There’s literally a section in the documentary where his doc is like ‘You’re getting liver damage from this diet. I don’t believe it. I’ve only ever seen this from alcoholics.’

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    Thats the level of explaining USAmericans needed for this. Unless you directly show it to them in 1:1 the exact same way that they would experience it, they will not believe you. Even if you do, they will still call the film fake and CGI and whatever they like today.

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      the film is fake, you can read about it on the wikipedia page!

      That’s what the alcoholism bit in the op image is referring to, the shenanigans that were going on and not revealed to the audience.

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        The point he was trying to make is that people that eat McDonald’s every day are unhealthy, and sure, the alcoholism on top of it made everything worse, but do we really think that MCD’s is the only bad choice those people are making?

        Like someone willing to eat a shitload of fast food (not for a movie) also is likely to have alcohol or substance use disorders, or eat unhealthy amounts of sugar, or not exercise.

        I think a fair point was made regardless of the shenanigans.

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          Like someone willing to eat a shitload of fast food (not for a movie) also is likely to have alcohol or substance use disorders, o

          Yes poor people are disgusting degenerates!

          People eating high quality diet would never abuse drugs or booze for fun or otherwise.

          Some classist bullshit here lol

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            I know plenty of poor people or people that grew up lower class (including myself and my partner) who didn’t eat fast food every day.

            There’s also plenty of rich people (like the orange moron) who very willingly eat fast food regularly.

            Any of those people might have alcohol or substance use disorders, which are human conditions, and in no way mean a person is disgusting or undesirable.

            And I’d argue that statistically, people who are more careful about their dietary intake, are also probably less likely to have alcohol dependence, but that’s purely an empirical observation, I’ve never checked the data on that.

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        Well that doesn’t magically make mcd’s healthy. Especially fries and sugary soda.

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            I know. I’m saying it for those who will read, “it’s fake” and immediately discount its message. We both know there are far too many people out there like that.