… but I found a blog post saying the earth is flat, and it had very thorough citations.

Bold claims require irrefutable evidence.

The weight of evidence in support of fluoridation is overwhelming. It’s the greatest public health intervention in the history of human kind.

If you want to say it makes people docile then you need large double blinded peer reviewed longitudinal studies supporting that claim. If you don’t have that then you’re going to get downvotes because you’re just parroting nonsense.

In Australia I often think of conservatives as “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”.

Our conservative party obviously favours wealthy people. My parents who are poor will always vote conservative because they “identify as” wealthy.

Is it maybe similar, like some kind of class war?

There’s several users around who comment on all these posts, struggle to construct sentences that do not include the word “genocide”, but also struggle to elucidate their views.

Paging genocide kid!

I’m not suggesting that you care about down votes, but you seem to think the down votes imply people are angry or have “lost their minds” whatever that means.

Any ideas what might be the best way to observe this shit show unfold if your not in the US?

… other than here I mean.

TIL I guess.

I’m concerned that using the correct form will make me look like an idiot though.

I think I remember reading that the prevalence of fluoride in drinking water is the single greatest medical breakthrough in “population health” of the 20th century or something.

Like a fancy CT scan might help someone who needs a CT scan but fluoride helps everyone mitigate dental problems (and the many and varied related issues) all the time.

I guess in fairness dental hygiene has probably improved a lot since fluoride was put in the water, so if it’s less important then any potential side effects might be more concerning.

The reason why you’re being downvoted is because you’ve provided some outlandish claims without any source.

I honestly remember my parent’s talking about these exact things in the 80s. It’s absurd to claim that in the interceding decades no reputable science has supported these claims.

Science is sometimes wrong, and from time to time we have to improve our understanding of things, but great claims require great evidence.

Interesting perspective. Looking at her Wikipedia page it doesn’t look like there’s much support for her kurgan theory.

Feels a bit like ancient aliens for feminists.

Great.

She’s not reaching any of those people. She’s handing out candy to fat kids who think she’s amazing

I don’t think they did know necessarily.

You would just expect a presidential campaign to pay. It’s not like Trump pays from his own pocket.

Also, they didn’t give Trump a free pass.

They could close the bill and still refuse another convention on the same grounds.

Yeah she thought it was hilarious and i did too.

Like I said he was a bit of a jerk I think.

Well she’s pretty much wasted her influence here.

Very few people care enough to read her nuanced opinion, and those people will be democrat voters anyway.

To anyone that needed to hear her message she just said “both sides are shit right now, and everyone’s shit is emotional right now”.

Elections are lost with complex messaging.

Gretas problem generally is that she looks great to intelligent progressive young activists, but she just makes everyone else feel… chagrined I guess. What I mean is that she’s incapable of changing the opinions of the people who need to change their opinions.

Wow he really said that.

Guy is falling apart and people are gonna elect him anyway.

A lot of people try to say you should only down vote poor quality comments that don’t contribute to the discussion.

If every one downvotes opinions they disagree with you just have a homogeneous echo chamber.

Personally, I don’t think there’s any point complaining about it. You can’t hold back that tide.

Honestly I think users on Lemmy are from a very narrow demographic, and to be blunt a lot of users just don’t have a very broad life experience. That being the case I think anyone should expect to have some opinions which are unpopular with other lemmy users.

I think if he loses this election he will be dead before the next.

Imagine the stress of his various legal and financial problems, no longer with any backing from powerful people, then going to jail or under house arrest with no contact with his followers and just being completely irrelevant and forgotten, knowing that by the time you’re released you’ll just be an empty broken frail old nothing.

It would be Trumps worst nightmare. It would break his spirit.

This is certainly how I’ve been feeling.

I’m not even in the US but I just can’t look away from this train wreck.

It’s like there’s been this simmering undertone of shady conservative feelings in the US for the last decade, and this is where the public either validates it or takes a firm stance against it.

There’s no coming back for Trump if he loses, but there’s gonna be a global shitstorm if he wins. Autocrats getting their way in Russia and Israel, global tarrif war triggering a global depression, droughts fires and storms from climate change, all supporting a lurch to the right.

I think court proceedings.

Trump is a narcissist. He would drive great pleasure from a very public and lengthy court proceeding showing everyone what he can do to people who oppose him.

I don’t care for the vitriol but the sentiment is exactly how I feel.

Any person who is not a white male millionaire that votes for trump I’d am idiot, but it’s particular true of black people and hispanics.