• thefartographer@lemm.ee
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    Seems like a really bad idea to give swaths of people a common enemy and then taking away the thing that prevents them from feeling like they have nothing left to lose.

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    The whims of a brain damaged man who did his own research.

    Might as well hand the keys to a Facebook mom’s group

  • certified sinonist@lemmygrad.ml
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    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

    Sounds like a replacement for the cheap agricultural labour immigrants presented.

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    Time to start titrating off of them, because when he makes them illegal, if you’re still at your full dose, going off SSRIs cold turkey is extremely dangerous.

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      I just want to put this out there for anyone who finds themselves in this type of situation. If for some reason you’re titrating down or have suddenly run out of your SSRIs you can take Benadryl to help with the buzzing and brain zaps. I can confirm this works as I have done it in the past.

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      Yeah, discontinuation syndrome kind of feels like your head is full of angry bees.

      I don’t think he can just ban my meds, but who the fuck knows.

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    I take anti-depressants and I have never shot up a school. I actually need them to manage my anxiety and OCD.

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    not only do these people want to do fascism, they want you to rawdog it

    Edit: having read this back to myself, I realise that the alternative of non-rawdogged fascism would be much more unlikely

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    RFK’s crusade against SSRIs reeks of political theater masquerading as public health. Another day, another scapegoat for systemic decay. His “wellness farms” fantasy—where you detox from Zoloft by growing kale—ignores the real crisis: a nation where access to mental healthcare is a luxury and school shootings get solved with thoughts and prayers.

    Fifteen thousand physicians called him out, yet here we are. The man who built a career on vaccine conspiracy theories now wants to pathologize the pills keeping millions functional. This isn’t policy—it’s performance art for the paranoid.

    Meanwhile, the actual addicts? They’re dying in parking lots with fentanyl in their veins. But sure, let’s spend tax dollars building rural communes for Adderall users. Modern problems require medieval solutions, apparently.

    别装蒜了