Dr. Jake Kleinmahon, who is just one of three pediatric heart doctors with his specialty in Louisiana, said he feels like the state has targeted families like his.
  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
    1211·
    1 year ago

    That’s ok. They have Dr. Cletus, who got his MD at the school of Common Sense and did his residency at the hospital of Traditional American Values.

    Red states don’t care about having physicians trained from filthy leftist academia, propagandizing them with “facts” from scientists trying to sell books. Cletus is more competent to perform surgery than any blue state “Doctor,” because he knows the south will rise again, and he has gumption and a can do attitude. Checkmate, stuff in books!

  • Raging LibTarg@lemmy.world
    531·
    1 year ago

    So, anyone else wonder if the plan for Republican controlled states here is to chase all of the left leaning people out, bolstering their majority stranglehold in certain states and sacrificing things like talented doctors/nurses/teachers/etc. for an electoral college advantage? Literal tyranny of the minority? Hmm?

      • Raging LibTarg@lemmy.world
        22·
        1 year ago

        I know exactly what you’re talking about, and you’re right (shit, that article is from a whole year ago?!), I should have thought of that! This is some serious shit, like I was just kind of being “tin-foil-hat-y” with my comment, but they’re way ahead of me.

        Jesus Herbert Walker CHRIST, this is a huge fucking problem!!

        ETA: “The power to call for a convention belongs solely to state legislatures, who would pass and ratify amendments without a governor’s signature, Congress’ intervention, or any input from the president.”

        FUUUUUUUCK

        • gabe [he/him]@literature.cafe
          262·
          1 year ago

          It’s not even tin foil hat-y. The Republican Party is a fascist political party that has a desire to overthrow the US government and replace it with a Christian Fascist dictatorship with active plans for genocide. It’s alarmist until it isn’t, they are being completely transparent about their intentions. They know they aren’t the majority, so they want to kill enough people to make sure they never lose and change the government to make their killings legal.

          • jumperalex@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Good thing the only people they killed with their COVID stance was their own.

            I mean yeah everyone was hit, but they went out of their way to make sure their own people were hit the hardest.

            • 80085@lemmy.world
              9·
              1 year ago

              Rep voters =/= Rep politicians. I would say the ~27% of people that identify as Republican support fascist-like policies, even if they don’t think of them as fascist. The Rep party itself is definitely neo-fascist. They even use the same rhetoric as the Nazis and white nationalists (focusing on degeneracy, cultural marxism, great replacement theory, etc). Just this time, LBGT people and hispanic immigrants are the first scapegoats. The current 2nd favored Republican presidential candidate, behind Trump, is most definitely a neo-fascist by just looking at the policies he’s been implementing in Florida; not to mention his campaign sharing a video ad featuring DeSantis in the middle of a sonnegrad.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      20·
      1 year ago

      There are lots of dystopian futures where the healthy and technologically advanced separated themselves from the unwashed, uneducated, and violent masses. Elysium is a popular film that uses this trope. We always assumed that the healthy and technologically advanced people created their utopia and pushed out the masses. In these fictional stories, I never considered the possibility that the masses would push out the healthy and technologically advanced people to their utopia and the masses were left to wallow in their own filth by their own choice.

    • flipht@kbin.social
      19·
      1 year ago

      That’s exactly what they want.

      It all boils down to resource management and selectorate theory. They don’t care that the overall quality of life will be reduced for most people, because they themselves will personally benefit. They are willing to accept a reduced pie if it means they don’t have to share it.

      And to the point of the other person responding to you - the constitutional changes they want are real, and that factors in. If they can get even a few light red states more solidly so, they have a stronger position for an eventually constitutional convention, at which point they will rewrite the whole thing.

          • Raging LibTarg@lemmy.world
            7·
            1 year ago

            And here I was, just yesterday, telling someone there’s still some thing to feel good about re: the 3rd Trumpdictment. Seems like a mere distraction now, honestly…

            • Lemmington Bunnie@aussie.zone
              91·
              1 year ago

              I feel good that eventually I will die, and I haven’t left any children behind to suffer through what will come.

              I actually get very sad when I think about the kids that my friends have. We’ve got a tough road ahead, and it’s only getting tougher.

              I still try not to make the problem worse and even improve things where possible, but it’s hard not to feel defeated.

              • Soggy@lemmy.world
                22·
                1 year ago

                Hate that doomer crap. People find happiness in far worse situations, and the future needs people who give a shit. You’re not morally superior for not having kids and you’re a coward for judging others who do, so scared of some hardship that you prefer annihilation.

                • Lemmington Bunnie@aussie.zone
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I give a shit, I do what I can to not make things worse and improve where I can. I don’t think I’m morally superior in any way, shape or form - quite the opposite; there are many greater, smarter people out there who could do a much better job at improving the future than I can hope to. I have many, many reasons for not having children - this is just one. Yes, I’m a coward. No, I don’t judge others for having children - everyone has a choice, and I’ve made mine. No, I don’t hope for annihilation - I hope that somehow, this freight train with no brakes manages to make a turn without derailing, and that the future is glorious and beautiful and healthy. While I may be a sad, pathetic little creature, I do like seeing the kids of friends and family grow and thrive, I just worry what is in store for them and their children.

              • diprount_tomato@lemmy.world
                16·
                1 year ago

                Your country is doomed. Best thing you can do to make things better is to help your loved ones and stay out of political activism (as in not being politically active)

        • flipht@kbin.social
          8·
          1 year ago

          I mean, yes, but also the entire regressive ecosystem is gaslighting centrists with “both sides” nonsense, so if you actively freak out it will just alienate the people we need to care.

          I think the best course of action is to get as involved locally as you can. Show up to school board and city council meetings. Have and express your opinion on the current business before them. Volunteer, do community outreach, and explore mutual aid.

          The right has a well established network for communicating their doctrine and giving people east activities to gradually ramp up their involvement. We need to create similar structures for ourselves even more than we need to scream at elected officials who will ignore us anyway.

          Build parallel power, and then use whatever leverage you can to force saner voices to prevail.

          • Raging LibTarg@lemmy.world
            8·
            1 year ago

            I mean, yes, but also the entire regressive ecosystem is gaslighting centrists with “both sides” nonsense, so if you actively freak out it will just alienate the people we need to care.

            I just love how responding emotionally (and totally fucking appropriately) to the methodical fascist takeover of our country is alienating to some. I can see why so-called centrists can receive even more ire than the opposition in certain circumstances (MLK, anyone?).

            Welp, I’m already an engaged voter. Guess it’s really time to start doing more. Really starting to despise these power hungry assholes, you know?

    • profdc9@lemmy.world
      51·
      1 year ago

      It’s like the Cultural Revolution or the Khmer Rouge. They’ll be rounding up anyone wearing eyeglasses soon enough. Republicans uber alles.

    • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      It’s that, plus dismantling education so the general populous isn’t smart enough to catch onto the conservative grift.

      • cmoney@lemmy.world
        7·
        1 year ago

        Hey not to worry you’ll get a voucher for a private christian school, so they can further force their ideology down your throat all while funneling tax dollars back to the church.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    47·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    One of Louisiana’s few doctors specializing in pediatric heart conditions is leaving the state after the Legislature passed a variety of bills aimed at restricting rights for LGBTQ people.

    Kleinmahon, who is gay, told WDSU that he and his husband had planned to retire in New Orleans, but he now feels like the anti-LGBTQ legislation passed by the Legislature has made the state a hostile place for families like his.

    Kleinmahon wrote in a post on Instagram that he moved back to Louisiana five years ago with the goal of building one of the best pediatric heart transplant programs in the country.

    He doesn’t want to leave that behind, but he wrote that he and his husband, Tom, “have discussed at length the benefits of continuing to live in the South, as well as the toll that it takes on our family.”

    “This is a wonderful new opportunity, but it is incredibly sad to leave our home, our friends, colleagues, and patients and their families,” he wrote on Instagram.

    I’m a bot and I’m open source!

    • 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      “Before the surgery is to commence, we’d like to have our chaplin come and bless the proceedure, and say a few words in case God decides to change his plan. Just one thing before we begin, have you ever voted socialist anarchist communist democrat, believe there are more than 2 genders or tried to push the gay agenda on anyone? Good, now that it’s settled, let’s begin with a prayer… Lord Jesus in heaven please help guide my hands to do the work we know only you know how to do. Please lord jesus teach me what I need to know to operate on this man today and give me the forgiveness and immunity if anything wrong happens”