Post #4212353
2026-07-29 20:36 UTC
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@subrealz@infosec.exchange 2026-07-30 03:14
@petergleick@fediscience.org The not believing in science is mostly an excuse. They just want people to care about the neighbors kid. At least not on the state level. They just see social systems as an unfair cost to them. All these guys gets treated and vaccinated as anyone should. The point is to get back to a feodalist society.
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@_thegeoff@mastodon.social 2026-07-29 20:44
@petergleick@fediscience.org If the point is to reduce the hordes at the doors of the executive bunkers when it all goes to shit in the next few decades, then yeah, that makes sense.
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@albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz 2026-07-29 20:50
@petergleick@fediscience.org Apparently this is the world the current administration yearns for: «Against a backdrop of intensifying slavery, yellow fever transformed New Orleans into a city of the dead, claiming as many as 150,000 lives between 1803 and the outbreak of the Civil War. The disease also created a horrific form of what Kathryn Olivarius, a historian at Stanford University, describes as “immunocapitalism”: a “socially acknowledged lifelong immunity to a highly lethal virus, providing access to previously inaccessible realms of ... power.”» From Karin Wulf's commentary of Kathryn Olivarius's book titled "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom,". https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-yellow-fever-intensified-racial-inequality-in-19th-century-new-orleans-180979934/
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@ujay68@mastodon.world 2026-07-29 22:04
@petergleick@fediscience.org Much obliged for reminder to keep well off the US. But it’s not that we had forgotten. 😵💫
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@deepmud@mas.to 2026-07-29 22:28
@petergleick@fediscience.org yup. Those bastards are going to be the ruination of this country