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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 133 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

When I was a little boy in New York City in the 1940s, we swam in the Hudson River and it was filled with raw sewage okay? We swam in raw sewage! You know... to cool off! And at that time, the big fear was polio; thousands of kids died from polio every year but you know something? In my neighbourhood, no one ever got polio! No one! Ever! You know why? Cause we swam in raw sewage! It strengthened our immune systems! The polio never had a prayer; we were tempered in raw shit!

Love Carlin, but this bit didn't exactly age well. lol

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 81 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Satire is dead, it's no longer possible to top the absurdity of real life.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fuck that. Humor is not dead.

[–] wagesj45@fedia.io 19 points 2 days ago

That's not what he said.

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why'd I think it was a RFK quote

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 16 points 2 days ago

Because we live in the stupid timeline, the one where this absolutely 100% could be real. I thought it was too lol

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well I mean later on in the bit he also talks about only needing to wash: armpits, asshole, crotch and teeth and you'd save time by using the same brush.

I'm certain if he was alive today he'd rip these morons apart.

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

You know why?

VACCINES

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 days ago

Carlin was telling a joke, not enacting government policy.

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[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 127 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The sewage was no doubt very upset to see its creek being contaminated by RFK Jr.

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 96 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

the worm is driving the bus, in the search of moist organic material to munch

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The worm in his brain goes round and round
Round and round
Round and round
The worm in RFK's brain goes round and round
Alll through the FDA

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[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 53 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He fucking hates his grandkids

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He's just sharing his various worm parasites with them ❤️

[–] Archangel1313@lemm.ee 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They are now part of the collective.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 days ago

System Shock 2 was training for the coming helminth apocalypse

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[–] radix@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

he needs to update those ideas by 160 years

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 days ago

Counterpoint, the great society party wants to return us to 160 years ago when a man was allowed to own some people. If that means throwing a bunch of other things out, him and his crowd are fine to do it

[–] renzhexiangjiao@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 2 days ago (4 children)

just looked it up. the place he went to was literally 2 miles from the white house, in the middle of a fucking 6 million metropolis. honestly, regardless of what the national park said, who chooses a place like that for a swim and expects it not to be polluted?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Me to be honest. Where, if not in your capital, would you be able to enforce environmental protection of your streams?

Granted our biggest cities are smaller than those of most other countries, but in Zürich, Bern and Basel you see people bathing in the Limmat, Aare and Rhine respectively all the time.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Environmental protection + Conservatives is usually a recipe for environmental disaster.

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[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

Bro, Switzerland has gotta be a pretty notable exception.

I have literally never seen more beautiful and clean waters in my life than the ones I saw while visiting Switzerland.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 7 points 2 days ago

It's sewage infrastructure from the 1800s that needs to be repaired - apparently the pipe cracked. I don't know why it hasn't been fixed yet, that's wild.

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Doesn’t the rest of the Kennedy clan fucking hate him? Whose kids did he steal?

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 33 points 2 days ago

We’re 100% certain there was only one lobotomy?

[–] giacomo@lemm.ee 30 points 2 days ago

literally everything this man does can be explained by the brain worm

[–] ApeNo1@lemm.ee 27 points 2 days ago

“Mr President, do we really need to drain the swamp? Me and some buddies and our families still enjoying a regular paddle in there.”

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He should just come out and announce that he worships Nurgle.

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[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How is this not child endangerment?

[–] Merva@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 days ago

Because he is part of the ruling class. US law doesn't apply to them and never has.

[–] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

deep breath for this one) has speculated that he may have been exposed to the parasitic worm that ate part of his brain when he stuck his hand in the bloody mouth of a dead bear before driving with the carcass to Manhattan and abandoning it in Central Park (exhale).

That's where the brainworms comments are from.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 14 points 2 days ago

This should be considered some kind of neglect or abuse.

[–] yumpsuit@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago
[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

I don't see the problem, he's been swimming in that creek his entire life and he's fine. /s

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, but when Master Splinter does it, it's somehow fine!?

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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 days ago

I propose a new term - "malscurrocracy" - government by evil clowns.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think RFK thinks that swimming in contaminated water somehow helps build immunity.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

George Carlin has a bit about swimming in polluted water as a child and his immune system being tempered in raw shit. I wonder if this nut job did not understand that was a joke?

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Conservatives don't understand humor. George Carlin fucking HATED conservatives and anti-abortion people. He also supported the death penalty (as a joke) ONLY for the upper crust and not for common criminals or people with poor financial background. His logic was quite sound... poor criminal gangsters who live in high crime neighborhoods face death on a regular basis (if 90s gangsta rap taught me anything, it is that the main thing they are concerned about is living to see their next birthday) and ultimately accept that they might face a violent early death.

The wealthy? Fuck no. they are spoiled rotten. They commit crimes with a stroke of a pen that ruin the lives of thousands at a time and enrich themselves. Even if they are caught, they will usually just pay a fine or even if they get a jail sentence, it will be very light and in a comfortable penitentiary, and they can go right back to their old jobs right after (look up the story of Nick Mead, a rogue trader who destroyed the oldest merchant bank in England in the late 90s and was sentenced to 4 years (of which he only served 2 or 3) for his fraud, and went on to be a sports team manager and speaker and is quite a comfortably wealthy person.

Meanwhile shoplift a big enough item and you can serve a multi-decade sentence...

So George's logic that sentencing wealthy assholes to death for their white collar crimes while giving common murderers lesser life sentences (murder is still bad and the type of person who murders another is not someone you want walking around, generally speaking) makes sense. If the wealthy had to deal with watching their fellow fraudsters being executed on the regular, or at least receiving extremely long and harsh sentences, then we will see a reduction in those crimes. Most low-level crime is done impulsively while most high-level crime is planned heavily, so that makes sense.

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[–] rpa@europe.pub 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] jonne@infosec.pub 14 points 2 days ago

Definitely the fittest brain worms.

[–] nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago

This is a reverse eaten onion for me, wtf.

[–] baropithecus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is a funny distraction and prelude to the inevitable gutting of clean water regulations that he plans to do. Reminds me of the stunt pulled by the inventor of leaded gasoline and real-life Captain Planet villain Thomas Midgley (seriously, look him up) when he tried, unsuccessfully, to assure the public that TEL was safe by huffing it for a minute and pouring it over himself:

"On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems." [Wikipedia link]

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Very emblematic.

[–] CallMeButtLove@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

"Hmm. Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock!"

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

Poor amoeba are going to starve

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I hope he enjoys the full experience.

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It's merely the worm wanting to return to its ecosystem.

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