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RFK Jr. Watch
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RFK Jr. is a right wing, conspiracy pushing, anti-vaccine candidate. He is presently running for the Democratic nomination for presidential candidate. The particular problem with the RFK Jr. candidacy is that he enjoys widespread support due to the Kennedy name and the values that the name has historically supported.
The present purpose of this community is to spread awareness of RFK Jr's actual positions and viewpoints in an effort to diminish his utility as a chaos agent and a spoiler in the upcoming election cycle.
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RFK Jr. is a Stooge - The subreddit that began the phenomena of highlighting the horribleness of the stooge, spoiler, and scion, RFK Jr.
DebunkThis: - Debunking since 2010!
Skeptic - For looking at the broader world of cranks, quacks, and pseudoscience beyond, but including, RFK Jr!
Skeptic Kbin - More of the best of the greatest of Skeptic, now on kbin too!
Resources
Respectful Insolence - Blog by the super secret medical doctor, Orac, who has been debunking RFK Jr.'s medical misinformation since at least 2005!
Science Based Medicine - Detailed posts about various forms of medical misinformation and why they are misinformation.
Skeptical Raptor - Ancient scaly dinosaur tackles modern medical misinformation. The hard part was teaching it to type.
RationalWiki - A great resource for debunking various conspiracy and pseudoscience claims with some wonderful humor. An invaluable resource in these dark times when RFK Jr. is running for the Democratic nomination.
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Like how do you try to win democrat votes by going on Right wing, Far Right, and conspiracy media?
It's like all RFK thought it would take to win the Presidency is to have the Kennedy last name and be antivaxx, because that's about all he has to offer other than empty promises of legalized weed.
I don't align with either party, at all. I don't like any candidates, and question if I'll even bother voting.
If I do vote, I would have to determine how much the negatives weigh down positives from any candidate, and I'm not sure yet if RFK's BS runs too deep for me to stomach, compared to the few benefits he may offer. Those few benefits, though, are among my primary interests. At this point, he seems the best option to push for environmental protections and government transparency.
Is he a loon? Yes, but I firmly believe all of our candidates are severely psychologically imbalanced.
His belief is using a free market approach on the environment.
True, and that may be the wrong approach. But from what I gather, he would be incentivizing and subsidizing tech like renewables to make them more attractive to the market. He would also push more litigation towards bad actors.
I'm not convinced that anything else we're doing or any other plans we have are going to work, so I'm ok with trying a well-managed free market route.