or two to recharge my batteries before my annual month summer holiday.

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      He isn’t ignorant. He doesn’t care. He’s vindictively robbing all of us blind. They don’t think any of this will be beneficial to any of us. We are not even a consideration.

      None of these greedy fucks are doing any of this because they’re incompetent. They’re doing it for $$$ and control, and they’ll get it, because we’re all still typing paragraphs into a social media site instead of murdering all of them.

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      Why? So he can see historians celebrating more men in history who didn’t deserve their power or fame?