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[–] 89 points 9 months ago (14 children)

Why should the rest of us suffer because RFK Jr is an idiot?

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  • [–] 70 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Because enough idiots decided it was more important to feel smart than to be smart, so they voted for President Pedophile.

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    In before: But Harris, Gaza, enablers, same thing!

    In the meantime Gaza is gone, ICE is murdering people in the open, LGBTQ communities live through the biggest backlash etc

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    “But but then you support GeNoCiDe!”

    [according to the cries of Lemmy morons ushering in an objectively worse world]

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”

    -- Isaac Asimov

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  • [+] 23 points 9 months ago* (4 children)
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    This has made a deep, slippery well of pseudo-science and naturalism and healing oils and magic water and crystals, which because of placebo effects and social influence, feel like they do more for people in their daily lives than mysterious terms like "mRNA"

    I wish more people recognized this connection.

    It's all the same bullshit magical thinking, and it's killing all of us. None of it is "harmless".

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    This is why I maintain that technology needs, at minimum, a small but annoying technical barrier of entry. If any and every motion hadn't been able to get online with an Apple product, the internet would be a much better place. A small amount of gatekeeping is actually a good thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    It's a nice idea but I don't think it would've changed much. There are plenty of otherwise intelligent people who buy into conspiracy theories, like remember how the pandemic made us aware that antivax nurses exist? Not many for sure, but I didn't even think that was possible. And there are also people who are smart in their field who think that makes them smart in everything so they spout a bunch of bullshit. Add in the smart grifters and I really don't think very much would be different with a slightly more difficult internet.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Because the people that support him (and Pedonald) are like a bucket of crabs.

    They don't want any liberals getting any high-falutin' ideas about science being there to improve our lives or anything. They want to drag YOU down with them. If you or your kids have to die of preventable disease so that they and/or their stupid thought leaders never have to admit to being wrong, that's a price they are willing to pay.

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  • [+] -13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    We might have had to suffer it either way. Remember, RFK apparently approached both Kamala and Trump offering to endorse whoever let him be health secretary. Kamala reportedly refused, so good for her. Trump obviously didn't. But there are a lot of MAHA/vaccine skeptics around the area I live, more than I was prepared for (judging by pre-election lawn signs before RFK dropped out).

    It's possible RFK's loyalists were enough to effectively pick the president. I think we all underestimated how deeply anti-science contrarianism has burrowed into our neighbors and communities.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago

    We might have had to suffer it either way.

    Kamala reportedly refused, so good for her. Trump obviously didn't.

    So it sounds like we most definitely wouldn't have had to suffer it either way. Only one politician was shameless enough to take any endorsement he could get.

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