• CommCat [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Still remember during the Covid pandemic, Trump was at the podium and he started talking about injecting disinfectant into your body to kill the virus. The head doctor seated on the side had a look on her face like “wtf?” lol

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      Seriously trying to figure out how “tylenol, vaccines, and artificial food dyes are causing autism and should be banned” can coexist with “you should take horse dewormer to cure covid and can mainline chlorox if you want”

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      My favorite thing about the inject bleach into the body stuff was that within hours Scott Adams put out a short tweet thread that was an attempt to explain what his hero Trump meant even though it was clear Trump was simply an abject idiot and fool talking out of his ass trying to sound smart.

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      Ninja edit

      Way back in May - Adams said he had months to live due to prostate cancer. He went on to say he took the horse paste but it didn’t work and was in great pain and blah bah blah. I checked his Wikipedia page and now he says he might live for years.

      On May 19, 2025, Adams revealed on his daily podcast Real Coffee with Scott Adams that he has prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, and that he only has a short time left to live. He has stated that the cancer has spread to his spine which has caused him to use a walker due to the immense pain. He noted that taking ivermectin and fenbendazole to treat the cancer did not work for him.

      In June 2025, he revealed he had made an appointment about physician assisted suicide through the California End of Life Option Act, and was going to go through with it on June 29 or June 30, after his stepdaughter’s wedding, as the pain was too much to handle.

      He then discovered that by taking common testosterone blocker pills his pain unexpectedly went away, and his PSA levels dropped with 90%, which would give him weeks, months or even some years extra.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams

    • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      The American Academy of Pediatrics pushed it as a blanket recommendation back in the 70s and didn’t retract it until like the 2010s, which is why it’s so widespread. IIRC, the rationale was some hand-wavey bullshit about cleanliness and reducing the spread of STDs later in life, which is the exact kind of thing someone raised on leaded hose water would come up with.

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        I was told it was because when I exposed my penis to all my classmates in the changing room I wouldn’t be the only one who had an uncut wang and suffer humiliation. Turns out I never once got naked in front of my classmates, but I still got humiliated on a near constant basis. By a cruel twist of fate, had I actually had the opportunity to expose my gennies, I would have certainly earned myself some cred, as I’m hogged up for real down there.

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      I actually didn’t get snipped until I was in first grade due to getting repeat infections in the area (most likely due to my eczema). It sucks but what can you do, it kept me out of the hospital. I would never do it to my hypothetical child unless absolutely necessary.

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      They want to destroy public health by redirecting spending from medical stuff to supplements and deregulated “medical” devices so their friends get rich off the grift.

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      We’re a surplus population that isn’t needed combined with a consumer market. If the capitalists needed Americans to be a healthy and productive workforce then we would have cheaper healthcare. Like fundamentally they don’t care about us and all of neoliberalism is just looting society at large because it doesn’t matter. To people like Thatcher society didn’t even really exist.

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      Individualizing the lack of common good by blaming bad health outcomes on individual choices, cheaper taxes, more opportunities for private healthcare solutions, less regulation for polluters that cause environmental health risks, and a group of human cattle that are desperate to sell their organs, wombs, and fluids to the wealthy at bargain prices.

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      Because the point is to subject infants to a tremendous amount of pain at a key point in cognitive and emotional development to increase the number of sociopaths in society.

      - a conspiracy theory I have no evidence or scientific basis for

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        Circumcision Causes Significant Psychological Harm in Children and Adolescents

        Circumcision in childhood and adolescence has significant negative psychological consequences. Following a traumatic event, many children experience anxiety, depression, and anger; and many others try to avoid and suppress these painful feelings (Gil, 2006). In addition, children often experience a debilitating loss of control that negatively affects their ability to regulate emotions and make sense of the traumatic experience (Van der Kolk, 2005). In a study of adults circumcised in childhood, Hammond (1999) found that many men conceptualized their circumcision experience as an act of violence, mutilation, or sexual assault. Kennedy (1986) detailed the psychological effects of circumcision in a case study describing the psychotherapy of a boy who was circumcised at three years of age. The sense of inadequacy, feelings of victimization, and violent sexual fantasies experienced during this boy’s adolescence were found to be both consciously and unconsciously linked to his experience with losing part of his penis (Kennedy, 1986). In a study examining the psychological effects of circumcision on boys between four and seven years of age, Cansever (1965) used psychological testing to measure boys’ level of distress. The results of the study indicated that circumcision was perceived as an aggressive attack on the body that left children feeling damaged and mutilated (Cansever, 1968). Cansever (1968) also noted that these boys experienced changes in body image (with many feeling smaller and incomplete), feelings of inadequacy and helplessness, as well as a tendency to withdraw psychologically.[1]


        1. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/moral-landscapes/201501/circumcisions-psychological-damage ↩︎

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    Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism

    Holy hell, is he going to be based for all the wrong reasons??

    it’s highly likely because they’re given tylenol

    fuck sake

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      I think this is a bad take because circumcision rates in the USA are around 80% and it is disconnected from Jewish cultural practices.

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          Non-religous family, got circumcized because “That’s how it’s done”.

          According to my parents, they weren’t even asked or otherwise made aware. It was just “standard procedure” at the time. Apparently my father lost his absolute shit and had to be escorted from the premise before he defenestrated the guy.

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        I don’t think she’s saying your complaints about circumcision are invalid, she’s talking specifically about RFK, Trump and that whole group. The /pol/ crowd blames Jewish people for circumcision. They talk about how the Mohel will perform the bris and drink the blood from the infant as part of a dark ritual. They view non-Jewish people who participate are just dupes who don’t understand the “real” reason behind it.

        We have to deal with this in regards to the Epstein stuff as well. You’ll assume there is some kind of common connection over the issue between right and left but really it’s just their antisemitism making them wrong for the right reasons. As someone pointed out below, weird Protestants are why it’s so common in the US, not Jewish infiltration. But those same weirdos will blame it on Jews.

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      Love Jews. Hate circumcision. It’s not complicated.

      All cultures are capable of normalizing horrific practices.

      Not all Jews support circumcision, and not all circumcision supporters are Jewish. It’s the same dynamic as with Zionism in that regard.