Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026“When I get sick and I can't afford medicine, what are the holistic and low-cost alternatives that I can turn to because I know that I can't afford to see a doctor?” First, holistic medicine is mostly a luxury good, not a function of poverty. 11140088
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Second, MAHA isn’t all that concerned with treatment of disease anyway. Its core claim is that nearly all diseases can be prevented through virtuous lifestyles. If we were all drinking raw milk and taking zinc supplements, we wouldn’t be coming down with heart disease and depression and COVID. 241693167
Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026And the corollary is that people who become sick are in some way undeserving -- not just that they didn't "take care of themselves" but that they were already chronically ill and thus dispensable. 010
Paula @paulapaulpaula.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I think because some old-school granola-heads got into RFK back when he was actually doing environmental regulation activism, there's still a sense among people who don't know better that all people who practice any form of alternative medicine or criticize megafarms are MAHA. They are not! 140
nbrockmann.bsky.social @nbrockmann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Yes. Good health is a reward for good genes & lifestyle decisions consistent w/conservative views, while illness and disability are signs of weak moral character, inferior genes, sexual laxity, & other things that prop up the superiority (pride)/inferiority (shame) dynamic at the heart of it all 000
MTfromCC @mtfromcc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The most virtuous among us die and many of them die before they are geriatric. MAHA should be renamed BWAHAHA 020
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I can’t tell if MAHA is 100% astroturf or 30% grass that’s been colonized by astroturf and, therefore, somewhat susceptible to rational persuasion 011
Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026What sucks here is that there IS total merit to the idea that good nutrition, exercise & strength training REALLY IS HEALTHY & *can* prevent preventable ailments... It just can't prevent ALL ailments & correct all imbalances or pathologies. Fitness & medicine should never be mutually exclusive. 4171
(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I agree with this but disagree that is partisan. There is just as much "if you live your life the right way you won't get sick" in the woowoosphere. Vegans for example. The puritanism in this country runs very, very deep and affects everyone here. 141
ImNotJoeKing @notjoeking.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I find it poetic that their initialism stands for Make America Healthy Again. When were Americans healthy? 020
ImNotJoeKing @notjoeking.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Hardcore MAHA may be locked in right-wing politics now, but I feel like its roots are in the whole foods, organic, alternative medicine crowd that I've been arguing with for decades. Ignorance, willful or not, is politically indifferent. Magical thinking in any form leads us to authoritarianism. 101
ImNotJoeKing @notjoeking.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Thank you for your analysis. I'm so exhausted by all of this and sometimes, actually most of the time, I'm at a loss for words to describe their threat. 020
• @ourapartment.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I was diagnosed with a rare disease/progressive disability at 8, only because my parents trusted the doctors who found something in bloodwork, and agreed to go through the testing. had they not, I would’ve began to experience disability in my 20s completely in the dark 1151
ellestad.bsky.social @ellestad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"...Virtuous Lifestyles..." Or "good genes". MAGA is a combination of Eugenics and Prosperity Gospel wrapped up together for a new audience. 030
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026It’s a grossly harmful worldview that has no relationship to the scientific consensus on the drivers of chronic disease. America’s disease burden (which is falling btw) is mostly a function of income and healthcare inequality, not the refusal of Americans to eat beef tallow. 71447121
Jack Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I always read MAHA's core claims as basically eugenics, with the bonus of grifting people with supplements. It's surprising how little this gets brought up. Many of the MAHA leaders are anti-vax because they think you should die if you aren't naturally "fit" enough to survive disease. 211610
Chad Riding @chadcanplan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Part of it is that humans want to find ways to explain why they won't get an illness like cancer because of this one weird trick. Like, I didn't get a rare and deadly neuroendocrine tumor because I didn't take enough supplements. Or scoliosis because I carried my backpack weird (I got that a lot) 100
Your Ad Here [10 chars] @cooluser354.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Virtuous lifestyle is a key part of MAHA's eugenics centric ideology. To them, people get sick because they deserved it, whether from a "nonvirtous" lifestyle or "bad" genetics. To them if you get sick it's your fault one way or another. 060
Unhappy Tidings @concretehorror.bsky.social · 07/09/2026it's prosperity gospel for healthcare. If you take the right supplement, give the right influencer money, God will bless you and yours with prosperity and health. 1393
Kate T. @kestipton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I worked for a company founded by a medical doctor. They raised our health insurance costs. The HR communications about that assured us that if we diligently followed founding-doctor’s healthy living recommendations (açaí!), we wouldn’t need so much insurance anyway. I was 7 months pregnant. 0130
EagleBeaverMan @eaglebeaverman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026My only qualification is that it’s a mix of eugenics and straight up fear of needles and the doctor lol. So much of their media has this manic fearful undercurrent about having to go to the doctor for scary treatments and it’s hard not to see it as people politicizing their phobias. 040
kthebear.bsky.social @kthebear.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This all day! My lifestyle aligns with what they say, I run, swim, bike, and lift. I eat fairly well. And yet, I am on an autoimmune journey anyway. They would tell me it is my fault... even though it is possible avoiding viruses may have prevented autoimmune issues from triggering... 000
gerrarrdus @gerrarrdus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026That's fair enough As we'd all be going down with food poisoning 000
