• samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    How does that work now that the federal government is clearly corrupt and not interested in the common good? Could it still be distributed without FDA approval?

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    Smells like eugenics.

    RFK’s idea about how to make America healthy seems to be to kill everyone who isn’t already immune to the viruses that vaccines protect against.

    If the only people who survive & breed are the ones who don’t need expensive medical care, then over time the population’s profit margin increases.

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      The damage done to this country by the right is incalculable and likely irreversible.

      When the internet started empowering the dumbest idiots who don’t understand the world to find and support each other, we lost.

      The human brain is not naturally a problem-solving tool of logic and reasoning, it has to be trained to use logic and reason, and in a world of comfort and ease like in the USA broadly, people had no incentive to learn more and be smarter other than social pressure, and that also dissolved as people found each other online and removed the pressure to step up their intellect to be accepted in broader society.

      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” that defy all understanding or capability for people of limited intelligence to discuss with their coworkers around the lunch table and relate their own personal experiences so they seem special and interesting.

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      9 hours ago

      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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        6 hours 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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      6 hours 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.