RFK Jr. Says He’ll Send People Taking Adderall to Labor Camps

To... concentrate?

I prefer my labor camps freshly squeezed.
This dumbass thinks we'll concentrate better in camps. Psssh. (This was a joke. I know it should be obvious but that's no longer the world we live in.)

republicans are silent on this. groceries cheaper yet?

defunding huge amount of government agencies. where is that money going? into the economy? or musk and trumps pockets?

why do republicans support giving even more money to the wealthy at the detriment of the rest of the country?

Most Republicans think ADHD is caused by liberal parents who don't beat their kids enough, they're silent because they approve.
Well the article is 7 months old.
remember what trump said, repeatdly, " i dont care about you, i just want your votes",

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

Yes I too read A Scanner Darkly dipshit. I'm absolutely sure you can't wait to send people to the New-Path farming commune so that you can profit off of their altered state in hopes that "one day" they'll be able to rejoin society.

What a fucking dipshit. They just all honest to god want modern slaves. Like good god, there's no veil to it any longer, they just want free fucking labor.

What do you mean? It's free health care! Isn't that what y'all asked for? /s
They need that slave labour, to replace all the migrant workers they kicked out. There's "method to their madness"
They are doing dystopian novel bingo
Nobody wants to pay wages anymore 🤷‍♂️

Speaking as someone with ADHD: This would have been the most darkly humorous time to use the phrase "Concentration Camp"

Yeah, the fucking heavens had to align to create the single greatest opportunity for this pun. The news editor looked up at the choir of singing angels and quietly whispered “no” as they used the word “labor” instead.
I shared this with my wife, who takes Adderall, and your comment is going to finally pull her away from Reddit to Lemmy. Thank you for your service.
- salutes Just doing my job sir.
- No

Heads up this is from middle of last year.

Let's hope he's changed his mind since then. There's a good chance. He seems like the type to spend a lot of time contemplating and reading.
- You forgot your /s.
- Contemplating the teachings and health knowledge of Joe Rogan while reading Mein Kampf?
  Please, no.
- Look at this guy: https://youtube.com/shorts/AYdrU6H0qu4
- Or he could just change his mind after snorting another line of coke. "And then once they get to my forced happy farm, they'll all get a unicorn
  <rips line>
  and, wait for it man,... they pay me to be there...."

How about including Ketamine and starting with that one unelected illegal immigrant who abuses both? No? Figures.

Ketamine catching strays over here undeserved...

You take away my adderall, I’m not going to be working - I will be asleep (I have narcolepsy).

Good idea, they should keep feeding you adderall at the labour camp, much more effective 😋
Don't worry, they'll make sure to "protect" your loved ones if you keep working hard. Protect from what, you ask? Well, just keep working hard and you won't need to worry about it.

Since it's always projection, TIL RFK Jr. is on Adderall.

Oh that must be the American spelling of heroin.
- Can't be heroin because he's awake and speaking. Adderall makes more sense.
  (And FWIW you can't even get real heroin anymore. These days it's all fent.)

That worm should have finished the job.

Incidentally, if anyone is a screenwriter, I'd love to see a film where an alien parasite takes over the brain of a prominent politician and forces the population of a country to stop taking prescription meds so it can reproduce. I just don't want to be in that movie.

There was a TV show, Braindead, in 2016 that was about an alien parasite in politicians heads.
- Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Tony Shalhoub, thoroughly enjoyed it and sad it didn't get renewed.
The Hidden!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2JD5h82-fo (spoilers)

If the Trusk-era US economy is to run on prison labour, they will need technically skilled inmates. Between people with ADHD and people with depression and anxiety disorders, this should provide plenty.

Not only that, but "wellnes farms to grow organic food?" Gotta replace all those fieldhands we're about to deport somehow.
Well there's a horrifying thought.
Lol, you stick me in a labor camp, your just going to be generating extra work for people to clean up after me
- You're*

Legalize psychedelics first like you promised, you fucking liar.

He'd sooner eat a bag of McDonalds than do a single crazy thing he promised. What's that? He already did the McD thing? As a show of fealty to our new king? Oh, my.

It's okay. When they take away your SSRIs and force you to farm organic food, they'll keep telling you to smile more.

Hopefully, close to a supply of organic fertilizer. For uh health reasons.
- Oops my diesel spilled
Tomorrow is a rest day.
"Work will set you free"

So… trump is going to camp as well?

I'm not going to a labor camp. They'll never take me alive.

Same. Guns are loaded.

Not as big a deal, but he also wants to get rid of your WiFi and your cell phone:

Departing momentarily from fake vaccine claims, the gang also had a long discussion about the purported dangers of wifi. Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine organization that Kennedy founded and is the chairman of, has long made a number of false claims about electromagnetic, wireless, and 5G technologies. Kennedy suggested that “wifi radiation” could be causing autism, food allergies, asthma, eczema, or other chronic illnesses, which Rogan, in a rare show of basic critical thinking, suggested was “unlikely.”
“I think it degrades your mitochondria and it opens your blood-brain barrier,” Kennedy said, confidently.
Rogan paused and then turned to his producer, Jamie, who often acts as the show’s researcher by Googling things. “Do you see anything online about that?” he asked. After a moment in Google, Rogan paused again.
“Oh my God,” he said, finally, “we gotta get rid of wifi.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/spotify-rogan-rfk-vaccine-misinformation-policy/

Too bad Joe Rogan is such an idiot. I would have asked RFK Jr. to define mitochondria. It would have made for amusing listening.

Easy, they're the powerhouse of the cell.
- emia meabs presence in blood
I had to deal with so many of those people who insisted that their 'wifi' radiation is like an unshielded nuclear reactor. I would do my best to assauge their concerns... I was in customer service at the time.
Now seeing someone like that in a very important position I find myself wondering if there is even a point to all this.
- I have a feeling that people are starting subconsciously understand cell-phone and social media additiction and its effect on the brains of developing children, but can't quite conceptualize it. So they turn to "wifi is dangerous because.... radiation!"

While the article is a little dated, it's also a little misleading since he's describing all brain altering drugs, such a opioids.

Still not great, but the devil's advocate could still argue that mandatory rehab at a commune for drug abuse is quite reasonable (especially over prison). What's problematic is him making it a labor camp, and including things like Adderall even if it doesn't quite sound mandatory in their case. Adderall abuse certainly exists, as with most things, but it's certainly no heroin.

Right now the status quo sucks, though, as far as drug rehab and government services are concerned. Since at least Reagan, we've gutted those services to those who need it. Just wish it wasn't these assholes filling that void. Really need a progressive in office...

My yin, stop playing devil's advocate for the fucking devil.
- More like if we don't get our basic facts straight we look just as disconnected as they are. This post is misleading and there is absolutely no need to exaggerate, RFKs idea is plenty stupid but now the article is just an easily dismissed propaganda piece because it eschews objective reality instead of just outlining the actual stupidity. Who is to trust anything in this article after the title is outright wrong? Like this entire article isn't even worth anyone's time, it's just RFK spitballing to the media so they had to make up a bs title while there are real news articles likely getting ignored
What do you think is more likely, Republicans, for the first time in existence do something to help people and put together a safe and comprehensive mental wellness program for people that need it that would cost billions? Or the party of the 13th amendment expanding it to include anyone they deem undesirable?
- I think my point is they're exploiting a real need in order to push whatever crap agenda they have. That's true in healthcare, immigration, and "the price of eggs" (read: social inequality). Until those holes are fixed, there'll be conmen to exploit our needs.
You'll have to forgive me if I'm not very generous with Nazis talking about labor camps and people with disabilities.

Why do the good kennedy's die, and the bad ones live for fucking ever.

Brain worm tried to get this one, but died of starvation before it could finish the job.
- beginning to think it's driving the bus
The good Kennedy's weren't that good.
- not so fun fact, rfk jr drove one of his family members to alcoholism and heroin, by bullying him.

Ha ha! America is a fucking joke isnt it?

Jokes are funny and don't have a nuclear arsenal.
- Dr Strangelove was funny and had a nuclear arsenal.
Yes, although not many are laughing.

If they take away my medication and put me on a farm, I will beat someone to death with a hoe.

Why is this so highly upvoted? This is old (pre election) and the title is literally a lie invalidated by the article itself.

Isn't he on constant meds too?

So, is going to send ALL those use Adderall? Really? What about Adderall abusers? Oh right, they have complete SCOTUS immunity.

going to trumps nose.

He can start with the junkies that crush it and snort it, you know, Donald Trump.

I'm going to fuck every person named RFK Jr. in the mouth.

Wow a health nut AND a fascist!!! Who could have seen THESE two things fitting together so nicely.... is it everyone?

Ah yes food has caused all my behavioral issues def not being sexually abused at a young age 🙃

Rfk junior takes Adderall

Apparently, during the last Trump administration the pharmacy at the White House handed Adderall out like candy to all the staffers. Every accusation is a confession.
But the "rules" won't apply to them, they're above/beyond the law.

What the hell's happened to him? Was RFK Jr not one of the good guys at one point? I feel like I missed something.

You apparently missed his entire life and career.
- Apparently.
Was RFK Jr not one of the good guys at one point?
No.
Brain worm? Good pr team?
- Seriously, was he not a good guy not that long ago? Either he wasn't and I wasn't paying enough attention to the man, or he was and I've missed something where he changed.

So how would they deal with sabotors that just ruin crop. Do they give them their meds back?

They'll threaten the people you love if you don't comply.
Look around at other places that do this kind of thing. You don't think they've thought about that already? There's a story floating around about a dude in a similar situation who didn't meet the quota (or something), and they cut off his little kid's hand as punishment.
- Exactly. Getting people to work when in involuntary servitude is a solved problem. You can research some of the history of what methods were used to get African slaves to work, especially in the early colonial Caribbean colonies, if you really want to lose faith in humanity.
  It was actually a quite difficult problem from the slaver's perspective. You kidnap some guy from the coast of West Africa. You take him from his family, haul him across an ocean, and force him to work against his will on a sugar plantation on a Caribbean island. You offer him no way out and instruct him he's to work as hard as he can until he keels over and dies. He gets nothing from his work, and he has no way to earn or buy his freedom. Oh, and he doesn't think he did anything to deserve this treatment either.
  Exactly what motivation does this man have to work for you exactly? Early on, in these slave colonies, the slavers found that many abducted people would simply refuse to eat and starve themselves to death. The inescapability of their predicament meant that the slaves couldn't even hold out hope for eventual rescue or escape. It would be like if you were abducted by aliens and hauled off to a planet in another galaxy. There's simply no way you're escaping and getting back home. So many slaves would simply refuse to work and just starve themselves to death.
  Eventually the slavers did figure out ways to coerce slaves into working. And those methods are as bad, and probably even worse, than you can imagine.
- ... Yeah this is real world and Stanford prison experiment was just role play that ended in humiliation
Well, it's voluntary (the title is misleading), so they'd probably just tell you to leave.
- Or get arrested and put into involuntary servitude, with threats of torture and other unimaginable things.
  Y'all wanna pretend that this isn't that dangerous. The fact that they're even floating this idea is terrifying.
- Plea bargain agreements are always "voluntary." Because the alternative is almost always going to be worse.

When your just trying to follow to Nazi playbook, but you misunderstand what a concentration camp is...

Is like a meditation retreat, a nice quiet place you can go to concentrate on your self.
/s (i hate poe's law)

I guess it's a good think i'm still undiagnosed with ADHD, even though it meansI gotta pay way more to get my adderall

Been to 4 different doctors and they all seem to think I don't have ADHD its nuts

It sounds like communist "reeducation camps". I know the far-right claims to hate communism but they're a lot alike in that they want control over people's lives.

Those people would be most efficient? Is that the case? Does adderall make you really fast, strong and smart?