• 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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        Honestly IMO the big threat to them comes from the right. They’ve spent a generation cultivating violence and gun culture in their own followers.

        I think it’s an accident, but not a surprise, that the recent Trump assaignation attempts were all right wing. The left has no monopoly on ADHD and depression diagnoses. And they teach their folks conspiracy thinking.

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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

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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

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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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    This headline and article are focused on antidepressants, but the line which mentions them in the executive order which this reporting is based on is actually broader.

    It also seems to attribute the authorship of the executive order to Kennedy, linking to it while saying that he “issued a statement”, despite it not actually mentioning his name and it being phrased in the first person from the president (beginning with “By the authority vested in me as President” as is usual for an executive order).

    The article says (emphasis mine):

    The government, he said, would “assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, [and] mood stabilizers.”

    While the executive order says:

    (iii) assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs;