Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer | America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/magazine/cancer-research-grants-funds-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l08.78wW.WowoZTddADZJ
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BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 70 pts · 356d
Eliminate Cancer Cures to own the LIBS!
-Pro Life Republicans!
silence7@slrpnk.net · 23 pts · 356d
Its ok, they were born, so they must have sinned, and are therefore going to hell and not worthy of being cured. /s
hemmes@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 356d
Pretty much - it’s Pro Life Creation
After that, you’re on your own!
Tryenjer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 356d
GOP, The Pro-Cancer Party.
Who else but Krasnov? Marcelo might be senile, but he was right.
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 48 pts · 356d
Yeah thousands of people will be murdered by the administration due to their horrible decisions.
EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN knows someone affected by cancer. Cancer causes keep increases as well as the types of cancers. By stopping the research into them for the majority of the population, what benefit does that give us?!?
I would love to hear the thought process behind killing Americans to give billionaires more money.
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 356d
Treatment funnels more money upward than cures.
silence7@slrpnk.net · 15 pts · 356d
I think that's a fairly small part of it. There were two big things that happened:
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 356d
I am very likely to be one of those deaths when the Medicaid rules change on January 1st, 2027.
Washington state minimum wage is pretty high and increases based on cost of living every year. The income cutoff for Medicaid is pretty low.
I will have to be working at least 20 hours a week in 2027, and there's a significant chance that in doing so I will end up making more than the Medicaid limit and be forced to pay for health insurance that won't cover nearly as much of the $18k a month without insurance meds that I very likely may have to take for the rest of my life to stay alive.
To not have to do this I would need to give up working and apply for disability. Even though I have cancer I would need legal disability status to avoid the work requirements since I don't have children. Even though I am in my forties I am considered one of those "able bodied young men abusing Medicaid to stay home playing video games."
It's fucking sickening and I am furious about it.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 356d
It doesn't. It kills American. The HF believes here's an excess of 258,000,000 Americans.
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 356d
True that might be a big driver of this
ServeTheBeam@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 356d
Holocaust without the gas chambers. Kill the sick by making health care more out of reach.
silence7@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 356d
To be fair, they're also talking about lethal injection for unfavored groups
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 356d
Well. Yeah, they are just gonna slow down everyone else in the labor camps.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 356d
This Holocaust brought to you in part by AI. "AI: Replacing workers since 2023."
peopleproblems@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 356d
That's how Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Leopold II, and so many others achieved massive amounts of death.
Executions don't do that. The Heritage Foundation is interested in thinning the population, and executions are useful for fear and removing specifically interfering and troublesome people from the picture.
Why are they so fascinated with eliminating so much of the population? I do not know. The only thing I can rationalize is that a smaller population is much easier to control and rule, and much less threatening.
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 356d
More people represents more competition for your position and assets.
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 356d
Genocide by attrition. Same way they kill off the indigenous. Same way they oppress minorities by making life extremely difficult such that successive generations dwindle.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 30 pts · 356d
Call it what it is, this is indiscriminate murder.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 10 pts · 356d
The indiscriminate is the "funny" part here - GOP voters are slowly waking up to the fact that there's no way to "punish" only the libs, illegals and sexual deviants.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 356d
Exactly .... most laws state that manslaughter is when your actions without your knowledge cause the death of someone
Murder is when you knowingly do something or take a series of actions knowing that it will definitely kill someone or a group of people
xyzzy@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 356d
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 356d
The cold icy grip of death can’t take this man soon enough.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 9 pts · 356d
You know what is fucked up? It won't stop with his death. While a lot of his shit does come from his absolute wanton ignorance and sheer evil heart, the evil and mentality that he has and has spread is not unique to him. All of his underlings are just as evil as he is. They do not give a fuck about anything other than their wealth and their own self-preservation.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 356d
Yes, exactly like with most terrorist organizations even when you cut the head off, you will just create a power vacuum and whatever replaces it could very well be much worse than what was there before.
n0respect@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 356d
And to tinfoilers like me, Trump dying is already part of the plan. But perhaps it's happening sooner than expected.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 356d
I fully agree but I can’t wait for the day when Donny dies. When that happens I’m going to get wasted out of my mind. Then the next day I will panic for the events to come as a result of his death.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 356d
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 356d
It was all worth it to stop the genocide in Gaza. He did stop the genocide, right?
psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 356d
Trump is cancer.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 356d
Hey but we are all going to save like $8 each (assuming everyone pays equally) a year on taxes! And when you think of it, that's a better trade because you can buy like one vegetable at Whole Foods and that will stop you from getting cancer in the first place!
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 11 pts · 356d
Cancer won?
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 356d
MAGA, a cancer on society, is just supporting a natural ally.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 356d
258,000,000 deaths in America is one thing.
But this sort of thing impacts the rest of the world.
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 356d
Come to Canada. We would be happy to have you.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 356d
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 356d
The bigger cities are expensive. Quebec city is smaller, very nice, but learn French, eh?
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 356d
Well, we'll still do cancer research in Europe, and we are not doing too badly. Like the European COVID vaccines were just a byproduct of cancer research.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 356d
For now, but the rise of fascism continues to loom over Europe.
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 356d
Every day I think I cannot see worse news. I try to avoid it a much as I can and have killed all my accounts on any sites except here. I've curated any news google sends me to everything but actual news. Then I scroll 3 times on lemmy and omg. This is insane. Do they think only dens get cancer? Complete lack of any thinking - never mind critical! Who is going to pocket all that saved money? My whiskey intake has increased exponentially.
dhork@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 356d
"The real cancer is the Radical Left!"
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 356d
"This wouldn't have to happen if the left didn't call us Nazis and fascists"
Arancello@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 356d
Didn’t some repugnican nazi already state that the second civil war will be bloodless if the left allow it? So this is just part of the Heritage Foundation de-population tactics. Entirely predictable and consistent with their morality.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 356d
Trump was worried they'd find a cure for him. Already had one close call with a high-speed lead treatment but it ended up going to a lower-priority threat instead.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 356d
May he contract multiple glioblastomae just as the cuts go live
silence7@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 356d
The cuts already happened already. He is as-yet-undiagnosed
sbbq@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 356d
Oh, is this one of the wars Trump said he ended?!
TomMasz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 356d
Someone must have told him non-white people were getting treatment.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 356d
"Yay. Let's cut all that wAsTe, fRaUd aNd aBuSe!!!!11111eleventy! So much winnnnnnninnnnng!1111"
-voters that would cut their own balls off to own the libs.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 356d
Political Cancer stops the War on Cancer
TwinTitans@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 356d
The fox is in the henhouse. You guys know what to do.
ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 356d
Hope he does of it - soon
TuffNutzes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 356d
As long as billionaires can save a few more million in taxes, it'll be all worth it.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 356d
that’s one way to reduce the debt - bastards