this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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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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The author of this piece analyses the strong overlap in policies and attitudes between the campaign of RFK Jr to those of the MAGA movement. While RFK Jr's anti-vaccine stance is his most defining belief, his other policy beliefs tie closely with the far right, including voicing attitudes that we need to have an impregnable border, repeating Russia propaganda concerning the war in Ukraine, ramblings about 5g, repeating conspiracy theories that the CIA was responsible for the murders of JFK and RFK, and much more.

This highly ties in with polls that demonstrate that RFK Jr. holds a dismal favoribility rating among Democrats, while Republicans hold a positive favoribility of the Kennedy scion.

Original, non-archive, article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/19/robert-kennedy-jr-campaign-antivaxx-conspiracy/

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

๐Ÿ™ Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is for RFKjr to pull more votes from Trump than he does from Biden in the '24 election...

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If those are still our 3 options after primaries, Santa help us.