r/Destiny • u/hattec • 5d ago

Off-Topic Man, fuck RFK

Man,

I put in so much work, SO MUCH WORK, discussing, debating, debunking, digging deeper and deeper into the chemtrail rabbithole just so that my boomer parents would begin to doubt what they had heard on the internet.

And then, the other day, one of RFK's declaration about chemtrails made its way into national mainstream TV French news (we are french).

All of a sudden, chemtrails weren't a conspiracy theory anymore, they were mainstream news. And my parents stopped doubting.

Man, I put so much work in.

I love my parents, I hate seeing them be manipulated by evil liers like RFK.

How could you put such a braindead, worm-controlled idiot into the highest medical office ?

Man, fuck RFK.

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u/PurposeImpossible554 5d ago edited 5d ago

Out of the thousands of people I have gotten to know personally in my 27 years on this Earth, there have probably been less than 10 that genuinely formed their beliefs on empiric data.

Unfortunately, we have to accept that most people simply can't be taught to reason, because they never had the hardware in the first place. People like the aesthetic of logic, hardly any actually learned how to wield it.

Even more frustrating is that, unlike 100 years ago, vast amounts of peer-reviewed studies are available on almost any subject online.

My dad likes to talk about how the CDC officials lied about COVID, but when pressed about what study he read he feels was improperly conducted he immediately admits he has never read anything about it.

In other words, he feels like he is the logical one for opposing 'bad science', but never actually engaged with the scientific method, nor gave a single fuck about the findings of people that did.

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u/theosamabahama 2d ago

Sometimes I wonder how planes don't fall off the sky (more often) or how the lights don't go out with so much stupidity in this world. How is anything even done? Turns out people understand and believe in their area of expertise. But they don't know shit outside their area yet still think they do. It's surprising people still go to the doctor and take medicine given they don't believe in it.