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[–] [email protected] 100 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Guy with actual brain worm, who ate a dog, won't 'pick a side' on the '9/11 issue', thinks vaccines are a giant conspiracy... thinks he is qualified to give mental health advice...

Though this apparently runs in the family, who decided to lobotomize his aunt and then pretend she did not exist.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

Crazy people don’t know that they’re crazy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was curious about the dog story - apparently he insists it was a goat, and there doesn't seem to be conclusive evidence that it wasn't.

I found this in an article where he would not, however, deny sexual assault.

Yikes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Well, yeah, except goats don't have floating ribs, and he recommended a place to eat dog.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

It’s funny. I got an ad for his campaign yesterday about how he won’t force us to wear masks.

Like, bro. It’s 2024. I see like 1 mask a month at this point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

lol what sides are there to the 9/11 “issue”?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'm guessing rational people and then idiots who scream "jet fuel can't melt steel beams!". I get the skepticism and I wouldn't be surprised if United States politicians allowed 9/11 to happen for political purposes. After all, they have killed and will kill more people for less. Still, I doubt 9/11 was an inside job.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago

He wants to "concentrate" them into camps where they can receive goverment treatments. How thoughtful.

You just know Trump begged him to be his running mate.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

and i'm sure those farms will be loving, and full of support, and address peoples issues and help them over come them.

and totally not be full of brutalization and forced labor in a desperate attempt to make up for a lack of migrant labor, that will be in the news weekly for new, tragic, and horrific deaths.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Surprise! The farms are for profit institutions run by private contractors!

In just one easy step you too can have zero accountability and a sky high number of sexual assault and other abuse claims!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

They’ll be learning valuable skills that they can then use to better themselves.

Like stamping license plates (even those are now printed.) or something .

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago

I don’t care how medicated I am, I’m not harvesting your wellness for you. Asshole.

I’m not his type though, I’m on a self prescribed dose of marijuana. I may be persuaded to help harvest that wellness.

Anyway what an idiot.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is this his idea, or the worm’s idea? Genuinely curious.

And I am fully aware that the worm is dead and very likely necrotic.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Are we sure it's dead? This feels more like bad Sci-fi. Clearly the worm has taken control of the host.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I am a worm speaking through my host right now and I’ll tell ya buddy. This ain’t one of ours talking.

I’m a tapeworm though, maybe worms that don’t have to work so hard to get to the brain and control the host are trying to find reasons to get a bunch of humans in close proximity together under conditions that make it easy for them to spread.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

too much of the host has survived 😔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Maybe these “wellness centers“ infect depressed people with the same kind of worm that RFK has?

I claim dibs on the rights! Stargate could use a metal gear~ish goa'uld secret invasion video game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Remember that first season episode of TNG where brain worms took over control of Starfleet?

It’s like that but stupid.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Hey, here's a great idea. Let's spend decades normalizing conversations about mental health. I was literally saying to my therapist how I'm glad to be alive at a time when this isn't demonized last week. This will increase the portion of the population that can undergo treatment without being stereotyped as weak or deviant or whatever.

Now let's run for president and have a platform where we target that group in some way to "other" them. This is a great idea. This will get lots of votes. /s

What a dumbass.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

That sounds like concentration camps with extra steps.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This guy’s brains must look just like his aunt’s.

Or maybe his uncle’s.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He wants to spread the worms.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

RFK is a mind flayer confirmed

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

why would anyone listen to this cunt? he's already been exposed to be a plant colluding with republicans to help with their election. thankfully he's so fucking awful at everything he does i don't think it's working at all.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

The brain worm is looking for a new host

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Uhhhh, that just gives people more reason to be depressed. Just about every young person I know is on antidepressants because life is absolutely shitty in a capitalist dystopia.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Gardening for your mental health? Sure! Gets you some sunshine and exercise, and a healthy snack if you’re lucky.

Government farms run by the Brainworm administration? Pass.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

This will be an underground facility where the other hosts hold you down while a new brain worm is forced into your head through your ear.

I read Animorphs. I know how this thing goes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Do we get to pick cotton on those “wellness farms”, master?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

There are no right libertarians, evidence #27446748

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Labor camps. What a novel fucking idea, RFK. It's almost like you've never moved out of your grandfather's fucked up view of the world, you sad piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If we ignore the brainworm parts, there are some good points here:

  • More funding for rehab facilities (though I'd demand increased oversight and prosecution efforts as well, because the industry is rife with abuse and more subsidies would encourage more abuse if we don't increase oversight too)
  • Offering nutritional assistance with rehab efforts
  • Offering low-stakes work programs as part of rehab
  • Encouraging community and social interaction outside of the inpatient setting
  • Treating behavioral addictions like social media addiction as genuine addictions
  • Providing options for people who have been over-prescribed or mis-prescribed to correct their regimen under close supervision
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We could pick silver linings out of most things.

Genocide: reduces population and reduces our carbon footprint greatly.

It doesn't make it the right thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Which bullet point merits a comparison to genocide?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Comparing cherry picking silver linings to cherry picking linings. I'm sorry if genocide is to emotionally taxing for you to read the term.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I already have some garden tools that I could show him. I'm quite proficient with them. Especially if I'm off my meds.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's funny. I've been thinking, every home, or at least community, should have a wellness farm. Pharmacies are an untrustworthy source for connective wellness.