• boaratio@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I know our response to COVID was awful, but people don’t realize how many people AIDS killed while the government sat on their thumbs. It was millions, plural.

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      3 months ago

      Not even sitting on their thumbs, they were actively demonizing victims and saying they deserved their deaths.

      Anyone surprised by the modern Republican party being fucking ghouls hasn’t been paying any attention.

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        3 months ago

        I was in a punk rock band in high school that had a song called “Fuck Republicans” and it couldn’t be truer today.