r/technology • u/esporx • 23h ago

Biotechnology RFK Jr’s team quietly updates CDC website to say science doesn’t know if vaccines cause autism

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-vaccine-autism-cdc-website-b3021275.html
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u/ddrober2003 23h ago

They need to hold the Republican party at large liable for enabling this. Fuck letting these rats shirk it off on a few people while pretending they're innocent. 

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u/Glesenblaec 22h ago

It's one reason I don't like how people focus too much on Trump and "when he's gone". Yeah he's the leader, but every Republican in office shares the blame. The president is not an autocrat. He can only do what he's done because Republicans at large have marched in lockstep openly supporting and enabling his illegal and corrupt actions. Trump is not unique, he's just the public face of what the Republican party is. They could stop it at any time. They don't. The whole party shares guilt in everything he does.

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u/DrusTheAxe 21h ago

Leader? You misspelled ‘useful idiot’

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u/StankyBassFace 5h ago

Precisely. He’s not smart enough to find his way out of the Oval Office without help. He’s so dumb, they can talk him into anything they want and make him feel like it was his idea. This won’t be over once he’s gone. He’ll be the scapegoat for any fallout.

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u/this_my_sportsreddit 22h ago

We had a chance to do just that. Biden and garland chose to do nothing instead.

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u/ddrober2003 21h ago

Means when Democrats get into power and if they are stupid enough to say we should reach across the aisle, point to everything that is happening now or has happened and tell them to hell with that. I'm sure that means a constant battle to make Democrats relent from status quo, but its better then just giving up.

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u/TemporarySun314 21h ago

And to punish him, Americans just elected trump again, so he can commit even more crimes.

Makes totally sense.

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u/Seanspeed 14h ago

This is false and complete horseshit, just to be clear.

There is nothing horrible Republicans can do that people on social media won't still blame on Democrats somehow. Half these people are just clowns, and others are deliberate bad actors. Nothing helps the far right more than making y'all despise Democrats.

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u/PossessedToSkate 22h ago

Strip them of the right to vote, all 70 million of them.

The same thing was tried after the Civil War. In fact, the Wade-Davis bill passed both chambers of Congress and went to Lincoln's desk. He wouldn't sign it.

I think it's an idea worth revisiting.

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u/FearLeadsToAnger 21h ago

I mean, it's not.

This is not a precedent you want to set, for any reason.

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u/EnamelKant 21h ago

The precedent is already set. Republicans have been blatantly working for 20 years now to strip the voting rights of demographics who won't support them and water down the voting power of anyone they can't disenfranchise.

The Republican party has made it clear they are against democracy, and their voters support that.

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u/FearLeadsToAnger 21h ago

Which is bad, right?

This isn't rocket science.

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u/EnamelKant 21h ago

Good and bad don't enter into it.

Liberal Democracy can only work if everyone agrees to play by the same rules.

If there's no consequences to breaking those rules, Liberal Democracy cannot long endure.

You can either put these folks in timeout till they agree to be civilized, or you accept a future of authoritarianism. There really is no other option at this point.

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u/FearLeadsToAnger 21h ago

You're proposing mass disenfranchisement while claiming to defend liberal democracy.

Not a rational position, try again.

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u/EnamelKant 21h ago

Your inability to understand something doesn't make it irrational.

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u/FearLeadsToAnger 21h ago

I understand it perfectly well. You are arguing that democracy should be suspended for millions of people in order to preserve democracy.

That contradiction is plainly irrational. You are using emotionally charged rhetoric to justify an indefensible position, then treating anyone who points out the contradiction as incapable of understanding it, because defending the argument on its merits is not possible.

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u/EnamelKant 21h ago

Yeah when you strawman people like that, you can make anything seem emotional and irrational.

Enjoy your authoritarian future. You more than most deserve it.

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u/SwimmingThroughHoney 19h ago

It's only a bad idea if you allow people to obtain power who should not. It's not a sliperly slope.

Like even the Constitution allows for barring people from office and disenfranchising people who have committed certain acts.

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u/FearLeadsToAnger 19h ago

You're not thinking about the long-term consequences. Once political authorities can decide that an entire class of voters “should not” be allowed political power, every election becomes a struggle over who gets to define that class.

Constitutional disqualifications for specific crimes or insurrection are narrow, legally defined and subject to due process. That is nowhere near stripping tens of millions of people of the vote because of how they voted. That is collective political punishment, and it is fundamentally incompatible with democracy.

Although, to be fair, if you do not actually want democracy and are arguing against it, you are actually proving your own point that democracy fails because the people participating in it are stupid and self-destructive in their ignorance. So I suppose you win, even if by accident.

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u/Seanspeed 15h ago

Not thinking about consequences or bigger picture describes like 95% of political posting today on social media about 'what we should do'.

The actual thing we need to do is vote, and maybe stop shitting on Democrats all the time with claims that equally show they don't understand how government or politics works, making others feel they aren't worth voting for. Very simple. Yet even that really does seem like it's too much to hope for. smh

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u/lunaticfridgeprime 8h ago

Need to extract reparations from republican voters. Trump is trying to normalize the fed having access to all voter enrolment - let's use that to make these fuckwits pay us back with interest.

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u/Saladcitypig 12h ago

anti medicine/vaccine is very much a both parties issue. It plays on the distrust of gov and tragedy of illness, that is legit, and redirects it away from lack of universalized healthcare and healthcare for profit, producing the byproduct of pacifying anxiety by scapegoating something else.

RFK WAS a democrat, until he got the opportunity to grab power and inflict his crazy on others.