• Cris_Citrus (he/him <3)@piefed.zip
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    It’s irritating that ivermectin now carries the stink of weird alternative medicine people. Its really helpful for treating rosacea (for which it is approved by the fda as a topical prescription drug, under the name soolantra)

    Like its a perfectly useful antiparasitic and antiinflammatory, but now it will always just be “that weird horse dewormer that dumbfucks take”

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      Just about everything has been turned into a political issue in the last decade. Medicine (not Healthcare… modern medicines/drugs themselves), beer brands, avocados on toast, beef, eggs, children’s films/books (that’s not new, I guess, just hitting new levels recently), gas stoves, holidays, black pilots, etc.

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        I’m convinced that conservatives wake up in the morning and just choose something to be mad at. Green MnM losing her high heels, gas stoves, Starbucks, avocado toast, etc.

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          Holy shit 🤣

          My son Jake, who’s 25, eats mayo. He’s a practical young man who works in computers and adores macaroni salad. He’s a good son. I also have a daughter. She was a women’s and gender studies major in college. Naturally, she loathes mayonnaise.

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          I’ll join your friend. This is allso my favorite article now.

          Lmao i really loved this part

          They’re also shunning their parents’ preferred restaurants — Applebee’s, Ruby Tuesday, TGI Fridays — to seek out more authentic fare. Old-school eateries, in turn, are diversifying in their search for new customers. Just this year, Red Lobster rolled out a waffles-and-lobster option, and Red Robin launched a vegan burger. You don’t put mayo on a vegan burger.

          Other favorites are

          I’m not part of the elderly mayo masses; I’m turkey and Swiss on ciabatta with tzatziki, chipotle spread and a little basil pesto. That’s who I am, dammit. My sandwich, my self.

          This is bullshit. This attitude comes to you from young people who willingly slurp down eight kazillion kinds of yogurt, not to mention raw fish and pork belly and, yo, detergent pods, so don’t talk to me about mayonnaise.

          I thought young people today were supposed to be all about inclusion — about kindness and compassion and making other people feel welcome. So how about you include a little mayo in your picnic fare?

          Just because something is old and white doesn’t mean it’s obsolete. Look at Shakespeare. Look at me.

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          That was hilarious.

          Do other condiments have pale imitators like Miracle Whip and Just Mayo and Vegenaise? I don’t think so!

          Author’s never stepped foot into an Asian grocery, and it shows.

          That said, I feel reasonably certain it’s meant to be tongue in cheek humour.

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            There are simply too many quotable lines in this article. Amazing

            A movie called “The Mayo Conspiracy” won the Best Comedy Feature at the 2015 World’s Independent Film Festival.

            Im going to have to watch this film however

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        Yeah those things all just mysteriously “became” political.

        We’ll never be able to truly know who made “black pilots” political 🙄

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        God I fucking hope not lol. Its available over the counter at a lower percentage as a lice cream which is actually what I use since my insurance doesnt want to cover soolantra and its ridiculously expensive (like a tube of topical cream is more than $150 with goodRX)

        I have no idea why the prescription is so expensive but its reputation for being unaffordable and hard to get insurance to pay for is pretty well known by people with rosacea. The lice cream from the Walmart store brand is like $25

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    You know what they call alternative medicine that actually works? Medicine.

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    Maybe let a doctor decide on what your body really needs, not the price of the bottle?

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        The doctor is a reptiloid, it knows everything, but it wonct talk with a straw man, only with a sovereign homesteader

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      Taking the appropriate dose of ivermectin for your body weight should be fine, it’s effective at getting rid of parasites. And doctors really aren’t the thing for that, unlike vets they’re not really checking if you have parasites since most people don’t.

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            So if your worried about parasites, get tested, don’t just randomly poison yourself. Even here in vietnam they don’t randomly injest poison because of a suspicion.

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            There is currently a parasite all over the US causing explosive diarrhea.

            Sorry to break it to you, but we gutted the shit that protects us from shit like this. So get used to it.

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        Why do you know whether or not doctors check for parasites? Are you a medical professional or otherwise associated with the profession?

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    Horrific, anyone have a good explanation for what I went through?

    Well, it wasn’t a high quality educational system, that’s for sure.

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    I want to jump out of my highschool window after smoking angel dust sometimes. Anyone have a good explanation for what I went through?

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      Totally normal. Your body is just releasing all the toxins you’ve built up over a lifetime of not smoking angel dust.

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      It’s polite to warn the people responsible for saving your life that you’re gonna be a frequent flyer

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    This is why vets don’t give heartgard to new patients unless you do a heartworm test first.

    OOP probably has heartworms.

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      Hey, it’s a perfectly reasonable solution for humans suffering from parasites. Just because some idiots take it for other things doesn’t reduce its usefulness as a drug for humans under specific conditions.

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    “only objective understanding”

    Too late. Should have started with that, dumbass.

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      Exactly this! They started from some emotional/political/vibes-based treatment that didn’t work because obviously, then suddenly they want to be all facts-driven when they could face some criticism for gumming up our healthcare system with their nonsense.

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    As in all the other living being on this planet, stupidity in human being should also/usually be fatal and not coddled with ambulances and health care.

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      Yeah this is a waste of healthcare services for sure.

      You know they voted in a way that made that ride expensive and will just go ahead and vote to make it even worse