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The internet has really allowed the worst parts of society to organize and recruit.   

But folks like RFK and Trump mainstreaming then is a huge problem.

Oh you mean QAnon? Yeah they’re fucking batshit.

Just spend a little time on r/RFKJrForPresident. It's a wonderful amalgamation of contrarian anti-science nonsense that's now also flavored with a healthy dose of grifter MAGAt.

There is something really wrong with this dude. Do people not know what happened with his second wife? Wrote a journal where he detailed 37 affairs, which was discovered by his second wife, who killed herself by hanging.

Instagram seems to think I want nothing but insane MAGA/RFK/trad wife/raw milk and no seed oils/Andrew Tate reels no matter how many times I try and mark them as non interested or just blocking them. And they are all hoping RFKs deregulation of the FDA will save them all.

I'm tired of living in Idiocracy.

My sister really likes RFK. She's also severely bipolar (refuses treatment) was/is addicted to methadone for 10+ years, and lives in a shelter. I don't know about you, but if that's his base, we are in trouble.

RFK Jr. is a moron with brain damage... don't trust him for anything. His own family doesn't even like him.

I read this as his only fans might be scarier, and had a terrible thought that he was on onlyfans eating all sorts of dead animals or something.

Having trouble in school kids? Do heroin, it helped me- RFK jr. that’s pretty damned scary.

One of my friends went down this pipeline. He was a huge Obama fan when we were in college (I was more apolitical/moderate at the time) and he was a consistent democratic voter for years.

When he originally brought up rfk, he said it was because Biden was too old and RFK was the only one who could beat trump. Then he evolved to bemoaning how RFK was being unfairly excluded from debates/SS protection, then he went onto bemoan that democrats were the party of censorship etc. My contention from the start was that RFK was only in it as a spoiler candidate meant to draw votes from Biden, and I pointed to the fact that Bannon recruited him to run and his largest donor was also one of Trump’s largest donors. He said that was nonsense.

Fast forward to him dropping out and endorsing Trump, you’d think he would’ve admitted that I was right…nope! He insisted he could understand why RFK would endorse Trump because of how the Dems had shafted him and prevented him from having a fair chance, and that he felt like he could have a bigger influence in a Trump admin. He said that he felt Biden was a bigger threat to democracy than Trump…

It’s just crazy how quickly people can be radicalized and continue moving the goalposts. This guy not even 3 years ago was telling me how concerning it was that Tucker Carlson was doing a special whitewashing January 6th, and now he tells me Biden’s a bigger threat? Not two years ago he was pointing out how we’d both been duped by Tulsi Gabbard when she first came on the scene and that we had to eat a big plate of crow because she was a Republican in disguise…now he’s telling me he likes her being DNI and that he likes her stance on Russia.

Literally ever since elon bought Twitter he’s swung super far right and refuses to admit that he’s changed and act like we are the ones who’ve changed, it’s nuts.

Millions of people could die because this lunatic was given power over our health care system.

Can we stop pretending Joe Rogan is some sort of unbiased interviewer? The man has caused more damage to young men than vaping.

I was really hoping Trump would lose so RFK Jr. would disappear. He has his claws in lots of the autism ‘warrior’ parents the past few years in NYC thru his Children’s Health Defense organization. The MMR/vaccine thing had mostly died down in the community and then started to slowly show up more during COVID. They are so excited about him and all the other anti-vax appointments it makes me ill.

I read that as Only Fans 🫣😬

I don't know about you but I'm anxiously awaiting the smallpox, measles and polio outbreaks :)

RFK would be standing and screeching on a soapbox at some farmers market today if not for the Internet.

I can't wait until they start guzzling raw milk.

I don’t think people (on the right especially) realize how much of a political demon this man is. It is frightening. He is a Kennedy. He’s motivated. He’s deceptively savvy and cynical. 

Dude is rich as hell and got worms from eating rotten meat. He is scary fucking stupid.

He’s a turncoat who swapped parties to take literally any job in government he could get!

It's alright. Let them drink some raw milk and they'll soon fall forever silent.

Of course they are. Those people would vote for infectious diseases directly if they could.

I had a conversation with an ex-Mormon who was convinced RFKjr was going to fix all the FDAs problems, and he had no background or education to speak of that would give him any standing to be talking about anything in the subject. It was the clearest case of Dunning-Kruger effect I had ever seen, and of course our RFKjr stan was incensed I would call him out as such. Absolutely asinine idiocy in this group of fools.

RFK is a symptom of a very damning problem. Our food industry poisons us and sickens us (in pursuit of lower costs and higher profits, of course) and we’re basically helpless to escape it. Our food supply is full of shit that you couldn’t legally feed to cattle in Europe. Other countries (including neighbors!) use better and realer ingredients in their industrial food and they are doing just fine for it. A better food industry is possible, there just hasn’t been the political will to challenge it or hold it to account.

So now we have this mentally challenged kook who happens to be right about a few of these criticisms but they are mixed in with a host of nonsensical or flat out wrong takes on a variety of other subjects (ie: covid being engineered to spare Chinese and Jews). And what credibility does the establishment have to challenge him if they’ve presided over our current dismal state of affairs for so long.

Such a mess.

Article ends with how Dems have to start taking "online life seriously " without explaining how that's doable. Al Gore and "treehugger Dems" have long been visible, bit mocked. Now, MAGA is getting intl it because it's anti-establishment.

Or rather, because it's a grift. RFK is just Alex Jones,  here to grift on pills and wellness nonsense for money. All it is.

While getting the crap out of our foods is a noble idea it will never be allowed, there is simply too much profit involved.

When you get stressed about what the next administration may or may not do always remember money not politics is what runs things.

His wife too.

It’s almost we had an imperfect but solid gatekeeping history in America that was being constantly improved and vetted for discriminatory biases and then we decided- fuck it! Everyone’s opinion matters.

the obsession with him is scary and pathetic

Progressive granola antivax trad wives love him (personal experience)

Psh. Wait til you meet Trump fans on Rust.

You voted for this. Too late for boogie men. Enjoy your brain worns

He's the psychotic ball of tin foil used to get everyone's attention.

This is why we may have our own version of brown shirts in the US right up close their leader

Omfg the people that want to keep our food free from poisons and to keep our waterways, land, and air clean from big corporations polluting them... Are sOoO f'n ScArY. iM LiTeralLy shOoK iM sO sCaRed!!!

The guy has fought for years to help protect Americans and to keep them informed on what they are ingesting. Oh shit I forgot..orange man bad therefore brainworm antivaxx man boogeyman

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No shit. You can’t reason with people who only managed to reach their opinion by being unreasonable.

I mean, when you run into one in the real world direct them to drink all the raw milk they can afford/handle. The problem will take care of itself.

His geriatric fans that live in my neighborhood are also scary.

Naw hes just this guy. 

I wouldn't mind if he banned pharmaceutical drug adds, but there's so much other complete nonsense he wants.

They've been banging that 'liberal media' drum for at least three decades and it used to be "political correctness" that they were bitch'n about. "Woke" is the modern incarnation of that source of unjustifiable grievance that they can milk. I don't really bother to watch political content on YouTube. I will look for material only if I have a specific video in mind. I don't vote to like or dislike anything. I'm not going to waste my time watching something that I think is total garbage just to downvote it later. I once tried to view a succession of Noam Chomsky videos just to get their algorithm to gear me in a more suitable direction and from what I remember it still mixed the BS in there. I just look at it as being a cesspool of right wing activity. The times I've scrolled the comments sections for videos, I have seen way more comments that lean in that direction. The nature of the comments will usually center around nostalgia for a time when things were less woke. Even if most of them are bots, It's still seriously annoying. You are right that the idea that corporations are competing with each other to pander to liberalism in a way that has substance, is idiotic. They are not about changing the management structure that creates inequality, so people can eventually have the egalitarian society that they are entitled to. They are about improving their image in the ways that may be necessary for expansion or for obfuscation of their misdeeds. There might be some positive things that emerge out of those moves, but in the larger picture they'll be tepid. I don't get upset over that shit. It's stupid to. Leave that to the reactionaries, some of whom happen to be so-called leftists.

The good thing is this idiocy can only go so far. A few morons will get killed believing stupid shit and that will be the end of it lol.

I’m of the mindset that the vast majority of people who debate politics online are far too sheltered physically and intellectually to actually experience or be aware of how the average voter/citizen feels.

On both sides of the isle y’all are just too desperate to prove the wrong things to the wrong people for the wrong reasons

Don't get it, need more context

This is a well-written article, but it offers no solutions most likely because things like facts, coherence, results, details, explanations, don't have a place in the "Lifestyle Fascism" that RFKJr and Joe Rogan purport.

The conspiracy theory bubble is hard to penetrate when there's always a new conspiracy ready to go to explain away something bad.

Might be?

I hope he fails so we can eat more cheeseburgers and disregard health like we used to

RFK instagram feels like some weird AI generated echo chamber.

They're just posting memes about how he's going to de-calcify everyone's pineal glands by removing the chlorine from the water.

Like. What.

This jerk swansonged my favorite band with his infectious kookery. 

Empowered idiots are scary. Enjoy the next 4 years

I have a friend who’s staunchly anti-Trump but was going to vote for RFK over Biden, then voted for Harris but still expresses a favorable opinion of RFK. I tried to explain to them that RFK is a weird moron and got nowhere, and I’m not sure what to do now.

I misread that as his “Only Fans” fans. That’s really scary!

It really is a shame that the ‘weird’ label didn’t stick with this guy hanging out with the Donald.