The Moonshot program was the largest, organized effort by the U.S. government to find cancer cures. Congress voted it down.

Even though this would be a win for all Americans – and humanity – it apparently did not outweigh the politics of making a Democrat look good. This is the definition of party over country.

I’m a doctor.So is my mother. When she got cancer, I realized how little that mattered.

Republicans have stated budget cuts need to be made with an ever-growing debt. But where was this attitude when tax cuts for the wealthy were on the table in 2017? They don’t have to look at patients in the eye and break the devastating news that they have cancer. They don’t have to treat cancers that block intestines or drown a patient’s lungs in fluid.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    il y a 3 mois

    Need to be putting this on billboards in red states.

    “The GOP just protected you from another vaccine”

    • Ænima@lemm.ee
      4·
      il y a 3 mois

      Not this time. Cancer isn’t communicative and there is no one alive who has not known someone battling or lost from cancer. It’s not a personal failing of the individual and it doesn’t give a shit who you are or how you live. It just might be the first time that a Republican voter could tangibly see how the wealthy and Republicans look to keep them dead, rather than do something nonpartisan.

      Fuck a “win for Joe.” They just blocked a win for humanity. We all know that in the end, you bet your ass the wealthy will have no problem getting their hands on this no matter the price or extremes they have to go to as soon as they are personally affected.

      Seriously, buy ads on every type of public media display possible. It could read:

      F#k a win for Joe!* Republicans in Congress just voted to let you and anyone you love die in the name of letting you and anyone you care about die from cancer!

      Call your local representative and demand they put their partisanship aside, because I’m sick of seeing good people lose their lives to something that we now have the power to stop for the benefit of all of humanity!

      I don’t know. Maybe throw out shit about how even beloved pets get cancer and die even sooner than we expect because of this shit. Maybe show a picture of a sickly dog shining down from a glowing halo. I’m just spit-balling here. You all get it!

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        il y a 3 mois

        Cancer isn’t communicative

        No, but it IS environmental. And we’ve been flooding our air, sea, and soil with toxic waste for decades.

        That makes us a Hippie Green Issue, so Republicans oppose it.