Ramasmarmy saying whatever he thinks the Republican base wants to hear. So weird seeing him bet all in on a base that despises him.
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He hasn't figured out that he will never win because he isn't white
He probably considers himself white since he isn’t a black man meanwhile the republicans will never see him as anything but non-white. It’s similar thought processes to the South American neo nazis.
We had a Sri Lankan family friend who got incensed when anyone suggested he wasn't white. It was odd.
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It's working so far for him. He's the rising star in the party. I'm sure there is a portion of the republican electorate that would like to vote for a brown person so they can use it as "evidence" that they aren't racist. Just like when they claimed racism was over when Obama got elected.
Aye. At this point I'm convinced he's saying anything to get attention and raise money. I also wonder if it's a play to siphon off extremist votes, but I'm not sure who'd benefit outside of moderates like Chris Christy
This is literally his brand. His books are actually filled with policy contradictions, because he's figured out that a significant portion of Americans simply reflect whatever most recent political messaging they've heard. There is no attempt at broader synthesis or framework consistency.
The average voter hears something they like, neuron activation gives them dopamine, and that's the end of the experience. This entirely explains why there are more than zero people who can vote for Obama and then vote for Trump. Because these are simple folk. The common clay of the new west. You know, morons...
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That’s fucking dumb, people kill each other over religion every single day in staggering numbers. Maybe they can institute a program that has speakers from the IRA and the Taliban come in to talk about strong faith.
I cant believe grown adults believe in fairy tales, it’s absolute insanity.
At the end of Peter Pan, the Lost Boys along with Wendy and the other kids are tied to a mast while Captain Hook monologues at them. Peter has pushed Tinkerbell away, and she's fading out of existence. It seems all hope is lost.
But then Peter gets an idea and begins to chant. "I do believe in fairies, I do, I do." Soon, they're all chanting it together. "I DO believe in fairies! I DO I DO!"
And Tinkerbell pops back into existence to save the day. This is what faith is. The idea that if you believe in something hard enough it will pop into existence.
Of course, it's a fantasy story for children. I can't believe grown adults think it's true, either. It's absolute insanity, agreed. But that's where Republicans have to meet their constituents, who apparently live in Never Never Land.
This guy is an even bigger shill than Turd Cruz. He made his money in pharma, his wife is a physician. And yet here he is shilling for FaiTH BaSeD CuRE.
Fuck off Vivek
Ironically, his name means conscience.
He's got none.
Fuck George W Bush forever for popularizing "faith based" as a euphemism for people forcing their religion on others.
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Religion is a mental illness.
I'm so sick of these narcissistic cunts who will say and do virtually anything for attention and graft.
Belief in fake gods has never been the solution.
YOU started a pharmaceutical company. Shut the fuck up. Your face is as big as Charlie's. Seriously, there must be some sort of correlation between right-wing vitriol and small faces because holy fuck.
lol. Nobody trusts a right winger.
Lmao I read that as right whinger at first
Still apt
So now these dipshits are unironically and very seriously borrowing from the Scientology playbook…? And here I thought religion in America couldn’t get any worse.
Moron.
Bruh isn't his wife a doctor lmao
I'm sure there are plenty of doctors with little to no respect/understanding of mental health.
It’s kind of like the joke “if alternative medicine worked, it would just be called medicine”.
A faith-based approach could also be called a hypothesis-based approach: the only thing that distinguishes it from a scientific approach is that it is a hypothesis that either hasn’t been tested or has failed the scientific method.
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Only someone who is (probably) comfortably insulated from the reality that real people face in crises could say something so inane
Vivek is wrong. Mental health should be taken seriously.
What a fucking idiot
Sick that they would blatantly lie to try and increase conversions.
I want to just say. Get fucked. Thank you, that is all.
It always amuses me when people try to recommend faith or faith based healing to cure their medical or mental health problems.
How is faith based healing any different from using the placebo effect on someone by giving them a sugar pill and telling them it'll help cure their illness? Only difference I can see is you are replacing the pill with God, another placebo.
It's worse because it attributes any improvement to God instead of you or statistical noise.
He’s worse than being a card-carrying member of the religious right, he’s an ass-kissing suck-up to the religious right.
So his big plan is to just tell everyone, "Y'all need Jesus!"?
Apparently. Except he's a Hindu, so who knows?
He's a pick-me. It's still Jesus.
Isn't he s pharma guy?
Sir you have a minority religion in this country. Do you think religion is irrelevant to this or are you hoping a bunch of Americans get shipped off to Vishnu camp when we get depressed?
Ramaswamy is a pharma bro.
Seems not to be the greatest salesman from my point of view. Unless he sells faith in a vial.
He's selling himself for a job in Trump's cabinet, so he's a better salesman than you think. He's already rich off the pharma investments. I just like the irony.
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You know, we have a term for alternative medicines that have been shown to have a positive effect on patient and are backed up with evidence. That term is called, medicine.
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Oh, is this the insufferable a-hole trying to out-crazy Trump and still polling almost dead last?
He admits that people with mental health disabilities are just locked up in prisons and not given help (true), but then says let's bring back insane asylums and not give them medication or therapy, just let Jesus take the wheel.
To anybody who thinks this is a good idea, if Jesus could cure them of their mental afflictions, you wouldn't need the insane asylums to begin with.
What he is describing is a just prison system by another name.
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"Faith-based" is the weasel word here, insert your meaning. The reductive correlation of violent crime rising as psychiatric institutions shuttered leaves out the economic context. Public healthcare isn't on the table, this is just redistributing the effects of not having proper care available for everyone and claiming it's a solution. "Let the churches deal with it instead of the prison system." Is he advocating we decriminalize and reduce sentencing? Are churches in a position to hide/harbor what the law determines to be a criminal? No talk of re-allocating police budgets.
I mean I'm not going to tell my friend with Asperger's that he should abandon his accepting church community. I blame the fact that our economic system deems him as a worthless burden, unless laws are in place that force employers to treat him with the same dignity as everyone else and accommodate him. The fact he can't access a career a "normal" person could is a huge part of the problem.
He is just afraid the temples are running empty
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