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[-] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago

I'm going to fuck every person named RFK Jr. in the mouth.

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Wow a health nut AND a fascist!!! Who could have seen THESE two things fitting together so nicely.... is it everyone?

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

When your just trying to follow to Nazi playbook, but you misunderstand what a concentration camp is...

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[-] chrischryse@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Ah yes food has caused all my behavioral issues def not being sexually abused at a young age 🙃

[-] Cattail@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

So how would they deal with sabotors that just ruin crop. Do they give them their meds back?

[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They'll threaten the people you love if you don't comply.

Look around at other places that do this kind of thing. You don't think they've thought about that already? There's a story floating around about a dude in a similar situation who didn't meet the quota (or something), and they cut off his little kid's hand as punishment.

[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Exactly. Getting people to work when in involuntary servitude is a solved problem. You can research some of the history of what methods were used to get African slaves to work, especially in the early colonial Caribbean colonies, if you really want to lose faith in humanity.

It was actually a quite difficult problem from the slaver's perspective. You kidnap some guy from the coast of West Africa. You take him from his family, haul him across an ocean, and force him to work against his will on a sugar plantation on a Caribbean island. You offer him no way out and instruct him he's to work as hard as he can until he keels over and dies. He gets nothing from his work, and he has no way to earn or buy his freedom. Oh, and he doesn't think he did anything to deserve this treatment either.

Exactly what motivation does this man have to work for you exactly? Early on, in these slave colonies, the slavers found that many abducted people would simply refuse to eat and starve themselves to death. The inescapability of their predicament meant that the slaves couldn't even hold out hope for eventual rescue or escape. It would be like if you were abducted by aliens and hauled off to a planet in another galaxy. There's simply no way you're escaping and getting back home. So many slaves would simply refuse to work and just starve themselves to death.

Eventually the slavers did figure out ways to coerce slaves into working. And those methods are as bad, and probably even worse, than you can imagine.

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[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Well, it's voluntary (the title is misleading), so they'd probably just tell you to leave.

[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 months ago

Or get arrested and put into involuntary servitude, with threats of torture and other unimaginable things.

Y'all wanna pretend that this isn't that dangerous. The fact that they're even floating this idea is terrifying.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Plea bargain agreements are always "voluntary." Because the alternative is almost always going to be worse.

[-] Norgoroth@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago
[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Apparently, during the last Trump administration the pharmacy at the White House handed Adderall out like candy to all the staffers. Every accusation is a confession.

[-] strcrssd@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

But the "rules" won't apply to them, they're above/beyond the law.

[-] ehpolitical@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

What the hell's happened to him? Was RFK Jr not one of the good guys at one point? I feel like I missed something.

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[-] fediverse_fremont@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I guess it's a good think i'm still undiagnosed with ADHD, even though it meansI gotta pay way more to get my adderall

Been to 4 different doctors and they all seem to think I don't have ADHD its nuts

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