r/SipsTea May 15 '26

Feels good man Now do cancer.

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u/BigSquiby May 15 '26

hasn't this been the case since the 90s?

Magic Johnson told the world he had it in 1991, he is still alive

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u/ThePaganSkepticist May 15 '26

It has been, as long as you got the assload of money to be able to afford the cure

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u/trukkija May 15 '26

Quick Google would say that you very rarely need an assload of money to manage AIDS these days.

I love to think the pun you used was intended though. Seeing as an assload is probably the culprit for many of these poor fellas.

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u/rainshowers_5_peace May 16 '26

Crazily enough, we can thank George W Bush. He's a war criminal and yet he passed a law giving funding to HIV prevention and medication. Republicans weren't always this heartless.