• @Jimmycakes
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    Drug ads are the only thing keeping cable TV floating

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      Two birds with one stone! While I understand there are people who still have cable and a large portion are elderly who are less comfortable with technology …. This just needs to end. Cable TV companies are one of the most exploitive, customer abusing companies there are. Their monopoly is gone (well, ISP monopoly is less than cable monopoly), so let’s just end them. Kick them while they’re down. Usher them into capitalist hell

  • @buzz86us
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    I am hoping he bans combustion cars from dense urban area.

  • @[email protected]
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    911 hours ago

    Can medicine finally stop getting jingles?

    Fuck you (drug you all wanna mention but I won’t give them the exposure here) and your randomly changing cast of dancers and main singer.

    No more big story to tell got you.

    So RFK2 with this and Trump trying to end DST.

    If they can stay on the fringe of everything like that then maaaaybe it won’t be so bad? But they can’t.

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      The fact that these pharmaceutical companies can afford to license the songs that they’re riffing off of makes you wonder how many of your dollars are going to the actual production of the drugs you need to survive, and how many of those dollars are going into marketing

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        36 hours ago

        Every medical choice you make should be made between you and your doctor(s).

        None should ever be made based on commercials. Ever.

  • @[email protected]
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    Only old or ignorant people still watch ads. So, of course this piece of shit sees them all day long.

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      Not defending the guy, to be clear, but.

      That’s actually not how advertising works. Unless you live in a bubble in the US, you’re seeing drug ads at the tire shop, airport, restaurant, gas station, billboards, everywhere.

      Advertising is more about subconscious placement of things than active watching. Very few people sit down with a bowl of popcorn to watch 30 commercials for pleasure. You don’t even realize it got you, and may never.

      Futurama did a good sketch on the concept with “lightspeed briefs” where they were advertising in Fry’s dreams. Principle has always been the same.

      These ads used to be illegal, until the FDA in 1997 made it legal, David A. Kessler, who’s appointment continued by President Bill Clinton at the time made them legal. This same FDA actually did good things like nutrition facts labels, so it wasn’t all terrible. They alleged that advertising drugs would help inform the public, although in reality, it is a terrible mechanism to broadcast that type of information as marketing to an uninformed public and it should have never been allowed.

      • @ettyblatant
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        Futurama did a good sketch on the concept with “lightspeed briefs” where they were advertising in Fry’s dreams. Principle has always been the same.

        I feel obligated to post the transcript for this reference.

        Leela: Didn’t you have ad’s in the 20th century?

        Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky! But not in dreams. No siree!

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        511 hours ago

        Also not to mention, it influences your friends or family and the people you interact with. Unless you’re an antisocial hermit, you’re going to be affected one way or another

    • @Donkter
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      RFK makes a lot of good points when it comes to some of his policies. He just sprinkles in being batshit insane takes and takes them just as seriously.

  • @MehBlah
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    Finally this loser advocates for something I don’t like.

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    Read what a lot of you are saying in this thread about “rare W” and the like and thought of this poignant saying…

    “You can’t only piss in one PART of the pool”

    You won’t get just the one thing you want from RFK jt, you’ll get it all - Stop taking the bait, dipshits. This is the candy he’s trying to give you while sliding down your pants with the other hand and slathering coconut oil on your b-hole.

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      Trump won, so the US will get a pissed pool no matter what.

      To say “rare w” isn’t to deny that, it’s acknowledging that even though the pool is absolutely disgusting with 80% piss, at least that’ll help some people with skin conditions.

      • @Snapz
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        I get the general idea, but that’s not the point - you need to always deliver the sugar with the sour around these fucking people. Their tactic is repeating a lie constantly. When you’re constantly just saying, “I actually love this” and nothing else, you’re doing work for the bad guys.

        You can’t show just the outside beauty shot of the cupcake, you always have to cut it open to show clearly that the center is stuffed with warm, wet dog shit

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        1618 hours ago

        Yep that’s basically it. “Rare W” is not an endorsement, it’s pretty much the opposite : recognizing that an otherwise terrible person/organization did something good or made a good point for once.

  • JaggedRobotPubes
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    He’s a weird mix of “cannot be allowed near the job” and great ideas.

    Well, two. This and getting the stigma off of psychedelics.

    Nothing’s worth having an anti-vaxxer in charge, though. Not even close.

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      You forgot his third one, he supports stem cell research, which is odd given that his new buddies don’t approve of creating new sources of stem cells (aborted fetal tissue).

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        Well, IVF is still legal for the time being.

        And fun fact! Depending on the facility, if there’s any unused fertilized eggs left the woman/couple can decide to donate them to medical stem cell research facilities.

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        A broken horse will lead a man to water at least twice a day in the bush

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      The other was avoiding processed foods. I’m guessing he won’t be allowed to implement that either when his boss gets a wheelbarrow full of cash from the McClown.

      There’s a shot of RFK and the rest of the Dream Team holding a Big Mac somewhere and he genuinely looks like they’ve asked him to pose with a freshly laid dog turd.

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        Trump is smiling in the picture like he just made his new stooge pose with a dog turd

        • @leadore
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          Mike johnson photobombing in from the side, trying to be included.

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      Seriously, he gives me major whiplash. Like 90% of his opinions are pure bullshit, but I often agree with the remainder.

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        201 day ago

        He also left the dead carcas of a bear in Central Park.

        He also drove over 300 miles to cut the head off a beached whale and bring it home.

        RFK does a lot of strange things, and i don’t think it was 100% the brain worm either.

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          He also had a habit of eating raw or even partly rotten meat for a while IIRC. That’s probably how he got that brain worm.

          The behind the bastards podcast about him was a wild ride

        • @StuffYouFear
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          “When your rich they just let you do it” - Some rich asshole

  • @leadore
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    I guess the worm didn’t eat all of it.

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    For as many foolish things Kennedy has talked about wanting to institute, a drug ad ban is not one of them. Kinda awesome, actually.

    • Ech
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      Not exactly worth the damage he’s gonna do, though.

      • @ArbiterXero
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        Honestly…… if we can rule out the “vaccine” shit…. Then maybe?

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          The issue is the people who don’t or who no longer make it mandatory at schools and all of a sudden polio and measles make a massive comeback for the immune compromised

          • @ArbiterXero
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            No no, I understand that vaccines are important, you misunderstand my statement.

            “If we get rid of rfk’s vaccine bullshit”

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              I’ll still be in a labor camp for the crime of having ADHD, but sure, take away his stance on vaccines and it’ll all be good

              (sorry for being snippy, just pointing out that the vaccine bullshit is just one of the layers of awful he wants to implement, and the drug ad ban is one of the few not horrible things I’ve heard from him)

              • @ArbiterXero
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                You’re being overly sensitive here, I gave you the win already.

                And no you can’t blame your ADHD for the sensitivity, I have it too.

                Chill my guy. I’m no rfk supporter, nor maga enthusiast.

                • Laurel Raven
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                  What the hell are you talking about, gave me the win? What does that even mean? That was the only time I’ve ever replied to you.

                  Whether you meant to or not, you sounded like you were saying the main problem with him was the vaccines, without that he’s not that bad; I was pointing out that he’s promised a lot more bad things than that. I wasn’t even mad or upset or being overly sensitive about it (prickly, maybe, at least in presentation).

                  I didn’t even accuse you of being an RFK or maga supporter.

                  And now you’re doing the whole dismissive “don’t be so sensitive” bullshit. Just… Don’t do that.

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      He would be fired by trump before this would happen. The reason it is still allowed is because of interest money and this administration is all about money. The only way I would see such ban happening would be banning those ads on TV while enabling them on social media.

      • DankOfAmerica
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        Maybe the play is that he threatens to ban them until drug companies talk to him at a dinner and discuss much needed financial support for this administration’s projects.

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      Watch what they do, not what they say. Trump makes empty promises all the time. I’m sure the same is true of Maggot Brain.

      • @RestrictedAccount
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        I believe that wormfood wants to ban the ads, just no way it’s gonna happen.

  • @blady_blah
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    Yes, that would be good, but let’s be real here, this is basically a statement that says “hey big pharma, I’m not getting enough campaign contributions!! Get off your ass and give me some cash!” - Trump

    This will NEVER get passed in a Trump administration. It’s all window dressing on a big pile of streaming shit.

    • @TheLastOfHisName
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      Most of what RFK proposes or wants to propose would impact the bottom line of big pharma.

      You think they’re going to allow that?

      Never fuck with the money.

      • @blady_blah
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        Sure. If RFK were President then it could possibly happen… But just imagine one big pharma company handing Trump a check… You think for one second this would pass?

    • @DesertDwellingWeirdo
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      I seem many bad things being said, and some hopeful things mixed in. I’m just waiting until it’s all said and done to assess the outcome.

      • @blady_blah
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        I will be happily surprised if it comes to be… But I won’t give them any credit for just saying the words.

  • @yesman
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    This is like when you get the right answer using the wrong formula