(FYI - the article that the guy is replying to is misinformation. Two commenters have provided snopes links for anyone curious.)
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Bro taking out Cheryl Hines?
I used to think so highly of her before I found out
The same RFK Jr. who credits heroin for his academic success.
Some people do actually initially start using opiates as a performance enhancer. Thats not really a crazy take. I know people with similar stories in the first months of their use, before the negatives started outweighing the positives.
Yeah you can thank all the non diagnosed & non needing taking medication for diagnosed & needing, for that.
Fuck you, I actually need it and y’all cause shortages globally. Fuck You. “I perform so much better” No actualmy I barely compete WITH and its a fucking battle all day long. From putting my socks on to actually make a wage. Fuck You.
most 👏 addicts 👏 have 👏 adhd
addicts 👏 should 👏 stick 👏 to 👏 speed
Or get diagnosed (did you know addicts can too) like the rest of us. Or stick with something that doesnt hurt supply like ketamine ™️ . Ever heard of shortage of ketamine for horses? I havent
My body my choice to put what drugs i want in me right?
Oh wait, democrats don’t believe in bodily autonomy.
No fuck YOU for throwing addicts under the bus as if that’s not a legit medical problem. Show me one source that says the cause of the shortage is people “not needing taking”.
If you’re wondering, 5 percent of white college students adds up to about 3.75 million people who aren’t necessarily addicts and are effectively wasting supply of the drug.
Wasting? Sure. Causing a supply shortage? No.
You don’t think nearly 4 million extra users are going to hurt supply?
It’s mainly because of a manufacturing issue. Increased demand is certainly a factor but there is undeniably much less stimulant medication available than normal from manufacturers.
So there’s multiple factors. Including people wasting the supply.
The government actually limits how much each manufacturer is allowed to produce, that’s the actual cause of the shortage.
If trans people and Adderall people are outlawed then there will be no tech industry left.
You are forgetting about the furries.
Nah, I think we’re included by virtue of overlapping Venn diagrams.
Won’t somebody think of the yiff markets
there’s a lot of overlap in that venn diagram
some might event say it’s a circle
A hole is kind of a circle.
:3
This one in particular is chambered in 300mm, now get back in thine hole tech goblin.
Hell you could erase the circles and just color in the whole page at that point
Are there any cis furries in tech that aren’t on amphetamines?
The ones that are were probably all grabbed up by the US Navy to work on the Nuclear Submarines.
This is the navy we’re talking about…
I feel like you want the straightest ones on the submarine, if only for the smell.
I’m so confused by this comment, straight people smell better?! Gay people (or I"m assuming you’re referring to the sexual acts) smell worse than straight people?! So straight people can’t have anal sex and are known for how great they smell?!? If it’s an attempt at a joke, try punching up instead of down.
I was making a joke about the smell of sexual fluids, what with submarines being partially closed systems. Dont want too much seamen semen. Yeah I dont fully get it either, I am very tired.
I’ve actually read about this. Maybe we shouldn’t be sending neurodivergent people into camps?
Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit Ritalin! Not that it matters, 99% of us are getting fucked to some depth. Disadvantaged people first, then minorities and women, as is custom.
He’s in the closet about his own mental health issues, one of which is likely him being ADHD AF.
So like the closeted gay politicians being the harshest proponents of things like conversion therapies, anti-lgbtq views and legislation, the closeted mental-health-problem asshole is anti-actual-medical-treatment of everything, like anti-vax, anti-adderall, etc.
As a person with ADHD, let me just volunteer the following information; the absolute last thing you want… the last thing you want is for a bunch of people with ADHD to be held on a boring farm. Without medication!
The phrase “herding cats” doesn’t even come close. And ADHD is often comorbid with sleep phase disorder, which means I’m 100% alert all night without the medication that helps me sleep! That gives me lots and lots of time to be a problem!
"Have you tried touching grass and just like, focusing really hard?" - RFK Jr
Grass sucks, I’d rather touch moss.
Idk… I feel like we’d really want to revolt, but would keep procrastinating.
Nah, ADHD+spite=hyperfocus and productivity.
there’s nothing more productive than a group of ADHD people working together for something they want lol
I imagined they were inferring like “if you’re taking Adderall we need your hyper efficient ass to come work on building a pyramid or something”. Which i have to say, a team of properly medicated ADHDers would be the most streamlined project ever.
I dunno, the added phrase, “if they want to,” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
it’s a surefire way to either spark a revolution or end all life on the fuckin planet
Good luck managing us.
Like herding catgirls.
“I’m going to make it so people can go, if you’re convicted of a drug offense, or if you have a drug problem, you can go to one of these places for free.”
Honestly if people can find happiness by getting away from modern society and living a bucolic lifestyle, I’m all for it.
That has to be the most charitable interpretation possible of the incoming fascist government’s intent. It’s literally just slave labour with extra steps.
If it’s voluntary it’s not slave labor.
If you actually believe what the worm brain is saying, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
It could be exactly RFKs intention, but not that of project 2025.
Relying on a prescription medication is not a drug problem
Fascists don’t use language to convey meaning or truth, they use it as a weapon to manipulate. It’s on purpose that they muddy the meaning of words and won’t define terms even in legal bills so their judges can use the worst interpretation of the broad, vague law like the anti lgbtq law in Russia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_anti-LGBT_law
It’s the same way they try to count legal immigrants in the US under asylum as illegal criminals and won’t define words like woke unless required by a court.
The implication is they’re farm labor camps, so less living with nature and more picking cotton in the sun all day.
Less picking cotton all day and more fruits and grapes. Or other crops that are still tended by hand, generally by undocumented immigrants.
This is to replace Migrant workers when they kick the Mexicans out.
Yes but slaves who pick cotton learn valuable, marketable skills!
(big fuckin /s just in case)
Like the prison slaves who fight fires in California but are denied firefighting jobs once they are released?
I saw your sarcasm tag but I just couldn’t help myself.
Jesus Christ, I had just repressed that memory
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Oops, this is some misinformation, friend. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rfk-wellness-farms/
Exaggerated claims designed to provoke a reaction, even in humorous contexts like this, make it harder for us to perceive and react to actual dangerous threats that might come our way. And we’re definitely going to need to have an accurate and truthful view of the world in the coming days.
It’s a good joke, it’s a great joke even, but even so, we shouldn’t spread misinformation.
Tfw you say something and everyone hates it and then someone else comes by and says the same thing in a slightly different way and everyone likes it 😑
Its a difference in rhetoric. Yours is antagonistic and the others is measured and fair.
If it’s fake news (and it is) then I have every right to say, “Get this fucking bullshit off my feed” (my actual response was quite a bit more measured than that). I shouldn’t have to be like, “Haha! Oh that’s so funny, you’re really smart and clever! Oh, but, fyi, that’s kinda misinformation, just so you know!”
Would you rather listen to the blunt truth or to a friendly lie? If it’s the latter, then that ought to be called out as well as the original point - falling for a fake news story is entirely excusable, but being unwilling to listen to criticism unless it’s phrased nicely and defanged is not.
Shit like this is part of why I use term “Blue MAGA,” because you’ll find the exact same mentality over there. The facts don’t matter, if you don’t demonstrate you’re one of us, we’ll write you off anything you say. Critical thought means listening to criticism, even if it’s, “antagonistic.”
Well I was trying to be simplistic but since you typed so much, the reason your message isnt received well is because you assume Ill intent by the OP, while the one getting up votes makes no assumptions about intent.
Technically theirs is more accurate because they are acknowledging they can’t know the original intent, while you are arguing that its obvious what their intent is.
I said literally nothing about their intent in my comment whatsoever.
Yes its implied, evidenced by the people down voting you. Thats how rhetoric works. Same message, different delivery.
No, I implied nothing. The other person went out of their way to assuage people that just because they were calling out misinformation didn’t mean they’re not on their side - I just stated facts without making any indication about what I thought of OP’s intent. Loyalty and tribalism come before truth. People posting false information have to be reassured that you think they’re great before you correct them. It’s ridiculous.
That’s on you, the .ml in your name means that everything you say is wrong even when you say the truth.
Learn how to lemmy /s
Idk, I’m sure that many politicians aren’t advocating for LGBTQ youth to be “sent” to conversation camps.
What an absolute asshole of a journalist you have to be to twist someone’s words like that.
This comment won’t age well.
As well as the average American.
“No no bro, it’s going to be totally voluntary, trust me, just watch as we offer it as an alternative to prison, and then criminalize things like ‘taking adderall’.”
I was posting more for the funny reply, rather than to share the original article, but I can put a note in the post body that the pictured quoted article is misinformation.
Thanks for adding the note! :)
That article is kinda garbage. Here’s its source material: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/rfk-jr-wants-to-send-people-on-antidepressants-to-government-wellness-farms/
On the farms, he said, residents would grow their own organic food—which would help them recover from addiction,
These people are going to starve to death. It’s difficult enough to farm when you want to farm.
Don’t worry, they’ll have all the most advanced GMO crops, pesticides, and fertilizer. The plants will grow no matter what you do. Whether you want to eat them or not is an open question.
I mean, it’s RFK Jr. I doubt he would even be able to identify real organic fertilizers anyway. If he were to inspect a site and see fertilizers, even organic fertilizer in bags, he’s probably tell them to throw it out and just just rely on the unamended soil. He would then go home and eat over priced Whole Foods produce that may or may not be honest about the organic label.
I highly doubt RFK Jr. is in favor of GMOs.
I’m pretty sure this is just a farm labor program to replace the migrants they’re deporting. So he isn’t really going to have a say.
Not exactly. My ADHD has only one good use… I am amazing at dealing with worst case scenarios and in fact thrive in them. I will always find a way to do something, survive and enjoy it. I had more fun in Japan when I was broke after I lost my scholarship than I was before I did. I rode a busted old bike with flat tires everywhere, I found ways to scrounge for food, I survived odd of a bag of flour and snuck my mom into my dorm. I have no interest in normal day to day easy life. Put me in the wilderness and make me kill my food.
One or two people would be doing all the work while the others would be complaining the whole time.
Yeah, this is literally a page out of Mao’s Great Leap Forward.
cambodian year zero, more like. depending on how dedicated they’ll be
Maybe they just need… motivation.
I don’t particularly like or care very much about RFK, but… uh, I didn’t hear him say anything about “sending people to farms/camps/etc.” I would be concerned about the literacy and/or comprehension skills of OP and the commenters insisting this to be the case if I didn’t already know it’s just partisan hackery.
The Mother Jones article presents this as a quote from RFK where he does use the word “farm”. The context of the article is a virtual “Latino town hall” event, so I assume that’s where he said the following:
I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need—three or four years if they need it—to learn to get reparented, to reconnect with communities.
“farms”, like the one they sent Rover to.
Lol my company’s entire development department will be gone.
Hopefully the concentration camp helps me with my ADHD if he kicks me off adderall /s
I see what you did there
Classic
He tried so hard.
And got so far!
So in the end, it did mattered
