Robert F. Kennedy Jr., independent challenger for president and anti-vaccine activist, has a cockamamie solution for drug addicts and people who use medication for depression or ADHD: strip people of their tech gadgets and send them to government-funded "wellness farms" to grow organic food. Doesn't that sound suspiciously... like a labor camp?! Kennedy extolled this […]
  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Rehabilitation of illegal drugs in place of incarceration is undeniably left wing.

    Treatment for SSRI addiction was voluntary, not authoritarian.

    But you do have a point. Vigilance is important. Concentration camps were not announced, but an executive order could turn a “farm” into one overnight.

    The clue to the intentions will be in the scale of this policy. 2 farms is not worrying. 200 farms is.