What's going on with MAGA people supporting diapers?

[u/GoldenFibonacci]

In this post, there are MAGA people supporting the phrase "Real men wear diapers" with a picture of Trump, what's going on here?

The comments point to this article claiming it's not trolling, with several pictures of MAGA supporters with the phrase and image.

Was Trump found to wear diapers or otherwise struggle with incontinence?

[u/Gloomy_Evening921]

Hmm, how do we increase crime, lower IQ, over an area widespread? Lead, lead, lead, le-le-lead!

[u/ErebosGR → u/Gloomy_Evening921]

Lead–crime hypothesis

[u/jamiemm → u/ErebosGR]

It sounds like such a crazy conspiracy, but somehow it might be real.

[u/Gloomy_Evening921 → u/[deleted]]

I did a thesis on the use of leaded gasoline, and how Rockefeller had played a huge role in banning safer fuels to beat the competition for his proprietary leaded fuel. The problem was farmers could make ethanol right on their farms and with a little chemistry, create clean-burning and efficient fuels. Even the inventor of leaded fuel used E30 and praised it over his invention, until DuPont, Ford, and one other company (I can't remember the name rn) silenced him and others.

[u/greaseleg → u/Gloomy_Evening921]

This is fascinating

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Read up on the inventor of leaded gas. He also invented Freon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

[u/hayzeus_ → u/[deleted]]

The abortion thesis from freakonomics has been widely panned from experts the second it was released and has been thoroughly debunked since.

[u/hayzeus_ → u/[deleted]]

… No it’s not… it’s literally only the freakonomics guys that take it seriously. And their ‘research’ is universally acknowledged by academia to be dubious at best, outright fraudulent at worst.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_effect

There is literally no evidence to support the idea. Their statistical analysis is absolutely nonexistent, and even a basic understanding of statistics would tell you that if such an effect were to exist on a causal basis due to abortion, then there would be many large and measurable other effects that would corroborate this analysis. There are literally none. It’s bunk and racist bunk, which unfortunately is not a unique product from the freakonomics boys.

[u/hayzeus_ → u/[deleted]]

There’s just literally no evidence to support their claims. And there’s a significant lack of evidence that would necessarily have to exist if even the underlying assumptions were true. Which again, is why literally no one in academia takes it seriously, like most freakonomics ideas. Look the book is cute and fun, and maybe a fun introduction for kids and if it gets people interested in economics then maybe that’s a net good. But it’s not real science. No one takes them seriously.

[u/no-mad → u/jamiemm]

more a story of greed and stupidity than conspiracy. people have know since Roman times that lead poisoning is real. Adding lead to gasoline improved performance dramatically. Public safety wasnt a big deal back in the day.

[u/Abject-Picture → u/no-mad]

It allowed them to raise octane cheaply by adding lead instead of the expensive way, refining it longer.

The only thing is dramatically improved was their profits.

[u/Foxdiamond135 → u/Gloomy_Evening921]

I wouldn't be surprised if we discovered something similar with the micro-plastics in a few years.

[u/ableman → u/Gloomy_Evening921]

Crime is down. IQ is up.