RFK Jr.'s Wi-Fi and 5G conspiracies appear to make it into MAHA report draft
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1970-01-01
1 hour ago
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Read the draft. Overall, it's a decent take on the situation. Yes, they have included anti-vax and other stupid ideas, which should be ignored for the majority, but the overall take is still accurate enough to execute and provide a benefit. It seems as if they are putting out a strategy and have been forced to include the duck. Just get rid of the duck and it's good.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/

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happytoexplain
1 hour ago
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Are you just using the metaphor loosely, or are you actually suggesting that they explicitly do not believe in the duck and are counting on others to ask for it to be removed to reduce scrutiny on the parts they do believe in?
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1970-01-01
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I'm using it tightly and rightly. Keep the bits about clean water, clean air, microplastic pollution, screentime, drug commercials, etc.

Have your doctor selectively ignore the anti-vax and non-ionizing EM radiation ducks.

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goyagoji
1 hour ago
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The demented mind of a legacy child is supposed to help us agree to ignore the auto industry and its neo-fascist accomplices while they kill children.
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genman
53 minutes ago
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jmclnx
1 hour ago
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>For instance, it includes no proposed restrictions

All this does for me is shows these people are in only for the kickbacks.

Outside of ignoring the constitution (ICE), giving/continuing a tax break worth billions to the top 1% and eliminating science nothing that will help the US in the future has been done.

If this is not stopped, all the US will have left is a weapon building industry. Remember, drug research, a huge growing industry that the US leads has just be killed by RFK jr.

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amanaplanacanal
1 hour ago
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Hopefully the upcoming midterm elections will allow some sanity to return.
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Sniffnoy
1 hour ago
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I know this isn't the point, but it really bugs me to see "conspiracy" used to mean "conspiracy theory" in this way. (And this is less of a proper conspiracy theory and more just a crackpot theory, tbh.)
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DemocracyFTW2
1 hour ago
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> Notably, the report does not mention the leading causes of death for American children, which are firearms and motor vehicle accidents. Cancer, another top killer, is only mentioned in the context of pushing new AI technologies at the National Institutes of Health. Poisonings, another top killer, are also not mentioned explicitly.

These people don't care for you. You are just Menschenmaterial to them, something to be be used, abused, exploited, then discarded.

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coin
1 hour ago
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I wonder if smart meters are included. There’s a conspiracy theory around the RF emitted by smart meters.
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mikestew
1 hour ago
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They have 5G radios in them, IIRC. Of course there's crackpot theories about the RF.

(In fact, I'm pretty sure the reason I know that smart meters use 5G is because of the crackpot theories about "smart meters use 5G, and we all know what that does!!11One!".

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