• @casmael@lemm.ee
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    234 months ago

    Wait what brosnan endorsed that guy? Man he always seemed like a reasonable sort of chap. ☹️

  • @masquenox@lemmy.world
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    Yeah… I stopped having a favorite “actor-who-played-a-personification-of-rapacious-British-imperialsm” when I realized that they were acting as a personification of rapacious British imperialism.

  • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    04 months ago

    “The Garbage Man Can!!!”

    I can’t believe I can still remember that song, but it’s what immediately popped into my head upon seeing this image.

    • @Tattorack@lemmy.world
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      74 months ago

      Better question:

      Who is RFK Jr. and why should I care?

      Until right this instant I never knew the guy existed.

      • @DragonTypeWyvern
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        Why, do your memories and Google not work?

        https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk-jr-accused-making-antisemitic-racist-claims-covid/story?id=101323851

        There’s a lot more to go into beyond the most recent and obvious, but it involves his deliberate targeting of the black community with misinformation and a discussion of historical usage of Great Replacement theories, historical dogwhistling, and other kinds of nuance that someone asking honest questions might be interested in.

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          " I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. I accurately pointed out — during an off-the-record conversation — that the U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021 study of the COVID-19 virus shows that COVID-19 appears to disproportionately affect certain races since the furin cleave docking site is most compatible with Blacks and Caucasians and least compatible with ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews"

          https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1680227322509635595

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            Yep, that’s what a lying racist who doesn’t know what he’s talking about sounds like when he gets called out.

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              Yeah. In the original clip he only mentions Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese (nothing about Finns). He was shoehorning a conspiracy theory into conveniently chosen facts.

    • @harry_balzac@lemmy.world
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      244 months ago

      He endorsed RFK Junior.

      Also, there have been plenty of people throughout history who lived in “ignorant” cultures who weren’t racist, misogynistic, etc.

      Being afraid of the unlike is natural. Overcoming that fear, makes you civilized.

    • @A_Filthy_Weeaboo@lemmy.world
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      Remember, during American Slavery there were groups of people who were against the racism and slavery during that time…

      It may not have been a massive movement but still.

      It’s not modern thinking

    • @protist@mander.xyz
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      I actually completely agree with your perspective and also have no idea what you’re talking about. Is Pierce Brosnan the historical figure in this scenario?

      • @DragonTypeWyvern
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        My personal completely unprovable theory is that when the Qanon crowd was getting excited about JFK Jr returning as a zombie to lead them to the promised land it got started from a discussion about RFK Jr and somebody made a typo that the rest of the clown show latched on to.

        Or maybe they just didn’t know the difference. Being clowns.