Missing a slam-dunk headline

I bet they would get so much done.

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.

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.
What an absolute asshole of a journalist you have to be to twist someone's words like that.
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.
- 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.
This comment won't age well.

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.
- there's a lot of overlap in that venn diagram
- Are there any cis furries in tech that aren’t on amphetamines?
- Won’t somebody think of the yiff markets

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

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

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.

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

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/

TL;DR: voluntary "rehabilitation wellness farms"
- Yeah sorry should have been more clear I suppose. The narrative they're trying to perpetuate is that nobody is ill and all of the prescription drugs are unnecessary, and that all the people taking medication for their illnesses really just want to be off of it but have no ability.
  
  Realistically, yeah he's going to build the camps, and then it's a very short hop skip and a jump to court orders putting people there.
  
  To be honest they should just do an opinion piece saying exactly what we know he's going to do. We don't need him to pretend that's exactly what he said.
- With that many farms youre gonna need alot of showers. I know I can focus really good after a quick shower.
Once the farms are built I wonder how long they'll stay voluntary. He's taking baby steps to a massive slave labor industry
Man who frequently lies is misquoted in a way that is more in line with what he probably meant based on previous statements and actions.

I'm not surprised.

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!

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.
"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
it's a surefire way to either spark a revolution or end all life on the fuckin planet
Don't worry https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rfk-wellness-farms/
- I dunno, the added phrase, "if they want to," is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

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

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/

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.
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.
- Yeah, this is literally a page out of Mao’s Great Leap Forward.
- 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.
- 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.
"farms", like the one they sent Rover to.

Wouldn't this include Musk ?

and Trump.
- No exceptions.
- Trump has actually been pictured at his desk, forgetting to hide his stimulant medications
Of course not, only people on this side of the legal system
We are already in the concentration camp for irrepressible oligarchs, its called Earth. We are the grease trap for souls in the Universe and all the shitheads congealing on this planet enables the alien races to remain pure from the constant drag and grind of fostering chuds among them.
- Then why haven't they rescued the non-selfish people who were born here? Even the worst asylums review to see if people still need to be there.
- If this was true it would at leave give me some semblance of peace while I await my merciful end.
No no no he’s microdosing LSD it’s different and cool

Good luck managing us.

Like herding catgirls.

Bro taking out Cheryl Hines?

I used to think so highly of her before I found out

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.

The takeaway from this is that they intends to build concentration camps. For Freedom!

I thought this was a post about The Mask

Sssssssssmokin'!

Meth, because Adderall is illegal and incredibly hard to get.

The term "concentration camps" usually doesn't refer to places people volunteer to go to. The headline's clickbait enough as it is.

Love how people actually believe that RFK's labor camp plan is voluntary, just because he said "where you can choose to go".

4 years of hearing Trump and his cohorts lie about literally everything, and you're ready for another 4 of giving them the benefit of a doubt. Truly breathtaking naïveté.
- Yeah "choose to go" is a euphemism for "parents can decide to send their children against their will"
- So what you're saying is that the reality isn't bad enough so we need to make shit up and exaggerate everything? Because I disagree with that. I think things are bad enough that you can just be truthful about it, and lying is actually counterproductive because it discredits legitimate criticism.
  
  Like if you want to talk about concentration camps, we've already got them for undocumented migrants.

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.

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".
- Link
  
  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.
most 👏 addicts 👏 have 👏 adhd
My body my choice to put what drugs i want in me right?

Oh wait, democrats don't believe in bodily autonomy.

“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.
The implication is they're farm labor camps, so less living with nature and more picking cotton in the sun all day.
- 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)
- Less picking cotton all day and more fruits and grapes. Or other crops that are still tended by hand, generally by undocumented immigrants.
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.