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I’m over thinking the take your Zorlof and vote for neoliberalism so things don’t get any worse tweet lol

It seems like people who go very left or very right are against the medications I’ve mentioned. Right wing people chalk up needing to take these medications as a sign of a lack of willpower or weakness. It’s also tied in RFK Jr’s vision that’s low-key pro eugenics that’s pretty terrifying ngl. There’s also conspiracies surrounding these meds similar to anti vax stuff - this is maybe also belonging to some left wing ppl as well though. Left and right wing people will say ‘there was an opioid crisis so naturally ozempic’s popularity (in part cos a lot of people have diabetes) is going to lead to bad things’.

(Edit: a subset, it’s not everyone but I have seen ppl wrap anti medication views around a leftist or vaguely left wing frame work) Left wing people will say these medications are just bandaid for a bullet hole of our society that makes us depressed and/or diabetic. I kinda get irritated cos I know they’re not gonna get rid of every food desert and unionise every shitty job and create luxury space communism while I’m currently taking anti depressants when they say this feel good thing about how there will be no depression when we get rid of every bad thing. I have autism and while there needs to be societal reforms to make it easier, idk it does just make me predisposed to anxiety about things like change and deadlines and holding a conversation with people, especially if they’re new, that will exist in a socialist utopia. When I was a kid, I was terrified of a particular light bulb shape. Idk if maybe it’s when mental health things seem so out there that people don’t even know how it can occur. I’ve heard that there are people with ADHD who are quite debilitated by it, but I can’t speak for that too much

There’s then body positive arguments about Ozempic. I admittedly probably don’t know enough about it as I’m a US size 4. I know there can be predatory marketing that I’m against and some wrapping around diet culture. But people also seem to attribute celebrities who might be on drugs, anorexic which existed before Ozempic, or chronically ill and stuff on GLP-1s. It can seem like people forget ppl with type 2 diabetes exist though. The Financial Diet seemed to make a nuanced video about it

Then see anti body positivity people like Jillian Michaels and other personal trainers be against it, maybe out of worrying about business or it going against their no pain no gain ethos