This sounds like a stupid question, but I'm being genuine.
He is telling people to eat more meat, which sounds absolutely insane to me.
What qualifies him to give health advice ? Why are americans trusting him ?
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Americans are not, but Republicants are.
Wtf is wrong with being a former heroin addict? I know plenty of drug users and former drug users who aren't fascist shitstains and are actually pleasant people. Also like, you're going after him for being a former addict? God forbid someone be in a bad place in life and luckily manage to recover from it... Addiction, a health condition, just morally scars you for life then? Would you say that about someone who recovered from cancer? Fuck off.
yeah the question is not phrased properly
it should be "why are the people who give former drug addicts a bunch of shit when it's convenient to them now paying attention to a former addict"
It's about the hypocrisy, not the person's past
A third of the US are beyond help, beyond fucking stupid. Another third can't be arsed to do anything, they're so apathetic. One will follow without question, the other might go either way.
Also Shitler put RFK in place, so we're all forced to hear his moronic opinions...
Apathy comes from depression and grasping at things that don't make sense can be read as anxiety. America failed to develop an educational system and now has no clue how to cope with stresses being applied to it.
Being a heroin addict does not make you a bad person anymore than having diabetes. Fuck off with that moralistic shit.
The guy is a scourge of humanity because of the choices he made and beliefs he holds. Don't make it look like heroin is the cause.
No on said heroin makes you a bad person, it sure as hell doesn't give you credit to give health advice.
Would you take driving lessons from someone who's never driven a car? Or has crashed every car they've owned?
Same idea, who the fuck is this McDonald's eating fuck to give advice on health?
Not to mention all the dumbass comments he's made about nearly eradicated diseases like measles, he's a trumper, so he supports child rape and murdering of civilians who dont lick the boots and bow down to tangerine shitler.
The clickbait title implies the problem is his drug use and not, you know, any of his actual character flaws.
This is honestly a disgusting take because it shows how biased you are against addicts. Not a stupid question. Just a nasty one. Your 2nd and 3rd are good questions though. I don't think there's jack shit qualifying him to give health advice in reality. He's a crackpot supplement pusher. Which I feel kinda answers your 3rd; americans have a long history of being stupid and blindly trusting whatever the pill-pusher says, because they hear what they want to hear. Unfortunately.
I hate RFK and all the damage he's done/is doing to our country's general state of health. His history of addiction is literally last on the list of reasons not to trust him. In my view, a history of addiction (now being in recovery) usually gives you a pretty sane view of health, since it brings you so close to death. The overwhelming majority of recovering addicts that I know lead healthier lifestyles than non-addicts. Oftentimes when people see with clarity how much damage they've done to themselves, they desperately want to treat their body better.
This was exactly my first thought. He should be disqualified for many reasons, but that ain't one of them. Thinking that way is why we have him.
Americans don't trust him at all. His own large, famous family hates him with a passion, every single one of them. He was thrust upon us by professional trolls who think it's hilarious to watch people who actually care about their nation and it's citizens get upset.
As much as I wish this dude would immediately suffer cardiac arrest from a clogged artery, him being a former addict has nothing to do with anything, and in itself doesn’t devalue anything he says. That kind of thinking is pretty problematic, and you need to have a real hard think about the way you obviously look down on people who are recovering from addiction, cause honestly you’re being pretty shitty right now.
Mmmm, I think there's still a point to the question. Being an addict is not a moral failing; it doesn't make you less of a person. But the vast majority of people who believe in RFK also believe being an addict is reprehensible.
t's like how people ask Christians why they vote for someone who's been married x times. Personally idgaf how many times Trump has been married, I care about how many women and children he has assaulted. I don't think divorce is a moral failing; hell, I don't believe in the institution of marriage by the state. But, the very same people who hold him up also claim to believe that it should make him unworthy.
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Why are americans taking health advice from a man who got brain worms from eating roadkill and didnt learn his lesson?
Thats the more appropriate question.
Heartwarming how many comments are defending sufferers of addiction in here from being lumped in with this piece of shit. Fedi remains such a breath of fresh air.
Americans aren't. Fascist ignoramuses are. Those are not americans
Ah yes, No True American.
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Fuck rfk, but him being a former heroin addict is probably his least worst trait.
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Fuck RFK but I will never hold being a former heroin addict against him.
Yea it's not the addiction or even the brainworms that disqualify him, it's simply his stupidity.
Stupid people are redeemable as well. But this asshole has seen the science, ignores it, and continues to spread his lies that will harm and/or kill people for political reasons...
Yea I guess you can fix stupid, but you can't fix willful ignorance when presented with facts and evidence. I have long thought it made no sense that all these govt positions don't require any expertise in the area they legislate.
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Listen, I'd hire a former heroin addict for a job no problem, but I don't think I would date one.
Rfkjr is unqualified for his position.
Even his own family members have said he is in no state of mind or health to be in any position of authority whatsoever.
I've got nothing against people with former drug problems. I don't trust him because he's a doofus.
Did everyone forget he drove around with a dead animal, and dumped it into a park?
No one should listen to this insane lunatics ramblings. But the addiction is a symptom, not the problem. He likely became an addict because he was mentally ill. Or, the addiction (and brain worm, and eating random dead things) made him mentally ill.
Either way, someone with delusions shouldn't be in charge of anything.
He chopped the head off of a whale, strapped it to the family car, and drove it home as the viscera dripped into the cabin onto his wife and daughter.
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...do you not understand this position isn't even elected? I'm not fucking trusting him.
Being a former heroin addict doesn't make someone a bad source of information, especially if they've turned their lives around.
But I agree otherwise
It isn't exactly a credential.
Having a worm drive your thoughts does tho..
Yeah, "from a guy with a dead worm in his brain" would make for a better question.
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I mean shit, i can't tell you how many people, doctors included, have been aghast that i might have to take a pill every day the rest of my life for blood pressure. as though it's an addiction. people are fucking idiots.
Every Cabinet position is filled with the worst possible person for the job. This is done on purpose to make the government fail at all the things it should be doing. We knew this would happen, of course.
Take everything they say as examples of what not to do. Don't do what Donny Don't does.
They're not. Make no mistake, MAGA is full of a myriad of ideologies ranging from fascists, christian nationalists, white supremacists, anti vaxers, misogynists, transphobes/homophobes/terfs, pedophiles, capitalists/monopolists, incels, manosphere bros, and more.
They don't care about what they together stand for, because as a single entity? They only stand for one thing: the power to take away social and civil liberties. To fuck the public, and maximize profit and control, to MAKE us all, at home and abroad, comply.
Even amongst MAGA, RFK Jr is a joke, only a small subset of MAGA take him seriously and luckily they'll be dead of heart attacks and treatable diseases soon. What's sad is they'll have taken down so many innocents along with them. RFK Jr is there to distract the American public of the real issues with our Health Care System which is mainly affordability, access, and a competitive public option. It's not that he's even in the pocket of Big Pharma, though that is likely true. But even if he isn't, Big Pharma still benefits from his incompetency, from the sideshow he creates.
Hopefully that clears things up. Americans aren't stupid because they don't have access to the medical research and information, Americans are stupid because their pride tells them that their intuition and their echo chambers of validation make them right in spite of aforementioned research and information. That's MAGA, that's America.
Basically all of us are choosing the devils we know because we gave up on looking for angels of our better nature long ago.
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People with old, dead, rotten brains recognize his Dad and Uncle's name. It reminds them vaguely of a time when their own father's were in charge of all the hard decisions, their joints didn't hurt and they had an undefined future that could have been wonderful. That future has come though and turns out they are just themselves... they failed, nothing fun they wanted really happened and everything confuses them now. They feel like frauds about to be found out and forgotten at the same time.
So seeing something they think they recognize voting for "a Kennedy" makes them indirectly fell that their own Dad will magically come back to life, tell them he's proud and then they will be millionaires and attractive people will want to have have sex with them and fix their iPhones.
It's just that.
I'm not taking his advice, not trusting him with anything.
This administration is nothing but a bunch of ignorant narcissistic racist scared buffoons who were taken from Fox News. The people who trust him are ignorant narcissistic racist scared buffoons who watch Fox News.
It's really amazing how inept they all are.
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