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gulliver

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9. It's a bad road to go down, but we should go light on judging people as "ists"

Reply to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #4)

Sun Aug 7, 2022, 10:46 AM

Aug 2022

Or being scolds (as in this post for example).

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Some RWers have become so mentally ill they are opposing preventing disease and death in the USA [View all] RAB910 Aug 2022 OP

It's greed we don't have a democracy. Lobbyists mucifer Aug 2022 #1

What do the lobbyists gain in this case? RAB910 Aug 2022 #7

Obscene wealth and power. It's ALWAYS about money. onecaliberal Aug 2022 #14

How do they gain that by opposing public health? RAB910 Aug 2022 #15

The insurance and Pharma are not about health. onecaliberal Aug 2022 #17

Don't get me started, we'll be here all day AntivaxHunters Aug 2022 #2

Not a real funeral home. The ad was actually pro vaccine. MrsCoffee Aug 2022 #3

Conflating political ideologies with mental illness is ableist and a bad road to go down. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2022 #4

Irrational and callous no cutroot Aug 2022 #6

How to you explain opposing public health? RAB910 Aug 2022 #8

It can be irrational, ignorant, callous, cruel, calculated, whatever, but on its own does not mean WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2022 #10

It's a bad road to go down, but we should go light on judging people as "ists" gulliver Aug 2022 #9

That cannot be. Republicans are never mentally ill. They are trying to establish a new normal bucolic_frolic Aug 2022 #5

And they'll tell you with a straight face... Gumboot Aug 2022 #11

Yeah, ironic RAB910 Aug 2022 #12

polio is ready for a career comeback. bronxiteforever Aug 2022 #13

And it isn't just health that they are opposing. They are opposing any decent economic aid to SWBTATTReg Aug 2022 #16

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