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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If he tries to ban meds, big pharma will absolutely fucking pulverise him.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The worms have won. Pretty soon we will all have worms injected into our head.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

I have never felt more depressed then now. He's causing depression and taking away meds for it. Fuck this feedback loop

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Stuff like this is why I'm nervous to take any medications for my mental health

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pharmaceutical companies are going to deal with this clown quickly. Bet they are already consulting with Boeing.

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

That's why I'm not as worried about RFK as I probably should be. All these goals involve introducing wide-reaching regulations, which is completely at odds with this entire administration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

it'll just be an executive order and blindly followed

[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 week ago (28 children)

Kennedy said he planned to dedicate money generated from a sales tax on cannabis products to “creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country.” He added, “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.” The farm residents would grow their own organic food because, he suggested, many of their underlying problems could be “food-related.”

Hol up. They've gotten rid of all the people who used to pick fruit in rural areas, and now they want to send arbitrarily diagnosed "addicts" to these rural areas to live for "free".

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At least he said “if they want to” for psychiatric drugs

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

Oh well in that case I'm sure it will be fine /s

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The idea that you can't just step down off an SSRI as if it's a heroin addiction is fucking ludicrous.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The thing is it's so easy to verify that they're not addictive.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Virtually every bullshit medical claim RFK Jr. makes can easily be verified to be bullshit.

And he just outright lies all the time too. I heard a radio interview with him where he claimed he had hundreds of clients with golf ball-sized tumors behind their ears from using cell phones. You know how you see all those people walking around with golf ball-sized tumors behind their ears?

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Slaves, they want to make us slaves

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Well sad slaves... seems odd to get rid of antidepressants during such times.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not only will they live for free, but their work will truly set them free.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

We could even put that over the entrance to their camp to encourage them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

They will even provide a free education in agricultural harvest. What lucky souls!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

This will end well /s

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Suicide rates are going to spike if this idiot gets his way. I may well be one of the statistics before it's over, if he takes away my access to medicine that has enabled me to live a somewhat normal life, not that it'll matter to him or his ilk. The cruelty, as the kids like to say, is the point, I guess.

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

Dude if they take away my SSRIs I'm gonna be so anxious about it.

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