words inside Because rightoids enjoy abusing awards to protect themselves from getting dunked I'll respond to them in 1 post.

The other day @Intervention posted something along the lines of "I remember when the gays were accusing Fauci of killing them."

This was in the context of some r drama conservatards (intervention literally being from r/conservative, the most r-slurred sub on reddit) trying to claim Fauci somehow failed to respond to the HIV epidemic.

The problem being, of course, is it wasn't Fauci, the CDC, or the NIH that failed. It was the Republican party and Ronald Reagan. It's not even remotely shocking intervention is unaware of this because she's a poorly educated moron and perpetually wrong about everything, but still.

Intervention, after another rightoid gave me an award to prevent me from dunking him, responded with this:

STFU wacko. I was alive to remember it and it's easily searchable.

Indeed b-word, it is easily searchable, and had you done so you'd have found this:

https://academic.oup.com/shm/article/33/3/1001/5265310

during the 1970s; by 1979, health professionals began to recognise an epidemic.9 In June 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the first official US report on the new disease. Over the following months, AIDS took a swift and devastating toll on urban gay communities, with the hundreds of cases diagnosed that year representing only a tiny fraction of those already infected.10 However, the political climate deterred any proactive federal response. In keeping with his agenda of trimming federal government, the new president, Ronald Reagan, had cut budgets at the NIH and CDC. The social conservatives who helped elect him recoiled from a disease publicly associated with gay men—a strongly marginalised and stigmatised social group.11 Federal agency leaders expressed mounting frustrations over the next several years, as the administration blocked congressional appropriations for AIDS-related programmes and impeded the CDC’s attempts to mount prevention campaigns. Medical research at the NIH was relatively less affected by government recalcitrance, but for those already infected or at risk of contracting HIV little federal help was forthcoming. In 1983, activists succeeded in having AIDS designated a disability under Medicaid—but most AIDS patients died before receiving any benefits.

This is a common tactic you see Republicans engage in - they fail to respond to or block a government response to a serious issue, and then years later try to spin the failed response on other people - in this case Fauci.

In 30 years you can be sure the failed covid response will not be Donald Trump, but everyone else, just like somehow Fauci is to blame for Reagan failing to respond to HIV.

The lesson here, you dumb b-word, is that just because you lived through something doesn't mean you have any idea what you're talking about.

Anyone blaming Fauci for a failed HIV response is objectively fricking wrong and warping history.

R-slur #2.

@aydyn

Yeah, moron, not only do people act as projectiles inside the vehicle when unbelted, you can easily be flung out into traffic and cause more accidents:

https://clickorlando.com/traffic/2020/12/07/fatal-crash-closes-i-4-in-osceola-county/

https://mercedsunstar.com/news/local/article254906857.html

There's way more here, but it isn't actually worth trying to argue with people claiming seatbelt laws are tyranny or that they only protect the individual.