People got tricked to vote between a pedophile and a guy with dementia and this guy ended up in power as a result.
If you wonder why people trust authorities so much we own part of that to centuries of living under rulers and people getting leashed.
Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ?
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brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Which one was Harris? The pedophile or the guy with dementia?
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
The one endorsing a genocide.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t think the election was between trump and Trump. That would be worrisome
IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Because we are being led by a convicted felon who sexually assaults his child employees.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We aren’t. We just have one giving it.
arin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hold on, we don’t know if he’s still on heroin.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He such a fucking dumbass even if we have some ovelapping nutritional beliefs and predilection for the ol’ narcotics
Tm12@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
When you’re famous they let you
BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think he’s trying to substitute populism for health science, which is irresponsible and awful and will kill people. That he’s using eugenicist language in the process, and eliminating vaccines because ‘big pharma corruption’ while not meaningfully checking big pharma power or abuses smells like a plan to watch the children of vulnerable populations die. The rest of it- making noise about redesigning the food pyramid- is just smoke. The ‘new’ recommendations are just a rebranding of previous recommendations to pretend like they’re doing something about how our food systems are shitty because mostly FDA spends food money to subsidize the ag industry and processed subsidized product is profitable in ways that healthy food often isn’t
MITM0@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Because most Americans are drug-addicts themselves.
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
RFK Jr. wanted to lead the USA’s health department against a believed massive conspiracy by big-Whatever. Trump gave RFK Jr. a slot so RFK Jr. didn’t split the far-right crazy vote in the 2024 election.
In 2024, RFK Jr. launched an independent bid for the presidency after floating challenging Joe Biden’s spot in the Democratic Party. RFK Jr. had no chance of winning the Democratic primary or an independent bid; but being a conspiracy theorist and all-around horrible person, it was possible that RFK Jr. may have split enough of that population from key states to cause Trump to lose. That conspiracy theory nonsense really doesn’t hold water in the Democratic voter base. The folks who would choose RFK Jr. over Harris or Trump, would otherwise choose Trump over Harris.
Recall that in 2016, Trump won many key states with <54% of the vote; and in 2020, Biden flipped those key states after Trump’s mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic and other controversies. Even losing 3% of the popular vote in a few states to RFK Jr. may have cost Trump the election in 2024, or so it was feared.
Lots of people here are giving explanations of why the citizens may support RFK Jr. and, while that is all true, the reality is most of Trump’s campaign staff are just loyalists (i.e. Pam Bondi), alt-right conspiracy theorists (i.e. Kash Patel), and folks who assisted in his election campaign (i.e. Elon Musk, Dr. Phil). Many of these are figures are people largely unknown of until they were appointed to be Trump’s staff. RFK Jr. leads the HHS because he was given that role by Trump. As to why the USA folk chose Trump; Well, we’ve been having that conversation for 15 months now.
Shamber@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
More simple than you’d think, dumb people only trust other dumb people’s advice, there is no cure for stupid, unfortunately
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
We aren’t. Most of us aren’t anyway.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Because he has money, and you don’t.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
3 post, no comments. Less than a day old. You a bot?
But I’m American and I’m not taking his advice. He’s a moron.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I gotta say, from an Australian perspective, American politics is so extra, like an ex heroin Addict becoming the health minister, and some coked up orange business man who thinks he’s the second coming of Christ is the president?
Aussie politics is just a boring ass democracy with some of the spicy American inspired silliness for the aesthetics, as well as most people being on the same page but like 2 politicians arguing about some insignificant idea somehow appearing on national news, or that group of people who want Albanese dead for just existing, which is a bit odd I gotta say.
Cease@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Didn’t one of your politicians order the arson of an aussie youtuber’s house?
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Actually yeah, John Barilaro was the NSW Deputy Premier at the time, who had joined the Coronation Property development company (which was allegedly connected to gangs if I’m not mistaken), and when Friendly Jordies, the YouTuber in question, exposed the NSW Nationals Party’s actions to basically sabotage a town they were voted into as a way to drive out younger voters (basically to guarantee them a seat in parliament indefinitely), Barilaro allegedly ordered the fire bombing of Jordies house, but they botched it and fire bombed the neighbours house, then went back to hit the correct house.
I did do a little bit of researching to refresh my mind on it (since I saw the whole saga around 2 or 3 years ago), and turns out Barilaro apparently wasn’t connected to the attacks, but then again, the timing is kinda suspicious how Friendly Jordies’ house was fire bombed in 2022, the same year Barilaro was employed with the developer, although I’ll just leave that as speculation.
Honestly though, this has gotta be one of the rare occasions of when politics here is genuinely really interesting and kinda deranged, and I haven’t really heard issues like this to this calibre here.
fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Former heroin addict. Now say that in the RFK voice.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s a half-naked photo of him, where he’s swole, then people decided he looked “healthy”, because the body building community managed to control the narrative around the health implications of the sport.
Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
It’s not like we’re all doing that. Or even most of us.