“Anything that relates to water quality, removing contaminants, things like that, we’re not touching that,” Tuck [the bill sponsor] said. “It’s anything that has to do with health. So fluoride, vitamins, whatever else it is.

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    I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

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    Good that you can’t misspell the French name for the state in while in a public water system I guess, but I don’t imagine that’s a common issue.

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    I feel like this presidency is really showing the base/superstructure distinction.

    Like, obviously everything that’s happening is in response to the base (declining empire, destruction of the public sphere, etc.)

    But there are just so many instances this time around of the fact that we’re being run by ideologically committed morons. Like, removing this shit from the water supply is not, like, a ploy to privatize the fluoridation of water. They’re doing it because they’re conspiracy brained.

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      And it’s not targeted either, it’s not like they’re pulling funding for fluoridation in heavily black areas or anything like that

      They’re genuinely stupid people who actually believe insane conspiracy theories about fluoride and don’t believe in the benefits. There’s no plot. They’re just really really dumb. They’re also evil, but it can’t be understated that they’re dumb.

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      is not, like, a ploy to privatize the fluoridation of water.

      But I nevertheless predict that fluoridated bottled water will be on store shelves by the end of the year if it’s not already.

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        This will not happen. Fluoride is already available to people who can afford it in the form of toothpaste, and toothpaste is a way more effective method of fluoride application than drinking water. The point of fluoridated water isn’t that it’s the best way to prevent tooth decay, compared to toothpaste it really isn’t. The point is that it provides fluoride to literally everyone, even people who can’t afford toothpaste, because everyone drinks water. It is completely pointless as a product.

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            Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t this type of guy actually exists. I don’t think there’s anyone who cares enough to buy fluoridated water, but not enough to brush their teeth.

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    k-pain

    This is grim. Water fluoridation was one of the biggest public health victories the US had gained.

    Keep your teeth safe, comrades. Try a fluoridated oral rinse if you have difficulty with consistent brushing.

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    Fluoride is bad for you. It’s only legal use in China is as an insecticide. Think about this, the USA would rather let the whole population die than give us free healthcare. Do you think they are giving us free medicine in our water? Why the sudden generosity? Fluoride is a byproduct of nuclear waste. Americans have been tricked into consuming it so that corporations don’t have to pay for proper disposal of their nuclear waste. Usually the MAGAs are morons but they are on the right side of just a few things like this.

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      Holy fuck these are ADVANCED brainworms brainworms

      Nice rune profile pic you got there. Triskelion, used by the greeks and the romans. The squared off version is a bit more obvious than the swirl.

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        It’s a druid symbol related to nature worship. Have some more fluoride it’s obviously effecting your brain. Everyone who isn’t swallowing the official story about fluoride isn’t a Nazi. Low intelligence, apathy and gullibility are signs of too much fluoride

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        No, MAGA is on the wrong side of most issues including immigration. Fluoride is not only a nuclear waste byproduct a fact you can look up yourself, it is also a mind altering substance. It’s an ingredient in many antidepressants including Prozac. A fact you can also look up. Just because you haven’t bothered to read up on fluoride doesn’t make people that have incorrect. Look for a list of all the other free medicines the government is forcing into the water supply in the USA.

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            No, I think having a country with more guns than people and no gun regulations causes school shootings.

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          No, MAGA is on the wrong side of most issues including immigration.

          Okay, unlucky guess. What issues are they right on though?

          Fluoride is not only a nuclear waste byproduct a fact you can look up yourself, it is also a mind altering substance. It’s an ingredient in many antidepressants including Prozac. A fact you can also look up. Just because you haven’t bothered to read up on fluoride doesn’t make people that have incorrect.

          I didn’t say any of it was incorrect, but that it was irrelevant. It doesn’t matter if its a nuclear byproduct, it doesn’t matter if its in Prozac, and it doesn’t matter if its mind altering if its at doses not in drinking water. It being a byproduct is a neat fact, but doesn’t tell you that its harmful. None of what you’ve said, even if I grant it to you completely, matters.

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    floridaman here

    now im actually going to have to start using toothpaste again just to get my flouride

    and i dont even mean this as a bit you dont need toothpaste it doesnt help with bad breath or cleaning your teeth its only useful for the flouride if you dont get it naturally

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      You should be using fluoride toothpaste regardless of if your water has fluoride or not. Fluoridated water is better than nothing, but fluoride only prevents tooth decay when it’s actually physically in contact with your teeth. Obviously that contact is much more consistent with two minutes of brushing compared to the seconds it takes water to pass through your mouth when you drink.

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        the insulting assumption that i take one sip of water per day jfc the internet is amazing when people respond to you they dont even stop and think for like even a moment

        im in my 40s with all my teeth even wisdom and no cavities and drink almost exclusively tap water daily so i think ill continue on this course comrade but you rub that chalky shit all over your gums if you like dont let me talk you out of it