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McNadoMDGuys, we knew screw worm was headed north. We knew it would get here, absent profound mitigation efforts. We CHOSE to not help Mexico control it. We CHOSE to not prepare. We could have been producing and releasing millions of sterile flies daily, at a cost much less than the collapse of the Texas beef industry, but again, we CHOSE to focus on racist nazi nonsense instead. Trump, Abbot, and their goons own this, full stop. (Also, fuck the guys who voted for their own demise…)
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Vanalope@mcnado I mean, we stopped consuming cattle products when the industry in the US showed they were just gonna ignore bird flu in cattle. So yeah, not surprised at all new/old fuckery is afoot in that industry.
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Yes, prions. I believe that in the US that particular ban (based on time spent in UK) has been lifted, however (at least it no longer shows in the Red Cross reasons for rejection)
Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊I am convinced, utterly convinced, that at this point the Republicans believe the one and only valid use of governmental money is to hurt people.
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Zimmie@mcnado What’s wild is this almost certainly won’t change any minds. The people who voted Republican will continue doing so to “save the oil and gas industry”, even after seeing how thoroughly the Republicans bungle every single industry they’ve said they would save.
Everybody I have ever asked *hates* Ted Cruz. The people who voted for him did so because they thought Allred would hurt fossil fuels.
Passwordsarehard4@bob_zim @mcnado does the normal Texan get any money from it? I’m sure they work in the oil fields, man the refineries, and the like but they could also just build solar farms, install wind turbines, and maintain battery storage sites. Is it just a “five families” control the narrative kind of thing or is there some state payment like Alaska has?
@passwordsarehard4 There’s not a state-level dividend or anything. If anything, the average Texan likely *pays* money due to state subsidies to the oil companies. It’s just that the oil companies are among the biggest employers in the state.
Allred’s position in his race against Cruz was to promote solar and wind, as well as the tech sector (popular in DFW around TI and Dell). Cruz basically didn’t have any positions, but won solely because of a perception that Republicans support the oil industry and Democrats want to kill it.
Mike. 🩼🇨🇦
STP@mcnado yeah, pretty sure I listened to a podcast about this (Inc the sterile flies programs getting cut) about a year ago...
@mcnado can't find the one from waaay back on my phone, but this landed in my feed back in March (not listened yet). Radiolab: Return of the Flesh-Eaters
Episode webpage: https://radiolab.org/podcast/return-of-the-flesheaters
George Dinwiddie@mcnado <<The return of screwworm comes after the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, launched by the Trump administration, last year cut funding for a project dedicated to monitoring and containing New World screwworm in Central America.>>
Suzanne Aldrich (she/her)@gdinwiddie @mcnado maybe they can just add the little screwworms to RFK Jr’s new food pyramid scheme
@gdinwiddie @mcnado after your daily dose of cocaine!
yak@mcnado "we chose not to prepare" is the national anthem of the american empire, these days.
@yakmacker @mcnado I call it ruinous apathy
Matt Willis@mcnado if you help Mexico, you can't use them as a scapegoat and blame them later for your own failure. And that's all conservatives know how to do.
Cykonot@mcnado could not agree more...enjoy this parody of the orange felon
The President's Insane
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Plantagenet@mcnado the Texas beef industry can totally collapse...go planet!
peachfront"we"????
i'm actually kinda tired of "we" being used as a rhetorical device when "we" are all aware that there are actual people with names who bear the responsibility for this
pretending "we" did this is a guarantee they the actual doers will never be held to account
not wanting to single out any one poster, but some days i get my fill of "we" & i just have to say something
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