• LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    It sounds like it was penny pinching neoliberal austerity that did this as we forced the flies south by flooding the environment with so many sterile flies that they couldn’t breed a new population, got to Panama and then just stopped there, and then i guess stopped doing the maintenance they’d been doing continuing to unleash sterile flies in Panama so they’ve come back

    If i were elected president I’d make doing that with mosquitoes and any other human parasite that transmits blood borne disease one of my core policy proposals

    That and the Transhattan project would solidify my legacy as best president im pretty sure

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      and then i guess stopped doing the maintenance they’d been doing continuing to unleash sterile flies in Panama so they’ve come back

      this was a trump cut. dunno if full eradication was possible with how south america is geographically and politically (caused by amerikkka )

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        so a few weeks ago someone posted something about doctors making some sort of new findings about the utility of progesterone in aiding breast development in trans femme individuals and as a cis cracker I can’t help but stick my nose into everything and, on hearing that, I was aghast at the poor state of medical knowledge, because people should have known that about progesterone YEARS ago

        as president I would dedicate billions making a national project of developing the perfect transitioning technology. I think my initial proposal was that we’ll develop a pod where you go in and it’ll be like you never even heard the word testosterone. And if you’re a trans man, good news, you go in the other side, that’s where all the testosterone’s gonna go, it’s win win win

        I think I could sell it to the cis people by playing on the steroid meat jockeys who would inevitably come to understand the benefits of perfecting our engineering of the human endocrine system, but really I think the “no more mosquitos” plank of the platform would be what really helps sell my candidacy to the average person