[FRIAM] Republicans need to renew themselves (was: self-care)

[Jochen Fromm]

It is not the US government. The Republicans lost their way. When the Republicans turned into a MAGA party, they lost their last sparks of integrity and became a violent authoritarian cult which worships a conman.Corrupt Republican politicians like Mitch McConnell who look like their own mummy cling to power by embracing this dangerous cult and by manipulating voter districts (gerrymandering). The GOP needs to renew itself. Here in Europe Green parties begin to replace the conservative parties.-J.
-------- Original message --------From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb at gmail.com> Date: 7/2/22  08:58  (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] self-care The hypocrisy of the US govts is amazing.For decades they have been desperately promoting pill based self induced abortions as "safe" abortions in India and Latin America through their puppets like the Guttmacher Institiute and by using misrepresentations and outright lies.These pills are highly toxic / carcinogenic and Guttmacher was caught red handed by us for using fake accounts on Wikipedia to shape the "self induced abortion" article to depict it as safe and as an at-home remedy. We got Guttmacher delisted in India for about a year, but they made their way back through the USAID RMNCHA programs used to bribe foreign government servants to shape policySarbajitOn Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 8:52 PM glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:In the aftermath of the activist Justices overturning RvW, this popped up in my feed:

How to Give Yourself an Abortion
https://jewishcurrents.org/how-to-give-yourself-an-abortion

I remain torn on the issue of self-care. And lots of energy was added to my oscillators with the whole "horse dewormer" thing for COVID-19. (Yes, I'm poking fun both at the people who bought veterinary ivermectin and the people who used the disgusting sneer "horse dewormer".) To boot, this post came up this morning about a homeopathic packet sent home with the patient after surgery: https://centerforinquiry.salsalabs.org/2022cfimidyearemailversion11. (Placebo is a thing, despite Blumner's write-off.)

Nick is fond of asking people whether they take multivitamins or not. And while it's true most experts claim that *healthy* people just pee them out. *Who* amongst us actually qualifies as "healthy"? What does "health" even mean? That's not an idle or rhetorical question. Am I "healthy", despite the excruciating chronic pain in my shoulders, neck, and lower back? Despite my sporadic debilitating migraines? Despite my now abated follicular lymphoma? Sure, I *seem* healthy because I can do pull-ups, shovel dirt, drink 5 pints without a hangover, and maintain a full-time job with a bit of time for hobbies. But what you see from the outside doesn't reflect what I feel on the inside, which is like a sick puppy where the slightest bad event would topple me into the "disabled" category. "Healthy" is at best a misinformation concept, at worst a malinformation concept: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/mdm-incident-response-guide_508.pdf

Sneer all you want at the new-age descendant reading self-help books, cutting out magazine ads for their "vision board", or self-administering veterinary de-fetus pills, but there's something important, here. Fad diets, bottled water, alcoholism or pregnancy as an indicator for moral failure, etc. all point at that thing, whatever that thing is.

In that context, self-administered abortion is legit.

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