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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 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.
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.
his worms are doing all the talking./
Narrator: Indeed, he can
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 didn’t his life eating trash at the dump and s no I don’t mean that figuratively.
Twist: The worm is still alive, and operating RFK Jr. like a fleshy mech.
Except not as charming, nor intelligent.
Cheeeeeeeeeeese???
No can’t be. I’d have a lot more faith in a worm.
or the parasites are still alive, parts of his brain “died” and the worms have replaced those parts.
I read that in the voice of Ron Howard
“cannot be this stupid?” This is a kakistocracy, it’s only stupid.
It’s an administration of “well, I haven’t seen it, so obviously it isn’t real.”
It’s an administration made up of people who aren’t smart enough to get better jobs, which assures their loyalty. There’s definitely other people who love trump who are actually qualified for these positions, but they would have said no to some of this at some point.
THIS MAN HAS A WORM IN HIS BRAIN.
How we allowed him to lead the HHS is beyond me.
Honey, he’s a worm in a meatsuit. I’m not quite sure how much of the man was left.
I still… maybe it’s my years working construction, but when I look at RFK Jr. - his mannerisms and gestures and speech patterns and connection (or lack thereof) to reality - I see a tweaker, clear as a bell.
He did heroin for over a decade so you’re not far off
alcohol too, he was such a menace he drove his former wife to suicide.
He has done (and sold) a lot of drugs. So, no surprise there.
Maybe… if we make vaccines illegal, he’ll tell people to start taking them. /s
“Have you ever seen anyone…71 years old, with full-blown autism?” Kennedy asked. “Head-banging, nonverbal, non-toilet trained, spinning, toe-walking…these other stereotypical features?”
“Where are these people walking around the mall? You can’t find them,” he said. “They’re not in homes, there are no homes for them, there are no institutions… anybody can look around and see that this is a canard.”
I keep seeing the Forest Gump quote overlayed over him whenever I see one of his posts, “I am not a bright man.”
You would think he’d know from his aunt Rosie’s tragic example about how our society puts inconvenient people out of sight.
She’s was a woman though, they don’t get autism. Autism only looks like a nonverbal little (white) boy in an Autism Speaks commercial who can only eat chicken nuggets.
Also, there very much are older people like this. My mother worked with severe people my entire life. The elder autistic exist.
When I was very, very little, I remember my mom saying that they’re shutting down all of the institutions and she was worried about where they would all go. I didn’t really get what she meant at the time, now I get it.
Nowadays it wouldn’t be as much of a problem as they could all just get senior leadership positions in the Trump administration
Nah, overqualified.
“No one in my generation had autism”
Sure thing. Uncle Barry, who collects every issue of Mechanics Monthly, and has spent over $10,000 on his model train set that is a perfect scale recreation of King’s Cross Station, is completely neurotypical.
I have a staunchly leftist but older co-worker who thinks no one she knew growing up had autism.
“I still think something is causing it” despite being pro-vaxx.
The propaganda is extremely effective unfortunately
Considering how provaxx they where back then, it’s insane seeing people who grew up with polio repeating antivax shit.
Like back in the day. No one got cancer…cause they didn’t know wtf it was, doesn’t mean the shit wasn’t around. Science didn’t stop in 1904.
So I’ve talked to my elderly union dem mom about this recently. Maybe it’s just her, and she did vax me completely, but she said something along the lines of how even in the 70s and 80s it was a personal decision that people thought about before executing, while most went ahead with it. But I was never exposed to a single skeptical thought at home, at school, in my community, or anywhere
Just on cancer as an example, there’s a solid argument to be made that it was historically diagnosed as a consumptive disease. My great great aunt died of cancer awhile back and she was practically wasting away.
I’m pretty sure the over 1,000 atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons over the last hundred years had zero effect on background radiation levels and on levels of human contamination from eating radioactive fallout…
I’m not saying we didn’t have cancer before but I would be very surprised if the rates are not elevated. Even counting misdiagnosises as consumptive illness.
On a similar note, I do suspect that our current petrochemical heavy environment has changed the human microchoism enough to possibly make it more likely for some of the classical autism traits to be passed on generation to generation influencing their heritability in society at large. Sincerely, an artist with two autistic parents in denial. And at least three autistic grandparents.
Even bronze agers knew what cancer was, they just called it weird things.
I’ll never forget looking at a virally trending obituary from the 15th century and seeing “Cancer, and Wolf” as a cause of death.
If you look it up you’ll see other things like “King’s Evil” aka scrofula or jawfaln (lock jaw from tetanus)
consumptions usually refers to TB, its has been called wasting sickness forever, because one of the symptoms of cancer(terminal) was cachexia which is your body wasting away. i found it interesting inuyasha mentioned its old term"wasting sickness" which immediately knew it was cancer.
Sorry I got my Ye Olde disease mixed up.
i remember consumption being the old name for Tuberculosis, its also known as the white death, due to people looking sickly and pallor when having the final stages of tb.
wasting was always associated with cancer, and then HIV/AIDS. if you hear films using old terms like wasting sickness, you can bet its cancer.
I really do think autism and cancer have gotten much more common. And it’s very likely something is causing it.
Not vaccines. Vaccines are fine.
Could be plastic. Could be pfas (forever chemicals). Could be lots of things, or a combination. But there’s most likely an environmental cause rather than genetic or just an increase in diagnosis. (Though the increase in diagnosis and recognition is also real.)
Modern society is making both mild autism and ADHD more obvious. It both brings out traits associated with them, and makes it more acceptable to have them and not mask completely.
As for cancer, that’s mostly an age and treatment thing. People with cancer live longer, due to treatment, so you hear far more about it. Also, if you live longer, you get cancer. Therefore an older population has more cancer cases.
My personal concern is neurological and plastics. People with degenerative neurological conditions tend to have more micro plastics in their brains. We’ve no idea of the long term implications of this. It could possibly be the modern equivalent of leaded petrol.
Cancer is rising rapidly in younger people unfortunately
https://www.mskcc.org/news/why-is-cancer-rising-among-young-adults
There’s also the fact that we have WAY better technology and techniques for discovering and understanding both autism and cancer nowadays compared to even 20 years ago.
If it is environmental pollution, the current administration would never admit it anyhow.
I’m disappointed that Lemmy feels the need to downvote such a mild differing opinion that doesn’t even conflict with your own.
All these things can be true. Diagnosis, treatment, and recognition are all much better; we agree there.
What’s causing the rise in cases is actual diagnosis. For many generations. Theirs and mine included. Either you were institutionalized. Or you were undiagnosed. People would just refer to you as Quirky or eccentric. There was no Spectrum to be on. It was treated as largely binary. Only in the last 40 years at the earliest did they start to fully understand the condition. And even now they still have a long way to go. But they’ve at least started recognizing the larger condition.
Thinking that the rise in diagnoses at this point is some sort of crisis/pandemic or Healthcare emergency that needs to be addressed. Is like blaming the Exterminator coming out and finding your house is filled with termites. It wasn’t filled with termites before they came just a few odd little ones that you saw skittering about on the surface. All these other ones must have been brought by them or someone else right? It’s not like they could have been there all along and we just didn’t notice?
looks like she bought into the partly anti-vax prop, probably heard jenny mcarthny once about vaccines and she was hooked.
This response vexes me because while Uncle Barry here is certainly an example, what these people are forgetting (and what this thing about Uncle Barry glosses over) is that until the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the fights from the 70s onward, if a family in the US had a child with an IQ of under 70, they were often shipped off to an institution.
Deinstitutionialization didn’t really begin to gain steam until relatively recently in our collective history- here in Tennessee we still had one of these facilities open until the nineties. These people didn’t believe there were people with severe mental disabilities, because our society hid them away!
Look up Clover Bottom. But don’t, because it’s horrifying. I’ve met people who lived there their entire lives. What was done to them was disgusting.
It is awful what was done to them. But it’s awful that people with a greater severity of condition, a greater need for care, are often glossed over in these comment sections. It feels like they’re made invisible in these conversations just like they were in those institutions! And I’m terrified that assholes like RFK Jr will disappear them for real!
The one good thing Reagan did was deinstitutionalization, even if he did it the dumbest way possible.
Thatcher did the same over here. Called it ‘Care in the Community’ which translates as ‘Vastly increasing the at risk and vulnerable unhoused population’.
State institutions are still hellholes.
There needs to be a federal investigation in to Oklahoma’s congregate care homes. Kids still get shipped off to institutions, which are unsafe and unregulated.
and shoots steroids regurlarly, and is obssesed with playing with animal carcasses.
Is do funny because you look at the foot and think he’s fit. But I saw a video of him doing pushups and it’s honestly so unimpressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOGNznbJPY0 like all that gear to not be able to do 10 full straight pushups? Ok dude
Lol that last one looked real difficult, and he looked a little wobbly getting up
He is a crank.
Coming from Silicon Valley, I can assure RFK, my friends with autism are absolutely crushing it out here.
I look at their homes and families and think “fuck, carve me off a slice of that spectrum.”
All someone on the spectrum needs to be successful is to get a special interest in a lucrative field.
Respectfully, this is a vast oversimplification. There are many successful people on the spectrum in tech, but that doesn’t always translate to success or money. Communication is a huge part of a development job and communication with others is usually fraught for autistic people.
That being said, a bunch of folks on the milder end of the spectrum have certainly had great success in the field, myself among them.
communication with others is usually fraught for autistic people.
You should read about the double empathy problem. It has empirical proofs and explain well the issue.
That’s great. Thank you very much. Glanced over it and expect I’ll go down a rabbit hole there making sure I understand all the related concepts.
No problem. If you deep dive the rabbit hole, you may be interested in this (Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches)
I see now thay my wording wasn’t very good. You’re correct.
No shit. Next they’re gonna drop a bombshell report that sometimes dogs are brown.
The brainworm he has in his skull died as a result of his stupidity so yeah… he’s that stupid.
Lack of nourishment it seems… And it shows…
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or still alive, parasites are pretty hard to kill because they have ways of shielding themselves from the immune systems. thats why its a bad idea if a parasite dies suddenly(your immune system goes into overdrive)
RFK: “Oh yes I can! In fact, I can be even more stupid! JUST WATCH ME!”
None of the twits in the current regime are fit for running a roadside fruit stand. Dumb, mean, divisive… these are some of the worst asinine people the world unfortunately has…
