Vice President JD Vance’s Bluesky account was suspended within minutes of him joining the platform. His posts criticized medical treatments for transgender youth and claimed pharmaceutical influence over healthcare decisions.
I still can’t believe that a deranged asshole like him is legally allowed to be VP of a nuclear power
good fuck him
Says can’t trust experts because they are clouded by ideology and bribed by industry quotes an judicial expert who’s entire job is to inject right wing ideology into the judicial branch while being motivated by bribes.
Stay classy, MAGA. You don’t give two shits about your country, you actually did steal an election, and the backwash is coming.
Did they steal an election ? Or did they still two elections ?
What a pos. nobody is “pushing” these medicines on kids. it’s ultimately the kid’s decision about whether they want these medications or not and I’m not aware of any cases to the contrary. also these medications have been used for literal decades so how can they be experimental? how do you expect people to trust you when you lie so blatantly? glad he got banned.
Happy Pride Month ❤️
also these medications have been used for literal decades so how can they be experimental?
Honest answer: the drugs are being used off-label. It’s not even experimental, it’s basically a wildcat way of using them. An experiment would involve control groups and a double-blind trial, among other things.
I’m saying this because this is what rightoids are saying as criticism and you need to be able to counter that with facts. Right now, there just isn’t enough information and that’s what they’re capitalizing on.
there just isn’t enough information and that’s what they’re capitalizing on.
40 years of using hormone blockers for precocious puberty. “Not enough info.” Fuck the whole way off.
double-blind trial
No. The data is fine. It doesn’t need to be perfect.
This is the exact opposite of what the reports out of the UK, Netherlands, Sweden, etc. are saying. They’re all very seriously restricting their youth transitioning clinics because the quality of the available data is so poor it cannot be relied on. Beyond the replicability crisis, there are ideological actors on both sides making absolutely junk studies.
Hence the need for proper experimental data.
What’s the regret rate for gender affirming care?
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I want the strongest possible set of information for this and any other question so we can make informed decisions. Right now there are more questions than answers.
It’s just like intelligent design and the “god of the gaps” arguments, where the space God/gods could have done their work slowly shrinks as our understanding of the world around us improves. I have no clue if we’ll ever close all the gaps, but every time intelligent design takes a hit, more people jump ship.
Make a new account, immediately start spewing unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, get banned
I gotta say, I am liking blue sky so far
Good. Fuck that guy.
no thanks.
he’s got a face only a couch could fuck.
I know several brick walls that would love to fuck his face.
The biggest delusion in modern society is thinking that a Twitter-like social media network is “the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis”.
I keep hearing the media repeat this bullshit. Twitter is not and never was the “public square”. It’s a place for morons to be morons and heart each other for being morons.
Makes me wonder if the actual public squares, sans idealization, were also a place for morons to be morons and heart each other for being morons.
It’s like having an argument in a club but in the club people may reconsider what you had to say upon sobering up
Imagine thinking that one Clarence Thomas is less corrupt than thousands of doctors.
Coming from Vance, I like how the logic underlying the statements presumes a profit motive undermines the result.
And this is the point where he playbooks “i was just asking questions i was just being reasonable why are you so mean unreasonable leftist echo chamber etcetc”
Which only works when people let it. A swift “you started ranting crazy bullshit” is what is needed here.
The thing with his argument is that I just struggle to imagine a scenario in which the experts and affected agree and we’re better off listening to judges, lawyers, and politicians instead.
There’s no reasonable argument from the avenues I’d listen to those groups (such as appeal to fundamental freedoms, rights of the individual, etc) where the position should be to bar these people from receiving treatment they want against expert recommendations.
In short, Mr Vance demonstrates the intellectual rigor I’ve come to associate with the denizens of Middletown Ohio, and the firm belief in one’s own right to be the arbiter of everyone else’s life I’ve come to associate with his ivy league education and tech background.
This is a man who argued with the pope about catholic doctrine a few years after converting and I honestly can’t make up something more exaggerated than that
He’s not wrong about medical companies influencing patient care. He’s just wrong about who and why.
Exactly. Why would they give patients long out of patent meds that aren’t even habit forming for this? Nah, if you want to make money with medicine you gotta go the Sackler route. Every trans person I know’s HRT brand of choice is “generic please”
Not only that, but targeting the ~20% of the population that’s post-menopausal cis women with all the benefits of HRT would be a WAY bigger market than the 1-5% of the population that might be trans. If it was about making money on HRT, they’re certainly not going for a very large market.
Not only that, but wouldn’t Big Pharma™ be lobbying heavily against all the anti-trans healthcare bills? Seems like they’re doing a pretty awful job of maintaining their market.
“Anyway, want a 6 months supply of Vicodin?” -The doctors he should actually be worried about.
Why? They pay him.
Sorry, I meant should as in if he actually gave a shit about what he pretends to give a shit about as a preface to target trans people.
Okay but we all know these fuckers believe in nothing.
If you don’t get that by now, you’re determined to not.
I…I’m fully aware. Thought that was pretty obvious from my last response…
( It was. )
So gotchas about it seem kinda… I dunno, a few steps behind?
Yeah, you’ve completely lost me. What do you mean by gotchas?
Apparently, they reinstated it saying they just wanted to confirm it was really him before fully activating it.
I was generally curious why posting that would get him banned. It’s def contrary to popular opinions on the platform but doesn’t violate any rules.
Corpos will never let you down. Only throw you there.
jUsT AsKIng QuEStIoNs
Stupid shit has no rightful place in normal society
