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Luckily my family has never supported that garbage. 

The trouble I'm having now is convincing them it's wise to go ahead and get their passport situation updated and ready in case we need to leave the country suddenly. The bridge from going after immigrants to going after citizens isn't a long one. Especially for these trump assholes.

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40 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Does doctoring not involve reading, understanding, and interpreting medical opinions and studies, and being able to discern a good study from a poor one from propaganda?

I’ve met several doctors that are incomprehensibly incompetent at technology.

I’m certain my previous endocrinologist retired because of the introduction of software in the evaluation, recording and treatment process.

My wife got her executive MBA, and one of her classmates, a surgeon, didn’t know how to check email. He was not an old.

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6 minutes ago, UrbanAchiever said:

The rise in autism really isn't a "rise." It's just a more accurate representation of how many people are classified as such given increased detection and a broader definition of the spectrum. 

It would be like blaming the 300% increase in breast cancer cases to some environmental factor when it's not due to that at all. It's due to better early screening methods and routine mammograms that just weren't a thing a generation ago.  

This is exactly my current mindset on the "rise", which is almost certainly the case. I am just endeavoring not to be completely dismissive. Trust me, I am extremely skeptical of our current national mindset of pseudoscience and lack of critical thinking. 

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56 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

From my experience, doctors really know how to doctor and not much else. 

 

 

1 hour ago, royiv said:

I’ve worked with physicians for my entire career. I’ve been privileged to work with a lot brilliant minds who work to advance the field of medicine and achieve miraculous outcomes on a regular basis. I’ve also had the extreme frustration of working with and having to fire some of the absolute dumbest and most gullible human beings that think they’re geniuses that you can imagine. Your dad may fall into the latter and not the former group.

Father in law used to be a partner at a Big 6 accounting and wealth management firm.  He said by far and away the dumbest rich people were the doctors.  They'd make a lot in one narrow speciality and then lose it all in real estate or oil and gas.

Then we have Ben Carson.  Is he still around?

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1 hour ago, UrbanAchiever said:

The rise in autism really isn't a "rise." It's just a more accurate representation of how many people are classified as such given increased detection and a broader definition of the spectrum. 

It would be like blaming the 300% increase in breast cancer cases to some environmental factor when it's not due to that at all. It's due to better early screening methods and routine mammograms that just weren't a thing a generation ago.  

So the inverse would be to stop testing for cancer, autism or covid and then the statistics can show that you fixed the problem.

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3 hours ago, hookem2010 said:

So my wife and I had our long-awaited sit-down with my parents this weekend. It went... not bad? 

My mother actually apologized for her vote. My dad admitted he should have at least left president blank if nothing else, and has finally realized Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton are clowns who he has vowed not to support.

There was some defensiveness from my dad about immigration that remains pretty nonsensical, but they agreed with things like deportation being out of control, January 6th and pardons being a really bad thing (still don't see how they overlooked this in November), healtchare and education gutting being scary, foreign policy being absurd. It doesn't absolve them of their votes, but I have hope that they have been nursing the kool-aid slow enough that they may be salvagable.

Somehow we didnt even really touch on the economy, which would usually be a place they'd want to direct the conversation, so I'm guessing they're none too thrilled about that.

How much of this was them capitulating so they can see their grandkids more? Perhaps a little. But they didn't roll over entirely or immediately, and my mother is not able to mask or manipulate her emotions, so I think there was real sincerity with much of what they said.

I hope this is genuine, but I'll give you a warning.  If they're still consuming right wing media it is temporary.  They'll be pulled back in sooner than later.  I watched it happen with my dad.

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5 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

I hope this is genuine, but I'll give you a warning.  If they're still consuming right wing media it is temporary.  They'll be pulled back in sooner than later.  I watched it happen with my dad.

This.  God bless my BIL, who is a physician and not the most open-minded guy, but even he has turned on all this MAGA bullshit.  He walked into my FIL's therapy room with my wife (kids were trying to get a handle on his affairs -- FIL was not helpful), and Fox news was blaring.  He immediately grabbed the remote and turned the TV and said "you have to quit watching that shit. It's garbage and it's literally destroying your brain."  No nonsense or ambiguities. Now, I'm positive it didn't work, because my FIL is a juvenile, immature, selfish racist, so Fox is just telling him what he already believes: nothing wrong in his life is his fault, it's all the fault of dirty minorities and such.  But BIL did the right thing.  And you gotta tell your parents "first thing first -- you gotta stop consuming that poison.  Watch the fucking Weather Channel if you need background noise on."

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4 hours ago, hookem2010 said:

So my wife and I had our long-awaited sit-down with my parents this weekend. It went... not bad? 

My mother actually apologized for her vote. My dad admitted he should have at least left president blank if nothing else, and has finally realized Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton are clowns who he has vowed not to support.

There was some defensiveness from my dad about immigration that remains pretty nonsensical, but they agreed with things like deportation being out of control, January 6th and pardons being a really bad thing (still don't see how they overlooked this in November), healtchare and education gutting being scary, foreign policy being absurd. It doesn't absolve them of their votes, but I have hope that they have been nursing the kool-aid slow enough that they may be salvagable.

Somehow we didnt even really touch on the economy, which would usually be a place they'd want to direct the conversation, so I'm guessing they're none too thrilled about that.

How much of this was them capitulating so they can see their grandkids more? Perhaps a little. But they didn't roll over entirely or immediately, and my mother is not able to mask or manipulate her emotions, so I think there was real sincerity with much of what they said.

while you're at it, any update on your wife and sister's evolving relationship?

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3 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Does doctoring not involve reading, understanding, and interpreting medical opinions and studies, and being able to discern a good study from a poor one from propaganda?

Abso, hic, lutely 

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4 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

Congratulations. I hope it's sincere reflection. 

I wouldn’t have high hopes of that. Had relatives that “disowned” Trump after J6 and talked shit about him for quite some time. I don’t think they thought he’d be running again, so there was no harm in their talk. That lasted right up until it became clear he was going to be the R nominee. Then they were right back on the Trump train.

I’d suspect there are a lot of folks doing the same right now, on the assumption that he won’t try to run again and they won’t be in the position to flip back (because reasons).

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3 hours ago, Foosters said:

r/LeopardsAteMyFace - He voted for Trump, but now his wife may be deported.

 

 

Don’t worry Camden.  Her childhood friend, Dexter “Big Dick” will make sure your wife is fully comforted in her shit hole country.

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18 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

I wouldn’t have high hopes of that. Had relatives that “disowned” Trump after J6 and talked shit about him for quite some time. I don’t think they thought he’d be running again, so there was no harm in their talk. That lasted right up until it became clear he was going to be the R nominee. Then they were right back on the Trump train.

 

 

Well, yeah, the dems forced him to. It's all the dems fault. 

 

 

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1 hour ago, SquishMitten said:

I wouldn’t have high hopes of that. Had relatives that “disowned” Trump after J6 and talked shit about him for quite some time. I don’t think they thought he’d be running again, so there was no harm in their talk. That lasted right up until it became clear he was going to be the R nominee. Then they were right back on the Trump train.

I’d suspect there are a lot of folks doing the same right now, on the assumption that he won’t try to run again and they won’t be in the position to flip back (because reasons).

 

That is exactly what my dad did.  Absolutely hated him after J6 and now thinks he's a good man that we should support.

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I had a neighbor that talked so much shit everytime I saw him about drump before he was the nominee the first time. He was insane about it and telling me all sorts of tinfoil level shit about him. Then he drank the fox news coolaid and went from hard anti drump to a flag waiving, yard full of flair, red hat. We have to understand we are surrounded by complete idiots that actively vote against their wants and needs over the currently promoted boogeyman. They are scared children. I am sorry if your kin are doing it, I hate to hear that this shit is tearing apart families. So avoidable.



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