• @Nobody@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Does everyone hate Bobby Kennedy so much that they’ll side with Facebook and Zuckerberg over a career environmental attorney because he’s running for president?

    • @vividspecter@lemm.ee
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      591 year ago

      He’s an unhinged anti-vaxxer and all around conspiracy theorist. Summarizing him as an environmental lawyer is being real generous.

      • @Nollij@sopuli.xyz
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        71 year ago

        “Let’s imagine: It’s time to elect a world leader, and your vote counts. Which would you choose:

        “Candidate A: Associates with ward healers and consults with astrologists; has had two mistresses; chain-smokes and drinks eight to ten martinis a day.

        “Candidate B: Was kicked out of office twice; sleeps until noon; used opium in college; drinks a quart of brandy every evening.

        “Candidate C: Is a decorated war hero, a vegetarian, doesn’t smoke, drinks an occasional beer, and has had no illicit love affairs.

        “Which of these candidates is your choice? You don’t really need any more information, do you? Candidate A is Franklin Roosevelt. Candidate B is Winston Churchill. Candidate C is Adolf Hitler.”

        Biased and selective comparisons can prove anything.

        • Flying Squid
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          121 year ago

          Okay, but he also has admitted to have decreased cognitive function and memory problems because of the brain worms. I don’t think that it’s a horrible bias to say that people who have decreased cognitive function and memory problems because of brain worms probably shouldn’t be president.

          • @Nollij@sopuli.xyz
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            41 year ago

            I agree, the statement earlier was another example. RFK is a terrible choice for many reasons (the worms thing is almost certainly bullshit though). But everyone has some good qualities you can focus on if you want to promote them. Similarly, everyone has bad qualities if that’s your M.O.

          • dullbananas (Joseph Silva)
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            01 year ago

            he also has admitted to have decreased cognitive function and memory problems because of the brain worms.

            Not permanently

        • @Dkarma@lemmy.world
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          31 year ago

          None of that has anything to do with policy.

          If you pick someone based on this criteria you’re a fucking idiot.

          Politicians are there to set policy you stupid fuck…not be a cult of personality.

    • @PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world
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      391 year ago

      No, because he’s actually quite mad and belongs nowhere near any kind of power. I can see his conspiracy theories appealing to the Q type, but most of them are going to go for Trump. He’s polling this highly because he’s an unknown. As more people start paying attention to who he actually is, he will be the Herman Cain of the race.

      • @Nobody@lemmy.world
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        -251 year ago

        Would you agree that Bobby Kennedy would draw more voters from Trump as it stands?

        A “conspiracy theorist” is rejected on the left until government-sanctioned evidence is provided. The right doesn’t have that constraint.

    • @PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
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      211 year ago

      According to Kennedy, Meta is colluding with the Biden administration to sway the 2024 presidential election by suppressing Kennedy’s documentary and making it harder to support Kennedy’s candidacy. This allegedly has caused “substantial donation losses,” while also violating the free speech rights of Kennedy, his supporters, and his film’s production company, AV24.

      In this case, Meta and the Biden administration are claimed to be co-conspirators colluding to block citizens from promoting their favorite presidential candidate.

      We can very much dislike both while also agreeing that this is fucking stupid. While we continue to very much dislike both, one is clearly in the wrong on this issue and pointing out the sheer stupidity of Kennedy’s actions is not “siding” with Zuckerberg.

      I don’t care what his profession is/was - he’s wrong and it would be disingenuous to give him a pass because he did a thing at some point in his life that I agreed with.

    • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      31 year ago

      Yeah, I’m no fan of RFK, but I would much rather live in a world where people like RFK can speak their mind instead of this one where Meta gets to decide whose voices are heard. It’s pretty easy to ignore a crazy person, it’s hard to find worthwhile content the major players don’t want you to find.

      So don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater, having a free society means we’ll have to deal with people like RFK every so often.