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[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 159 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Bytes, come on, please provide an archived link for RFK Jr. This has been 2 days in a row. Your posts are great, but I'll just pull right away from now on. I'll give everyone a half hour if you don't want me to pull it for this one, but this is a warning.

If you can't figure out why this community requires an archived link, ask yourself if you can tell if RFK really said this.

Edit: u/urpartnerincrime found the link and I archived it. https://archive.is/fk7oe

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 64 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Jeez, you're right and Im sorry. I blast these while in the bathroom and pick communities that fit it without thinking.

I'll do better and I really appreciate the modding of this community. Keeps us above board.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

I thought something like that was happening. You're a great poster and I don't want to lose you. Maybe the community can step up to provide an archive if they see it's missing. Sometimes it takes me awhile to catch it.

[-] digitalnuisance@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

Internet janitors gonna internet janitor.

[-] the_q@lemm.ee 92 points 1 month ago

Rich people amass so much money they lose the ability to recognize its value. It's a hoarding condition plain and simple.

[-] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

RFK had it from the beginning

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 60 points 1 month ago

How is this real? He can’t really think that’s a reasonable statement to make in reality, right? He has an inkling of how tone-deaf he is, right?!

[-] peregrin5@lemm.ee 28 points 1 month ago

He's a Kennedy.

[-] dangling_cat 60 points 1 month ago

Idea: Add 10 questions to the tax form that ask for the price of common household items/groceries. For each wrong answer, increase the tax by 10 percent. The question has to be answered by the individual and cannot be modified by accountants. Give it a fun name like “price is right tax” and snuggle it in the spending bill.

[-] nearhat@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago

“It’s one banana, Michael. How much could it cost, $10?”

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago
[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 1 month ago

What? Isn't it cents a piece?

[-] ninja@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I see milk thrown around as the common thing people are supposed to know about. I'm lactose intolerant and have no idea how much a gallon of milk costs. It's unlikely you could find 10 things that everyone buys and has similar pricing across brands and variations.

[-] Szyler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Do a ski jump score, of dropping the highest and lowest score, so you can have two shitty answers, and only scored on your middle answers.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I like to remind the republicans I know that the people they vote for would shoot themselves rather than live like we do. For them, even a middle class lifestyle would seem like crippling, destitute poverty.

E: tbf, it's also true of many Democrats, but I can't think of a single working class Republican legislator and cabinet member. I can think of at least a few working class democrats.

[-] doug@lemmy.today 43 points 1 month ago

I wish I knew their Venmo handles so I could send requests for whatever they consider to be small chunks of change. I’m sure I wouldn’t get much, but as Michael Scott said, “you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

[-] entwine413@lemm.ee 21 points 1 month ago

I've done this with meds from my doctor. Like, 3 years ago I stopped taking muscle relaxers for migraine prevention, then I recently pulled my back. I didn't want to pay a copay just to get more, so I did a refill request with my pharmacy.

Sure enough, they rubber-stamped the request.

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

I doubt they even know what Venmo is. They don't make decisions about or personally handle transactions with small amounts of money.

[-] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Real Lucille Bluth vibes.

"it's just one banana Michael. How much could it cost, $10?"

[-] entwine413@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago

In a few months she might actually be right.

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 month ago
[-] Zenith@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago
[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago

During the hearing, Rep. Josh Harder (D-Cali.) claimed that the average American would have to pay over $286,000 out of pocket to receive the same addiction treatment that he had.

That.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

The brain worm has no concept of money, so I kind of get it. I wonder if the brain worm is helping the covid virus stay around so they can together kill off humans.

[-] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

They know.

It’s a demoralization tactic, and it’s working.

[-] 1337@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The US census bureau says the median income was $47960. (Doesn't invalidate your point of course)

[-] Fu@hostux.social 5 points 1 month ago

Let's make sure we understand what he was comparing:

"During the hearing, Rep. Josh Harder (D-Cali.) claimed that the average American would have to pay over $286,000 out of pocket to receive the same addiction treatment that he had."

https://archive.ph/NayZN

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

So RFK Jr spent 10 times more on addiction treatment than needed? Is this some kind of humiliation kink I don't understand?

[-] Fu@hostux.social 1 points 4 weeks ago

@ryedaft 🤷there certainly are some people who are willing to pay more for a doctor they know/trust, and when you have Kennedy level money...

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

it dint work for rfk jr,

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Poor people gotta die. -RFK Jr. Probably

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