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[-] Biggles@lemmy.myserv.one 122 points 6 months ago
[-] sab@kbin.social 40 points 6 months ago

Honestly, I think this might be on to something. RFK jr was not always a lunatic - before he went insane he did some truly great things in his career. He then gradually made a turn for the worse, ending up as the mentally insane candidate we know today. It honestly explains his political platform pretty well.

It also reminds me of that great infowars interview with a Sanders supporter (correctly?) observing that they have worms in their brains.

[-] june@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

My mother has taken a similar track, and come to find out about a quarter of her brain has died, presumably as a result of her cancer treatment. Today she’s a mind boggingly gullible person who’s fallen down every conspiracy theory hole that she’s come across.

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[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 88 points 6 months ago

No wonder it died

It didn't have enough food

[-] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 46 points 6 months ago

Makes me think of that scene from Futurama where Fry's brain slug dies due to lack of food, lol.

[-] neoman4426@fedia.io 7 points 6 months ago

I can't remember, was that just a "Fry dumb" thing, or was it related to his incestuous bootstrap lack of delta brainwave?

[-] Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I don't think they ever said one way or the other. I just remember H̶e̶r̶m̶e̶s̶ Farnsworth says something like, "The poor little guy starved to death."

Edit: made a correction

[-] Baahb@feddit.nl 13 points 6 months ago

Fry dumb. You can pretend it's more complicated if you want, but the joke is "Fry dumb".

[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 months ago

Especially since the delta wave thing is also a “fry dumb” thing.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 83 points 6 months ago

He said in a deposition that clinicians believed the parasite “got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”

Well, that's reassuring. I'll be sure to vote for the guy who had his brain eaten by a worm. That's the best qualification you can get.

[-] Brokkr@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Is it possible the worm starved to death?

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[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 76 points 6 months ago

The jokes write themselves

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 65 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

When this hit Morning Joe on my morning drive into work, I had tears in my eyes from laughing so much.

What. The. Fuck.

it ate a portion of his brain

Seriously. What the fuck is this time-line?

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 38 points 6 months ago
[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 38 points 6 months ago

The quote is hilarious

Kennedy said in the deposition that the doctor thought the spot on the scan “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”

Just the way he said it makes it sound like eating his brain killed the worm...

Also, this was from a divorce testimony in 2012 about a past event.

It's not a new development, he's been like this over a decade.

[-] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

The worm’s last words, “the moon landing causes autism”

[-] muffedtrims@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I thought it was the 5G

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago
[-] bazus1@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Won't someone think of the worms?!?

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 55 points 6 months ago

Poor lil fella must have starved to death.

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[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 39 points 6 months ago

Fun fact, this is exactly the sort of situation that Ivermectin was made for. It's an anti-parasite drug.

[-] Zip2@feddit.uk 38 points 6 months ago

“I’d quite like this parasite removed before it kills me” the worm was heard saying.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

Amy: ~~Fry~~ Bobby, what happened to your brain slug?

Farnsworth: Tsk, tsk. The poor guy starved to death.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago

Oh no, they can't remove the only coherent thoughts he has!

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

The worm died over a decade ago...

And Kennedy seems to think the cause of death was eating his brain

Kennedy said in the deposition that the doctor thought the spot on the scan “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

That’s just a sequence of events. “I stood up and then my car alarm went off” doesn’t mean those events are linked. The worm probably just doesn’t live that long or something.

There are myriad things we can point to to mock these people but showing off our poor reading comprehension isn’t going to help.

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

Definitely presidential material.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

Of course the worm was dead. Reason of death: starvation.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I thought brainworms were just a colloquial saying, not an actual thing!

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There's a reason we have food safety regulations...

And before that religions banned eating pork. A common worm people get from eating undercooked pork spread through your bloodstream and eggs (not commonly, but occasionally) can cross the blood/brain barrier.

People think it's just a saying these days, but that's because we know how to mostly prevent it, so it went from common to super rare.

But every once and a while some idiot doesn't cook pork properly and this happens.

[-] Bonehead@kbin.social 15 points 6 months ago

To be fair, health regulations have largely eliminated the risk of parasites in pork. Though that doesn't apply everywhere in the world.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Hold up.

I'm talking about food prep regulations, cooking to an internal temperature.

Which is very easy for idiots to not follow.

You seem to be talking about farm regulations preventing infected meat. That is not happening and not really possible. It takes a single microscopic egg.

We can't count on farm regulations.

But food prep regulations are like vaccines, if everyone does it, people start to think we don't need it and stop following it.

Are you aware of RFK's comments on vaccines?

He's exactly the type of guy that wouldnt care if pork was undercooked

[-] Bonehead@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes, I understand that. Cooking pork to an internal temperature of 165 Fahrenheit will kill parasites. But health regulations on farms have essentially eliminated the risk of parasites to begin with, specifically to mitigate the idiots. RFK admitted to eating in a foreign country that doesn't have the same safety standards. That's the reason he was infected with parasites.

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

It’s 145 for pork, 160 for ground pork. They changed it a while ago.

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[-] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Trichinosis is all but gone in the USA, you can eat pork chops rare here

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/trichinellosis/epi.html

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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago
[-] bquintb@midwest.social 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ok, Alex, I'll take "Headlines That Write Themselves" for $200

[-] Haus@kbin.social 12 points 6 months ago

I've always low-key blamed Trump (and his minions) on lead poisoning - paint, exhaust from leaded gasoline, old pipes & so forth. I suppose there's some portion that's explained by inbreeding. But, I guess some portion of the phenomenon could also be explained by uncooked pork products....

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

It's that whole generation who grew up when cars were everywhere and so was lead. It was brief window where it was really bad.

Lead exposure has a tiny threshold to cause mental impairment. And back then everyone was getting dosed. I mean, we still are. Just not as much.

Which is another reason it's crazy we're still letting the most lead exposed generation run shit in their 80s.

The effects of aging and lead exposure cause similar effects that stack with each other.

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[-] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

yeah, that tracks

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

What they're not telling is the worm died of starvation. It was likely the preferable alternative.

[-] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

I hate looking at him. I hate hearing his voice. But this is hilarious.

[-] Squorlple@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

The phrasing of “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died” implies that just a nibble of his brain was so toxic that it caused the parasitic worm to die. Hopefully RFK Jr. gets proper treatment and any lasting effects are healed. With a presidential race where the candidates’ mental faculties are such a point of contention, it seems like RFK Jr. will avoid much of the armchair doctors’ criticism despite his affliction because he’s not either of the two main candidates.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

The space worm realized he picked a bad host and committed suicide

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[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

They need to lobotomize him like they did with Rosemary.

[-] Davidchan@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 6 months ago

The poor thing starved to death

[-] tvarog_smetana@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

This dude's lucky he's not a mind flayer

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago

Called it, ask anyone, the second he opened his mouth I knew it was brain worms....

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