Comments by "" (@timogul) on "House committee slams RFK Jr. over racist COVID comments | WNT" video.

  1.  @ComplicatedBot  People need to understand that pointing out when someone is telling a lie is NOT and has never been "censoring" them. RFK Jr. is free to say whatever he likes, but when he lies, people will point that out.
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  2.  @AnneEloiseOfCNY  If you can look around in 2023, and think "you know what, this world needs more Republican victories," then you were never "independent." Your heart and soul is owned.
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  3.  @ComplicatedBot  Again, no, it is not censorship to correct someone when they are spreading misinformation. That is not what the word "censorship" means, and it is an abuse of the idea. You cannot put out false advertising, for example, and can be sued for defamation. Lies are not protected speech.
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  4. You do understand "I have a black friend" has never been a valid argument against someone being racist, right? Right?
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  5. So what he's saying, is that he does not believe that the racist things he's said are racist. This is how most racist people work.
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  6.  @lilybond6485  He wasn't making some vague hypothetical claim, he was claiming that the recent pandemic was deliberately targeted to avoid certain ethnic groups, which is nonsense. If he were merely speaking in hypotheticals, then it would be an entirely different story.
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  7. @@erickanter4090 And the US government does not censor, but fact checking has never been censoring.
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  8.  @raymondcarroll3876  It was already proven by his own words. You remain unconvinced, which is a "you" problem that I'm incapable of solving. You are uninterested in learning, and nobody can help you with that but yourself.
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  9.  @raymondcarroll3876  So you didn't watch the video above? That is what they were referencing. In his own words.
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  10. But we know that what RFK Jr. stands for and believes is bad.
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  11.  @GregAlterton  What are you talking about?
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  12.  @deannaartzbennett244  No, he was not citing a peer reviewed paper from an esteemed medical group, you just wish that this was the case, for some reason that probably has nothing to do with it confirming your own beliefs, right?
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  13.  @deannaartzbennett244  An yet you are supporting RFK Jr., known to spread conspiracy theories. There are idiots on both sides, and I do not care which side of the political spectrum an idiot happens to land on. If you did watch the full video, you would know that he was implying that Ukraine had bio-weapons facilities, for example, which is complete nonsense.
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  14.  @AnneEloiseOfCNY  What is the name of the "scientific article" so that I can verify the original source. I can find nothing listing any such article.
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  15.  @deannaartzbennett244  Yes, I watched it, it was entirely full of nonsense. He claimed that Ukraine has bio weapon facilities, and that the US was "ethnically targeting" bioweapons. Are you actually trying to defend this insanity?
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  16.  @deannaartzbennett244  You do understand that a "bio research lab" and a "bio weapons lab" are two COMPLETELY different things, right? Right? EVERY country has bio research labs, they are vitally important to preventing diseases. You need local labs to be studying diseases circulating in the local area, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Trying to portray that as being a "weapon" is pure Soviet propaganda.
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  17.  @deannaartzbennett244  Of course they aren't new, and most major countries develop them, although mainly just to be aware of how to stop them should the enemy unleash them. The point is that Ukraine had no such facilities, and that bioweapon facilities had nothing to do with the recent pandemic.
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  18.  @deannaartzbennett244  Ok, so you AGREE that RFK Jr. is spreading conspiracy theory BS, you're just offended that people are pointing out the racist portion of his BS conspiracy theories, and now your mask is off.
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  19. He has the votes of idiots everywhere.
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  20.  26AccountsRemoved  Why is that trouble? They'll both still lose at the end.
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  21.  26AccountsRemoved  "Lol," most popular?" What sort of Faux News are you soaking in? Gin? Trump is certainly most popular in the Republican party, but overall has lower approval ratings than Biden. RFK Jr. can't even get about 5% in polling, he ONLY appeals to crackpots and nutcases. Trump will lose because the American people are tired of his BS, and RFK Jr will lose because he's insane.
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  22.  26AccountsRemoved  I answered your question. Can you not read?
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  23.  26AccountsRemoved  Yes, I did. I don't know how much more I can dumb it down for you to understand, but if you were to explain what you're missing, I could give it a try.
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  24.  26AccountsRemoved  Yeah, I think it's less that conservatives are too dumb to understand how the world works, but more like they are not mature enough to accept a real world that works in a way that they don't like. They're like those robots in Westworld, show them something they don't like and "it doesn't look like anything to me." But it's certainly possible that it's an intelligence thing too.
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  25.  @epants8507  How so?
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  26.  @jeffhaddix9508  Again, fact checking when someone is spreading misinformation IS NOT CENSORSHIP. That is not what that word means. That has never been what that word means.
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  27.  @jeffhaddix9508  The government was never telling social media platforms to remove tweets that they did not like. All they did was flag foreign misinformation campaigns so that the social media platforms could point that out to their readers. Why would you not want them to do that? Unless you're working for the foreign troll farms yourself, of course.
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  28.  @raymondcarroll3876  Yup, Faux News created a post-truth world, and Trump supporters refuse to live in the real world anymore.
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  29.  @jakeroberts7435  Reality determines what lies and the truth are, don't shoot the messenger.
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  30.  @johnpatrick1647  If you don't recognize how that is racist and anti-sematic, then you are saying more about yourself than anything else.
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  31.  @johnpatrick1647  You are misreporting the situation. a TRUMP judge said it was a problem in the government dictating to social media companies what is allowed and not allowed to be said, even though in actual fact, NOBODY in the government was dictating to social media companies what is allowed and not allowed to be said. Trump judges are notoriously incompetent and corrupt, so you can never cite one of their rulings as a support to an argument, except in the negative.
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  32.  @jakeroberts7435  What do you have against fact checking false claims? How else are people supposed to know what is true, and what is just made up nonsense? There are plenty of stupid people in this world. Did you know that Faux News viewers are actually LESS informed about the world than people who get no news at all?
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  33. This is what makes Trump work. Stupid people who reject anything that tries to tell them what they don't want to hear.
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  34. Probably because he fights against modern medicine.
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  35. He might eventually even get to double digits. Unlikely though. What's more dangerous is that he spreads harmful misinformation to gullible rubes on social media, and that needs to stop. There's no chance of him getting the Democratic nomination, but anti-vaxers have killed more Americans than the Germans did in WWII.
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  36. That's still pretty racist though, implying that it was a bioweapon that specifically targets people based on race (and therefore doesn't target people of other races), when there is no evidence whatsoever to support any such claim.
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  37. They were not based on any scientific report. They were based on conspiracy theorist fan fiction in the for of a "scientific report." Something calling itself science does not make it science.
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  38.  @eemoogee160  Well, he has a lot of racist viewpoints for someone who "isn't" racist, and at the end of the day, that's a distinction without a difference.
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  39.  @eemoogee160  I'm sorry, I had been discussing a different topic and the lack of context caused me to confuse the two. RFK's comments did not involve white nationalists, they involved implications that the pandemic was somehow "intentional" in targeting specific ethnic groups. This is not actually true, neither in that it was at all intentional in its function, nor that it effects the groups he named any less than other groups. Why would he state such an argument to others if not to intentionally mislead them into believing that it was true?
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  40.  @eemoogee160  I can respect honesty, but "honestly, I'm an idiot who believes idiotic things" is not a strong selling point for a Presidential candidate. He might be a perfectly nice person, but you wouldn't want him running anything.
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  41.  @eemoogee160  Not really. Certainly not RFK, because even if he genuinely wanted to, he's not actually capable of doing it. Really no President is, it would require law changes, which means also getting a supermajority of Senators and half of the House on board with it, so electing an "ideal President" who promises you the moon, just to twiddle his thumbs for 4-8 years is dumb. Instead elect a President based on an ability to manage a stable government through his term.
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