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[–] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 29 points 5 hours ago

THE FOOD INDUSTRY HAS SPENT BILLIONS ON TRANS FATS!!! THEY ARE WOKE!!!

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I find it hard to believe that even the most ardent Trump supporters don't cringe at seeing something like this posted on the official website of the whitehouse.

Even if someone (somehow) doesn't know that human drugs and treatments are tested on mice (or other animals) before being tested on humans, they must at least feel some kind of shame/embarassment/humiliation at seeing a headline so petty and childish right under the whitehouse logo.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 1 hour ago

they do feel some sort of shame, by remaining silent on it. then again i dont think conservatives can self-reflect.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 19 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

"They also spent millions on transgender cars!"

"That says transmission repair"

"TRANS."

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 9 points 5 hours ago

My favorite gender fluid is Castrol Transmax Import Multi-Vehicle Automatic Transmission Fluid

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

I feel like that should qualify as libel. I know Biden is a public figure so the rules are loose, but that's gotta be crossing a line.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago

It is slowly becoming globally known how absolutely stupid the current administration is.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 hours ago

Something bad must be happening that has nothing to do with transgender animals.

[–] ShadyBonk@lemm.ee 44 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

The Fake News losers at CNN immediately tried to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual).

That's real. That's a real life quote from the real life, official white house website. "Wtaf" is an understatement here.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 3 points 3 hours ago

Strong North Korea vibes with a note of high school bully

[–] imvii@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 hours ago

"Transgenic sounds enough like transgender to me and now I'm pissed off for no reason. Hey boss!"- Stephen Miller, probably.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

“As usual” 🤣 this is hilarious, just not a good and happy kind of hilarious

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago

This reality is a strange blend of Idiocracy and 1984. It's really hard to imagine describing the way things are now to an adult in the 1980s. The GOP being so in love with the Russians is something else, given the depth of all the anti Russian propaganda during the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s it's crazy we ended up here.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 55 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Transgender.... Animal Experiments? What the fuck are you even talking about?

Edit: These are just experiments showing if changes in hormones effect asthma and reactions to the HIV Vaccine, this is a clear case of "I'm counting on you to get mad and not read the article"

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

"Transgenic" is the actual word from those studies. As in, genetically altered. Because they were researching genetic causes and treatments for diseases.

But fuck it, transgender mice, whatever.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 33 points 11 hours ago

Trump got mad that people tried to fact check his claim that Biden spent millions on turning the mice trans. Then the Whitehouse officially released this at a rebuttal of the fact checks.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (4 children)

Every day I'm just wondering if all this is even reality. I think this is The Bad Place 🤔

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 2 points 52 minutes ago

I think what I find the most upsetting (not really, but that's just the phrase), is just how unhinged it all is. If you sat me down, made it my job to come up with content like this, and gave me a full think tank of people... I could never come up with something this stupid.

You think you know right? You think there are limits to stupidity. You've met many people in your life, some smarter than others. You've read the news, you see what people do, you see how they react. You're able to see just how stupid people can be.

There has to be a bottom. Then, oh look, a new and deeper hole.

It's just absolutely wild that anyone could look at something like this and go, "Yeah, a well functioning human adult put that together."

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Muhahahahahahaha, aw man! I can't believe that you figured it out! You really suck ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed.

[–] admin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago
[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 12 hours ago

well, we created a system of social cohesion and coordination so strongly based on obedience to authority and staying in your lane that the authority doesn't actually have to make sense or serve us for us to obey.

in fact, they don't even need to acknowledge material reality. they can live completely, entirely, in their delusional ketamine fueled fantasy worlds, and we will still be killed for disobedience, no matter how mad and irrational their commands get. such a shame there's no alternative.

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[–] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 18 points 11 hours ago

They're not turning mice 'trans'; they're turning science into a circus for political clowns.

🐱🐱

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

This is going to seem unrelated, but I wish my fellow countrymen didn't have a virtually unlimited appetite for finding out.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 36 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (12 children)

Can someone check my math? I’m estimating Trumps first term tax cuts saved the top 1% at least $100b durning his first term. Trump is complaining about less than $9m being spent here. $9m is 0.009% of $100b. Did I get that all right?

[–] LinPing1976@lemm.ee 10 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

The experiment wasn't even for transgender animals. It was for transgenic which is an entirely different thing.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

transgenic mice has been used in research for decades too. you ever heard of scid mice, those are transgenic mice.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

The Whitehouse was trying to make catgirls

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago

Can someone check my math? I’m estimating Trumps first term tax cuts saved the top 1% at least $100b durning his first term.

It is closer to $2.5. trillion.

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[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 64 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Researchers tested drug cross interactions. On mice. The most common subjects in lab tests.

Take a grain of truth. Twist it. It is the core idea behind every fascist propaganda machine.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

there's not even a grain of truth here; they thought he word 'transgenic' meant remotely the same thing as 'transgender'. or thought nobody would check.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

hes hoping his dimwitted supporters takes the bait

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[–] m3t00@midwest.social 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

yes i clicked articles. headline is the article. how typicle.

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