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Comment Re:Great...let's pile on.... (Score 1) 52

It would've taken less words to prove my assumptions about conservatives, their media diet and their generally selfish and myopic outlook on society so just say "you are 100% correct"

Exemplary stuff, you couldn't have made my case better and confirmed my position.

If I didn't know better I'd think this was satire it's so on the nose.

Comment Re:Story checks out. (Score 1) 34

I don't trust RFK for many reasons, the turkey photo op is just exemplary of the fact that hes a fucking liar and nothing more than an overprivileged and spoiled waste of human potential who if he didn't have the Kennedy name attached to him he would have zero notoriety. My disrespect is the very least of what he should get.

One example:

A stark example of the devastating impact of vaccine misinformation is Samoa's 2019 measles outbreak. In this island nation of 200000, more than 5700 people were infected and 83 people died, most of whom were young children. Samoa's Ministry of Health cited Kennedy's visit and his rhetoric as exacerbating vaccine hesitancy at a crucial moment. Kennedy's non-profit, Children's Health Defense, contributed to this atmosphere of mistrust just months before the outbreak.

https://www.thelancet.com/jour...

Comment Re:Story checks out. (Score 2) 34

Sorry but no you were purposefully ignorant, people were screaming from the rooftops about RFK for months and months about his flawed reasoning, obvious conflicts of interest and questionable grasp of science. Thousands of doctors and scientists wrote and made clear how dangerous he would be.

That you didn't want to listen to them and lump it altogether as "they all do it" is blinding nihilism and ulterior motives.

https://civilrights.org/resour...

https://www.apha.org/getconten...

https://www.citizen.org/articl...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/d...

Comment Re: Coal is dirty, gas less so, nuclear not at al (Score 1) 110

Good points but yeah I was around in 2003 and while there was opposition we as a country were still pretty gassed up on the WoT in 2003, there is no 9/11 event to ride off of here. Hegseth isn't nearly as diabolically capable as Rumsfeld either, this version of Office of Special Plans ain't gonna be as capable.

Comment Re:Sums it up nicely (Score 2) 138

False fucking choice, if Tesla was the only company making electric car's you'd at least have the semblance of a point.

This is nobodies fault but Musk's own, I've never had to consider the political affiliations of the President of Toyota, they've never been put in my face in such a polarizing manner, he chose to put himself in the storm of politics in most divisive way possible.

If Musk was totally libbed out you'd be doing the same, look at the Bud Light fiasco. All I heard from Republicans about celebrities was "uhhh shut up and act, Kapernick should shut up and play". Musk can do the same.

Comment Re:Story checks out. (Score 5, Insightful) 34

The fact RFK is taken seriously by anyone is a stain on our collective intelligence. I mean come the fuck on, they think we're stupid rubes and we are proving them right

Never forget Michelle Obama wanted to get your kids access to more vegetables and Republicans practically went into open revolt about it.

Comment Re:Great...let's pile on.... (Score 1) 52

We know this argument is total bad faith bullshit because the same folks making it also hate and refuse to support forms of public transport or really anything that would reduce car dependency. AKA "my conservative media diet has convinced me a gasoline burning engine must be central to my personal and political self definition"

Efficiency? Externalities? Economics? No, all is irrelevant!! Culture war all the time! All things must be subsumed into the culture war!

Comment Re: Coal is dirty, gas less so, nuclear not at al (Score 1) 110

See in my estimation of history America wins wars generally when we have the moral imperative and we lose when the morals are questionable.

Vietnam, not moral, a quagmire morass.
Gulf 1 - Morally justified, absolute destruction.
Serbia - Morally justified, total victory
Afghanistan - mixed bag and mixed bag results
Iraq - Morally unjustified, a total quagmire.

I agree with you in that if America goes to war we should go full out but I think that's only possible when you have that broad public support at home and for anything in South America in 2026 it's going to be (rightly so im my estimation) a political shitstorm because the terms of which we are going to be entering it are bullshit and the admin is nowhere near making the case to the public. It will be a quagmire.

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