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Rutland resident Jack Crowther has been a longtime critic.

“You’re putting a drug, a medicine, in our water to treat tooth decay without the informed consent of the people,” Crowther said.

"Mandrake, have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water?" strangelove-wow


"THEY'RE PUTTING MEDICINE IN THE WATER!" frothingfash


Also related, a Richmond, VT waterworks employee secretly lowered fluoride levels in the town's drinking supply for a decade.

EDIT: I should've updated this a month ago, but the town voted to keep fluoride.

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago

Fluoride? Cute. We were talking about that in the 90's. REAL conspiracy heads know they're putting MICROCHIPS in the water, nanometer size so you slurp them right up. The only water that's safe is water that's been sitting for at least a good week or two, you want it brown with the little squirmy things swimming in it, drink that raw water white man.

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago

My friend drank milk and got a parasite that only 5 people get annually in the US

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago

Hell yeah raw milk

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago

I only recently watched Dr. Strangelove for the first time a couple of years ago and I laughed my ass off when he started ranting about how Commies don't drink water as I sat there drinking whisky. Such a great movie.

Love water though.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

Unlimited actual literal genocide, ie line up every fucking one of them who has ever existed and dubois-finger-guns every fucking one of them, to the John Birch Society.

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

manhattan it is 1960, the CHUDS are braying for more cavities from their sodie pop

manhattan it is 1990, the CHUDS are braying for more cavities from their sodie pop

manhattan it is 2024, the CHUDS are braying for more cavities from their sodie pop

is this shit astroturfed by fucking dentist trade comissions or some shit? these people weren't fucking alive when this decision was first made. you're big and strong! fluoride didn't ruin you!

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Its an element not a "medicine". Its found naturally already in the water.

Vermont water system fluoride

5 systems already have >0.60 ppm naturally.

Even more private well systems naturally have over 2.00ppm which is the MCL concern level and reccomend expensive reverse osmosis treatment to remove the naturally high levels of "medicine".

Why test a private water supply?

There are geographic areas in Vermont where the naturally occurring fluoride level in the groundwater exceeds the recommended guideline for fluoride of 2.0 parts per million (ppm). The Health Department recommends a reverse osmosis water filtration system to reduce fluoride exposure to a level less than 2.0 ppm in private water supplies that exceed that level.

It is very important that prescriptions are NOT written for children who may already be receiving high levels of naturally fluoridated water. The only way to know for sure is to test the well water for its level of natural fluoride BEFORE prescriptions for supplements are written.

Bit idea -

Let's call it elemental sicko-hexbear-woke. We are putting the WOKE in the water and turning people WOKE so Joe Biden will win again.

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[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

fuck-around

Unfortunately it’s the kids who will suffer disproportionately. Fluoride supplementation isn’t really needed for adults, we get enough from our toothpaste, but it’s important for healthy tooth development in kids

[-] Yllych@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

If anyone has weird hangups about fluoride or just likes longish internet slop I invite them to watch Angela Collier's explanation of what fluoride is, does, and the falsehoods surrounding the topic.

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[-] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

They should put meth in the drinking water.

[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

FOUR MORE GALLONS

[-] M68040@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

Real communists have only ever drank Tarkhuna their entire lives. When all your bodily fluids have been replaced by it, you know The Specter has embraced you.

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[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

Pulling out my ruined teeth and loading them into shotgun shells to combine all of my libertarian dipshittery to own the libs.

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

Keep your bodily fluids pure!

[-] atturaya@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Vermont outside of Burlington is just an awful place. Rutland especially was one of the centers of the opioid epidemic in New England, so you'd think these officials have something better to deal than fluoridated water.

[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

Water fluoridation is fucking stupid. Fluoride can cure cancer and make you immortal for all I care it's still stupid to put it in all the tap water. Of all the tap water you use how much do you actually drink vs washing things? And you know what's a way more efficient of getting it on your teeth other than drinking water? Toothpaste, which already fucking has fluoride in it.

Hmm, we have substance that's good for your teeth. Do we put it in the toothpaste or do we spend millions dumping it in all the fucking water?

[-] regul@hexbear.net 49 points 8 months ago

Damn if only there were any research pointing out water fluoridation as one of the most cost-effective public health programs in the history of humanity.

Fluoride is cheap as shit.

[-] M68040@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago

Not to mention it really pisses off the conspiracy crowd. "To own the chuds" will always be my first concern in decisionmaking and it has a track record there.

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[-] TheDialectic@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

Also, in someplaces they remove the fluoride from water. We are animals that evolved to drink water from pools on the ground. Our bodies want it to have minerals. This is giving our bodies what they need

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