I know one of the horsemen is called "Pestilence" but I didn't expect him to be a Kennedy.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@CliftonR

"And I looked, and behold a polka dotted horse: and his name that sat on him was Stupid...

... and Hell followed with him"

🤣

[saltywizard@beige.party]

@futurebird

I nominate Nosferatu for Famine and the Incontinent Cheeto for Death.

That's the first four seals. Let's immanentize this eschaton!

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

I have *tried* to understand RFK's perspective and more than any of these people nothing he does even makes much sense. There is a theme of cutting support for the general public. A kind of DIY (DIE) health care theme.

But, he seems to really think he's doing something coherent and I can't make any sense of it.

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@futurebird it's not possible because you don't have visibility of what he's profiting for, of what random nonsense he's read this morning 🤷🏻‍♂️

[petealexharris@mastodon.scot]

@futurebird
Famine is whoever's in charge of climate change denial.

[capnthommo@c.im]

@futurebird I was, by coincidence, watching Good Omens last night. The personnification of Pestilence had become 'Pollution' to fit the changing times. War and Famine had remained unchanged merely changing their approach a little to take advantage of modern methods and preferences. death however had remained unchanged, death being death regardless.

[waitworry@sakurajima.moe]

@futurebird I think he's just a eugenicist and thinks it is good if the "weak" get culled by easily preventable diseases

[capnthommo@c.im]

@futurebird I can't help but think he's of those folk so confident that they are one of the select few who are 'saved', and who actively work to bring about the end so they'll be raptured.

[rogerbw@discordian.social]

@futurebird Death cult.
I don't mean the fun sort with the robes and the knives, I mean an utter paralysing fear of one's own death, which manifests as bargaining with it by making other people die first.

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@futurebird He's clearly insane.

[cavyherd@wandering.shop]

@CliftonR @futurebird

They left him out because they were too embarrassed to admit that he was the most powerful....

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@wakame

This is what, in math, I would call an "unmotivated algorithm" it models the situation but fails to provide any insight into why it is happening.

[khleedril@cyberplace.social]

@futurebird If you have had any kind of an education at all, you will never be able to make sense of the actions of the innately ignorant.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@khleedril

I am resistant to thinking this is true.

[extra_special_carbon@mastodon.world]

@waitworry @futurebird That and he’s one of the chosen ones with special knowledge. Because he is one of the chosen ones, he, and others like him, will survive the cull, which will make humanity better.

[waitworry@sakurajima.moe]

@Extra_Special_Carbon @futurebird yeah eugenicists usually are under the assumption they have great genetics already

[btuftin@social.coop]

@futurebird "They're war, hunger, pestilence and death."
"Hmmm, so what do you think you're covering with that last one that you're not covering with the three previous ones?"

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@btuftin @futurebird

The first three are nepohorsemen.

[snugasabuginarug@mastodonapp.uk]

@futurebird

Pestilence

Mendacity

Incompetence

And their leader, Incontinence

[cstanhope@social.coop]

@futurebird I'm not entirely sure, but grifting (selling "wellness" products), an unacknowledged belief in eugenics, the idea that public health is more about individual choices and responsibility than group efforts and responsibility to the whole, and an overdeveloped skepticism of existing science that partially derives from the former traits.

At least, that seems to explain a lot of his behavior to me. Basically, a wholly unqualified person for the authority and responsibilities he's been given.

I often think RFK is the most dangerous of the bunch.