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lemme in@lemm.ee to Global News@lemmy.zip · 6 months ago

Trump picks vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy as health secretary

www.france24.com

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Trump picks vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy as health secretary

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lemme in@lemm.ee to Global News@lemmy.zip · 6 months ago
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Trump picks vaccine sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr to be US secretary of health
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Donald Trump named anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr as health secretary, marking another controversial choice in his rapid post-election cabinet appointments. Announcing on Truth Social, Trump…
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  • MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
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    The brain worms always win.

    • Ioughttamow@fedia.io
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      One man that should use horse dewormer

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        Nope. Not a horse.

  • btbt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Ok I get that denial of science is a staple of RETVRN chud’s fear of anything invented past the year 1500 but it pisses me off that anyone can be against something as good at what they do as vaccines, no matter how or why they got to that position, like LOOK AT THIS SHIT

    Vaccines are genuinely so fucking awesome, they represent both humanity’s incredible problem solving abilities and our innate desire to help other people, but they can’t be used to their fullest potential because dumbfucks who think freedom means they should be able to shit in the McDonalds ice cream machine without consequences are ruining it for everyone

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      Vaccines are great. I will not trust any vaccine made by a capitalist.

      • btbt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        That doesn’t really apply to people who are opposed to vaccination as a concept. I do feel like capitalism and the alienating material conditions it leaves people in are what foster antivax sentiment though. People who see that their lives keep getting worse but don’t have the framework to explain why will exclusively blame the government because of free market brainworms and distrust anything the government does, even objectively helpful stuff like vaccination campaigns

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          objectively helpful

          With respect, history and science disagree with this as a blanket statement.

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        I see poe’s law is alive and well.

        • Fartster [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          wym

          • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

            “I will not trust any vaccine made by a capitalist” sounds like a satire of a left wing person. I can’t tell if you were making a joke or really hold an absurd position.

            • Fartster [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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              No, I was being completely serious and I don’t see how it’s absurd but I’m happy you think so.

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    They gave the car with keys to a clown and now the wondering where all the clowns are crawling out of that friggin’ car LOL

    Top comedy if they would build a huge circus tent in front of the white house

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    “Vaccine skeptic” is such ass-covering horseshit! Just like calling climate change deniers “climate change skeptics”.

    Call him what he is: a science denier/grifter/worm brained idiot.

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    What’s next? Flat earther as director of NASA? Oil baron as director of EPA?

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      Last time around he went with Scott Pruitt, the climate change denier and ally of the fossil fuel industry.

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      that would be dismantling…

      https://x.com/LCVoters/status/1839320814703006019

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      deleted by creator

    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Don’t give Dump any ideas…

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    I am not from the US and I am ashamed of this shitshow. It’s really sad.

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    with any luck america with be completely destroyed within a decade

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    Worms for everyone.

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      They gonna dust off those iron lunges OMG this is so sad

      • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.network
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        Worse.

        They’re going to have to go to China to get the seals for those.

        I mean it took a Chinese maker to get seals for one of the few remaining living people who needs an iron lung: https://www.wired.com/story/iron-lung-maker-community/

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      This is how the worms win.

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    This is a win for brain worms in every still body of water in the US.

    1. Parasite finds host, alters host behaviour

    2. Host seeks positions of power and influence urging other potential hosts to embrace risky behaviours to the benefit of brain worms

    3. Host successfully gains power <-You are here

    4. Host mandates stale pond water for all citizens

    Flawless brain worm victory.

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