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[–] 89 points 1 year ago (7 children)

So my wife who can't take Tylenol yet my son is on the spectrum, I am doubting this finding.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    She must have been sneaking them when you weren't looking. /s

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You should control your woman so she can’t get away with this. You know better than her. Did she goto college or something and get infected by DEI?

    Oh my god yes of course this is /s

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Oh God it's the woke again! Please help! Woke got me

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  • [–] 63 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    The makers of Tylenol are about to sue the shit out of this clown.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Sadly theyre going to sue the shit out of the US government, which we will all be paying for with tax dollars when they win… direct consequence courtesy of the morons who voted for this

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wouldn't surprise me if Trump or someone else in this admin is good friends with executives at Johnson and Johnson and the whole point is to just give the company massive gift by doing a legal case with high damages and guaranteed loss

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    ???

    They could literally just request the government buy more Tylenol for the military industrial complex.

    They could just hand it to them for research.

    They could put out an ad on the white house lawn like they did for Goya, and Tesla.

    Again, they could literally just hand it to them. Do you have any idea how many billions of our dollars go "missing". Spent but unaccountable.

    There are so many other ways to just hand Tylenol money than disparage their product on a global scale.

    Sometimes a moron is just a moron...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    This could also just be RFK wanting to put the idea in the world. Doesn't matter if it's real, doesn't matter if it gets disproven in court, as we've seen with Andrew Wakefield - as soon as the idea enters public discourse, it's alive forever, especially in the age of the internet. There will ALWAYS be a core of people talking about it, willing to accept it as gospel, and they might even be loud enough to launder more public opinion on it through wellness grifters, the entire ideasphere of which is highly incestuous.

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  • Is there only one place that produces all the acetaminophen? He hasn't named any brands directly that I'm aware but i don't fallow that weirdo very closely. If he names a big pharm brand directly you know it's some real market manipulation, right?

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  • [–] 212 points 1 year ago*

    Wow, autism turns out to be not only bad but also women's fault. Amazing what an investigation under the impartial leadership of misogynist neo-Nazis can discover.

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  • [–] 104 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There were no autistic people before the 70s, of course 🙄

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    While this has been a serious inquiry of study, there is no causitive relationship yet. Also I'm fairly certain we would have a significantly higher population of autistic individuals.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Microplastics in the air caused by brake and tire dust seem to be the most compelling link I've seen. But that would mean a rethink of way too much, so blame a generic drug no one will bother defending.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Microplastics in the air caused by brake and tire dust seem to be the most compelling link I’ve seen

    There is nothing compelling in one shit study. Brake and tire dust have been a thing for 120 years.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We DO have a higher population. But most of us are so used to masking our divergent behaviors that we have no idea that there is an explanation for why our thought processes differ from neurotypicals. We don’t know we’re autistic. But now that I know, I can confidently say that I like myself, I like how my brain works, and I do not have a disorder, or an illness, or any kind of affliction. I’m wired differently and I’m good with that, and I would not change even if I could. Bobby Kennedy and his brainworm can be forcibly drowned in a vat of molecular acid as far as I am concerned.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago

    For fucks sake, someone please stop this brain-worm-demented menace. He’s gonna kill so many people.

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  • [–] 177 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Well as long as we can blame women, that's what's really important. Remember moms, if your child is neurodivergent it's entirely your fault you irresponsible hag.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    you irresponsible hag.

    This sounds like satire, as though this isn’t exactly what these people actually think.

    100 years ago, when these people think was the ‘golden age’, women were actually blamed for their children’s issues. They blamed nearly everything on women. Yeah, let’s go back to that: MAGA women, how does that sound to you? Do you think you’re one of the good ones?

    Let’s bring back lobotomies for women who have too many opinions, too. The world was better when only men were allowed to have opinions and women were the root of all evil, like the bible says.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    One remembers the "refrigerator mothers" idea

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Oh god. I’d never heard of that. That was a thing, started by an asshole psychologist in the 1940s. Legit psychopathic mentality, wtf.

    e: so the jist is that your kid is autistic because you suck at being a parent and are too ‘cold’. Imagine your’re doing everything you can, but the entire medical system is telling you it’s your fault for not caring enough. That’s the ultimate gaslighting. Because if you cared enough, your kid wouldn’t be this way.

    e2: and reading more, they took kids away on this grounds. I feel so horrible for those parents. You had no recourse at all. You were doing your best, and your child had a medical issue, but based on the social symptoms of your child you were a ‘refrigerator mother’ so your kid was put in an orphanage. Wtf.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    This sounds like satire, as though this isn’t exactly what these people actually think.

    It still happens today.

    I just had a baby. You've no idea how many times we were told "Good/Great Job Mom" after hearing the baby is healthy, and seeing it isn't deformed.

    As if an illness would be my wife's fault.

    We just left those on read. Like WTF?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My wife had cancer young and it caused her to be unable to nurse our children; she just couldn't produce enough and so we bottle fed our kids. It's been over 10 years but she still gets shit on for it by certain types (including some in my own family who remind us whenever they get a cold). She is so goddamned, rightfully angry with the types who try to shame people for not breastfeeding.

    Those types are in charge of policy right now.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    How far are we along with "autism is a genetic defect and we are now euthanizing defective humans for the benefit of society" are we?

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I like this guy. He's on track to finally pin lung cancer on the tobacco industry. Any day now.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (25 children)

    Why are these people so desperate to find some external factor for autism?

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    Because the anti-vax people who have autistic kids hate their children. They hate that they're not perfect and "normal". And they hate that they have to deal with a child that requires more care than other people's children do.

    I think we should make banners and say it out loud to every single person who can hear.

    #Anti-vaxxers HATE autistic children

    #Especially if that autistic child is their own.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I've never thought about it like that but it makes so much sense. The hate in the heart of these people runs incredibly deep, I know because my own family has disowned me because I refused to "take the red pill".

    I am a leader in a youth organization and we have a few autistic kids in our group. They are wonderful kids, and their parents are just amazing with their patience and love for all the kids. I can't imagine the difficulties they face, but I'm so truly blessed and happy to have these kids in my and my children's lives. I've worked with special needs kids a few times, and the pure joy they are capable of is something that sticks with you.

    But I've also known a few less involved and less interested parents who denied and refused care for their kids who clearly need help. I can't say I know the political persuasion of any of these folks, but I'm pretty good at inference...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Does RFK have any autistic family? If love to know what triggered his crusade. It can't just be a belief in pseudoscience.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    His aunt got a lobotomy for maybe having a mental disorder

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  • She was oxygen deprived at birth because the doctor was running late and the nurses wouldn't let her mother push until he got there. By the sounds of it she had some minor learning disabilities and possibly some impulse control issues as a result. Because that allegedly resulted in her being somewhat promiscuous, her asshole father had her lobotomized.

    I suppose if one really wanted to play armchair psychiatrist, you could argue that the failures of medical science of the time may have contributed to him having a negative view of modern medicine as a whole. Not a defense of the rat bastard, just mildly interesting to think about.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Yep, this is precisely it.

    I really seriously believe that autistic/neurodiverse people and especially kids should be viewed as a kind of class of person that is at high risk of being discriminated against, hate crimed, targetted by state violence.

    Hans Apsberger was a fucking Nazi who ... literally coined the term autism and yes, he is the guy apsbergers is/was named after... and yes, he directly orchestrated the deaths of 'mentally disabled' children.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-truth-about-hans-aspergers-nazi-collusion/

    They're gonna do another genocide, based on more junk science, just like the OG Nazis.

    RFK Jr has already said he wants to take everyone on any kind of prescription psychiatric medication, move them to forced labor farms, house them in bunkhouses, remove their phones, all contact with the outside world, and also make them all quit their meds cold turkey.

    https://slate.com/life/2025/06/donald-trump-rfk-jr-kennedy-health-wellness-farms.html

    This is the kind of shit you hear TrueAnon describing cults doing.

    But scaled way, way up.

    This is a recipe for causing millions of psychotic breaks, just cold turkey, unmanaged total cessation, no gradual wind downs with check ins with therapists and such, also done in basically slave labor conditions.

    Possibly also worth mentioning is RFK Jr's aunt Rosemary.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy

    She was suffocated as a newborn for 2 hours.

    This caused her to be developmentally delayed.

    They lobotomized her (while she was awake and conscious) at age 23.

    This regressed her to the state of a 2 year old.

    She was institutionalized and largely hidden from the public for the rest of her life.

    ....

    This is literally Nazi mad scientist shit.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Because they can't cope with random chance, there has to be a cause. They need a villain.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Why blaming gods for random bullshit is easier on the mind? Random bird take a massive shit on my cars hood? Clearly Odin needs to reign in his ravens.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    You get brought up with prosperity gospel and you think that wealth and good fortune are an indicator of holiness and piety. You internalize that shit. And since you worship what you have been told all your life is a loving god, since you do all the things your church tells you to, since you give them 10+% of your income and hate the minorities they tell you to and vote for the fascists they tell you to, you know yourself to be pious.

    Understanding that we live in a random universe with no sense of justice is fundamentally incompatible with a belief in an orderly universe governed by a just god. So when you encounter misfortune, you don't blame God, since you see Him as infallible and perfect. You either blame yourself or start looking for someone to blame.

    Which is very useful to people seeking to manipulate hateful credulous people who are convinced of their own righteousness.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is that as those who are punished, in religion, deserve it? However children are innocent and usually autism is diagnosed in young people or children. So, they don't 'deserve' it? If it's just random, maybe other things are too and the preachers are making stuff up?

    It's a long train of thought to get there. I'd say it's more just susceptibility to conspiratorial thinking, but who knows.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Sigh… here goes: because then they could “fix” it.

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    To be on the spectrum is one thing, but low functioning autistic is just soul crushing for people to deal with. I've seen some siblings struggle just because their family was pretty much screwed trying to raise a low functioning autistic child. I think I've interacted with two such people in many years, so it's not particularly common compared to the larger population on the spectrum.

    It's one reason I don't like autism as a spectrum, as there's a world of difference that doesn't seem right to cast one net over.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    So something so ludicrously common that it basically can't be proved. Super.

    Did you know that 97% of people killed in car accidents clean their teeth on a regular basis? I think we need to look into that.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    100% of people who died drank water

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Oddly I don't think that can be a full 100% due to infant death during or shortly after birth.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The mother ingested water. We're in a thread based on the host consuming things

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The host is a great description, going to have to start using that.... well maybe not.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    The way it lands would probably depend on context, including who the speaker is. Having a uterus and calling yourself a "potential host" is vastly different from someone else, for example RFK Jr, using the term to refer to others. One is a deliberate subversion of the expectation that anyone with a uterus is supposed to be pro "having babies." The other can be straight-up dehumanization (depending on how it's used.)

    Being on the internet, where the sex and gender of a speaker aren't always obvious, you're probably making a wise choice by avoiding the term.

    With all that said, as a uterus-haver, I still laughed when I read it. So... ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I for some reason though of it being used in the worst video dating reel. Think "lowered expectations" but with some modern "trad wife" wanting asshat.

    "Looking for an available female for the purpose of becoming the host of my son"

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    That dude is talkin a lot of shit for a guy standing in the "get pushed in front of subway" zone.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Personally I'm expecting him to get shot, not even necessarily for being a shitstain but because he is a Kennedy. If some dumbass can try to kill Reagan to impress Jane Fonda(?) for some reason then someone will want to kill RFK Jr for the meme.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He was trying to impress Jodi Foster. I guess nobody told the chump that she was a lesbian.

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  • Your comment led me down a rabbit hole. I don't know much of actors - I suck with faces and my unmedicated ADHD makes watching movies a chore, so I rarely do it. That means there are a lot of names I hear that don't have faces attached. Jodi Foster is one of them.

    Starting at her Wikipedia page, I went Jodi Foster > Bugsy Malone > Scott Baio > a news article from 2016 about Nancy Mack, the wife of RHCP drummer Chad Smith, being accused of attacking Scott Baio at a children's school function by imitating how Trump treats women.

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    Baio claims she repeatedly screamed, "Grab 'em by the pussy."

    Baio asked Nancy to stop, but he claims she kept repeating the comment because she felt everyone needed to hear it, cause Trump used it. Baio told cops at that point Mack attacked him, grabbing him under his arms and then shaking and pushing him.

    Sources close to Mack say she was merely trying to show Baio how Trump hugs women and denies any intentional physical aggression.


    I had never heard this story before, but found it morbidly interesting. It sounds to me like both sides were right - it was inappropriate, but that was the whole point.

    Ooh, and I found an update!

    TLDR


    The Ventura County D.A.'s office has reportedly rejected the case on the grounds of "the assault just wasn't that bad."

    The latter article (and the TMZ article it links from) also speculate that LA's left-leaning population made finding unbiased jurors unlikely.


    Anyway, just thought that was interesting.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    This is the worst game of mad libs ever

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  • [–] [S] 95 points 1 year ago (10 children)
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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Does he even count as 'alive' with that Yeerk piloting his brain?

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A reminder that this wrinkly wavery fuck set a deadline for this conclusion. That’s… not how science works.

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