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    New era? Pretty sure we’ve been living in this isocracy full force since 2008 when the deplorable morons lost their minds and went full stupid racist with the tea party.

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      Not yet. The GOP is still attempting to show the correct amount of “struggle” before they all vote yes.

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    Americans stay being aggressively anti-intellectual. It’s been that way since waaaay before Trump too. We’re gassing up Trump too much with this. Americans have been like this longer than I’ve been alive.

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      Yes, this. It goes back even further. It’s now, they are empowered and emboldened through Bullshit Mountain + “social media” platforms.

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    In 2016 we managed to elect a guy who was very obviously mentally defective and a career criminal. Fuck outta here with “new”.

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    Anti-intellectual might be the kindest and least offensive adjective to describe him.

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    Every time I look at this dude, he looks like five giant cockroaches scrambling around inside a human suit.

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    new era you say? did that reset after the first time trump was elected, or immediately following the second? new era, for fucks sake

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      Counts the number of fast and furious, transformers, and marvel movies. definitely nothing new.

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      I think of it this way : movies were really popular before talkies came in. So, movies didn’t die off when they started talking, but it was a new era. Same thing here; it’s still anti-intellectual, just better and shinier

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    Despite his takes on vaccines, he’s the one cabinet pick I like. He is focused on the toxic food environment Americans live in and don’t seem to want to acknowledge. I feel like I took crazy pills yesterday when NYT put out an article implying that weight loss had nothing to do with calories. It’s amazing all the mental gymnastics some people will do just to not be a little hungry for a while.

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      He says that. And then he wants to remove fluoride from drinking water. This dude wouldn’t know toxic food if he ate a month old sandwich.

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        Fluoride is worth questioning though, we don’t really know for sure whether it is harmful or not and science is increasingly proving that the risks are very real and maybe not worth the benefits. We don’t know for sure yet, but I think it should be left up to the communities to decide AFTER they’ve been given the chance to review all the current studies on the subject. It needs to be an informed decision.

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          No we do know. Fluoride isn’t harmful in the amounts we have in our water. It requires orders of magnitude more presence to be harmful. This is the exact anti science bullshit take that RFK is famous for so it’s no wonder you like him. And if you don’t like Fluoride, wait until you hear about iron, zinc, and magnesium. I mean magnesium is a straight up fire hazard, it’ll even burn underwater.

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      The problem is that his takes on vaccines actively disqualify him. They could’ve found any number of other people who could’ve promoted those types of healthy lifestyle without vaccine hangup.

      Oh and the ADHD labor camps. More people should be talking about those.

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        I agree on that. Very bad look when he was pushed on his past statements and his answer was “P-P-President Trump”. Looked kinda pathetic to me. But I’m taking the bad with the good. I’m hoping parents will do the right thing and vaccinate their kids and that he will focus on improving the food supply in the US and tightening regulations for ultra processed “food”.

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      What a hilariously garbage thread.

      Zero mention of any of the critiques that are actually being levied against the guy. 0/10, think before you post please

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        I know the response to lemmy. That’s why I post. There needs to be an counter narrative, or else there is just echo.