Calls for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s resignation are growing after two unvaccinated people died from measles in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. There have been 393 confirmed measles cases in 28 counties in Pennsylvania this year, and 2,777 total cases nationally—a 35-year high.

These are the first measles deaths in the United States this year, and in Pennsylvania in more than three decades.

“RFK Jr.’s lies and conspiracy theories are making Marylanders sick,” Democratic Maryland Senator Angela Alsobrooks wrote Tuesday on X. “RFK Jr. must resign or be fired. Vaccines are safe and effective. Listen to your pediatrician.”

“Measles is officially out of control. How many more people need to die before there is a nationwide call for RFK Jr. to resign?” said Shaughnessy Naughton, president of the pro-science organizing group 3.14 Action. “His anti-science, anti-vaccine policies are killing people and infecting a generation of Americans with dangerous vaccine skepticism that will take years to recover from.”

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    A dude who had brain worms, defies all science that indicates that vaccines don’t cause autism, and eats rotting whale carcass isn’t the sort to swallow his pride and quit.

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    Resigning would be getting off lightly. All these murderous crooks need prosecuting to the full extent of the law.

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    He’ll never resign. That would imply that he’s capable of admitting to being wrong. And he’s too fucking crazy for that. He believes all the bullshit he says.

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    Daily reminder that the billionaire class wants most of us dead. They will not give you health care. They will destroy the CDC. They want pandemics to ravage the masses and reduce our numbers. They want our assets and our wealth and they want you dead. They don’t want things to be safe. They don’t want cars to be safe. They don’t want your drinking water to be safe. They want it all to be as hazardous as possible so that the most number of people die.

    They are happy when bad things happen to you. And they really believe that they’re entitled to the planet. This is all working towards their goal.

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      An empty playground for the rich free of taxation, with AI doing all the production for them. It’s like reverse communism, with the bourgeoisie completely conquereing and eliminating the proletariat.

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      I don’t get the logic. Not criticizing you, because it’s one good explanation. Who generates the wealth for the billionaire class? Who receives the wealth? You’d want highly educated people and not peasants. Wouldn’t you rather grift in Taiwan than North Korea?

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        In my mind, it doesn’t really matter who generates the wealth. They already have it. They’re just picking up the rest of the floor. And technically, I said, most of us. They want a small serving class. They will always need it. They take the path of least the resistance first. Take out all the lower hanging fruit.

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        Except that highly educated people are going to eventually fight back or flee grift and fascism. Only the dull , unskilled and propagandized will stick around until the leopards eat their faces.

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        Corporations spent hundreds of billions on LLMs to crator the value of skilled labor, justify mass layoffs, and launder stolen content, all to cut cost. Whether it’s legal regulations or basic human rights, in the eyes of sycophants, any perceived risk to their profit margin is deemed unacceptable including their own employees.

        Smaller companies are themselves not meant to survive and intended to diversify legal risks and consequences (e.g. Alphabet and Meta split from Google and Facebook). This way they can be dismantled and sold once the legal baggage becomes unprofitable without risking the wealth that has long since been funnelled to its ‘legally distinct’ owners. The collateral damage to the now unemployed is simply one less thing off their balance sheet and is much easier to do when you have home turf legal corruption advantages.

        So no, it’s not about generating stable wealth long term as it is about capturing any source of capital by any means necessary, legality and morals be damned.

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      But then why simultaneously complain about low birth rates? They seem to want a growing workforce class they can exploit.

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        They don’t have their robotic workforce and killer drones just yet. towards the billionaire utopia, the billionaires require their killing machine to be up and running at max efficiency, yet they still need babies to fuck, kill, and exploit. It’s really a a transitional need, not part of what I would think is the final vision.

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        Its nonsensical.

        If the billionaire class wanted everyone dead they wouldn’t do it with measles

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          You’re assuming these people are competent businessmen who would figure out that killing off the people you’re exploiting for wealth is bad for building further wealth.

          Trump is a prime example of the incompetence. He bankrupted multiple casinos, even with Daddy’s inheritance.

          They’re just simply good at gaming the system by manipulating market shares and real estate, while buying political power to serve their interests. They’re not businessmen at all. They’re grifters.

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            On the contrary.

            We are in agreement that what’s happening is not malice, but incompetence and greed.

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        They want the older ones that have known a better life to die so that they can teach the young to serve and obey, that’s why they are complaining about birth rates.

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    Uhh it leaked earlier today that they’re trying to revamp the categories of vaccine so they can reduce the number of required vaccines for everyone including kids. Worst timeline. Could not have made me believe this was possible 15 years ago.

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      20 years ago I was at a university that was studying mRNA bombing as a way to deliver “impossible” vaccines. We were young millennials, still dreaming of a better future. We really thought that 80% of cancers would have effective vaccines by the time we were 50.

      Instead, most of us are repeating that MMR is safe, moving up our first colonoscopies, and exhaustedly reminding our parents not to believe anything they see on the Internet. If this isn’t the worst timeline it’s an honorable fuckin’ mention.

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    When RFK Jr. was born, the measles vaccine hadn’t even been created.

    He described himself as a “measles survivor” because he had a very mild case. I’d like to see him go up to a child who is dying of the measles and try to explain how it’s not supposed to be that bad.

    I imagine that people like RFK Jr. are the reason that humans invented the idea of hell. There’s literally no punishment that the man could possibly receive that would even put the smallest dent in the amount of misery he’s needlessly created.

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    I love how (some of) his former supporters are all up in arms over this, but still can’t see that everyone else in the administration they voted for is just as bad.

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    I’m not sure his resignation would help, clearly Trump is more antivaxx than he is and is breathing down his neck to prove vaccines cause autism. Trump would only replace him with someone more radical.

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    Lol he killed a shit load of Somali children, two more people ain’t gonna mean a thing to him.

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    What about all the assholes besides him that are there, though? I don’t think he was the only dumbfuck anti-enlightenment asshole put into power in these critical government positions.

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      pro-science organizing group

      Got excited when I read this. Yes yes yes where do I join and let me give you money are we fielding a Presidential candidate??

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    Robert roadkill penis eater is not qualified for the job he is employed at, or any other job for that matter.