Yeah, I’m not taking ANY advice from this dumbass. What does he even do for a living anyways???
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SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES??? HOW THE FUCK DID THAT HAPPEN???
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Oh. Right.
A worm is the culprit
The worm died of starvation.
Best one today ,thanks
Not a joke.
The doctor believed that the abnormality seen on his scans “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” Mr. Kennedy said in the deposition.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html
Mother nature is an amazing comedian
The thing is, he made that story up to get out of being prosecuted for the crimes he did.
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He’s a sperm counter.
It’s honest work counting those little wigglers.
hes also on roids.
And probably is getting kickbacks from roid-merchants.
I swear to god we have a used car salesman for a president and a snake oil huckster for secretary of health. It goes downhill from there. Everyone talks about fascism but the kakistocracy is fucking real.
It’s not the world thankfully, just their corner of it.
Imagine if we were all run by people like that, I think WWIII would happen randomly on a weekly basis haha :-(
Their solution? Pair up teenage girls with 65 year old men.
I’m terrified that this might actually be what he said.
I recall a few Republican state legislators in at least one state proposing that veterans be given permission to marry girls under the age of marriage; I guess as a treat. (and sex between them would be “okay” because they’re married. These same legislators want to ban divorce.)
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Your comment history is pretty positive so giving you the benefit of the doubt here. What you said in this comment was really creepy.
Oh, oops, sorry! I definitely didn’t mean it that way at all.
Yeah no worries at all, thanks for clearing it up
I’m positive he just missed the /s tag.
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It’s hard to tell the difference between someone making an outrageous joke or being dead serious these days.
I for one got the sarcasm, I just though it was a pretty shit joke
this administration spends more time thinking about teenage sperm and circumcisions than is justifiable
Well, they are the Geriatric Old Pedophile party.
We need to workshop this a bit. “Old” is kinda repetitive given the use of “geriatric”. Maybe switch for “Oligarch”?
I mean, the other party is also oligarchic.
True.
Also, love the username 😜
Obease might be it.
They don’t all fit that though.
Yeah I was thinking about that. I was thinking Obtuse. Which actually maybe works much better.
Geriatric Obstructionist Pedophiles party.
Since we know he doesn’t mess with science/empirical data…how did he get that information?
Put a picture of Trump under the pillow before you go to sleep. During the night, the supreme wisdom of Trump will be focused by the pillow and absorbed by your subconscious mind. In the morning, you’ll just know the correct answer.
Also works with university exams. No need to read any books as long as you have the photo of the relevant professor under your pillow.
Do I have to use a MyPillow for best results?
Any pillow will do as long as it’s manufactured by a company with a nazi CEO.
Hmmm, even if we allow for empirical scientific evidence, is there a non weird way he knows about the sperm count in the semen of adolescents? I hope he’s making shit up because the alternative is a lot grosser
It was on his Facebook group. Same way he gets all his information.
Today, the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone as a 65-year-old man. Our girls are hitting puberty six years early, and that’s bad, but also our parents aren’t having children.
Let’s practice some critical thinking. Join me!
Teens have half the sperm count of a senior citizen? I’d maybe believe they’re equivalent? Maybe? He’s getting this from dropping teen pregnancy rates.
Teens have half the testosterone of a senior citizen? Boolshit on it’s face. So senior men are more aggressive, more horny, stronger and hairier than teens? Stronger bones too! Also, seniors have more zits. Are you teen boys even trying any more?!
Parents aren’t having children. OK. I’ll let the audience stew on that one a minute.
We are below replacement right now. That is a national security threat to our country…
True! Not so much a security threat as an economic threat, maybe the same difference? So what’s the solution? Kick out the foreigners? Hey yo, Japan! How that working out?
Money says these idiots do what Russia did about their shrinking birth rates. National holiday to stay home and fuck for the Motherland! (Not even joking here.)
Our replacement rate has been low for a long time, but our population has stayed relatively steady… because of immigration.
Low replacement rate is only bad if you’re racist/xenophobic. Otherwise there’s usually (in a supposedly first-world country) an easy solution.
And if you think this is a dig on specifically the US, it isn’t. Japan and South Korea are about to have insane difficulties with a very obvious and simple solution, and the US had that solution and are destroying it in favor of racism and xenophobia.
I don’t think immigration is bad, but if the “problem” of fertility below replacement is caused by the other problem of people who might otherwise want kids not being able to have them because of economic constraints, focusing on solving the first problem by importing competitive and ambitious skilled professionals seems at least kind of questionable.
That is not the problem. Population declines as countries move to first world status, and I think the people not having kids due to financial constraints are few and far between. Otherwise population would not start and continue diminishing as an area becomes more affluent. People have less (or no) kids because they don’t want kids, don’t want a bunch of kids, and can reasonably expect the kids they have to survive to adulthood. And access to birth control, education, and other opportunities (mostly for women) makes having less kids (by their own desire) possible.
So bringing capable workers in means they pay into taxes that support the aging and school-age population, and never had to have their school-age years paid for. They’re a productive member with half the cost over their lifetime.
It’s a no-brainer… as long as you’re not worried about changing the… shade or hue… of your population over time.
The reason I’m thinking of it is I recently read this lemmy thread. The article itself is probably AI and not that convincing but I think people are making some good points about the pressures imposed by expense of housing and how those affect the desirability and difficulty of having children.
Of course a prerequisite for that to matter is that not having children is more of a real choice than it is for people with no resources in a state of poverty. But it isn’t necessarily the case that the difficulty of raising children decreases with country-wide affluence, because wealth inequality is a thing, required resources (like housing space) might become more expensive relative to income despite overall increase in income, and other factors like an increasingly atomized career focused society where community can’t be relied on as much to help raise children and the expectations placed on parents are higher, maybe requiring high daycare expenses.
So bringing capable workers in means they pay into taxes that support the aging and school-age population, and never had to have their school-age years paid for. They’re a productive member with half the cost over their lifetime.
I agree in principle with the logic here, but if those capable workers are being placed in competition with a population that is financially struggling, and those taxes are not being used to give those people more breathing room, that productivity isn’t helping and is being employed on the wrong side of a class struggle.
I think your assertion is unfounded and based on your own unreliable assessment.
There is no mystery to the fact the all the wealth is silo’d to a small class of people. Your big assumption is that developed country’s are substantially more hospitable to a majority of the population.
When kindness is considered hostility amongst the general population its no wonder why people wont have kids.
So senior men are more aggressive, more horny, stronger and hairier than teens?
I’m old. I’m definitely hairier. I’m also stronger than I was as a teen, though far weaker than I was as a young adult. I also weigh 50% more than I did as a teen, and some of that’s extra muscle. So those points aren’t really relevant.
At 54 I got hair in weird places, but it doesn’t come back in like it did. Demonstrated great-grandpa’s WWI razor three weeks ago at a party. Forearm hair still bald. Shaved down lots into my 30s, hair rolled right back in. :)
I’m stronger than I was as a teen, but as a teen I didn’t do much put pedal a bike. Was probably peak around late 20s to early 30s. I think strength is much up to the fact of our bodies automatic limiters. When we’re at peak, our brain still thinks we can handle the same loads, and we can, and sometimes hurt ourselves. Does that make sense?
I swear he’s just such a no-good dirty lying bastard. Like I don’t even have any words for him anymore. Whole world would be better off if that worm had finished the job.
The fact that the Kennedys lobotomized a young woman for no good reason and yet allowed this putrid pestilence to permeate our world. Shit.
“I don’t know the science behind it.” Applies to his every claim.
I don’t know the science behind it… But Tylenol causes Autism in pregnancy. (RFK jr 2025)
and circumsicion! Wonder what happens for the circumsised boys that had tylenol in the womb…
Double autism.
He’s the way he is because of how they treated Rose. He’s almost guaranteed to be ADHD, maybe ASD too. The psychologists at the time didn’t really recognize it until the 1960s, and that wouldn’t mean widespread acceptance of the idea. Before that they called it something else entirely, and the common use of drugs like Ritalin and Adderall for ADHD didn’t happen until the ‘80s even though they existed far earlier.
So this dude was shipped off to boarding schools because he’s a “problem child” and a Kennedy. He was uncontrollable in schools, couldn’t stick to anything, got kicked out of boarding schools, and the only reason any of the schools put up with his shit at all was because he was a Kennedy. Got into drugs because that can happen to untreated ADHD people and people who have f’d up home lives. All this was swept under the rug by the Kennedys because they didn’t want the press to get wind of another Kennedy with “mental problems” and a drug problem. So he went untreated and unhelped. The worst thing that could happen to him was that he was born a Kennedy.
The brain worms didn’t help either.
Today, the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone as a 65-year-old man. Our girls are hitting puberty six years early, and that’s bad, but also our parents aren’t having children. Parents who want to have children do not have access. I have seven children. I feel that God has blessed me with that and I can’t imagine how different my life would be if I did not have that blessing.
RFK jr counting teenager sperm?
our parents aren’t having children
If someone doesn’t have children, they’re… Not a parent.
Unless
youRFK means people with a child already, which makes no sense (and never did) except to religious nuts.People aren’t cats to have litters of up to 6 kittens, and kids don’t grow up in 6 months.
They need to be fed, clothed, medicated and educated for 18+ years!
P.S. If you dump your kids out on their 18th birthday, spoilers! You’re a bad parent.
Large farm-like families of 7-9 kids is actually an ideal for the right-wing, especially the farther fringes that are afraid of “Great Replacement Theory” (having more people of color than white folks in a society). The right-wing will go on about “Muslims having large families” because they’re fundamentally afraid that their “pure white stock” will run out. None of these people should ever be parents.
hes also a serial womanizer, slept with hundreds of woman and has a journal of sexual conquests and also to hurt her deceased wife drove her to suicide.
Bro why are these freaks so obsessed with kids’ penises? It’s so fucking weird.
(this is a rhetorical question)
This is so weird. This whole fertility thing is so weird. The Manosphere is so weird. I still remember seeing a bunch of near-divorce dad yelling “I am a Modern Day Knight!” like they were roleplaying a psuedo-KKK faction; So weird. The constant whining about childfree people is so weird. The restrictions on elective sterilization are so weird. This obsession with abortion and birth control is so weird. The endorsement of teen pregnancy is so weird. Is it wrong for teenagers to have low sperm counts? I never thought about this because thinking about teen boys’ sperm is weird; and the people obsessed with teen boy sperm probably belong on a list. They’re so weirddddddd.
This whole fertility thing is so weird
The fertility thing comes across as so weird because its an actual problem that Republicans don’t want to solve in any reasonable way because that will involve threatening their donor’s bottom lines. Basically across all developed nations with easy access to birth control, education and modern mechanisms birth rates are falling and in many countries these rates are already well below replacement rate (2.1 children per couple, not percent like RFK Jr said)
The United States was consistently staying above replacement rate via immigration but I have a nasty feeling that isn’t the case anymore
The reason replacement rate is so important is Capitalism really depends on growth companies gaining new customers. The stock market in particular relies on new wallets to spend money, homebuilders rely on new people to build homes for, and offices rely on new employees to hire. When populations start stagnating or worse shrinking, Capitalism really starts to fall apart as that causes an ongoing recession as fewer wallets in an economy means less money flowing through an economy. Less money moving through an economy means a smaller GDP which means the the economy ultimately shrinks. Bad economic conditions also lead to people feeling less certain about bringing a new baby into the world so the cycle tends to accelerate before the actual population decline can accelerate noticeably
The obvious solution is to decouple necessities of life from capitalism and significant state investment into improving existing infrastructure and planning for degrowth so that a long term recession and the effects of declining/re-balancing populations do not negatively impact the masses living through them. This is of course antithetical to capitalist and conservative goals, so as they realize this looming threat is upon them they’re getting extremely weird about it and trying to find ways to get more families to have lots of babies to try to reverse the trend.
In short, these republican pundits are trying to have a serious conversation about what could be an extinction-level event for capitalism without cluing in the masses to the flaws of capitalism or the fact that its an entirely man-made crisis that doesn’t actually involve any scarcity of the necessities of life
Bingo; But they don’t want that. The really ironic part is the USA population could still thrive as a nation of immigrants, even if birth decline was happening; But of course they don’t want that, because the “Great Replacement Theory” platformed by the New Zealand shooter. They could at least make life less miserable for existing parents with social services; But they don’t want that, because that’s “Communism” (and their donors make a killing from killing us).
Living in the United States of America is like living as a dependent of a self-destructive parent who refuses to compromise, listen to any logic, or even do the bare minimum to sustain themself. Our infrastructure is literally crumbling around us and Dad’s back to rambling about how “fluoride cuts off your connection to God”. At least he’s off the stims, I think.
The US could also thrive with a slowly declining population, as long as there was capital investment to improve productivity at a rate faster than the rate of decline of the working population.
Another factor is that many of the commonly reported economic metrics are aggregated over the whole population, not per-capita. So more people looks like more growth, even when it really means you’re standing still or regressing in terms of meaningful measures of quality of life. And there’s a well-known aphorism in business circles about what happens when you make a metric into a goal.
They’re so weirddddddd.
I prefer “they’re so pathetic.” It is way more accurate.
Sexual anxiety, in all its forms, is a big part of the fascist formula. It ties into and reinforces the patriarchy stuff, the othering, the racism.
They can’t get it up with their wives because they’re really not into women, and/or their wives aren’t into their piglike Nazi husbands. But they can never admit that to themselves, so there has to be some external factor to blame.
This week he’s all about sperm.
Last week he was all about circumcisions. https://lemmy.world/post/37218464
And before that, he was diagnosing kids by looking at them naked. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/rfk-jr-slammed-for-claiming-he-can-diagnose-kids-by-just-looking-at-them/ar-AA1Lrvlt
This guy sure thinks a lot about other people’s cocks.
The entire conservative movement is about children’s genitals and tax breaks for the rich
It’s his ASD hyperfixation
The worm in his brain seeking other worm-like things.
I’m pretty sure the worm in his brain is just driving his apple-shaped car in little circles around the empty cavern going weeeee!
This is not a Fry situation
While I am sure he would love it if he had made it mandatory to have all children in the country submit nude photographs of their children to him (for health and scientific research, of course… and they need a set taken on their birthdays from ages 1 to 17 from multiple angles and poses in order to make sure that they are developing correctly you see. No perv stuff!) The part where he said he could diagnose the kids was not when they were naked.
Or maybe I didn’t hear the full quote, I don’t remember.
sighs I want off of Mr. Bones’ wild ride.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: we live in the dumbest timeline.
Dumbest timeline so far.
He’s probably mixing up sperm with testosterone level. Somehow the conversation of testosterone levels came up with a group of kids we work with. One of the young adults who is heavily into weight lifting knew his testosterone levels. The 65 year old man in our group had far higher levels. The reason? He nearly died from cancer and is now on hormone therapy. Apparently the levels are set quite high.
Apparently a lot of older men are on supplements or prescriptions for testosterone. Any surprise they’re all so aggro?
Perhaps that correlation with aggression is real, but medically-speaking giving older men T supplements is actually important. Low testosterone can cause and exasperate several conditions, including making bones less sturdy. As for the young gym bros and Men With Microphones… they’re more of the issue.
With the advertisement culture constantly pushing “Total T” (which isn’t actually Testosterone) and whatever, it’s a profitable market selling to men that they are inadequate and some magic pill will make them a “man” again. Not to completely disregard the actual real medical use for it, however.
The advertisements (especially on linear TV these days like cable) are almost non-stop to push mail order prescription Testosterone and supplements that don’t do anything, as well, which suggests the male ego is a very profitable market.
Some info on this from the past:
Yeah but what was their jizz like?
Like a bucket of garlic sauce from a cheap kebab house. Why do you ask?
Left in the summer heat?
Yeah, it’s probably a combination of anecdote, ignorant interpretation of that anecdote, and some grifter using that to make a buck selling a quack remedy. Also, like Trump, RFKJ just has a habit of chatting shit.
He has proof, he and Trump and the rest have been able to get a lot of teenage girls pregnant. Release the Epstein files.
“Senile government official spews nonsense in press conference”
… and the saddest part is that sentence is not specific enough, there are multiple options to choose from
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sperm, not testosterone
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Yeah, because it’s just that simple 🙄 /s
Not like other things are important.
I’m sure you also think you get better bread by adding extra extra yeast.
look if you want to sane wash all the stupidity, be my guess
whenever these lunatics provide credible evidence, we can talk about that
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He knows for a fact, since he checked it himself.
They both taste very different, which he finds concerning
