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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] 1 points 9 hours ago

I bet they would get so much done.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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 😑

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

What an absolute asshole of a journalist you have to be to twist someone's words like that.

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If trans people and Adderall people are outlawed then there will be no tech industry left.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You are forgetting about the furries.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Nah, I think we're included by virtue of overlapping Venn diagrams.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (4 children)

there's a lot of overlap in that venn diagram

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are there any cis furries in tech that aren’t on amphetamines?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The ones that are were probably all grabbed up by the US Navy to work on the Nuclear Submarines.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

So far all of the orange appointments are looking like videogame minibosses

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I get the anger, but this idea wouldn't be out of place in European countries like Netherlands and Portugal. Drug rehabilitation is a positive, left wing policy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Sign me up to be player one then so I can go full Wolfenstein on these Nazi assholes

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

Lol my company's entire development department will be gone.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They missed it because they were already taking liberties on what was actually said.

To be clear, I wouldn't put it past him to do that, but that isn't actually what he said.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rfk-wellness-farms/

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (5 children)

TL;DR: voluntary "rehabilitation wellness farms"

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Hopefully the concentration camp helps me with my ADHD if he kicks me off adderall /s

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (9 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (7 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 (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 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.

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