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It's the best way to get vaccines though.
I can imagine a government controlled bureaucracy trying to invent new stuff 😰
Edit: people have no idea how modern medication is made.
What, like NASA or university grants? Government-backed research happens all the time in loads of fields.
Yes, and capitalistic ventures, startups and stuff builds off of that all the time, I thought you were against that.
Wait until Tesla needs to be bailed out.
What does that have to do with creating vaccines?
If the government is so bad and untrustworthy, why not instead of just accepting that they're bad and trying to not let them do stuff.... we change the government to make it more trustworthy.
I don't know your political leanings but the Republicans in congress almost all universally thin that government sucks and is bad, and they do everything in their power to make that assumption a reality
No need to imagine, it's like the main way we do research in the US. Or at least it used to be...
Yup, that golden age when we came back from the depression was because of socialist policies FDR put in place and the rich immediately began to vilify (note these rich clowns caused the depression).
Socialism isn't a boogyman, it's the reason anything is working at all.
Most of the best things in America are Socialist.
Yup, like almost every modern amenity is from socialism. All capitalism has done for me lately is... Umm... What the fuck has capitalism done for me lately?
goddamn electrical grid
i'm gonna have to move to tennessee for this comment aren't i