I hope RFK Jr. sticks around for awhile.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in I hope RFK Jr. sticks around for awhile.:
@Jolly said in I hope RFK Jr. sticks around for awhile.:
Hey, I'm all for him. Besides the nuttery, there are some pearls in there worthy of a national debate.
I mean I dunno, he’s against affirmative action, against forcing businesses to sell products that conflict with their religious beliefs, against “gender identity” anti-discrimination laws, against children receiving gender-transitioning treatments and surgeries, against a tiered evaluation system for women in the military, against special treatment for minority-owned businesses…
I hope he talks that stuff up rather than the nuttery but I'm not holding my breath.
That kind of reminds me of the old joke with the punchline "It was just one sheep!"
wrote on 7 Jun 2023, 15:22 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in I hope RFK Jr. sticks around for awhile.:
@Aqua-Letifer said in I hope RFK Jr. sticks around for awhile.:
@Jolly said in I hope RFK Jr. sticks around for awhile.:
Hey, I'm all for him. Besides the nuttery, there are some pearls in there worthy of a national debate.
I mean I dunno, he’s against affirmative action, against forcing businesses to sell products that conflict with their religious beliefs, against “gender identity” anti-discrimination laws, against children receiving gender-transitioning treatments and surgeries, against a tiered evaluation system for women in the military, against special treatment for minority-owned businesses…
I hope he talks that stuff up rather than the nuttery but I'm not holding my breath.
That kind of reminds me of the old joke with the punchline "It was just one sheep!"
In Australia, it goes more along the lines of, "It was just one Maccas!"
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@Doctor-Phibes said in I hope RFK Jr. sticks around for awhile.:
@Aqua-Letifer said in I hope RFK Jr. sticks around for awhile.:
@Jolly said in I hope RFK Jr. sticks around for awhile.:
Hey, I'm all for him. Besides the nuttery, there are some pearls in there worthy of a national debate.
I mean I dunno, he’s against affirmative action, against forcing businesses to sell products that conflict with their religious beliefs, against “gender identity” anti-discrimination laws, against children receiving gender-transitioning treatments and surgeries, against a tiered evaluation system for women in the military, against special treatment for minority-owned businesses…
I hope he talks that stuff up rather than the nuttery but I'm not holding my breath.
That kind of reminds me of the old joke with the punchline "It was just one sheep!"
In Australia, it goes more along the lines of, "It was just one Maccas!"
wrote on 7 Jun 2023, 17:00 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in I hope RFK Jr. sticks around for awhile.:
In Australia, it goes more along the lines of, "It was just one Maccas!"
That's presumably because in Australia it's never just one sheep.
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wrote on 21 Jun 2023, 20:21 last edited by xenon
I listened to him on Rogan and Barry Weiss’ podcasts. I knew next to nothing about him before this - except that he’s supposed to be a loony toon.
He is not an Alex Jones like figure - which I completely expected going in. He’s a reasoned person with very thought through positions.
I don’t know nearly enough on immunology and biology to check his claims on vaccines. But he makes very specific claims based on specific studies. If his claims are garbage they should not be difficult to debunk.
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I listened to him on Rogan and Barry Weiss’ podcasts. I knew next to nothing about him before this - except that he’s supposed to be a loony toon.
He is not an Alex Jones like figure - which I completely expected going in. He’s a reasoned person with very thought through positions.
I don’t know nearly enough on immunology and biology to check his claims on vaccines. But he makes very specific claims based on specific studies. If his claims are garbage they should not be difficult to debunk.
wrote on 21 Jun 2023, 20:38 last edited by@xenon said in I hope RFK Jr. sticks around for awhile.:
he’s supposed to be a loony toon.
Stuff in the water is making people trans-gender.
Thimerosol causes autism.
There are bioweapons that only target certain races.
The 2004 presidential election was stolen
CIA killed his uncle
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wrote on 21 Jun 2023, 20:45 last edited by
I'll give him 2/5.
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wrote on 21 Jun 2023, 20:51 last edited by xenon
I haven’t heard him talk about most of those. My point was not that I think he’s right - but he spoke with enough detail about his claims that if they’re obviously wrong, someone sufficiently diligent should be able to debunk them.
Normally I wouldn’t recommend debunking internet kooks - but if he’s polling as the #2 democrat, there’s lots of incentive for journalists to do it.
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I haven’t heard him talk about most of those. My point was not that I think he’s right - but he spoke with enough detail about his claims that if they’re obviously wrong, someone sufficiently diligent should be able to debunk them.
Normally I wouldn’t recommend debunking internet kooks - but if he’s polling as the #2 democrat, there’s lots of incentive for journalists to do it.
wrote on 21 Jun 2023, 21:00 last edited by@xenon said in I hope RFK Jr. sticks around for awhile.:
there’s lots of incentive for journalists to do it.
You said "journalists," not transcribers, and that explains it all, doesn't it?
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wrote on 21 Jun 2023, 21:25 last edited by
He’s a believer in ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Because of course he is.
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wrote on 22 Jun 2023, 00:38 last edited by
I'm thinking of signing up as a democrat just to vote for him in the primaries.
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wrote on 22 Jun 2023, 00:58 last edited by
What’s the over/under on he lives to the election? I can’t help but think some other nutter would be too tempted by the chance to kill another Kennedy.
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I listened to him on Rogan and Barry Weiss’ podcasts. I knew next to nothing about him before this - except that he’s supposed to be a loony toon.
He is not an Alex Jones like figure - which I completely expected going in. He’s a reasoned person with very thought through positions.
I don’t know nearly enough on immunology and biology to check his claims on vaccines. But he makes very specific claims based on specific studies. If his claims are garbage they should not be difficult to debunk.
wrote on 22 Jun 2023, 01:11 last edited by@xenon said in I hope RFK Jr. sticks around for awhile.:
I listened to him on Rogan and Barry Weiss’ podcasts. I knew next to nothing about him before this - except that he’s supposed to be a loony toon.
He is not an Alex Jones like figure - which I completely expected going in. He’s a reasoned person with very thought through positions.
I don’t know nearly enough on immunology and biology to check his claims on vaccines. But he makes very specific claims based on specific studies. If his claims are garbage they should not be difficult to debunk.
The real difference is that he's articulate. Alex Jones is a crass buffoon. RFK sounds as though he knows what he's talking about, but he's actually talking bollocks a lot of the time.
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@xenon said in I hope RFK Jr. sticks around for awhile.:
I listened to him on Rogan and Barry Weiss’ podcasts. I knew next to nothing about him before this - except that he’s supposed to be a loony toon.
He is not an Alex Jones like figure - which I completely expected going in. He’s a reasoned person with very thought through positions.
I don’t know nearly enough on immunology and biology to check his claims on vaccines. But he makes very specific claims based on specific studies. If his claims are garbage they should not be difficult to debunk.
The real difference is that he's articulate. Alex Jones is a crass buffoon. RFK sounds as though he knows what he's talking about, but he's actually talking bollocks a lot of the time.
wrote on 22 Jun 2023, 01:13 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in I hope RFK Jr. sticks around for awhile.:
RFK sounds as though he knows what he's talking about, but he's actually talking bollocks a lot of the time.
If you can't blind them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
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wrote on 25 Jun 2023, 00:53 last edited by Mik
He’s only benching maybe 110 including the bar. I used to do 230.
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wrote on 25 Jun 2023, 20:25 last edited by
Not at his age you didn’t.
He’s in good shape for sure.
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wrote on 25 Jun 2023, 20:30 last edited by
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wrote on 25 Jun 2023, 20:40 last edited by
Ok, he's in pretty good shape. But I gotta tell you, that's pretty Putinesque.
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wrote on 25 Jun 2023, 20:56 last edited by
That body is difficult to achieve at his age without pharmaceutical help.
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wrote on 25 Jun 2023, 22:02 last edited by
I was just thinking it's about time we had a narcissist run for President.