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It's an okay meme, but I have to admit I'm conflicted on these jokes.
First, lets just point out that Vanity Fair and everyone else who reports on JFK's brain worm but won't cover his rallies or policy announcements -- let alone Jill Stein or Cornell West's -- is just doing a political hit job on a candidate challenging the hegemony of our two terrible political parties.
Second, although I think that JFK acts like a guy who had his brain eaten by a worm, it's not really appropriate imo to propagate this impression that this is a legitimate medical concern. This parasitic infection isn't actually any more debilitating than vaccines, so I think there's a perverse hypocrisy to dwelling on it when most of us decry his irresponsible spreading of medical misinformation and conspiracy theories.
Anyway, fuck RFK, but let's be real that he's definitely not the worst candidate in the race, and it's honestly not clear whether he's even the second worst at this point.
I hadn't heard about the guy until now and was about to say that we shouldn't bully him over a medical condition but then you said anti-vax shit and lost me.
I said the opposite: I said that I think he's anti-vax, and I'm pro-vax, and so I don't want to be like him... but I bungled it. The message is unclear, and that's on me.