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

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      622·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • Belgdore@lemm.eeEnglish
        422·
        1 month ago

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

      • Ataraxia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 month ago

        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.

        • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 month ago

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

      • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        39·
        1 month ago

        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.

          • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
            191·
            1 month 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.

        • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          1 month 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.

      • Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        29 days ago

        The Mother Jones article presents this as a quote from RFK where he does use the word “farm”. The context of the article is a virtual “Latino town hall” event, so I assume that’s where he said the following:

        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.