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Missing a slam-dunk headline (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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(FYI - the article that the guy is replying to is misinformation. Two commenters have provided snopes links for anyone curious.)

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[–] Boopdedoop@sh.itjust.works 55 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Oops, this is some misinformation, friend. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rfk-wellness-farms/

Exaggerated claims designed to provoke a reaction, even in humorous contexts like this, make it harder for us to perceive and react to actual dangerous threats that might come our way. And we're definitely going to need to have an accurate and truthful view of the world in the coming days.

It's a good joke, it's a great joke even, but even so, we shouldn't spread misinformation.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

I was posting more for the funny reply, rather than to share the original article, but I can put a note in the post body that the pictured quoted article is misinformation.

[–] random8847@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

What an absolute asshole of a journalist you have to be to twist someone's words like that.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 12 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Tfw you say something and everyone hates it and then someone else comes by and says the same thing in a slightly different way and everyone likes it 😑

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Its a difference in rhetoric. Yours is antagonistic and the others is measured and fair.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

If it's fake news (and it is) then I have every right to say, "Get this fucking bullshit off my feed" (my actual response was quite a bit more measured than that). I shouldn't have to be like, "Haha! Oh that's so funny, you're really smart and clever! Oh, but, fyi, that's kinda misinformation, just so you know!"

Would you rather listen to the blunt truth or to a friendly lie? If it's the latter, then that ought to be called out as well as the original point - falling for a fake news story is entirely excusable, but being unwilling to listen to criticism unless it's phrased nicely and defanged is not.

Shit like this is part of why I use term "Blue MAGA," because you'll find the exact same mentality over there. The facts don't matter, if you don't demonstrate you're one of us, we'll write you off anything you say. Critical thought means listening to criticism, even if it's, "antagonistic."

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml -2 points 6 hours ago

That's on you, the .ml in your name means that everything you say is wrong even when you say the truth.

Learn how to lemmy /s

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 6 hours ago

This comment won't age well.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 13 hours ago

Idk, I'm sure that many politicians aren't advocating for LGBTQ youth to be "sent" to conversation camps.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 106 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If trans people and Adderall people are outlawed then there will be no tech industry left.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 39 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

You are forgetting about the furries.

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago

Nah, I think we're included by virtue of overlapping Venn diagrams.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 40 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

there's a lot of overlap in that venn diagram

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

some might event say it's a circle

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Are there any cis furries in tech that aren’t on amphetamines?

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The ones that are were probably all grabbed up by the US Navy to work on the Nuclear Submarines.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This is the navy we’re talking about…

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

I feel like you want the straightest ones on the submarine, if only for the smell.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 25 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

So far all of the orange appointments are looking like videogame minibosses

[–] KAYDUBELL@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago

Sign me up to be player one then so I can go full Wolfenstein on these Nazi assholes

[–] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The same RFK Jr. who credits heroin for his academic success.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Some people do actually initially start using opiates as a performance enhancer. Thats not really a crazy take. I know people with similar stories in the first months of their use, before the negatives started outweighing the positives.

[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 22 hours ago

Lol my company's entire development department will be gone.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 33 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

They missed it because they were already taking liberties on what was actually said.

To be clear, I wouldn't put it past him to do that, but that isn't actually what he said.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rfk-wellness-farms/

[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago

Once the farms are built I wonder how long they'll stay voluntary. He's taking baby steps to a massive slave labor industry

[–] dullbananas@lemmy.ca 27 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

TL;DR: voluntary "rehabilitation wellness farms"

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[–] flicker@lemmy.world 34 points 23 hours ago (9 children)

As a person with ADHD, let me just volunteer the following information; the absolute last thing you want... the last thing you want is for a bunch of people with ADHD to be held on a boring farm. Without medication!

The phrase "herding cats" doesn't even come close. And ADHD is often comorbid with sleep phase disorder, which means I'm 100% alert all night without the medication that helps me sleep! That gives me lots and lots of time to be a problem!

[–] 3ntranced@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I imagined they were inferring like "if you're taking Adderall we need your hyper efficient ass to come work on building a pyramid or something". Which i have to say, a team of properly medicated ADHDers would be the most streamlined project ever.

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[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Good luck managing us.

[–] hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 hours ago

Like herding catgirls.

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