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I listened to him on Lex and Joe Rogan podcasts. I went from from one end of the spectrum on him to the other in the span of one episode. I started expecting hi

by Dig1t 3y ago

I listened to him on Lex and Joe Rogan podcasts. I went from from one end of the spectrum on him to the other in the span of one episode. I started expecting him to be a total crackpot and was surprised at how sensible his ideas were and how clearly he articulated them. I would totally vote for this guy, seems way better than Biden or Trump. I recommend just listening to him with an open mind, seems pretty nice.

gloryjulio 3y ago
This guy? Are you sure? https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/07/rfk-jr-covid-ethnically-targeted https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/07/rfk-jr-covid-ethnica...
- Dig1t 3y ago
  I read his response, seemed pretty reasonable to me. https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1680227322509635595 https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/16802273225096355... >I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. I accurately pointed out — during an off-the-record conversation — that the U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021 study of the COVID-19 virus shows that COVID-19 appears to disproportionately affect certain races since the furin cleave docking site is most compatible with Blacks and Caucasians and least compatible with ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews.
  - zimpenfish 3y ago
    C'mon, that's disingenuous bullshit. > I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. You can't say (and these are his own words from the video) "COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese." and then claim the second sentence has no link to the first.
    - lowkey 3y ago
      On the video [0] you can clearly hear him say that he knows a lot about bioweapons because he has been writing a book on the subject for the past 2.5 years. I will assume good faith on your part and therefore infer that you missed the line at 0:30 seconds into the video, immediately before your quote begins where he says "There is an argument that .." There is a huge difference between saying "He claims ..." and saying "He claims there is an argument that ..." It also appears you missed the rest of what he said after you ended your quote, specifically, "We don't know if it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial and ethnic differential - and the impact of that. We do know that the Chinese are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to develop bioweapons and that we are investing hundreds of millions of dollars developing bioweapons. That's what all those labs in the Ukraine are about. They are collecting Russian DNA. They are collecting Chinese DNA so we can target people by race." The full quote is therefore, (adding the missing context in italics) "There is an argument that COVID-19 is ethnically targeted. It attacks certain races disproportionately. The races that are most immune to COVID-19 are, because of the genetic differentials among different races of the receptors - of the ACE-2 receptor, COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese - but we don't know if it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial and ethnic differential - and the impact of that. We do know that the Chinese are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to develop bioweapons and that we are investing hundreds of millions of dollars developing bioweapons. That's what all those labs in the Ukraine are about. They are collecting Russian DNA. They are collecting Chinese DNA so we can target people by race. " Reading the full quote in context, it is clear he is citing this study [1] which backs up his claims about the differential impact of COVID-19 by race. He also makes it clear in the full quote that "we don't know if it was done intentionally or not" He was clearly mis-quoted out of context in the article. Reading the full quote in context, it is not at all the damning statement you believe it to be. [0] https://twitter.com/ANTlWEF/status/1680476815993741312?s=20 https://twitter.com/ANTlWEF/status/1680476815993741312?s=20 [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32664879/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32664879/
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        dang 3y ago
        Can you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? We have to ban accounts that keep doing this. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
        dang 3y ago
        Can you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? We have to ban accounts that keep doing this. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

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gloryjulio 3y ago

This guy? Are you sure? https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/07/rfk-jr-covid-ethnically-targeted https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/07/rfk-jr-covid-ethnica...

Dig1t 3y ago
I read his response, seemed pretty reasonable to me. https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1680227322509635595 https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/16802273225096355... >I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. I accurately pointed out — during an off-the-record conversation — that the U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021 study of the COVID-19 virus shows that COVID-19 appears to disproportionately affect certain races since the furin cleave docking site is most compatible with Blacks and Caucasians and least compatible with ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews.
- zimpenfish 3y ago
  C'mon, that's disingenuous bullshit. > I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. You can't say (and these are his own words from the video) "COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese." and then claim the second sentence has no link to the first.
  - lowkey 3y ago
    On the video [0] you can clearly hear him say that he knows a lot about bioweapons because he has been writing a book on the subject for the past 2.5 years. I will assume good faith on your part and therefore infer that you missed the line at 0:30 seconds into the video, immediately before your quote begins where he says "There is an argument that .." There is a huge difference between saying "He claims ..." and saying "He claims there is an argument that ..." It also appears you missed the rest of what he said after you ended your quote, specifically, "We don't know if it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial and ethnic differential - and the impact of that. We do know that the Chinese are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to develop bioweapons and that we are investing hundreds of millions of dollars developing bioweapons. That's what all those labs in the Ukraine are about. They are collecting Russian DNA. They are collecting Chinese DNA so we can target people by race." The full quote is therefore, (adding the missing context in italics) "There is an argument that COVID-19 is ethnically targeted. It attacks certain races disproportionately. The races that are most immune to COVID-19 are, because of the genetic differentials among different races of the receptors - of the ACE-2 receptor, COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese - but we don't know if it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial and ethnic differential - and the impact of that. We do know that the Chinese are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to develop bioweapons and that we are investing hundreds of millions of dollars developing bioweapons. That's what all those labs in the Ukraine are about. They are collecting Russian DNA. They are collecting Chinese DNA so we can target people by race. " Reading the full quote in context, it is clear he is citing this study [1] which backs up his claims about the differential impact of COVID-19 by race. He also makes it clear in the full quote that "we don't know if it was done intentionally or not" He was clearly mis-quoted out of context in the article. Reading the full quote in context, it is not at all the damning statement you believe it to be. [0] https://twitter.com/ANTlWEF/status/1680476815993741312?s=20 https://twitter.com/ANTlWEF/status/1680476815993741312?s=20 [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32664879/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32664879/
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        dang 3y ago
        Can you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? We have to ban accounts that keep doing this. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
      - dang 3y ago
        Can you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? We have to ban accounts that keep doing this. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.