• thefartographer@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    You know, we’ve made massive leaps in HIV therapies and potential cures. While it’s ill-advised to seek out HIV or to treat it as a non-issue, the fact that this is being used as some sort of a scare-tactic by politicians within a world superpower is far more of an indictment of the American healthcare system than it is if any immigrants.

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      3 months ago

      Actually I think it’s more that the people he’s trying to rile up (old people) are stuck in the 80s where getting HIV is a death sentence and it’s only something the gays™ get. So not only is it a racist but a homophobic dog whistle.

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        3 months ago

        Oh shit, I didn’t even think about that… How long you think until we roll back the name to GRIDS and pretend like straight people can’t get it?

        Condoms and not sharing needles are just masks for your dick and blood, amirite?