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    The greatest metabolic problem in the United States, obesity, has strong ties to the addictive hyperpalatable ultraprocessed foods high in simple sugars and fats that comprise the majority of the Standard American Diet, and he’s not made any mention of it, let alone take any action to address it.

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      Actually that’s one of the few positive angles Kennedy campaigned on: fighting ultra processed foods.

      I don’t know about action, but it’s at least the idea behind MAHA.

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        He has a lot of good thoughts, but the problem is that he always drags them into crazy land. That and they’re overshadowed by his stupid and dangerous thoughts.

        He’s basically the personification of, “A broken clock is right twice a day.”

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      He has actually, if you pay attention

      The current push against seed oils and using beef tallow is thanks partly to him

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        I dunno why you are getting downvoted. This is a core tenant of MAHA.

        The antivaxx pseudoscience and mass firings are unforgivable, and action on the food end is slow, but still.

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            Yeah. ‘The right action for the absolute wrong reasons’ is a common theme I guess.

            I was similarly struck by the visceral reaction against the Intel deal on Lemmy, which I personally understand a lot more about.

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        Seed oils are fine though, and have made processed foods better than they used to be. Fighting against artificial food dyes was the major win he pushed for.

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        My local co-op is covered in rainbow flags and support signage, and I’m seeing more and more white men, young and old, cowboy boot wearing, steel toe or running shoes, even one with a supremacist tattoo on his arm, meat head looking fellas,

        asking about the raw milk that comes in there and when is it delivered as it is gone very fast.

        We had white men in there of course prior, but these guys I’m seeing more and more of, are … different. They really want that raw mommy udder milk juice.

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      Hyperpalatable is a new one for me. Overall I think it’s going to be a hard sell to convince people that “food that tastes less good” will be much of a motivation.

      As a mom, I think that having a lifestyle where both parents didn’t have to rely on multiple jobs and overtime to survive would allow families to enjoy life and not have to seek out bursts of dopamine from the foods they eat as a bandaid.

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      He’s done a little good with the maha movement, but it’s still a lot of negative in that movement. Nothing was major though about reducing sugar or fats though.

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    RFK is literally a child murderer

    Schatz recounted the story of how Kennedy traveled to Samoa in 2019 to discourage people from taking the measles vaccine which ultimately led to an outbreak in which thousands of people were infected and 83, mostly children, died.

    “It is so chilling to contemplate the idea that someone as recognizable as a Kennedy would fly across an ocean to a small, developing country and basically tell everybody, ‘Be afraid of this lifesaving medicine’,” Schatz concluded.

    https://www.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-releases/schatz-rfk-jr-whose-dangerous-lies-fueled-measles-outbreak-in-samoa-and-caused-preventable-deaths-unqualified-to-lead-hhs

    He isn’t just a quack, he is a fascist.

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      he drove his former now deceased wife to SUICIDE, by pressuring her to be only SAHM. SHe had a succesful career , and he used the brainworm to get out of paying alimony.

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    My biggest mitrochondrial challenge is that someone like RFK can be in a position of power anything to do with health and medicine.

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    If I had to pick someone suffering from mitochondrial challenges and inflammation based off appearances I’d choose RFK over a random child any time.

    STFU you roided out goon.

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    I am looking at this guy and see someone mentally challenged. You can see it in his face

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      It’s the chicken and the egg thing. People get worms from eating bear meat, and he got worms and was known to kill bears because he was crazy. Wait, nope; no chicken or egg I guess, just was always crazy. Because the worms couldn’t have been what caused him to start eating bear meat. Could be why he put his kids in trash bags and put dead marine carcuses on his vehicle and drove down the road with his kids being splattered in blood and guts though… Hard to tell the order there though. Worms or marine animals, we may never know

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    RFK had a book published some time back in which he reveals he doesn’t believe in germ theory. Germ theory. This should have automatically disqualified him from doing anything that gives him decision making powers dealing with health, and medicine.

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      Also why he swims in sewage. And, no one has called it germ “theory” in 200 years. It’s like evolution is not a theory, labs use it every day.

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        That is what a theory is, lay terms are different. Yes doctors do still use germ theory of disease. Because people don’t use these words right, doesn’t mean that is not how they are used.

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    seems more likely he’s just seeing the utter despair of young humans realizing what kind of world they have been born into.

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      Tbf, the earth is still quite beautiful, its the homo sapiens, particularly the homo sapiens with other homo sapiens obeying their every command (politicians… military/police)

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        sure but i just read an article about the atlantic jet stream coming to a halt in the next 50-100 years, so i guess smoke em while you got em or some such phrase.

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          You read too much news. The news is designed by the ruling powers to make people lose hope and thus make people more easy to subjugate.

          If you lived in WW2 or the US-Soviet Cold War, you would’ve thought the world was ending.

          Hey you know that the Earth is eventually gonna get sucked into the sun (or flung out into space, not quite sure which is which) and everything here dies, right.

          Everything is temporary.

          One of the leading theories of the universe says everything will end in “heat death”. So, with knowledge of this, do you just decide to give up since “everything is meaningless”?

          Fuck that lol. We shouldn’t be alive, the odda s arent even in out favor, but we are. So, TAKE THAT, STUPID UNIVERSE.

          I’m alive and being alive is a rebellion, its rebellion against the universe.

          P.S. I was born under the Once Child Policy of mainland China. I wasn’t even supposed to be born, since my parents already had a child (aka: my older brother). But guess what, I’m alive. So, take that, CCP. Sometimes, I have existential thoughts about the "what if"s, like “what if I was never born”. But you know what, fuck that. On this timeline, I’m alive. My life is inherently a rebellion against authoritarians, its a direct contradiction to the CCP’s policies. I shouldn’t be worrying about a timeline that never happened, and similarly, we have to stop resigning ourselves to a failure that hasn’t happened yet, its never too late to try to fix it.

          For some pespective, even if the all the polar ice caps melt and we detonated all nukes on earth, Earth would still be more habitable than, say, Mars.

          So, do what you can to stop climate change, don’t be too sad about it, everything eventually dies, just try your best. Be a rebel against the universe, be a rebel against authoritarians.

          Do yourself a favor, and live long enough to see the demise of tyrants, and then keep on living to piss on their graves :D

          (edit: typos)

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            One of the leading theories of the universe says everything will end in “heat death”. So, with knowledge of this, do you just decide to give up since “everything is meaningless”?

            Tbh, that argument doesn’t really hold. Human lives are short and our experienced history is also incredibly short. “The past” as in the part of the past that we can actually experience as human beings is less than 100 years. We can’t fathom how freaking long 1000 years is, even though it’s just 40 generations, let alone something that might happen in 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 years (that’s 106 zeroes).

            Climate change related disasters are happening right now and will intensify a lot during the next 50-100 years. I likely live long enough to watch the climate keeling over, and my kids and my grandkids will live right through the worst of it. That’s something entirely different than saying that the universe will suffer the heat death in a time frame so long that we can’t even understand the number in any relevant context.

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    His family literally came together and penned a letter to America warning us about him before the 2024 election.

    That’s the kind of freak this guy is.

    But Americans are too stupid to listen to reason. So here we are.

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      I recently visited the DMV and was shocked at what I saw: kids glued to their parents’ sides, not a single child was socializing.

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    Epstein used to look at kids mitochondria too… /S

    I feel like I could chill with this guy and vibe but as a leader of America I’m not so sure.