https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rfk-infertility-genetic-quote/
Had to fact check it, it wasn’t malicious enough
Oh this quote is much older than that guy’s relevance. I wouldn’t doubt he said it but he surely wouldn’t have been the first.
The article does go on to remind us just how obsessed they are with sperm and testicles
This platform never lets the facts get in the way of a story, do they?
This platform isn’t a homogenous entity. You’re also on this platform.
Welcome to the internet.
Sir, this is a shitposting community. Facts and logic are not allowed.
This isn’t true. He says enough stupid things without having to make things up. https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/fact-check-robert-f-kennedy-233148881.html
Yeah, it’s technically true lol
If your parents were infertile than you wouldn’t exist so you wouldn’t have kids either.
Nothing in that sentence implies that you not being able to have kids means your parents couldn’t have kids.
What if your parents were adopted?
Adoptedness is only partially heritable; if one of your parents is adopted, chances are you’re 50% adopted too.
Someone needs to start taking out billboards with direct quotes from this dude and Trump.
No slogans or message, just their own words.
Although Snopes think he never said it.
I have always thought that billboards should be one of the main political messaging tools. The FOX crowd live in a resonance chamber, but they can’t avoid driving or walking by billboards. Intelligently designed billboards can be devastating, and can’t be tuned out. They should not be anecdotal, a lot of money and effort should be put in them.
Seriously. I can’t believe this isn’t parody.
He’s not technically wrong, though.
Infertile isn’t the same thing as sterile, and treatments like IVF can help couples conceive when they wouldn’t be able to naturally.
Many conditions that can cause infertility have genetic components.
This man is a GENIUS!
Since I genuinely cant tell yet if this site is smarter or dumber than reddit, let me point out the fact that this is obvious sarcasm.
There is no longer any belief that is so outrageous that you can’t find many people that genuinely hold it. Plain text is bereft of the unconscious social cues that could get around that problem, so there is no way to tell sarcasm just through print.
You’re not 100 percent wrong. But if something is so ludicrous that you cant possibly imagine a person actually saying it, it should be obvious that it is sarcasm (assuming youre reading it in your native language).
Also, you talk about social cues, right? What about deadpan comedy? There are 0 social cues. The jokes are spoken exactly the same as when they speak regular dialogue.
But really my main point was “I dont know if the people on this site are dumber than, as smart as, or smarter than the people on reddit”. Because reddit is filled with so many pseudointellectual virtue signaling shit bags and the moderation is a joke. I got permabanned for crossposting a text post from one subreddit about a specific topic, to another subreddit about the exact same topic. I read every single rule on the main site and both subs after the ban and I didnt violate any. So I wasnt sure if I NEEDED to point out the obvious sarcasm, because as I said, no matter how obvious it is, some people are too stupid to see it.
Anyway I appreciate the intelligent well written response. That’s already a step up from redshit.
This is a corollary to Poe’s Law.
Brain problems run in his family
this completely absolves the worm 💯
Ironic considering his parents didn’t have any kids that lived.
100% of people born will die. Stay afraid.
Wait…
Infertility runs in my partner’s family.
Wow. If stupidity was painful, this guy would scream at the top of his lungs.
I understand what he’s saying he’s just saying it badly. Like yea if you needed fertility treatments to conceive then your offspring may need it to.
Worm starved to death.
If my parents couldn’t have kids, I wouldn’t have to listen to his bullshit
hmmm
