• @yesman
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    1099 days ago

    Just for a little context, this program was started under W. Bush and is widely seen as his primary or sole positive legacy.

    I can’t prove this is designed to aggravate the Bushes and their supporters. But who can seriously say that Trump and his henchmen wouldn’t be that petty?

  • @Sanctus
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    709 days ago

    So how do you justify this villainy? Just revoking anything that helps

    • @[email protected]
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      549 days ago

      Their justification is almost certainly as simple as “only gays and addicts get this, let it kill them”

      • @[email protected]
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        9 days ago

        Conservatism is sick, but elites like it.

        They will become even richer due to the fact that they will reduce expenses on social development, will steal resources. But ‘regular people’ will not revolt against them, because “yes, they are right, fuck minorities, science and liberalism is bad”, i.e. they already are ignorant (and they embrace it!) and uneducated.

        It’s like in any other authoritarian LMIC country, just fucking Middle Ages.

        • @Allonzee
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          59 days ago

          Capitalists see almost everyone, ie poors, the same way conservatives see their out groups: less than human.

    • Snot Flickerman
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      349 days ago

      Trump has literally believed his whole life (and he was taught to fervently believe this by his own father) that any sort of illness is a sign of weakness.

      So, in his eyes, better to let these weak people die than waste resources on them.

      But I mean what you expect from this freaks syphilis addled brain.

    • @[email protected]
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      259 days ago

      If you want to eradicate an illness, the best way, according to fascists ,is simply act as if it didn’t exist.

    • @[email protected]
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      159 days ago

      They’re freezing 99.9% of domestic and foreign assistance. This is only one specific part of what had been halted.

      The idea is to strangle the government and end anything that might keep a single dollar out of the hands of the wealthy.

  • @cfi
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    559 days ago

    There was literally an interview with Bill Gates published yesterday where he was saying he was optimistic since Trump appeared to be listening when he discussed the global AIDS pandemic over dinner.

    So much for that I guess.

    • @Yprum
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      449 days ago

      Yeah, he was listening, he listened and listened well. And what he learned is that there are sick people wasting resources he can take away.

  • @alekwithak
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    339 days ago

    Trump Admin Orders: Die. Just die.

  • @Maggoty
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    249 days ago

    This is one of the things everyone agrees on, what the fuck is he thinking?

    • @[email protected]
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      79 days ago

      Unfortunately homophones think that AIDS is God’s curse for being gay, so they shouldn’t help victims or try to cure it. It’s “God’s will.”

      • dustycups
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        48 days ago

        Pedant here:
        A homophone is a number of words that sound the same.

      • @valtia
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        29 days ago

        It’s especially funny since HIV now affects more straight people than gay people

      • @Maggoty
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        19 days ago

        Apparently some people think it’s an abortion thing too?

  • nicgentile
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    179 days ago

    Politically, this was a key proponent in creating and managing difficult alliances with African, Asian, and South American countries. China, and potentially Russia and India have been waiting for this splinter. They will flood the markets with cheaper generics and people will adapt. This will be a power play America will never recover.

  • @[email protected]
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    159 days ago

    We’ve got a bully in the White House and all his little buttkissers are doing his bidding.

  • @NotMyOldRedditName
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    149 days ago

    He must be upset that Covid19 didn’t kill enough people under his watch and wants to try and get a better record.

  • @werefreeatlast
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    69 days ago

    Oh my god. This guy plans on ruining the world via an AIDS pandemic! WTF!