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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 hours ago (3 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.

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[–] Olhonestjim 24 points 7 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] 11 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] cheese_greater 5 points 5 hours ago

Dexedrine for the win!

[–] BenReilly97 105 points 11 hours ago (6 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?

[–] takeda 71 points 10 hours ago (5 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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[–] dohpaz42 3 points 5 hours ago

If it makes money, yes.

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[–] [email protected] 279 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] distantsounds 79 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] jewbacca117 46 points 13 hours ago

call it a focus village or soemthing

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Phew, glad my psychiatrist prescribed me Ritalin.

[–] cheese_greater 7 points 6 hours ago

Definitely safe

[–] Hobbes_Dent 141 points 13 hours ago (5 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.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

Uh yeah, no.

I once thought it might be an idea to try and back off from 100mg sertraline to 50mg sertraline and on day two I wanted to strangle people. You can take my SSRIs from my cold dead hands.

[–] militaryintelligence 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

"Have you tried going outside and snapping out of it?"

-RFK Jr., probably

So school shootings are a mental health problem, so he wants to do the opposite of help. Goddamn, make these people make sense.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

“Have you tried going outside and snapping out of it?”

He should let the brain worm get some sunlight.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah, I'm on 300mg sertraline daily, and I sometimes have trouble getting my prescription filled (understandable, it's a way bigger dose than usual)

But if I'm not on it, the suicidal thoughts usually start on day 3

So if they were to take my SSRIs, I would quickly be killed by my own cold, dead hands

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[–] just_another_person 53 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (14 children)

He's a big believer in the whole "keeping people on drugs isn't the fix" kind of thinking. It's short-sighted and ignorant of the fact that a lot of people on them have a net benefit to function in society.

What he is proposing is something far more stupid akin to "Well look at me. I've never needed these drugs, and I'm totally fine. WTF, people?"

If you want a country that is doing the proper work to stop jumping to long-term prescriptions as problem solvers, I'm all for that. DO NOT confuse that with these dumb shit he's suggesting though.

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[–] Viking_Hippie 25 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Also, "get reparented" is some very sinister cult programming (ie brain washing) language..

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[–] Arbiter 122 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

So his solution to ADHD is a concentration camp?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, that way they can learn to concentrate.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

That's what trump said to the ICC when they issued a public statement in 2025 about criminalizing mental illness

[–] Godric 25 points 11 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Breezy 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

During a national holiday called Sharon Adarlo

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[–] PugJesus 37 points 12 hours ago

Nothing to see here, just politics as usual, the liberals are just trying to scare everyone. /s

[–] [email protected] 59 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

A lot of Americans have to pass a drug test to get a new job. Perhaps RFK would like if we applied this reasoning to Trump's whole cabinet?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 13 hours ago

They’re skipping the FBI checks. Safe to say there will be no drug tests.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

As a minority with ADHD I guess I'm fucked.

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