• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    blister deniers and then they’d try to treat it with cornstarch and toenail clippings.

    See, the thing is these fuckwits have been around since the dawn of time. I had them in my own family. Nature tended to take care of them over long stretches of time.

    The reason we’re so fucked is that these outliers and fringe kooks have megaphones, and there is huge money in promoting bullshit schlock on people who are poorly educated and don’t trust science because they fill their brains with celebrity makeover reveals and purse accessory trends and WWE wrestler feuds.

    Even worse, the controversy it creates just publishing articles about the kooks makes halfway intelligent people outraged, which increases engagement, which boosts the kook ideas even higher.

    This is capitalism’s form when it kills us all. Not with nuclear weapons or lasers from the sky, but with a long, slow, festering plague that leaves everyone broke and sick except for the fraction of a fraction of people who end up with ALL the money and live forever.