• Plebcouncilman
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    17 hours ago

    Despite his takes on vaccines, he’s the one cabinet pick I like. He is focused on the toxic food environment Americans live in and don’t seem to want to acknowledge. I feel like I took crazy pills yesterday when NYT put out an article implying that weight loss had nothing to do with calories. It’s amazing all the mental gymnastics some people will do just to not be a little hungry for a while.

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      3 hours ago

      He says that. And then he wants to remove fluoride from drinking water. This dude wouldn’t know toxic food if he ate a month old sandwich.

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        Fluoride is worth questioning though, we don’t really know for sure whether it is harmful or not and science is increasingly proving that the risks are very real and maybe not worth the benefits. We don’t know for sure yet, but I think it should be left up to the communities to decide AFTER they’ve been given the chance to review all the current studies on the subject. It needs to be an informed decision.

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          No we do know. Fluoride isn’t harmful in the amounts we have in our water. It requires orders of magnitude more presence to be harmful. This is the exact anti science bullshit take that RFK is famous for so it’s no wonder you like him. And if you don’t like Fluoride, wait until you hear about iron, zinc, and magnesium. I mean magnesium is a straight up fire hazard, it’ll even burn underwater.

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      13 hours ago

      He wants to take away my medicine and send me to a labor camp. He’s the least acceptable out of the entire clown show Trump nominated.

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        13 hours ago

        What he wants and what he can do are very different things. And no, the worse is Hegseth and that cannot be argued. The US health system needs to be burnt down to the ground, I do not think RFK will do that but I welcome anyone who will try.

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          If a pilot openly admits wanting to crash a plane into the ground but safety systems would prevent him from doing it, I don’t want them anywhere near a cockpit.

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          12 hours ago

          Whatever replaces this shit show of a healthcare system is not going to be an improvement.

          For that matter, what happens when the collapse takes place? Everyone suddenly gets free healthcare? Or does nobody get reliable healthcare until the new system is in place? I hate this fucking system but i fail to see how trump and his cronies will do anything but line their pockets playing favorites for the billionaires that own the industry, leaving us somehow even worse off

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            11 hours ago

            When the collapse happens the collapse happens. Millions will suffer but the slate will be clean for the next generation. That’s just how human history goes man, but it gets a little better every time we do this so theres’ progress!

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              JFC I don’t know which is dumber between unironically believing in accelerationism or stanning RFK. That is fundamentally not how the world works. What’s actually going to happen is that we’ll continue living in the shitty system we have now except with more diseases, less access to healthcare, and more quack medicine in its place.

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              it gets a little better every time we do this so theres’ progress!

              Or…and stick with me here…we progress without burning everything to the ground. How the hell are we “progressing” if we repeat the same shit ad infinitum?

              I think step one for that would be to “stop advocating that we burn everything to the ground”.

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      14 hours ago

      The problem is that his takes on vaccines actively disqualify him. They could’ve found any number of other people who could’ve promoted those types of healthy lifestyle without vaccine hangup.

      Oh and the ADHD labor camps. More people should be talking about those.

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        I agree on that. Very bad look when he was pushed on his past statements and his answer was “P-P-President Trump”. Looked kinda pathetic to me. But I’m taking the bad with the good. I’m hoping parents will do the right thing and vaccinate their kids and that he will focus on improving the food supply in the US and tightening regulations for ultra processed “food”.