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Missing a slam-dunk headline (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(FYI - the article that the guy is replying to is misinformation. Two commenters have provided snopes links for anyone curious.)

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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/

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is literally a page out of Mao’s Great Leap Forward.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

cambodian year zero, more like. depending on how dedicated they'll be

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Maybe they just need.... motivation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

One or two people would be doing all the work while the others would be complaining the whole time.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] zarkanian 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I highly doubt RFK Jr. is in favor of GMOs.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure this is just a farm labor program to replace the migrants they're deporting. So he isn't really going to have a say.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean, it's RFK Jr. I doubt he would even be able to identify real organic fertilizers anyway. If he were to inspect a site and see fertilizers, even organic fertilizer in bags, he's probably tell them to throw it out and just just rely on the unamended soil. He would then go home and eat over priced Whole Foods produce that may or may not be honest about the organic label.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

"farms", like the one they sent Rover to.