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[–] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 39 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Bring back leaded paint and all those dangerous pigments in artist paint. I want arsenic green again. Put asbestos everywhere. It's a miracle material. I'm tired of my engine knocking so we need lead in gasoline. Lead paint, leaded gas, you know what, just give us more lead. Lead is how leaders are born. It's the spice melange, it's the mojo, it's the essence of greatness. Finally, put the coke back in coke and make codeine OTC.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 27 points 3 days ago

Shit's getting so clownish that I think there's a chance that persistent boomer politicians and maybe some Gen-X junior boomers will say that they had lead in everything and turned out fine and that the reason people are weak these days is they need the lead back.

[–] ryepunk@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Let arsenic return as coloring agent for candy! Why have I been denied this delicious tasty treat?

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They used to have radium twinkies. Think of all the delicious spicy air they've taken from us.

[–] ryepunk@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

liberty-weeping I thought this was a free nation

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

You can still get a lot of the dangerous artist paints. I know because I have some of them lol

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 51 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We need to go back in time and massacre the entire John Birch Society. I know the time-travel assassination list is getting unmanageably long but the John Birchers need to go.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

John Birch Society

If I remember correctly they peaked in the 1960s with their anti-communist nonsense conspiracy theories and general public didn't even know who they were. And anybody who did know - knew they were nuts. But now nonsense conspiracy theories are mainstream though for republicans.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My understanding is that they had a strong, strong influence on right wing thought and many of their ideas have dispersed in to wider Fash culture. They haunt us from beyond the grave, cruel specters clawing at our anti-cavity toothpaste.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if ~60 years ago the JBS toyed with the idea of antivax avant la lettre. But they decided that was too batshit even for them.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

"Bring back polio!" - Mr birch society

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 49 points 3 days ago

You used to be able to eat leaded paint chips when I was a boy, now you can't because of woke sadness

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 47 points 3 days ago

The fluoride in the water is the only thing holding my teeth together nooooo

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 41 points 3 days ago

Letting all my teeth fall out to own the libs.

[–] Piment@hexbear.net 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Funnily enough Portland of all places does not fluorinate their water partly due to pressure from craft brewing and artisanal coffee roasters.

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

That is a Portlandia sketch and i refuse to believe it.

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 24 points 3 days ago

Fluoride in water is good. I spent a few weeks in a place without and got a cavity.

[–] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 29 points 3 days ago

Trump has really been picking up all the losers this cycle

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago

If you want a vision of the future, it's this, forever.

[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

I've already seen conservative memes about how they removed the lead in gasoline and house paint because the lead is what protected us from their radiation (I'm assuming that's how they spread wokeism).

Guaranteed if there aren't already: there will be people who start selling lead additives so you can start mixing them into the paint and gas yourself within the next 4 years.

[–] Homer_Simpson@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The only thing that has faltered my opposition to Kamala is the damage that this one guy might do.

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Robert F. Kennedy or Trump?

[–] M68040@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Anticipating a return of the Hayes Code by decade's end

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It'll be chuddier somehow, like "plastic cishet fanservice is okay but any (D-word slur that nazis use to describe people too different) is forbidden." frothingfash

[–] SSJ3Marx@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They're gonna require that every video game feature its protagonist in a cishet relationship with a trad wife and a ton of fanservice.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

I really don't rule out an actual "comics code" for games, driven by "trad" chuds in political office, that requires shit like that.

[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

They're putting chemicals in the water to make my teeth gay

[–] robinn_@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

Topically applied fluoride does not prevent tooth decay. It does render teeth detectable by spy satellite.

[–] copandballtorture@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

Time to invest in dental stocks

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

U could totally see republicans proposing to re-introduce lead in everything and refer to it as the "manliness metal" because all those mental issues it causes....well it just enhances your manliness!

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

Lead inhibits weak emotions and only allows strong ones to come out! grill-broke

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There is oddly not near as much research on the health impacts of fluoridated water as you would expect given the amount & time of discussion around it

(I am pro fluoridated water)

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's plenty of research among dental associations where they can basically tell whether kids in any given area had flouridated water based on the number of cavities and other tooth decay they found during checkups, demographically. There's that.

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes but there's pretty much only the dental stuff.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

I agree with you that there may be unknown additional side effects, even at the relatively low levels that are used to protect teeth, especially children's teeth, from cavities and toothy decay.

It's unfortunate that that line of inquiry has more often than not been bad-faith reactionary chud shit, like antivax movements are and with similar overlap. Some vaccines do have known side effects, but it's messy to even talk about it because of the chud factor.