• Former President Donald Trump said that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s proposal to remove fluoride from the U.S. water systems “sounds okay” to him.
  • Kennedy, who is poised to play a health policy role in a potential Trump administration, recently wrote, “The Trump White House will advise all U.S​. water systems to remove fluoride from public water.”
  • According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “the safety and benefits of fluoride are well documented and have been reviewed comprehensively by several scientific and public health organizations.”
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Two days from now timelines are going split. I don’t know what will happen in both, but I can tell you for sure I’d like to avoid the timeline where Trump wins. If for no other reason than all the bad breath this single choice will cause.

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It’s like Back to the Future’s alternative Biff-world versus the saner reality.

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I’m sorry from the future :(

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I’ll take the:

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “the safety and benefits of fluoride are well documented and have been reviewed comprehensively by several scientific and public health organizations.”

…over your:

fluoride only helps out when used topically (like in toothpaste). Drinking it may actually weaken your bones, supposedly.

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This is a good take, I liken it to iodine in salt.

However, I worry about the effects of fluoride in groundwater. I don’t know if I should be too concerned about that per se, but I hear some plants hate it and that and it says in the ground for like forever.

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Good bait

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The reason why you’re being downvoted is because you’ve provided some outlandish claims without any source.

I honestly remember my parent’s talking about these exact things in the 80s. It’s absurd to claim that in the interceding decades no reputable science has supported these claims.

Science is sometimes wrong, and from time to time we have to improve our understanding of things, but great claims require great evidence.

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9542152/

In summary, we observed significant and consistent differences in dental caries experience in the primary dentition between Grade 2 children in Calgary (fluoridation cessation) and Edmonton (still fluoridated), Canada, 7‐8 years following cessation in Calgary. Our findings are consistent with an adverse impact of fluoridation cessation on children’s dental health in Calgary, and point to the need for universally, publicly funded prevention activities including, but not limited to fluoridation.

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I’ve always heard ingesting flouride makes developing teeth stronger, and does nothing for adults. Found a review of studies: https://www.cochrane.org/CD010856/ORAL_does-adding-fluoride-water-supplies-prevent-tooth-decay

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If he wins, we are all fucked

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And that “a little but better” isn’t worth anything? At least it buys time.

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I mean, you’re right.

The fact that one of the major tauted policies of Harris’ campaign was a border wall, something that Trump exclusively brought to the table in 2016, is just one example of our government racheting more and more conservative over time. Democrats used to at least advocate for America being a land of immigrants.

Really hope Harris doesn’t run in 2028 if she wins 2024. We need a Democratic primary where Americans can choose those in the party who represent more progressive values than the establishment.

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Oh, every day is going to be like this if Trump wins.

Most of it probably won’t be followed through on, but it’s going to be some outrageous plan or statement like this every single day.

Like, what other administation could make a scandal out of a NOAA weather prediction? It ultimately meant nothing, but still…

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You know the best part about Biden?

I forgot the US actually had a president. Notice how he’s just been able to get along and do stuff?

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I thought he was hiding in a cupboard until he came out with his silly garbage quote.

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Still better than a celebrity president.

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Trump will make America great again by making sure our rivers are just as flammable as they were in the late 1960s.

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It was like this every day.

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And I had anxiety for 4 years. That Southpark episode with Tweak and NK was spot on.

My liver can’t do another 4 years of that shit.

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Which episode was that?

Waking up to see what the twat had tweeted overnight was just awful.

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This was literally an episode of Parks and Rec. It was supposed to be satire…

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There were decades of examples before that of fluoride conspiracies being spouted by kooks and insane people. It’s kind of a trope.

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People have known that water fluoridation is an international communist plot to sap and impurity our precious bodily fluids since at least the 50s!

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That’s why I only drink grain alcohol and rainwater

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The Trump White House will advise all U.S​. water systems to remove fluoride from public water.

Municipalities will advise the Trump White House that they will not listen to a man who had his brain eaten by worms

Ahh, the good old days when Trump said ‘let states decide’ and they decided to ignore his profoundly idiotic ass

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