“Anything that relates to water quality, removing contaminants, things like that, we’re not touching that,” Tuck [the bill sponsor] said. “It’s anything that has to do with health. So fluoride, vitamins, whatever else it is.

  • ClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]
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    682 days ago

    And it’s not targeted either, it’s not like they’re pulling funding for fluoridation in heavily black areas or anything like that

    They’re genuinely stupid people who actually believe insane conspiracy theories about fluoride and don’t believe in the benefits. There’s no plot. They’re just really really dumb. They’re also evil, but it can’t be understated that they’re dumb.

    • HamManBad [he/him]
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      222 days ago

      Daniel Craig’s little speech at the end of Glass Onion describes the current era better than anything else I’ve seen

    • Prehensile_cloaca
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      11 day ago

      There’s gotta be a broad overlapping of profoundly stupid and “evil.” The garden-variety evil person probably is just really, really dumb, while a small minority of evildoers are highly intelligent sociopaths.

      Of course the more involved they are in organized religion, the easier they probably are to push into weird evil shit, since they’re primed to comply and not question their own actions.