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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 minutes ago

what the hell. staying in Canada.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine 17 points 1 hour ago

So they're just already saying the "camps" part out loud, eh? I guess when you have Hitler's playbook, you can move faster than Hitler did.

[–] CharlesDarwin 1 points 6 minutes ago

What the actual fuck.

[–] veganpizza69 10 points 1 hour ago

This is part of some rural grift facilities which probably started with "trouble teens". In recent years I've seen reports of these "farms" for "distressed" women. It's usually a place with Ranch in the name. Example: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/11/18/the-christian-maternity-ranch-in-texas-is-a-disaster-in-the-making/

Permaculture farms, for example, are already well known for relying on abusive work conditions. See Joel Salatin:

https://medium.com/permaculture-3-0/fall-of-a-hero-f9ac80a08c0c

https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/11/joel-salatin-chris-newman-farming-rotational-grazing-agriculture/

[–] Etterra 11 points 1 hour ago

If he comes for my antidepressants he can haul me off but he can't make me cooperate.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Is he not aware that the fascist pumpkin he will be working for pops those like breath mints?? Please do send that rapist con man to a labor camp.

[–] kameecoding 22 points 1 hour ago

Yes I am sure not being hypocrites is high on their list of concerns

[–] cheese_greater 3 points 3 hours ago

Dexedrine for the win!

[–] Olhonestjim 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I already started weaning myself off my depression meds. Went cold turkey once, and that was a nightmare. They're planning to kill the VA, so fuck our service. I'm never getting cut off again. I'll switch to natural alternatives, thank you.

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

Probably still easy to get from Mexico. Your mental health is important and shits about to get a whole lot more depressing

[–] BenReilly97 80 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

And a tax on cannabis sales would fund these farms, he proposed.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but... is he really suggesting a federal tax on a federally illegal substance?

[–] dohpaz42 3 points 3 hours ago

If it makes money, yes.

[–] takeda 57 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

You hope he is just being clever and indirectly talking about legalizing cannabis, but you know that in reality he is just so incompetent that he has no idea what he is talking about.

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[–] Dasus -4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong but are you pretending you don't know the war on drugs to be utter bullshit that's damaging society?

[–] BenReilly97 5 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

The war on drugs is bullshit, but the fact is that the US government still considers it a schedule 1 drug. My point is that they shouldn't be able to tax it while still pretending that it should be illegal.

[–] Dasus 1 points 14 minutes ago

Well no the hypocrisy shouldn't exist, that I agree with.

But I'd rather have taxation from cannabis while enduring the annoying hypocrisy rather than not have taxed cannabis and still listen to the hypocrisy.

The legal situation in the US is kinda weird. You can go to a legal shop to buy legal weed and when you walk out a federal agent might arrest you.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Phew, glad my psychiatrist prescribed me Ritalin.

[–] cheese_greater 4 points 3 hours ago

Definitely safe

[–] [email protected] 238 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Some sort of camp to help ADHD folks work on their concentration?

[–] theangryseal 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I imagine a terrible, awful future Forest Gump remake.

“They had these camps that helped folks with their concentration or something like that. They said I was a shine-ning example, so I got to meet the president of the United States, again.”

“They tell me this guy is the best example. Got treated, got rich in shrimp. What a guy! Our camps are great, the best camps in all the world.”

Camera pans to Trump shaking hands with Kim Jong Un.

“In Korea, everybody got these pic-tures of their leader on the wall. We got those in Alabama too.”

[–] distantsounds 65 points 9 hours ago

Laughed too hard at this. It’s a Focus Group!!!

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[–] Arbiter 104 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

So his solution to ADHD is a concentration camp?

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[–] Hobbes_Dent 117 points 10 hours ago (25 children)

"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," he said during the broadcast.

Isn’t it neat how he mixes in prescribed medical treatments? Neato.

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[–] Godric 23 points 8 hours ago (5 children)
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