• LupusBlackfur@lemmy.world
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    The moment has reignited broader concerns about Kennedy’s qualifications and judgment…

    He has no qualifications and an exactly equivalent amount of judgement.

    🙄 🤡 🖕 🖕

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      He may have 0 qualifications, but I wouldn’t say his judgement is exactly equivalent. His judgment goes much more into the negatives, since everything he says and every decision he makes is actively causing harm. We would be better off simply having the role vacant, or giving the job to someone in a coma.

      Ironically, even the most profoundly autistic people, the ones that resemble his characterization of the condition, would still be better at the job than he is.

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      He is a cis white male. Pretty sure thats all the qualifications he needs unless you are one of those “woke” people who think we should have experts running things.

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      Methinks the “doctors” fucked up his so-called brain worm incident…

      Evidently, they removed what there was of the brain and left the decaying dead worm in its place.

      🤷‍♂️

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        It’s not doctor’s. Dude spent his life eating trash at the dump and no I don’t mean that figuratively.

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        or the parasites are still alive, parts of his brain “died” and the worms have replaced those parts.

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    When I hear something along the lines of “there is no way someone can be that stupid.” I think about 2 things.

    1. How dumb the average person is and realize half the population is dumber than that.

    2. The interview of a Yosemite Park Ranger discussing the difficulty of designing the perfect bear proof trash can. The ranger is quoted as saything,“there is a considerable intelligence overlap between the smartest bear and the dumbest human.”

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      Congress too, we need them to step down. The rich are afraid of taxes, congress needs to be more afraid of us than they are of taxing the rich. they still need to get food. They still have family that live in our communities. They should feel as safe as an illegal immigrant smuggling thought crimes across the border.

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    Hey, that 65 year old neighbor with the $200k model trainset? Yeah, probably autistic.

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    Touted ‘Unfit’

    By senators prior to his appointment?

    No, by some anonymous posts on social media last week

    So will this result in any actual consequences?

    Absolutely not

    Great

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    Short answer: if they got it bad, they’re dead or in a nursing home. That’s why they aren’t walking in a mall. They ran out of health.

    Long answer: in recent times, there seems to be lower threshold of diagnosis.

    But if he truly thinks he can pinpoint exposures that increase autism - things like the exposure to tetraethyl lead which probably increased criminality and decreased mental health - good luck for combing scientific studies. There may be some. But if he’s gonna rewind the age old “vaccines cause” record and replay it, nah, I won’t be listening.

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    I love how this is the hill people finally die on, and not the other absolutely wild shit this guy has said before he even got this gig, like collecting roadkill or his extremely well documented conspiracy-esque, anti-vaccine history.

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    Plenty of older people have ASD. I know a couple personally. They have childhood stories of being beaten, yelled at, difficulty with teachers and peers. They claim to be fine today, but telling horror stories of your trauma as a kid really says otherwise. If ASD was bad enough to be “retarded”, they were kept from society and/or put in State Homes. RFK is ADHD, and the only thing that kept him out of jails due to the untreated effects when he was younger is hs family name and wealth.

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    The lady doth protest too much… I’m calling it now, some psychiatrist tried to diagnose Rfk Jr with autism and he lost his fucking shit about it. I mean the dudes been obsessed with dead animals since he was a child always been known as “eccentric”.

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    Look, he’s killing people. He should be arrested and go to trial for criminal negligence and manslaughter. Like the rest of the bunch.

    But they can’t even say it lol. “oh, some people touted!”

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      There was a thread on reddit that had someone speculate that he is an indirect serial killer. Meaning he tries to influence people into doing ‘healthy’ things that are anything but and keep bullying them into them until he results in their health declining to the point that they die. He had a relative that he did this to. The justice system isn’t built for that kind of stuff and proving it there would be damn near impossible unless he somehow confesses to it.

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    A friend of mine learned she had adhd at 65, and autism very recently at ~78. She said that her behavior and interests finally make sense.