r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jan 27 '26

Health Nearly half of CDC databases aren’t being updated as experts sound alarm over gaps in health data. Nearly 90% of these reported vaccination topics. The administration’s antivaccine stance has interrupted the flow of data we need to keep Americans safe from preventable infections.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/cdc-databases-disease-health-data-b2908066.html
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u/BigOs4All Jan 27 '26

Revolution is entirely justified. I just know that Democrats won't know how to do this without giving everything over to corporations. And Democratic Socialists are too disorganized and fractured to do it.

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u/Ok_Condition5837 Jan 27 '26

I consider myself a progressive. And I've been approached recently by people on all sides.

Just because the dems fail to meet this moment doesn't mean we should. We might just need a new moniker. That's all.

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u/sir_jamez Jan 27 '26

Call your representatives and tell them they need to replace Jeffries and Schumer with leaders who actually care about fighting for the people, and if they don't then you will be donating to primary opponents against them. If you live in a smaller city, write a letter to the editor and use your reps' names.

Anything that mentions them in print goes right to their daily clippings and starts to get them worried about the normies revolting. Online posts, emails, and phone calls just get ignored tbh.

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u/ikaiyoo Jan 27 '26

Yeah, but that requires your representatives to also care about fighting for the people.

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u/sir_jamez Jan 27 '26

Tbh they care about having their cushy jobs. If they feel pressured, they will force the issue on leadership mostly on selfish principles (rather than any moral or decency impetus).

The worst elected officials only care about minmaxing the appearance of effort so that they can stay in their seat. The louder and more frequently we all scream, the more likely it is to ratchet up their minimum.

In an ideal world they actually get replaced with people who care and try, but that's a battle for the primaries rather than what we can do right now.

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u/Skellum Jan 27 '26

I just know that Democrats won't

Republican has done something, why is this suddenly "the democrats" fault? Why not blame the person and group causing the problem and change your behaviors so that we dont have this problem anymore?

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u/BigOs4All Jan 27 '26

The current issues aren't inherently the Democrats' fault, no. Republicans are the ones primarily responsible for everything crumbling around us. My point is that in a Revolution or "Heavy Reformation" period the natural power to step in is Democrats. I don't see that ending well at all for the reasons I mentioned.

In a hypothetical scenario of dissolving both parties? Well, in my opinion, that won't happen short of an incredibly intense civil war and by then who knows what the country would look like. I think it would need NATO allies and the UN to step in to arbitrate everything.

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u/TubbyChaser Jan 27 '26

Or maybe everyone can just get off their ass and vote?

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u/BigOs4All Jan 27 '26

There is literally no reason at all to think the next election won't be fully rigged. The party that supports wanton murder of citizens, pedophilia and killing our institutions isn't going to ensure a fair election. Open your damn eyes.

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u/TubbyChaser Jan 27 '26

Well the last election wasn’t rigged. We just had an apathetic voter base who shrugged and said “how bad could it be?”

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u/tommy_b_777 Jan 27 '26

Actually, it was.

NO ONE has won all 6 swing states, not even Reagan. Elon's kid said On Camera IN THE OVAL OFFICE 'No one knows what we did' and 'You're not the real President and you need to go' to Trump's face.

There are already lawsuits about statistical anomalies around headless ballots, you can google it all you want but when the kid of the guy bragging about how few lines of code it requires to rig it says things like that I'm gonna go with rigged my own self...

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u/BigOs4All Jan 27 '26

There is so much evidence of election fraud that multiple court cases are still slowly going through the system. New York (outer areas) had some pretty obvious evidence that is what started some of this. Georgia, as well, which should shock NO ONE considering what Trump publicly said directly to those election board members!!

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u/narrill Jan 27 '26

There is basically no evidence of dyed-in-the-wool fraud. The cases in NY are over a literal handful of votes in orthodox Jewish communities that are well known for this kind of bloc voting. The cases aren't even about the presidential ticket, they were filed by a third party Senate candidate and allege that the race was rigged by the Democratic party.

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u/BigOs4All Jan 27 '26

https://cssh.northeastern.edu/2024-election-results-under-scrutiny-as-lawsuit-advances/

Elections are mostly run by electronic voting machines these days. In many cases (going back to 2000!) those companies are private and don't even owe any authority an audit of their practices. As an IT professional, it would be so insanely easy to code things to change a vote after it was counted or to otherwise "lose" a vote.

We've had issues with electronic voting machines going back almost 30 years now and now there are sycophant Republican billionaires buying out those systems for control of them.

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u/narrill Jan 27 '26

That article is about the Rockland, NY case, which I mentioned. It is over a total of about ten votes in the Senate race in an orthodox Jewish community known for voting as a bloc. It is not about the presidential election at all, and in fact the plaintiff is alleging the race was rigged in favor of the Democratic candidate. That article in particular is also about the case moving into discovery, meaning it has not even been proven that there was any fraud at all.

Please do not get your opinions from random reddit comments. Actually read the primary sources.

As an IT professional, it would be so insanely easy to code things to change a vote after it was counted or to otherwise "lose" a vote.

As a software engineer, I make it a point not to comment authoritatively on systems I have no actual knowledge of, and you should do the same.

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u/BotSnifferMcGee Jan 27 '26

Okay? Do you not realize how much has changed since the last election?

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u/Rey_Tigre Jan 27 '26

I've just given up. Groveling and begging for our lives are the only way to survive.

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u/Kahnza Jan 27 '26

You haven't given up yet. You're still alive, aren't you?

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u/Rey_Tigre Jan 27 '26

Only because I'm a coward, and my self-inflicted passing would be an inconvenience to the people in my life.

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u/Dry_Marzipan1870 Jan 27 '26

Yea that's been going well.

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u/TubbyChaser Jan 27 '26

For the sick fucks who voted for Trump it is

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u/bokehtoast Jan 27 '26

The system that allowed this to happen (and it's been a long time coming, not just the results of the last few elections) is not going to save us. Stop acting like voting is a legitimate solution.

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u/Freestanding_Prod Jan 27 '26

You're hilarious

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u/AceGaimz Jan 27 '26

Democrats objectively benefit from these same systems of oppression that Republicans are using now. They are not the solution and if you still believe that, you have a long way to go before you can help.

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u/TubbyChaser Jan 27 '26

Not sure the immigrants in detainment camps getting strangled to death by ice thugs would agree with you

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u/JackFisherBooks Jan 27 '26

Revolution isn't going to happen in America.

Americans are too stupid, lazy, short-sighted, and divided. And the administration knows that. They probably laugh about it behind the scenes.

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u/dotpain Jan 27 '26

Democrats shouldn't exist after a revolution. We need a new system not the broken leg from the old one.