Maybe this whole late stage capitalism isn't the most efficient way to allocate resources after all...

Source: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7...

On top of that, long covid remains a serious concern, and rates of long covid remain steady: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...

COVID also increases autoimmune disease risk by up to 40%, which can have life altering impacts. Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.25.23285014v...

Given the author may be from a place with poor healthcare that doesn't support the disease or autoimmune diseases well (e.g. the U.S.) or may be close to someone with a weakened immune system, it's very reasonable for some people to be cautious about covid.

If you have actually neo Nazis saying you did a nazi salute, and you have leftists saying you did a Nazi salute...

New founders have less wool over their eyes, and increasingly run the numbers and say, "wait a second, that's the expected success rate? That's the pressure I'll have to grow grow grow? Those are the terms? Nah, I can work 40 somewhere, get paid more, and put in fewer hours."

We've stopped romanticizing killing oneself for the hustle too.

It also affirmed that they felt they could supersede state law to protect caregivers (doctors, etc) who provide care against the law in their state (gender affirming care). They declined to exercise that authority and explicitly said they would not.

They also said they would consider provider discrimination only on a case by case basis (which they are not funded to do, and leaves poorer people more likely to suffer discrimination).

They added language stating "nothing in this rule imposes a requirement that covered entities provide gender affirming care".

They specifically struck the following language: "a providers belief that gender transition or other gender affirming care can never be beneficial for such individuals is not sufficient basis for a judgement that a health service is not clinically appropriate." Basically giving doctors the explicit right to say "I don't believe in gender affirming care and will not provide it".

Homage is a complicated book to place because it's been interpreted so baby different ways across eras. But it's hard to imagine someone going and fighting for POUM and praising them post facto would ultimately be anti communist across all flavors of communism.

This is the fundamental assertion of anarchism -- people generally like helping each other and like feeling useful. If basic needs were covered, we'd use most of our time doing things that felt meaningful, and those things would make everyone's lives better.

Neither party is offering anything different.

Yes, you are right Biden did nothing to protect LGBTQ folks, but he did also take action to harm them.

It just gets brought up so often that because he was anti Soviet, he must be anti communist, which wasn't the case.

Given the past four years have seen things like shutting down labor strikes, support foreign wars, expanding arctic drilling at record pace, increased police budgets, erosion of women's rights, erosion of lgbtq rights, and a steady increase in corporate power... I think the difference we'll see is in degree, not in direction.

Not equating the two questions.

The US government has shown, time and time again, what it will do with power once it uses it.

Like, "it's a foreign project"... so is my Nintendo. Are you afraid or worried about foreign things? A lot of the world does a lot of things better than the U.S.

"It's a communist party project"... first of all, plenty of great communist projects out there, and the Chinese communist party is really only a very very narrow slice of communism so your brush is absolutely over broad. But second, so what? What do you own that didn't pass through China in some capacity?

"It's a psyop"... it's an app with funny videos on it. I think you need to set that tinfoil hat down and pause a bit. Does it have a different cultural root used to moderate it? Sure! Are they making moderation decisions I would make? No. Does that make it psyop? Of course not. Don't be absurd.