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[–] ALLGLORYTOHYPNOTOAD@lemmy.world 88 points 1 day ago (4 children)

His goal, like every person Trump has appointed, is to dismantle and break those institutions. The point is to cripple the government so that private businesses get to fill the gaps and gain power.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep, it'll take decades to rebuild trust in the CDC and HHS, and they were basically still doing the work of doing that after the messed up stuff they did in the 40s - 60s.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 2 points 7 hours ago

The CDC and HHS did a lot to destroy trust long before this administration. What RFK says about Big Pharma capturing government agencies has enough truth in it that it helps sell his bullshit conspiracy driven nonsense.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Republicans! Not just Trump! They’ve been doing this for ever. Make the government bad, tell the American people the government is bad and we need to reduce its power, repeat!

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd argue the point is to destroy the country which is what Russia wants. They don't want a weak America, they want a dead America.

[–] ALLGLORYTOHYPNOTOAD@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

It’s not just Russia. Most of big tech oligarchs are accelerating this hard for their network state fantasies.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Rfk made one good point: why are Americans so sick if what we're doing is working? Then this dude blames one of the most effective public health programs in history.

Clearly vaccines, one of the last vestiges of a robust public health program, which eliminated some of the worst plagues in the world, must be why we're so sick. Swiss cheese tequila brain. 🪱🧠🍸

Rfk used to talk a lot of sense but today he is a walking taking ad for vaccines. If not shooting vaccines ages my voice box 20 years ill take two shots of everything please

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

fucking hell I wish he was still shooting street dope, that would've been the luckiest fent shot known to humankind.