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RFK Jr. Suggests Letting Bird Flu Spread (www.usnews.com)

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A controversial proposal from U.S Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to let bird flu naturally spread through poultry farms is raising alarms among scientists -- who say the move could be inhumane and dangerous.

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[–] [email protected] 291 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (67 children)

I love how the U.S. spent like 90 years building up soft power around the world and we are giving it all up in like a 3 month span.

Every person in charge of an agency, is literally not qualified to run a grocery store let alone the agencies they run.

Its alll about loyalty now, and its going to send the U.S. back into the dark age.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (47 children)

Hitler came to power because the treaty of Versailles devastated and humiliated germany. what the fuck are historians going to point at in the US that lead to the rise in fascism? fucking gamergate? The self-inflicted 2008 crisis?

[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What historians will point to in my opinion are two key point in modern American history that unleashed the decent into madness.

Raegan, his financial policies laid the groundwork for the modern ultra wealthy tech bros.
9/11, 9/11 turned patriotism into a national psychotic duty.

After 9/11 you could slap a US flag on basically anything, shout patriotism and make a shit load of money while being thanked for it.

Then it just rolled on.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

9/11 helped but by that point Christian nationalists had already spent the 20 years since Regan tying patriotism to faith.

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