Toph Bei Fong posted:

Toph Bei Fong posted:

Toph Bei Fong posted:

Toph Bei Fong posted:

fits my needs posted:

https://x.com/FrankLuntz/status/1781010153451729355

fits my needs posted:

https://x.com/FrankLuntz/status/1781010153451729355

https://x.com/OutFrontCNN/status/1781474416230072614

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/jewstein3000/status/1780590066978468134

I think about “Havana Syndrome” a lot and maybe that’s because of my experiences. I was immediately made sick from the air around Ground Zero and told it was safe and to return to work. I never recovered. 1/

Since then I have had such severe chemical sensitivity that I’ve had to move constantly and I’ve been gaslit every single time I’ve pointed out gas leaks, mold, pesticide (and where I could, I’ve always been proven right). 2/

I was exposed to the Dominguez Channel chemical spill in 2021 and knew right away the government was lying about it being caused by natural phenomena (and was proven right). 3/

I’ve been exposed to people feeling the need to downplay environmental exposures my whole life, even before 9/11, as a sensitive person.

With Havana Syndrome, we had people reporting similar symptoms in one building then other buildings. They had in common their employment. 4/

The CIA minimized and denied their claims. That was expected. They did the same with Agent Orange.

Yet for some reason, there is a large group of people overly focused on denying these patients who seem to think it’s a CIA-backed story. 5/

And there are people obsessed with denying the claims of people who experienced so-called “Havana Syndrome,” even though it’s a small group of people, not supported by the govt, not really affecting anyone’s lives, 6/

The point I should have led with is this: The people obsessed with denying Havana Syndrome will hide behind politics, claiming that it’s racist, that it’s a CIA story, etc.

But ultimately I think it’s just about the pleasure people get from disease denial 7/

There are whole Reddit communities around calling people fakers who say they are sick.

Tweets that claim disabled people are lying or exaggerating are almost always popular. It’s sport!! 8/

I think it comes from the internalized ableism that is at the heart of all ableism: denying disease or illness or physical weakness or sensitivities etc is a way to convince yourself that you have control over your body.

Control you don’t have! Sorry. 9/

It’s connected to the Door Dash discourse: leftists claimed they cared so much about workers they had to deny the experience of disabled people who said they needed their food delivered.

But that was a cover.

These same labor activists had nothing to say about consuming produce from exploited farm workers, admitted to eating in restaurants where workers disproportionately died of Covid, etc.

The discourse became almost entirely about how the disabled people had to be lying.

And not surprisingly some of the Doordash folks also think it’s fun to mock Havana Syndrome.

This is why political allegiance is meaningless to most marginalized groups. We see how you use the rhetoric of politics to play your favorite game: punching down.

I also think it’s fallen out of favor on the left to deny Long Covid (though people like Natalie Shure still do) because it’s so widespread and there’s no political cover for it. They can’t claim it’s a fiction by the govt.

So that’s where Havana Syndrome stepped in.

But it’s still popular on the left to deny chronic Lyme, despite major institutions like Johns Hopkins establishing centers to investigate and treat it. And other rare illnesses.

At best, the deniers will hide behind “Big Pharma” to create a political cover story for ableism.

FYI dunno for sure the cause of “Havana Syndrome,” but the US has been developing microwave radiation technology since at least the Cold War and there were examples of known tests of it in the year before Havana Syndrome was named.

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

https://twitter.com/mycoliza/status/1781184897149009923

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

I would just have the kids smoke their first joint together to find their way out of the sewer since that would also be an activity they could all do together that would also be kind of a "coming of age" activity rather than... What happens lol

loquacius posted:

Do you think it's more likely that juror 4 doesn't get news from anywhere at all and doesn't give a poo poo about any of this, or that he was just annoyed at being asked all these questions and refused to give real answers

comedyblissoption posted:

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1781320162169491790

ram dass in hell posted:

we love turmp like his supporters

Gripweed posted:

How the gently caress can anyone listen to Biden speak and think this is OK? It doesn't matter what he's talking about, just listen to his voice. He is too old. How are people denying that?

ram dass in hell posted:

we love turmp like his supporters

Gripweed posted:

How the gently caress can anyone listen to Biden speak and think this is OK? It doesn't matter what he's talking about, just listen to his voice. He is too old. How are people denying that?

Gripweed posted:

How the gently caress can anyone listen to Biden speak and think this is OK? It doesn't matter what he's talking about, just listen to his voice. He is too old. How are people denying that?

Vim Fuego posted:

That's what I love about American Presidents! They keep getting older and I feel the same rage

Gripweed posted:

How the gently caress can anyone listen to Biden speak and think this is OK? It doesn't matter what he's talking about, just listen to his voice. He is too old. How are people denying that?

Vim Fuego posted:

That's what I love about American Presidents! They keep getting older and I feel the same rage

Beached Whale posted:

yeah this trial is already over

Gripweed posted:

How the gently caress can anyone listen to Biden speak and think this is OK? It doesn't matter what he's talking about, just listen to his voice. He is too old. How are people denying that?

Yinlock posted:

because biden is just an empty suit they project all their hopes and dreams onto, it doesn't matter what he actually says

also if biden's too old that means i'm wrong, thought discarded

mags posted:

liberals secretly wish for an old benevolent king

Andorra posted:

Joe Biden is going to lose and the immediate response from his supporters will be to blame leftists and/or anybody who has ever criticized joe biden for any reason.

sullat posted:

and two out of three ain't bad

mags posted:

I’ve never heard much about it but I assume Reagan was a sex pest

Real hurthling! posted:

nancys rep tho

Andorra posted:

Joe Biden is going to lose and the immediate response from his supporters will be to blame leftists and/or anybody who has ever criticized joe biden for any reason. But I wonder how long it will take for the tell-all books and interviews where it shockingly turns out things were actually dumb and incompetent behind the scenes this whole time, and he surprisingly was a bad candidate unfit for office