RFK's not-so-veiled threat to take mental health drugs away is even worse than it looks at first blush.
He wants to replace these medications with labor camps.
This fits with the larger, eugenics-informed Trump/Musk agenda.
@AmandaMarcotte He should start with the ketamine addicted autist space boy.
@mutter01 @AmandaMarcotte can we not use those as the identifiers for musk as though they are themselves bad things?
I know lots of very fine autists, a fair number of decent space boys, and even some not-too-bad ketamine addicts
To be honest, the whole wellness-to-fascism pipeline is well known and documented by now. The anti-intellectual stance, the "purity" ideology (whether it's about water, organic food, natural remedies or eugenics), the adoption of pseudoscience... It's all there.
The pandemic recruited a whole bunch of people and accelerated the slide.
@AmandaMarcotte Eugenics has been debunked as a means for helping control humans basically making the case that only the strong survive & that weaker genes need to be removed from the gene pool, thus the NAZIs embraced Eugenics as a means to murder all sorts of ppl including the mentally ill & developmentally disabled. #fuckMAGA
@AmandaMarcotte@mastodon.sdf.org @dangillmor@mastodon.social there would be zero regulation of these 'wellness farms' under despot's administration.
Who would RFK allow to act as carers for people who would have no protection.
"Rebrands fascism as wellness".
They've always been one and the same thing. Or at least, the path from wellness to full blown fascism and eugenics has always been a very short and direct one.
@pewnack @AmandaMarcotte Wasn't Goebbels also obsessed with natural/rural living?
@AmandaMarcotte there'll be so many Luigis coming out of these all the media will be having field days for months!
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He needs those meds.
@AmandaMarcotte ie. "Re-education Camps". Communist Mao would be so proud of Bobby, while anti-Communist RFK is spinning in his grave.
When they target the medical treatment of the trans community as "unnatural" "ungodly" "dangerous" why did anyone believe it would stop there?
Oral contraceptives are hormone therapy. So are treatments for menopause, thyroid disease, prostate disease, cancer, PCOS, and the very popular Ozempic. ED drugs also affect male hormones.
"Yeah, but not me."
Now the attack naturally migrates to "unnatural, ungodly, dangerous" medications that treat depression.
"Yeah, but not me..."
“Other Hormone Therapy to add;
Insulin for Diabetics, Melatonin, and of course the Testosterone
(and likely other Steroids) that Bobby admitted he likes to use (shoot-up).
‘Wellness Farms' a.k.a. 'Concentration Camp'
How long before the forced-sterilisation, mercy-killing (extermination), and bazaar experimentation on these People to 'purify the blood and strength the gene-pool' ?
'Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.'
@B_Bird @pattykimura @AmandaMarcotte These bloody idiots are bound to collide painfully with reality sooner or later.
@AmandaMarcotte Konzentrationslager
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1. After nixing birthright citizenship, declare citizenship can be revoked for certain felonies.
2. Declare certain medications illegal, that the presence in blood indicates usage, which is a felony.
3. Use ICE to round up newly-minted non-citizens and boom: you’ve made your own SS in plain sight.
@AmandaMarcotte 'Slavery is back in the menu boys!'
Very reminscent of the Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei".
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RFK Jr is not just an idiot, he is a dangerous idiot.
@AmandaMarcotte awesome. So who will take care of my pets while I’m at this camp? Who will pay my mortgage and utilities? Who will make sure I don’t lose clients while I am gone? Such a well thought-out plan
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