• SapphireFox<3@lemm.ee
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      RFK’s environmentalism is appealing. Banning GMO, and cleaning up our natural resources. At least that’s what’s grabbed my attention. He’s also not a warmongering neocon like Biden. RFK wants a peace driven American society.

      Bat shit crazy? If you say so but he’s got very good ideas.

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        GMO could be an important tool for maintaining crop yields during impending climate change. Banning it outright is bat shit crazy. Anti vax attitudes are already gaining traction. Electing an anti vaxxer would be bat shit crazy.

        His environmentalism is a facade to try and capture people who think an appeal to nature is as good as actually having ideas.

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          Several countries in Europe already ban GMO. There’s a few countries in the middle east and Africa that ban GMO.

          GMO has been responsible for environmental foibles and is not healthy for human consumption.

          You speak in prophecy regarding the banning of GMOs destroying our future yet say it so matter of factly. It’s funny as fuck. Thanks for making my night lol.

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            GMO has been responsible for environmental foibles

            Such as?

            and is not healthy for human consumption.

            That’s like saying ‘nuts are not healthy for human consumption’ because it’s possible to breed toxic varieties of almonds with high cyanide content in a conventional manner. Sure, it is possible to genetically engineer food to be unsafe. There is no evidence it’s happening and there would be no compelling reason to do that. There are lots of reasons to use it to make food healthier and more nutritious.

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        Yeah, but then there’s his anti-semitism and his conspiracy theory that COVID was genetically engineered so that it would spare the Jews but kill other people. Or his conspiracy theory that WiFi causes cancer and a leaky brain. Or his conspiracy theory that anti-depressants cause school shootings. Or his conspiracy theory that AIDS isn’t caused by HIV. Or his conspiracy theory that vaccinations cause autism. Or his conspiracy theory that Ivermectin is a magical cure for COVID. Or his conspiracy theory that Bill Gates collaborated with Dr. Anthony Fauci to make the pandemic appear much worse than it really was in order to promote vaccines.

        And that’s just a tiny fraction of the insane conspiracy theories he has promoted over the years.

        I really wouldn’t want to know what a guy like that would do with the power of the U.S. presidency.

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        Banning GMO

        …is stupid. The only difference between a GMO banana and a regular banana is that the GMO banana was cultivated faster.

        There is absolutely no evidence of any ill health effects or harm to our agriculture industry from GMO foods and a lot of evidence of the good it can do (such as the Golden Rice Project).

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        He is an anti-vaxer that proclaims vaccines cause autism, despite that being thoroughly debunked. So no, not going to put any trust in anything else he says.

        Also, there’s a reason a bunch of right-wing tech bros are pumping money at him - specifically to fracture the liberal/independent vote to help Trump.

        Having a two party system sucks, but until we get nation-wide ranked choice voting, it’s not going anywhere. And if you have liberal-leaning views, there’s no question that any Democratic candidate is going to be far better than any GOP candidate, by basically any metric.

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        RFK Jr. Is an openly Anti-Vax misinformation spreading conspiracy theorist who believes vaccines cause autism, regularly equates standard public health procedures to the damn Holocaust, pushed the use of Ivermectin for COVID in his book from 2021, and claimed that Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish people were not affected by COVID because it was target white and black people. Regardless of his foreign intervention or environmental views, he’s a propagandist nut case who’s family openly shuns him. His father and uncle would be rolling in their graves if they could see who he turned out to be.