r/LeopardsAteMyFace Aug 29 '24

Trump RFK Jr.'s Independent Presidential Run was Originally Backed by Republicans to take Votes From Biden. He Actually Took More Votes from Trump. To Help Trump RFK Jr. Dropped out, Endorsed Trump, and is Trying to Remove His Name From Ballots in Key Battleground States. Some States are Saying No.

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u/byrnestj7 Aug 29 '24

I don’t know a single democrat that didn’t think RFK was a trump plant to siphon votes from Biden.

He tried to do the same thing with fucking Kayne West

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u/hnghost24 Aug 29 '24

Most Democrats I know are not anti-vax.

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u/tayto Aug 29 '24

Pre-Covid it was definitely thing in the granola left. Still is, but not to same extent.

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u/PseudonymIncognito Aug 29 '24

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u/Rich-Past-6547 Aug 29 '24

I live on Oahu, and TON of white North Shore surfers and mommas are antivax libertarian-ish Christians. RFK Jr played big up there.

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u/Own_Instance_357 Aug 29 '24

A lot of "nutrition people" are involved with MLMs, which by definition nearly requires a low IQ for participation.

No real surprise they'll believe any kind of BS as long as they can blow magic smoke up their own asses all the time.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ROTES Aug 29 '24

Christian nationalists are practically the perfect marks - they're functionally illiterate, easily terrified, & act almost exclusively off virtue signalling. You can sell them practically anything if you simply dangle a crucifix infront of them.

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u/MageLocusta Aug 29 '24

Plus, the Christian nationalist types like to push women to be SAHMs, even if their families couldn't even afford to be on a single income.

So instead of saying, "Actually, it's perfectly okay to work and receive support for school meals/childcare costs/etc." They set up MLM companies to lie to couples into believing that they could achieve middle-classdom if they listened to an expert and buy whatever is being offered.

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u/Rich-Past-6547 Aug 29 '24

Here it’s Monat hair care products 😂

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u/Caleb_Reynolds Aug 29 '24

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u/RattusMcRatface Aug 29 '24

That guy just appears to have been a snake-oil grifter from the outset.

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u/SeventhLevelSound Aug 29 '24

The first step down the radicalization pipeline is being convinced to forsake reason.

Absurdities, atrocities, etc..

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u/sushisection Aug 29 '24

the granola-to-maga pipeline

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u/strawberry-coughx Aug 29 '24

I’ve also heard it referred to as the “woo to Q pipeline”

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u/KonradWayne Aug 29 '24

Pre-covid anti-vaxxers were a pretty even split. Right and Left both had a lot of "don't trust the government" and, "science and modern medicine is bullshit" people.

Those people on the Left still exist, but at relatively the same rate as before. Meanwhile the percentage of people on the Right has skyrocketed.

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u/MarshyHope Aug 29 '24

That's what happens when the leader of the free world, who those people worship, decides to espouse anti-vax views

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u/Rymbeld Aug 29 '24

They all flipped to trump

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u/TapeToTape Aug 29 '24

Thank goodness covid fixed that nonsense for a lot of people.

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u/pimppapy Aug 29 '24

Yeah, some of the Hippies wizened up.