Robert F. Kennedy Jr., independent challenger for president and anti-vaccine activist, has a cockamamie solution for drug addicts and people who use medication for depression or ADHD: strip people of their tech gadgets and send them to government-funded "wellness farms" to grow organic food. Doesn't that sound suspiciously... like a labor camp?! Kennedy extolled this […]
While the article is a little dated, it’s also a little misleading since he’s describing all brain altering drugs, such a opioids.
Still not great, but the devil’s advocate could still argue that mandatory rehab at a commune for drug abuse is quite reasonable (especially over prison). What’s problematic is him making it a labor camp, and including things like Adderall even if it doesn’t quite sound mandatory in their case. Adderall abuse certainly exists, as with most things, but it’s certainly no heroin.
Right now the status quo sucks, though, as far as drug rehab and government services are concerned. Since at least Reagan, we’ve gutted those services to those who need it. Just wish it wasn’t these assholes filling that void. Really need a progressive in office…
My yin, stop playing devil’s advocate for the fucking devil.
More like if we don’t get our basic facts straight we look just as disconnected as they are. This post is misleading and there is absolutely no need to exaggerate, RFKs idea is plenty stupid but now the article is just an easily dismissed propaganda piece because it eschews objective reality instead of just outlining the actual stupidity. Who is to trust anything in this article after the title is outright wrong? Like this entire article isn’t even worth anyone’s time, it’s just RFK spitballing to the media so they had to make up a bs title while there are real news articles likely getting ignored
Sorry maybe you don’t deserve to be on the end of my comment there but I’m so sick and tired of people trying to interpret clearly intentionally bad promises as charitably as possible and I let it out
I mean you’re right lol and I like the way you phrased it. Same here honestly, I was annoyed andI mostly wanted to make a tangential point about people getting worked up over vapid newsy-sounding articles while ignoring actual problems, this shit wasn’t worth reading when it was new and now it’s here, 6 months old and past the election it was written for, with tons of engagement
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What do you think is more likely, Republicans, for the first time in existence do something to help people and put together a safe and comprehensive mental wellness program for people that need it that would cost billions? Or the party of the 13th amendment expanding it to include anyone they deem undesirable?
I think my point is they’re exploiting a real need in order to push whatever crap agenda they have. That’s true in healthcare, immigration, and “the price of eggs” (read: social inequality). Until those holes are fixed, there’ll be conmen to exploit our needs.
True. It’s like how they say they’re going to make us healthier while deregulating literally everything
You’ll have to forgive me if I’m not very generous with Nazis talking about labor camps and people with disabilities.
They’re not filling that void. Their broad antagonism towards all things healthcare and science makes that painfully clear. A vague idea about “wellness” on a “farm” that is really just forced labor is not healthcare reform, it’s a threat of violence.