A growing measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas—24 cases so far in a county that voted 91 percent for Donald Trump—illustrates a grim irony.

Senate Republicans plan to vote today on anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to be the secretary of health and human services. If they seat him, it will be Republican families that suffer.

  • Snot FlickermanEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I just feel bad for the people who live in red states who are good people and have just been stuck through poverty with no way out.

    I lived in Louisiana for five years. It was a hotbed of Linux users and developers surprisingly.

    I knew a lot of good people living by a shoestring. A lot of people who never had the funds to make it out. I only made it out because I wasn’t from there originally. If I had gotten stuck, things could be pretty bad.

    I have an old friend from there with a daughter who will never function on her own and needs a feeding tube. It’s already been so hard for their family. This will probably kill his completely innocent daughter and leave him and his wife devastated.

    • shyguyblue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      I’m in a red state and have spent my life holding my tongue when these people start spouting their bullshit.

      I’m done being nice. Unfortunately, they are taking us all down with them, but you can bet your ass I’m going to be reminding them of that the entire time.

      I’m also shoe-stringing it, I’m posting this from an extended stay hotel at $60 a day because my credit is shit. My biggest gift is my ability to read and take instructions, so watching the mouth breathing red hats getting laid off is a small, but sweet, consolidation to all this crap…

      • Snot FlickermanEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        Hats off to you, and I wish you the best in these trying times. Folks like me are rooting for you.