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(FYI - the article that the guy is replying to is misinformation. Two commenters have provided snopes links for anyone curious.)

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is literally a page out of Mao’s Great Leap Forward.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

cambodian year zero, more like. depending on how dedicated they'll be

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Maybe they just need.... motivation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

One or two people would be doing all the work while the others would be complaining the whole time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

"farms", like the one they sent Rover to.