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Sharon McDonald's avatar

Most autistic are smarter and more functional than he is

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MsGabriel's avatar

Kennedy is a hypocrite who wants to be all things to all people. He had his six children vaccinated, despite pushing dubious anti-vax treatments and writing two books against vaccination.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rfk-jr-children-vaccinated/

The risk of vaccine injury is generally extremely small: and tiny compared with the far greater risks of harm from contracting the disease which a vaccine protects against.

And Kennedy is anyway not a medic but a lawyer: so he has no business using his prestigious name to advance medical conspiracy theories, nor to occupy an important government post for which he is totally unqualified.

Kennedy's probably illegal total medical data trawl is yet another instance of violation of personal privacy and data protections, to set up a coordinated data surveillance system suitable for an authoritarian regime.

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Candy's avatar

Hey Mary, I just found your blog, and I don't know whether you're a real person because the illustrations are AI generated which is opens up the possibility that this is all automated.

In case you're a real person, please understand that AI generated images are contributing to and normalizing a post-reality world that benefits Trump & friends, where authenticity has no value. Please if you actually want to make a change, stick to authenticity, use CC0 sources for authentic photos or illustrations.

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Shawn Towey (she/her)'s avatar

Thanks for posting that, I was also put off by the AI photos. So creepy. If you need a photo for the algorithm, please just post a photo of a nice Oregon beach scene. Or find a photo online.

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TCampbell's avatar

My two grandchildren are on what one could now describe the autistic scale—brilliant—different—one artistic the other a verbal highly active young fellow—we need people like this to advance science, innovation, the arts, comedy, theatrics—JHC

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TCampbell's avatar

My heart is squeezing for my American cousins—an awful “dystopian” reality—how have you come to this ??

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Barbara Otonicar's avatar

We have seen this before. This is extremely dangerous. They say they will not track personal information. How will we be assured of that? There is nothing trustworthy about this Trump Administration. Remember the 1930's.

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Susan Churchill's avatar

Start with Elon Musk.

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Bea's avatar

I have JUST finished reading “Long Island and the legacy of Eugenics “ by Mark A. Torres. It is very disturbing.

Reading your article, I was immediately struck by the same thought.

A registry of this type is abominable.

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Maya J's avatar

Another nightmare scenario from a seriously unbalanced mind. Based on how the trump regime has demonstrated incredible levels of incompetence (Hegseth, Rubio, Nutlick, Musk, etc etc) I am fairly confident that RFKs evil intentions will not be carried out in any comprehensive way. These guys can dream up fantasy fascism but not sure they can actually get anything done.

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Jeri Gillin's avatar

Great article. Thank you.

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Resist the MAGA Agenda's avatar

Well done!!!

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