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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 19 minutes ago

It's merely the worm wanting to return to its ecosystem.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 44 minutes ago

Poor amoeba are going to starve

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 points 26 minutes ago
[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 42 minutes ago

I hope he gets the brain eating amoeba

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I think RFK thinks that swimming in contaminated water somehow helps build immunity.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

It is good to be exposed to dirt to build the immune system; not by doing so on literal shit.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

George Carlin has a bit about swimming in polluted water as a child and his immune system being tempered in raw shit. I wonder if this nut job did not understand that was a joke?

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 1 points 39 minutes ago

That Carlin clip has been circulated in various alternative medicine quackery communities for a long time, I doubt RFK Jr. has any media literacy. The similar notion has somewhat entered in mainstream discourse with the concept of "immunity debt".

Doesn’t the rest of the Kennedy clan fucking hate him? Whose kids did he steal?

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

Oh, but when Master Splinter does it, it's somehow fine!?

[–] CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

"Hmm. Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock!"

[–] renzhexiangjiao@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

just looked it up. the place he went to was literally 2 miles from the white house, in the middle of a fucking 6 million metropolis. honestly, regardless of what the national park said, who chooses a place like that for a swim and expects it not to be polluted?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Me to be honest. Where, if not in your capital, would you be able to enforce environmental protection of your streams?

Granted our biggest cities are smaller than those of most other countries, but in Zürich, Bern and Basel you see people bathing in the Limmat, Aare and Rhine respectively all the time.

[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 hours ago

Bro, Switzerland has gotta be a pretty notable exception.

I have literally never seen more beautiful and clean waters in my life than the ones I saw while visiting Switzerland.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 5 points 10 hours ago

It's sewage infrastructure from the 1800s that needs to be repaired - apparently the pipe cracked. I don't know why it hasn't been fixed yet, that's wild.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Environmental protection + Conservatives is usually a recipe for environmental disaster.

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Which is ironic, the EPA was created by Nixon.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

He only created it to block Congress from passing something more effective.

He certainly didn't do it out of concern for the environment.

He did like trains though! But I think that's moreso just the end result of being from SoCal more specifically Yorba Linda.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

idunno people swim here in city center rivers pretty often in nicer parts of europe.

[–] ButtDrugs@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago

I mean water quality was a huge problem for the Paris olynpics.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago

I still check if there have been any recent discharges before swimming and I live by the sea where there is a lot more water to dilute it. Must be a lot more concentrated in a river.

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

How is this not child endangerment?

[–] Merva@sh.itjust.works 31 points 13 hours ago

Because he is part of the ruling class. US law doesn't apply to them and never has.

[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 119 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The sewage was no doubt very upset to see its creek being contaminated by RFK Jr.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 4 points 8 hours ago

The worm in his brain is just trying to reproduce 🤷

That's why he brought his children.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 127 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (6 children)

When I was a little boy in New York City in the 1940s, we swam in the Hudson River and it was filled with raw sewage okay? We swam in raw sewage! You know... to cool off! And at that time, the big fear was polio; thousands of kids died from polio every year but you know something? In my neighbourhood, no one ever got polio! No one! Ever! You know why? Cause we swam in raw sewage! It strengthened our immune systems! The polio never had a prayer; we were tempered in raw shit!

Love Carlin, but this bit didn't exactly age well. lol

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 13 points 9 hours ago

Carlin was telling a joke, not enacting government policy.

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 48 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Why'd I think it was a RFK quote

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 16 points 16 hours ago

Because we live in the stupid timeline, the one where this absolutely 100% could be real. I thought it was too lol

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 76 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Satire is dead, it's no longer possible to top the absurdity of real life.

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[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Well I mean later on in the bit he also talks about only needing to wash: armpits, asshole, crotch and teeth and you'd save time by using the same brush.

I'm certain if he was alive today he'd rip these morons apart.

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 94 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

the worm is driving the bus, in the search of moist organic material to munch

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

This has the makings of a great Gwar song.

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[–] rpa@europe.pub 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jonne@infosec.pub 13 points 12 hours ago

Definitely the fittest brain worms.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago

Very emblematic.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 14 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly these old folks had the luxury of swimming in many creeks and rivers with low pollution, maybe them going there today and seeing how bad it is will make them realize how we're destroying the planet for shareholder value

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 25 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

He should just come out and announce that he worships Nurgle.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 points 11 hours ago

I say this every thread he is in. Like how is all the news with him nurgle cultist playback. Dude even sounds possessed by a warp demon.

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[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 51 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

He fucking hates his grandkids

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 47 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

He's just sharing his various worm parasites with them ❤️

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[–] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago

deep breath for this one) has speculated that he may have been exposed to the parasitic worm that ate part of his brain when he stuck his hand in the bloody mouth of a dead bear before driving with the carcass to Manhattan and abandoning it in Central Park (exhale).

That's where the brainworms comments are from.

[–] giacomo@lemm.ee 28 points 19 hours ago

literally everything this man does can be explained by the brain worm

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 32 points 19 hours ago

We’re 100% certain there was only one lobotomy?

[–] ApeNo1@lemm.ee 24 points 18 hours ago

“Mr President, do we really need to drain the swamp? Me and some buddies and our families still enjoying a regular paddle in there.”

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