• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
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      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?

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        That Carlin clip has been circulated in various alternative medicine quackery communities for a long time, I doubt RFK Jr. has any media literacy. The similar notion has somewhat entered in mainstream discourse with the concept of “immunity debt”.

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    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?

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      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.

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        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.

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        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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            He only created it to block Congress from passing something more effective.

            He certainly didn’t do it out of concern for the environment.

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        I still check if there have been any recent discharges before swimming and I live by the sea where there is a lot more water to dilute it. Must be a lot more concentrated in a river.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    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

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      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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    Survival of the fittest.

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    Honestly these old folks had the luxury of swimming in many creeks and rivers with low pollution, maybe them going there today and seeing how bad it is will make them realize how we’re destroying the planet for shareholder value