Summary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, has a history of extreme rhetoric and conspiracy theories about vaccines.
In previously unreported comments at autism conferences, Kennedy likened vaccination programs to Catholic Church abuse scandals and Nazi death camps and argued for jailing vaccine scientists.
He has falsely claimed vaccines cause autism and accused public health agencies like the CDC of corruption and hiding vaccine dangers.
Critics fear his leadership could dismantle vaccine safety efforts, decrease public trust, and disrupt public health policy.
Fuck the vaccines cause autism argument. Like even if it were true. I’m autistic. You’re telling me you’d rather your child die than be like me? Speaks volumes to how much hate you have both for people like me and your own child.
Also (without wanting to belittle your condition), if the choice is between autism and life in an iron lung, I’d take autism.
Can’t speak for everyone, I’m quite high functioning. But 100% same.
Thimerosal was already removed from most childhood vaccines in the U.S. and Europe more than a decade ago.
I don’t get what RFK is trying to change.
Even if it happened to be true, obviously it’s not, RFK isn’t attacking the church over their rampant abuse. Definitely speaks volumes.
Wait, so Christians voted not only for a president who clearly isn’t Christian, but also a man from a Catholic family who disowned the church and speaks against them? Don’t get me wrong, I’m perfectly fine with everyone bashing the Catholic Church until they find ways to root out all the evil within, but how did Christians vote for him when they were claiming Trump (the man who stands against all of Jesus’s teachings) was the Christian choice.
Maybe I’m wrong and he didn’t abandon the Catholic Church though, just calls them evil while joining them for mass? Idk
Decades of propaganda have convinced Christians that Republican=Christian, and the last decade of propaganda have convinced them that Trump is a good Christian man anointed by God and all the bad stuff they might hear about him is just Democrat lies. Many, if not most, honestly don’t know the half of Trump’s evils, let alone believe them.
Holy fucking shit this guy is going to be in charge of stuff
Can you imagine what it’d be like if mandatory childhood vaccines are eliminated? Can you imagine what a resurgence of measles or even polio would be like?!
No, you probably can’t, because vaccines made them non-issues before most of us were even born. And now they might come back because some dullard thinks he knows better than actual doctors and scientists. Dunning and Kruger must be crying themselves to sleep these days.
We don’t have to imagine. RFK made it happen once already.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/26/rfk-jr-samoa-visit-measles-outbreak-vaccines
He will probably try to roll back washing hands and quarantine. Then XDR TB will roll up and kill waaaay more than most other things. But, to be fair, some of the other things will kill more quickly.
He will probably start to promote brain worms in the future. It’s the worms who control this guy.
“Employees are encouraged to wash hands before returning to their shift, if you’re some sort of weak pussy.”
Maybe the Polio is what we need for another FDR like president.
Prosecute the Catholic Church first, then we might take your point seriously.
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Hey, does Lemmy think I am a bot now? I guess I should take that as a compliment.
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Thanks, no idea how I switched that on.
Splinter, beam, own eye, yada yada
Klaatu barada nikto
promote raw milk (likely infested with H5) to people at the same time as demonizing vaccines. surely that can’t go wrong.
I just imagine a worm that caved out a little den with a bunch of tunnels running throughout the brain. Wormo got a couch and two sticks with a big red button in between that he’s using to control RFK. When he pushes the button it sends a shock through RFKs brain and he says something, like a tick. Every now and then something in another room fucks up so Wormo has to leave the sticks and jiggle-wiggle over to fix the issue and leave RFK unattended.
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So are people just gonna go along with ‘ole worm for brains’?
They went along with Diaper Don, so yeah, they will.
In his defence he has a worm in his brain.
And now he gets to dictate public health policy.
Terrible sign of the times anybody listens to this clown.
So, I’ve got a theory. I think the rich and powerful know that we are fucking the earth beyond repair. I think they know that the only way forward is to cull a huge portion of the human race.
If you think about it. Automation has come to a point that 100,000 people could potentially run a high tech society with little effort and maintenance.
You overestimate automation
Plus, a significant number of that 100,000 would just spend all their time traveling from factory to factory frantically repairing and maintaining all of that automated equipment. Sounds like hell.
