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awesome! for a moment i was worried famine wouldn't be one of the things this administration would bring about.
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And with climate change, it could possibly spread further north than it used to, before it was eradicated in the US.
Everything you would want to know about the history of the screw worm is here: https://youtu.be/lL8GnFtKliU
'Murica got exactly what' Murica deserved
There are awful, powerful people in the background pulling the levers of power, but this isn't new
It has always been fucked. It wasn't founded on the ideals of freedom or anything noble
It was stolen, then built with slavery, and that slavery was just rebranded as capitalism so white people would buy into it, so long as they still felt superior to everyone else
The cruelty and greed have always been the defining characteristics
You mean rich white guys who didn't want to pay taxes. I'm shocked America turned out the way it did.
Trump embodies the USA and is the direct result we could only get from our two party system.
That's why I don't necessarily blame one person here. George Carlin said it best. Selfish ignorant people vite for selfish ignorant leaders. If it wasn't him it'd be someone else. The problem isn't one person, it's that such a massive amount of voters are selfish and willfully ignorant.
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Big brain billionaire syndrome
Yeah well what's the profits this quattwr? I don't have time to think about next quarter!
They will always be protected from the consequences of their actions. Always.
Working as intended.
Daily reminder that the US government is a doomsday cult. This is is by design.
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The shidas touch, touches everything.
Mierdas touch
This is so much more horrifying than I realized. Humans can get it too. Here's a CDC article on it if you dare. https://www.cdc.gov/new-world-screwworm/about/index.html
Symptoms can include
Feeling maggots (larvae) move or seeing maggots within a skin wound or sore, or in the ears, nose, eyes, or mouth.
Painful skin wounds or sores that worsen within a few days.
A foul-smelling odor from the site of the infestation.
Bleeding from open sores.
Yeah, that doesn't sound fun.
Seeing maggots move within the eyes. Yeah, I think I can go without meat in that case.
You are the meat, in that case.
Yeaaaaah, was just reading about screwworms. I didn't realize it was the parasite that embeds itself into your wounds and eats your flesh. Oh boy oh boy!
In fairness they've been spreading Northward yearly for several years, we knew they were coming and eradication efforts have been underway for a while to try to blunt it. But, with the idiots currently in charge, just assume those efforts have been botched until proven otherwise.
the eradication program ended in 22-23, they were making headway ever since. likely it wouldve been restored under harris, A GOP wh will never restore something like this. they always end using budget cuts to fund TAX CUTS.
At no point did the eradication program end. In 23-24 Biden's USDA quadrupled funding to the Panama facility producing sterile flies. The facility had been underfunded for years (/wave Trump1) and at some point during Covid lost contain of the Darian Gap, officially reaching "we fucked up" thresholds in 2022.
It's the now classic answer to "Why is this happening now?" Trump fucked it up, Biden tried to fix it without any sense of urgency because he just assumed he'd get eight years, and then Trump came back and fucked it up again.
Biden tried to fix it without any sense of urgency
I would say funding it at 4x is pretty urgent
Sadly, no. That response in 2018-2021 would have been urgent, appropriate. By waiting until 2023 when reports were coming out in '21 that the Darian Gap was failing and '22 that it had failed, Biden did in fact drop the ball. The administration chose to try to work with/through Central American governments who, frankly, hadn't dealt with screwworms in over a generation and were poorly equipped or completely clueless. Also, it's worth noting, this facility was relatively inexpensive to operate at less than $20M/year. We had a beautiful system in place but Republican ignorance and Democrat pussyfooting has put us in a terrible position. The sunbelt population boom of the last 50 years was not just about AC.
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Australia once again vindicated for banning beef from the USA years ago.
We do a fair job at banning some of their people too
I like seeing local losers pay for tickets to the speaking event of some utter cunt who will be refused a visa, and then the pathetic losers whine about losing their money
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If you don't know about the parasite, I really like this Kurzgesagt video explaining it (YouTube link)
Conservatives only know how to do one thing while governing which is to close their eyes, turn off their headlights, press the gas pedal and dare the road to swerve as they hurtle ahead into the darkness with no clue what is going to happen.
Ironic we call them "conservatives".
conservatives don't conserve anything. the word comes from "con-serva" which is latin and means with-slaves. what that means is that they were historically the pro-slavery party.
- https://www.online-latin-dictionary.com/latin-english-dictionary.php?parola=cum
- https://www.online-latin-dictionary.com/latin-english-dictionary.php?parola=servus
The only thing "conservatives" ever conserve, ever have conserved, or ever even intended to conserve, is hierarchical power. Conservatism only happens to line up with "preserving that which currently exists" in the sense that, when conservatism was initially developed, the system that currently existed was monarchy.
Make no mistake: under any system but monarchy/dictatorship, "conservatives'" single purpose will always be to transform it into monarchy/dictatorship as switftly, radically, and even recklessly as they can possibly manage.
It's mind boggling how many people don't know the origins of modern conservatism. The nobles that escaped having their heads chopped off with the king in France formed a political party to conserve the old hierarchical system to retain control of the country. From the start they are only motivated by power. If you ever wondered why they don't really have any values or moral compass, that is the answer.
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Hmmm... Guess what percentage of the owners who raise cattle voted for the orange moron?
98.5%, 99% or 99.5?
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