Department of Education gone?

[LevelUP]

DOGE has a lot of political power.

And BTW, Twitter is now called X.

[NotJoeBiden]

What power does DOGE hold?

Also, I will forever refer to Elon’s platform as Twitter. X is confusing, and you all understand what I am talking about when I say Twitter.

[LevelUP]

Now, we have Bernie Sanders on our side for DOGE.


https://x.com/SenSanders/status/1863268770371772863


This is what uniting against the elite establishment looks like.

[Ares]

I do not trust socialists like Bernie.

[LevelUP]

I do not trust socialists like Bernie.

I don’t trust him either.

I know he likes the idea of a 10% cap on credit card interest rates that Trump proposed. 

The problem is that it could limit access to credit cards to only those with high credit scores or reduce the number of companies offering them. That’s the issue with price fixing.

[NotJoeBiden]

Funny how you are both suddenly skeptical the moment a socialist agrees with a policy that Trump has.

A broken clock is right twice a day.

[LevelUP]

Here's a woke policy that the government spends your taxes on, in addition to funding transgender surgeries for illegal immigrants in prison.



https://x.com/DOGE/status/1862884929954017308

[NotJoeBiden]

Yea, the role of the NIH is to fund medical research. That is why they were established.

Medical treatment and research should be made by doctors, not billionaire oligarchs like Elon Musk, who just so happens has been running a company that conducts unethical medical experiments.

[Ares]

Funny how you are both suddenly skeptical the moment a socialist agrees with a policy that Trump has.

A broken clock is right twice a day.

Socialist Sanders who is literally one of the dumbest individuals to serve in the Senate and run for president in my lifetime only agrees to cut the Pentagon budget and it is not because he really cares how money is spent in Washington.

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Here's a woke policy that the government spends your taxes on, in addition to funding transgender surgeries for illegal immigrants in prison.



https://x.com/DOGE/status/1862884929954017308

Those are absolutely insane wastes of tax payer money.

[Jonathan Whatley]

Racial health disparities are a health problem proven by unassailable statistics. While some complaints about racism can be disputed as subjective, these are objective.

Significant racial health disparities continue to exist even when obvious covariates are controlled for. A black person in the US can have high education, high socioeconomic status, live in a healthy neighborhood, demonstrate great health behaviors, but they are still statistically more at risk for some significant health problems than a white person matched by these same criteria. Glad you mentioned cardiovascular health, because that's a well-demonstrated area of racial health disparities.

These disparities are not explained either by the race-essentialist hypothesis that racial minorities are biologically less healthy than white people in most of these respects. Yes, there are some specific health problems that specific racial minorities are more susceptible to because of hard biology, like sickle cell anemia among black people everywhere. But there are similarly health problems that white people are more susceptible to because of hard biology, like cystic fibrosis among white people everywhere.

And the biologically less healthy hypothesis falls apart when you compare racial health disparities in countries where one race is a minority to the same measures in countries where that same race is not a minority or where racial stratification in the countries is otherwise very different. That said, similar racial health disparities exist in the US and in peer countries like Canada and the UK.

If America is going to be great its scientists had better get what they need to, to use some words from the president-elect, "figure out what the hell is going on."

"Perceived racism" is a measurable construct that arose out of this research. The hypothesis is that some of the racial health disparities are explained by built-up stress from the perceived experience of racism. It's especially pertinent to the study mentioned above, since it's well established that stress can correlate with cardiovascular disease risk.