Summary

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused Bernie Sanders of taking millions from Big Pharma during a heated exchange, but Sanders refuted the claim, stating his donations came from workers, not corporate PACs.

Kennedy repeatedly insisted Sanders was the top recipient of pharmaceutical money in 2020, but financial data shows no corporate PAC contributions to Sanders.

Meanwhile, Kennedy has profited from anti-vaccine activism, earning millions from lawsuits and speaking fees.

The debate ended without Kennedy answering whether he would guarantee health care for all as HHS secretary.

  • @[email protected]
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    RFK believes that he is above reproach. He is the delusional you get when you are born into massive wealth and privilege and think that you personally hit a home run. Completely surrounded by yes men his entire life. Trumpesk even.

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          You should, or the point you make is we shouldn’t listen to your point because you are barely literate 🤷?

          Any machine you can write a lemmy comment on can also spell check. Not checking means you don’t give a shit about what you write, so why should anyone else?

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            61 day ago

            Point out the flaw in my argument? The whole point of writing is communication. If my message is received it did its job. I especially don’t give a shit about spelling on here because this is an anonymous account that I just shoot the breeze from.

            But on a larger point codified grammar, spelling, etc are all just class signifiers that have literally nothing to do with clear communication or intelligence. Language is fluid by its very nature and spelling is as well. It behooves the reader to ignore things you find unintelligent based on superficial nonsense. Trying to understand a writers point based on their arguments is a much better strategy.

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              214 hours ago

              None of what you say is untrue, but if you don’t conform to codified grammar, then you’ll get harangued by a bunch of grammar apes that freak out as soon as you misspell something relatively minor, like -esque to -esk. Or you’ll even just find yourself getting hit with a bunch of clarifying questions about what your specific spelling actually was. So oftentimes it’s actually more fluid, and more clear, to use language that’s more codified.

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                Hot take, their original reply was right and the only mistake they made was spending energy engaging further

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                  I mean, yeah, you’re right, feeding the troll is kind of a classic blunder, but I still think it makes sense not to go out of your way to give them any ammunition. Maybe I come off as a little victim blamey, but I don’t think it’s that serious

            • @RedditRefugee69
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              215 hours ago

              y mak many wurd wen u cn rd dis wel enuf rite? bro i ttly get u, dis idnt evn hrd 2 rede lyk at al

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              No no no.

              I didn’t read your comment or your argument. I won’t because I don’t give a shit for one, and for two if you don’t give a shit enough to proofread it it’s obviously not worth the time.

              You can descriptive grammar yourself right to the downvotes and don’t give a shit pile. Sorry bout ya. It’s “dumbesk”.

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                  You made my point:

                  It behooves the reader to ignore things you find unintelligent

                  And the rest of it makes no sense anyway because I don’t think you can define “behoove”.

          • @RedditRefugee69
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            115 hours ago

            It’s definitely a classic Englishizing a non-English word.

            “Leftenant” instead of lieutenant.

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          62 days ago

          also fuck french

          most the stupid ass spelling mistakes I make like this come from french loan words

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      312 days ago

      Yes, and in my personal experience, I’ve found people who feel they are never wrong to be the most uninformed and unintelligent of all people. It’s so sad that these people also are the ones that somehow rise to power and influence.

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        112 days ago

        It’s all about confidence. If you think you are infallible you will have perfect confidence no matter how wrong you are.

        Conman is a shortened version of confidence man.

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      122 days ago

      We really need to stop thinking the Kennedy family are in any way special other than Joe who IRL is a nice guy who tries to stop people from freezing to death.

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        272 days ago

        We really need to stop thinking of anyone as special and treat everyone with dignity and respect (excluding Nazis).

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        Yep one should never generalize anything that broad. Joe and maybe caroline. She at least sees the writing on the wall and has no desire to get involved with politics. Just living her own life

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          22 days ago

          I never met her. I have met Joe a few dozen times campaigning for candidates and gay marriage in MA decades ago.

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            22 days ago

            I can’t say I know a ton about her either. But I seem to remember in the early aughts there were some pushing for her to get involved in politics. And I know she’s come out against Robert Jr etc. And that’s at least two decent decisions. But Joe definitely sounds like a pretty stand-up guy.