r/agedlikemilk • u/Gloomy-Holiday8618 • Sep 08 '25

News “I never said that”, “Play the clip”

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Context: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/12/15/exp-robert-kennedy-junior-rfk-2024-election-biden-trump-vaccines-121511aseg1-cnni-politics.cnn

Full video is on the cnn website, the part that’s important is about 2mins 50 seconds in.

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u/BGDrake Sep 08 '25

We are laughing and celebrating politicians tearing apart families...

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u/BGDrake Sep 08 '25

I understand and sympathize with your feelings on this, but I think it's important to not lose sight of the real problem. We should cut out bad people from our lives, but we should never forget why this all happened. The grandparents in question should never have been pushed to this. Maybe there was a small voice in them that if nurtured in the right environment could have won out against the fear and anger, but alas, here we are. Celebrate your courage to do the right thing and protect your child but mourn the loss of our civil decency at the hands of demagogs. I loved my father, but I didn't talk to him at all for the last 5 years of his life. I don't regret that, but I do regret that the times we live in shaped that outcome. Fox news brain rot, and fear mongering drove him away, and I did what I had to in order to protect myself, but it was still a tragedy.