Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ?

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• RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  …do you not understand this position isn’t even elected? I’m not fucking trusting him.

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• Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People with old, dead, rotten brains recognize his Dad and Uncle’s name. It reminds them vaguely of a time when their own father’s were in charge of all the hard decisions, their joints didn’t hurt and they had an undefined future that could have been wonderful. That future has come though and turns out they are just themselves… they failed, nothing fun they wanted really happened and everything confuses them now. They feel like frauds about to be found out and forgotten at the same time.

  So seeing something they think they recognize voting for “a Kennedy” makes them indirectly fell that their own Dad will magically come back to life, tell them he’s proud and then they will be millionaires and attractive people will want to have have sex with them and fix their iPhones.

  It’s just that.

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nobody is trusting him.

  He’s unqualified just like everyone else Trump appoints. Why is this a surprise?

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  • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You would be absolutely surprised how many people are trusting him…

    Shake shack is advertising with MAHA as a tagline

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    • SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Good to know. I don’t want whatever they are letting slip into their food.

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• disregardable@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is very much a “You don’t know what you don’t know” kind of situation.

  I once read a case about a physicians assistant who worked under a bariatric surgeon for 15 years. After completing thousands of bariatric surgeries under the surgeon, he started his own clinic and hired a “supervising surgeon” who was retired and never there. Meaning, even though he was not a doctor, he was acting as the only surgeon. He botched botched dozens of surgeries, he caused pain and suffering to dozens of other people. He had no idea what the surgeon was doing that he wasn’t, because he wasn’t trained to perform that role. Instead of recognizing he couldn’t do it, he just assumed he knew anything necessary.

  People take that approach to a lot of things. Very common in the law for people to look something on chatgpt and get mad at their lawyer for not following completely non-sensical advice.

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  • Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Doesn’t the US even allow nurses to inject potent neurotoxins, as long as there is a doctor on the books that could theoretically be called?

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Again, we americans are not. Only the antivax fools are.

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• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Even his own family members have said he is in no state of mind or health to be in any position of authority whatsoever.

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• Phineaz@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck that guy, but: Former heroin addict sounds respectable.

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  • palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    True. He's in government, and specifically that government, so he has access to all the money and drugs he wants, so if he's remaining clean, he's doing exceptionally well on that score.

    This should not be taken as an endorsement of his abilities as a politician or his knowledge about science. Plenty of other evidence suggests he should be doing neither of those. Hell, I'm not even sure I'd follow his advice if I was a heroin addict trying to get off the stuff.

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• Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The new food pyramid is just as influenced by lobbyist as the previous one. Only this time it’s the life stock industry.

  Plus anti-woke MAGA wants to distance itself from vegans as much as possible.

  But also, lean, fresh meat isn’t that bad. It does have a lot of protein, with really balanced amino-acids. You don’t have to carefully combine grains and legumes, in order to not miss out on essential nutrients.

  Meat also has a lot of bioavailable iron and vitamin B12. Both are important and usually insufficient in a vegan diet.

  If you count fish as meat, it also has bioavailable Omega-3. Especially fatty ocean-fishes like salmon. If you don’t eat fish, you either have to eat microalgae-oil or severely reduce your omega-6 consumption (no chips for you. They are fried in sunflower oil).

  In contrast to fresh meat, most processed meats are really bad:

  • Cured meat has sodium nitrate. That’s a known carcinogen.
  • Smoked meat has smoke particles. That’s another known carcinogen.
  • Charred meat has charring. Another carcinogen.

  And you also shouldn’t eat a lot of fat from land animals. It has a lot of saturated fats which, you guessed it, cause cancer.

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• BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been addicted to uh, almost everything besides heroin and gambling. I still give better advice than deflated-scrotum-face. But I also know how science works and why it’s a good thing. I believe in germ theory. I don’t throw roadkill on the roof of my car and eat it tartare later.

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• eletes@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This all stems from eroded systems coupled with a lack of good education and our media. Not everyone is listening to him but his messages didn’t become popular overnight. The carnivore diet, raw milk, anti vaccine, anti masking, anti fluoride movements have been bubbling in echo chambers for decades now.

  Because people weren’t smart enough to see through them, they’ve created a market for alternative health and pseudo science.

  We’re living that quote from Carl Sagan.

  I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

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• mudkip@lemdro.id ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because we don’t have a choice of who is in that position. The Grand Old Fascist Party has completely removed any form of democracy in this country. So now we are just stuck watching it happen.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We could, you know, stop voting for fascists.

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    • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sorry, best I can do is a protest non-vote, that way they know I’m okay with whatever happens

      ^/s^

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• notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lack of education.

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• verdantbanana@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  because he brought beef tallow fries back

  if you have not had them will instantly change your opinion

  beef tallow fries are fucking awesome

  steak n’ shake is one of the places where can find everything fried in beef fat not just the fries but the onion rings chicken tenders everything

  even offer beef tallow by itself to fry at home

  seen addicts that know their healthcare paraphernalia and can find a vein better than any nurse

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  • Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are fats part of eating real foods?

    Yes. Healthy fats are a natural part of real foods such as meat, seafood, dairy, nuts, olives, and avocados. These fats support brain health, hormone function, and nutrient absorption when consumed in their natural forms.

    They are really pretending meat has healthy fat, lol?

    If they had simply left out that single word, their advice on fats would have been pretty good.

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• withabeard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He is telling people to eat more meat, which sounds absolutely insane to me.

  Green planet, veganism, healthy … all woke lefty communist snowflake bullshit. Eat meat, must be more gooderer. Eat more meat must be most gooderest!

  What qualifies him to give health advice ? Why are americans trusting him ?

  For those that are listening to him. It’s because he’s pandering to what they want to hear. Not because what he’s saying is right.

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• RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just because junior is saying stuff doesn’t mean Americans are listening or obeying.

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• Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There are pictures of this guy eating dog roasted on a spit. I am certain he picked up that dead bear because he wanted to eat it (the one he dumped and made it look like it was hit by a scooter).

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• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most of us aren’t. Hell, most of us didn’t listen to the Secretary of Health and Human Services before.

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• kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because he says ‘things weren’t like this when I was a kid’ and it resonated hard with dumb people who see stuff like autism and transgender problems to be eradicated

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• boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  America is not a meritocracy. People are routinely appointed to positions they have no business being in.

  Also, Kennedy represents a crowd that is fundamentally lost to a social media reinforced “vibes based” reality. These people can live a solid major of their day without encountering objective reality. Their worlds are built around bullshit machines incentivised to feed them an ever increasing amount of bullshit.

  These people votes, drive cars, have children, and carry firearms. So you can see why this place is so fucked.

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Only americans can put the question this stupid way, and so it really fits here: Well done!

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• AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fox News. Endless propaganda and ratings driven idiocy. People watch the most alarmist “news” and they jump on this bandwagon of stupidity. In particular, people of limited education/intelligence love to be anti science, because for once they can feel like the person that is actually smart.

  It’s scary.

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• Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I certainly don’t take health advice from that crypt keeper looking fucker, and I’m sure I’m far from the only one who doesn’t take health advice from unhealthy people

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• orioler25@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve gone zero days since the 2024 election without seeing a liberal target fascists with insults that are oriented toward vulnerable groups. Jokes about old people being valueless, queer people being weak and deceptive, fatness as a sign of poor moral character. People who make these jokes also incomprehensibly claim that they challenge fascism fundamentally and not only when it comes for them.

  This man is going to be singlehandedly responsible for an incalculable number of deaths (many of which will be addicts who are disproportionately excluded from access to medical treatmen) and he is in the position to do so by capitulating to an infamous pedophile, rapist, and failed business man. What kind of person would take the opportunity to assert that addicts aren’t to be trusted when talking about a man who is already RFK Jr.?

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• herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because they are morons.

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  • TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The politically correct term is ‘people of the land’

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• tomcatt360@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m an American, and I’m certainly not taking any advice from him

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• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When was the last time you ate more or less of something because someone in the government told you to?

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Corn syrup yesterday

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• FreddiesLantern@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah but he has such a smooth velvety voice, who could refuse?

  (No offense to decent people with “textured” timbres)

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• RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Uneducated populace stuck in propaganda channels.

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• itisileclerk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Having a former heroin addict in the highest health policy position is nothing compared to voting a fraud and pedophile into the highest office in the country. Twice!

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean shit, i can’t tell you how many people, doctors included, have been aghast that i might have to take a pill every day the rest of my life for blood pressure. as though it’s an addiction. people are fucking idiots.

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