No Stupid Questions

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

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.?

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.

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).

There are SEEMINGLY UNLIMITED reasons to discredit this person and one of them is not 'addict in recovery'.

He’s not trusted by most Americans.

Former?

Americans are not, but Republicants are.

A third of the US are beyond help, beyond fucking stupid. Another third can't be arsed to do anything, they're so apathetic. One will follow without question, the other might go either way.

Also Shitler put RFK in place, so we're all forced to hear his moronic opinions...

This is honestly a disgusting take because it shows how biased you are against addicts. Not a stupid question. Just a nasty one. Your 2nd and 3rd are good questions though. I don't think there's jack shit qualifying him to give health advice in reality. He's a crackpot supplement pusher. Which I feel kinda answers your 3rd; americans have a long history of being stupid and blindly trusting whatever the pill-pusher says, because they hear what they want to hear. Unfortunately.

I hate RFK and all the damage he's done/is doing to our country's general state of health. His history of addiction is literally last on the list of reasons not to trust him. In my view, a history of addiction (now being in recovery) usually gives you a pretty sane view of health, since it brings you so close to death. The overwhelming majority of recovering addicts that I know lead healthier lifestyles than non-addicts. Oftentimes when people see with clarity how much damage they've done to themselves, they desperately want to treat their body better.

As much as I wish this dude would immediately suffer cardiac arrest from a clogged artery, him being a former addict has nothing to do with anything, and in itself doesn’t devalue anything he says. That kind of thinking is pretty problematic, and you need to have a real hard think about the way you obviously look down on people who are recovering from addiction, cause honestly you’re being pretty shitty right now.

Fuck RFK but I will never hold being a former heroin addict against him.

Being a former heroin addict doesn't make someone a bad source of information, especially if they've turned their lives around.

But I agree otherwise

Fuck rfk, but him being a former heroin addict is probably his least worst trait.

Why are americans taking health advice from a man who got brain worms from eating roadkill and didnt learn his lesson?

Thats the more appropriate question.

Being a heroin addict does not make you a bad person anymore than having diabetes. Fuck off with that moralistic shit.

The guy is a scourge of humanity because of the choices he made and beliefs he holds. Don't make it look like heroin is the cause.

I've got nothing against people with former drug problems. I don't trust him because he's a doofus.

Americans don't trust him at all. His own large, famous family hates him with a passion, every single one of them. He was thrust upon us by professional trolls who think it's hilarious to watch people who actually care about their nation and it's citizens get upset.

Every Cabinet position is filled with the worst possible person for the job. This is done on purpose to make the government fail at all the things it should be doing. We knew this would happen, of course.

Take everything they say as examples of what not to do. Don't do what Donny Don't does.

I'm not taking his advice, not trusting him with anything.

This administration is nothing but a bunch of ignorant narcissistic racist scared buffoons who were taken from Fox News. The people who trust him are ignorant narcissistic racist scared buffoons who watch Fox News.

It's really amazing how inept they all are.

Americans aren't. Fascist ignoramuses are. Those are not americans

Heartwarming how many comments are defending sufferers of addiction in here from being lumped in with this piece of shit. Fedi remains such a breath of fresh air.

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

This question really pushes the boundaries of the concept of "no stupid questions", but I will respect the premise and answer with all seriousness.

There is nothing about being a former anything that is automatically disqualifying.

Not everything he says is without merit. Even a blind, dumb squirrel can accidentally find a nut.

Americans aren't trusting him. He is only respected by the deluded cult members, and then only because their pedophile leader tells them to.

The people who don't realize he's full of shit are the people who can't handle being the most ignorant person in the room. They're swallowing all the bullshit that this administration spits out because it's the only way they can pretend they are better than everyone else.

It's all just corrupt, diseased minds taking advantage of other corrupt, diseased minds. If they didn't reject the compassion of their opponents, I'd have sympathy for them. However, they chose the darkness.

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

If he was a progressive pro-intellectual/science ex-heroin users in an alternate timeline, would that still be a disqualifier?

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.

Because most Americans are drug-addicts themselves.