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ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 11 days ago

They're so out of touch.

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They're so out of touch.

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ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 11 days ago
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  • MNByChoice@midwest.social
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    Poor people gotta die. -RFK Jr. Probably

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    Bytes, come on, please provide an archived link for RFK Jr. This has been 2 days in a row. Your posts are great, but I’ll just pull right away from now on. I’ll give everyone a half hour if you don’t want me to pull it for this one, but this is a warning.

    If you can’t figure out why this community requires an archived link, ask yourself if you can tell if RFK really said this.

    Edit: u/urpartnerincrime found the link and I archived it. https://archive.is/fk7oe

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netOP
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      Jeez, you’re right and Im sorry. I blast these while in the bathroom and pick communities that fit it without thinking.

      I’ll do better and I really appreciate the modding of this community. Keeps us above board.

      • digitalnuisance@infosec.pub
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        Internet janitors gonna internet janitor.

      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksM
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        I thought something like that was happening. You’re a great poster and I don’t want to lose you. Maybe the community can step up to provide an archive if they see it’s missing. Sometimes it takes me awhile to catch it.

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      Unfortunalty its on Twitter, but here’s him directly saying it

      ~~https://x.com/atrupar/status/1922680043332878521~~

      Edit: don’t use Twitter

      • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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        You can use xcancel or other nitter mirrors like

        https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1922680043332878521

        Same person is also on Bluesky and made an identical post there

        https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lp5dvd4j4d2c

        • UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works
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          Much appreciated!

          I literally just typed in the dudes name and followed the first link. Next time I can try a bit harder haha

          • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksM
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            You actually tried, we appreciate it.

      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksM
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        Thanks, I’ll archive it for you since you don’t seem to know how. In the future, you go to archive.is and they’ll archive it. I appreciate you finding it.

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          Heard heard. Will do from now on! Thanks

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      Or we could reference an actual article https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/out-touch-rfk-jr-says-35226477

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        Archived version for future reference: https://archive.ph/NayZN

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    Rich people amass so much money they lose the ability to recognize its value. It’s a hoarding condition plain and simple.

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      RFK had it from the beginning

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    Idea: Add 10 questions to the tax form that ask for the price of common household items/groceries. For each wrong answer, increase the tax by 10 percent. The question has to be answered by the individual and cannot be modified by accountants. Give it a fun name like “price is right tax” and snuggle it in the spending bill.

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      “It’s one banana, Michael. How much could it cost, $10?”

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      One dollar, Bob.

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        What? Isn’t it cents a piece?

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      I see milk thrown around as the common thing people are supposed to know about. I’m lactose intolerant and have no idea how much a gallon of milk costs. It’s unlikely you could find 10 things that everyone buys and has similar pricing across brands and variations.

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        Do a ski jump score, of dropping the highest and lowest score, so you can have two shitty answers, and only scored on your middle answers.

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    How is this real? He can’t really think that’s a reasonable statement to make in reality, right? He has an inkling of how tone-deaf he is, right?!

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      He’s a Kennedy.

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    I like to remind the republicans I know that the people they vote for would shoot themselves rather than live like we do. For them, even a middle class lifestyle would seem like crippling, destitute poverty.

    E: tbf, it’s also true of many Democrats, but I can’t think of a single working class Republican legislator and cabinet member. I can think of at least a few working class democrats.

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    I wish I knew their Venmo handles so I could send requests for whatever they consider to be small chunks of change. I’m sure I wouldn’t get much, but as Michael Scott said, “you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

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      I’ve done this with meds from my doctor. Like, 3 years ago I stopped taking muscle relaxers for migraine prevention, then I recently pulled my back. I didn’t want to pay a copay just to get more, so I did a refill request with my pharmacy.

      Sure enough, they rubber-stamped the request.

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      I doubt they even know what Venmo is. They don’t make decisions about or personally handle transactions with small amounts of money.

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    Real Lucille Bluth vibes.

    “it’s just one banana Michael. How much could it cost, $10?”

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      In a few months she might actually be right.

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    Tiny fraction of what?

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      During the hearing, Rep. Josh Harder (D-Cali.) claimed that the average American would have to pay over $286,000 out of pocket to receive the same addiction treatment that he had.

      That.

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      Exactly. I suspect he’s comparing that to a quarter-million dollar a month that governments spend on a patient, but archiving the social media post is as bad as a screen shot, so we’ll never know.

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    The brain worm has no concept of money, so I kind of get it. I wonder if the brain worm is helping the covid virus stay around so they can together kill off humans.

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    They know.

    It’s a demoralization tactic, and it’s working.

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    Oh, let me pack my summer bag and hop on over then.

  • 1337@lemmy.world
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    The US census bureau says the median income was $47960. (Doesn’t invalidate your point of course)

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    Let’s make sure we understand what he was comparing:

    “During the hearing, Rep. Josh Harder (D-Cali.) claimed that the average American would have to pay over $286,000 out of pocket to receive the same addiction treatment that he had.”

    https://archive.ph/NayZN

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      So RFK Jr spent 10 times more on addiction treatment than needed? Is this some kind of humiliation kink I don’t understand?

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        @ryedaft 🤷there certainly are some people who are willing to pay more for a doctor they know/trust, and when you have Kennedy level money…

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        it dint work for rfk jr,

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