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DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Germ-theory skeptic RFK Jr. goes swimming in sewage-tainted water

arstechnica.com

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Germ-theory skeptic RFK Jr. goes swimming in sewage-tainted water

arstechnica.com

DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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The National Park Services bars all swimming and wading due to the health hazard.
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    How is he still alive?

  • Jonathan Snyder@discuss.online
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    I think I know how a lot of people are thinking right about now. lol

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      Encourage this behavior?

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    Our best chance is that he gets one of these diseases that is effectively treatable with a vaccine.

    Thing is, even with that, he’d just take the vaccine and proceed to lie about it for profit. His father must be turning over in his grave.

  • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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    I hope he gets sick and suffers

    Maybe we can convince him to drink some of it

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    That man deserves dysentery

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    Like most con men, RFK is using people’s ignorance of what odds mean. If the chance of getting sick from swimming in that water is only say one percent, he knows the odds are extremely good that he won’t individually get sick, and then he will palm this off as “evidence” that it’s all a big fuss over nothing. The park service might know maybe 100,000 people will swim in that water this season, so they’re saving roughly a thousand from getting sick. And even if one of them manages to get the attention of a news outlet, they can be scoffed at as an anomaly. “How do you even know the water was responsible? Where else have you been? You’re just looking for attention!”

  • شاهد على إبادة@lemm.ee
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    Is he sewage-skeptic too?

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      He’s the septic skeptic.

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    Can somebody make this into a meme template please:

    The text could be something like “america’s health system is taking a (nose-)dive”.

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    Don’t worry, he put a spiritual spin on it (probably) so it’s ok, it’s actually cleansing you see!

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    So brain worms are back on the menu?

  • DarthKaren@lemmy.world
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    What a shitty grandpa.

  • Seth Taylor@lemmy.world
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    Steve-O can’t compete with this man

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      Steve was admittedly stuffed to the gills with booze and every drug available, and still is somehow more reasonable than this clown

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    Wow this is next level stupid, i really thought it was the onion. I’d say i’m even shocked at this demonstration of stupidity, but the fact his grand children are led into this is beyond sad.

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      What else can you expect from a guy that starved a brain worm to death.

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    How can the onion ever hope to compete with reality

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      the onion can not keep up with this, because fiction has to be believable, unlike reality ;-)

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      I think their hidden agenda is actually to bankrupt The Onion.

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    In my state if you swim in any body of water it’s almost always tainted somehow, maybe not with sewage but perhaps some other toxic pollutant. The only exception I can think of is the man-made reservoirs used for drinking water that people swim…

    and pee in.

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      Jesus Christ what happened to water just being normal, dirty, outside water? How did we fuck it up this badly?

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        Because that’s environmentalist extremism. You have to be reasonable and allow the rich to rob everyone at least a little. /s

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      Iowa. Right?

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        Close, Indiana.

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