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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Our best chance is that he gets one of these diseases that is effectively treatable with a vaccine.

Thing is, even with that, he'd just take the vaccine and proceed to lie about it for profit. His father must be turning over in his grave.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Vaccines are for prevention, they don't work as treatment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yeah, that's true.

But I think we both know that if he caught something he'd still get it treated privately and lie about it publicly, lest his grift be endangered, but I'd love it if he got polio and had to try and keep it quiet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Some vaccines actually can work as an effective treatment!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I think I know how a lot of people are thinking right about now. lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Cooking your chicken is gay and will give your children drag queens or something.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

He's just a straight up secret nurgle cultists, that was showing his devotion and flouting it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That if anything's gonna kill these motherfuckers, it's most likely to be hubris that finally does it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I've said all along that these people will ultimately be done in by their own virtuosic incompetence.

Managing an operation as complex and huge as the US Government by traitors, incompetents, narcissists, Nazis, drunks, addicts, weirdos, propagandists, and criminals is not sustainable. They will eventually burn their own house down, and we should surround the fire, and when one of them tries to escape, we should catch them, and toss them right back in.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

O... Ok! The situation in taking care of itself.

[–] wheeldawg 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ok so what is the most obvious, unhide-able , agonizing, and debilitating disease he can get from this?

Because I hope he gets 330 million cases of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] wheeldawg 1 points 6 days ago

Man I would feel so good getting to laugh at that.

It would be a guilt free belly kinda laugh that actually makes me feel better.

Knowing how much pain he was feeling and how miserable he is would literally make my stress level go down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I wonder why he says we should fortify our immune system if he doesn't think germs cause diseases? Like, what is the immune system doing making cells that can eat bacteria?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

THIS IS NOT ROCK CREEK FFS

Everyone including major media sources is parroting what RFK Jr. said in his instagram account as if it's gospel. Go to google maps. Look at Rock Creek. Look how big it is. This is not Rock Creek.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You do know that rivers and creeks can go on for miles right? And that they will widen and narrow at various points?

Don't get me wrong, it's entirely possible that this fuck weed is saying one thing and doing another just to "prove his point" about germ theory being wrong. But it's inconclusive that what you posted negates the possibility that he was playing in sewage water.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I get where you're coming from, but in the interest of keeping my comment simple I left out that he claimed to be hiking in Dumbarton Oaks Park, which is not far (and downstream) from the picture I posted such that it wouldn't be plausible that it would be that narrow.

But I'll also point out the level of incredulity my comment is getting on a social media site, vs. RFK Jr.'s, which should strike anyone familiar with Rock Creek as almost certainly wrong. Yet everyone in the whole news media is either willfully ignoring this or just too lazy to look into it. And honestly it pisses me off because this lack of giving a fuck about basic facts from reporters who we falsely imagine as being employed in reporting facts shows how much we're in a post-truth society and why we got a con artist as our president.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Heroin kills everything.

[–] untakenusername 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

this guys gonna get the fucking Darwin award if he keeps doing this 🤦

[–] McNasty 1 points 6 days ago

He's got kids and grandkids.

Darwin award doesn't apply here.

He gets the Herman Caine award.

[–] [email protected] 158 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Wtf did i just read? The US health secretary swimming in shit water???????

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Welcome to America era 2025!

Its sure to historical, one way or the other....

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In images shared on social media, Kennedy can be seen getting fully underwater, including his head, and then splashing around with several of his grandchildren. Kennedy, who does not have any background in medicine or science, was a long-time anti-vaccine advocate before President Trump appointed him to be health secretary. In a 2021 book, Kennedy indicated that he does not believe in germ theory, the fundamental concept that microscopic pathogens, such as those abundant in sewage, are the cause of disease.

Prions have the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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[–] [email protected] 145 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Stop calling everyone a "skeptic" and call them what they are: deniers. Anti-science, fact resistant deniers. Calling people germ-theory skeptics, or climate skeptics, or vaccine skeptics, and so on and so on, makes it sound like there's an honest scientific debate going on

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago (5 children)

If he gets some insane new parasite from this what are the odds it kills the one driving his brain now and takes over with a more normal personality?

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[–] atzanteol 89 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm team bacteria on this one. C'mon little guys - do your thing!

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Usually the people in charge of regimes like this are often sadistic hypocrites and absolutely know that what they spout is bullshit. RFK jr. here on the other hand, is apparently actually a fucking idiot.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Wouldn't it be an absolute riot of a "leopards ate my face" situation if he ends up croaking because of this?

To clarify: I don't wish any harm on his grandchildren, but this man's level of willful ignorance and sheer recklessness makes it hard for me to sympathize with any negative outcome he may suffer personally.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the creek's bacterial counts—particularly E. coli counts—were dangerously high all the time.

Sorry for those children.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How can the onion ever hope to compete with reality

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

...maybe this problem will solve itself?

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