> Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to treat drug addicts—as well as people who use prescribed stimulants or SSRIs—with a network of “healing farms” where addicts grow organic vegetables and learn about hard work.
A note about USAID, coming from someone who is very right wing, but wishes we could have someone smarter and more careful:
One of the really striking things about USAID is the apparent funding of political projects, including some which would tend to affect domestic politics, and most of which would be considered pretty left wing. A huge number of presumptively domestic political organizations seem to have had their chain yanked, meanwhile.
Meanwhile, the shutting down of this actually valuable foreign aid is, well, Bad.
This really makes me interested in ways to support this desperately important stuff like AIDS mitigation without giving the green light to what appear to be politicized slush fund s.
I haven't read any *articles* about why the "healing farms" thing is horrifying but I have definitely seen horrified commentary on BlueSky to the effect of "this is just putting social undesirables in labor camps".
I'm a survivor of trafficking linked to work trade and "healing farms" Very disturbing stuff, the people who run these places are legitimately unhinged, dangerous and enabled
> Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to treat drug addicts—as well as people who use prescribed stimulants or SSRIs—with a network of “healing farms” where addicts grow organic vegetables and learn about hard work.
Has he not read Louis Sachar's Holes??
A note about USAID, coming from someone who is very right wing, but wishes we could have someone smarter and more careful:
One of the really striking things about USAID is the apparent funding of political projects, including some which would tend to affect domestic politics, and most of which would be considered pretty left wing. A huge number of presumptively domestic political organizations seem to have had their chain yanked, meanwhile.
Meanwhile, the shutting down of this actually valuable foreign aid is, well, Bad.
This really makes me interested in ways to support this desperately important stuff like AIDS mitigation without giving the green light to what appear to be politicized slush fund s.
I haven't read any *articles* about why the "healing farms" thing is horrifying but I have definitely seen horrified commentary on BlueSky to the effect of "this is just putting social undesirables in labor camps".
Re EA demographics, you said the median age is 25, but the link says median age 31. Am i missing something?
wow I have no idea how I made that typo, sorry
I'm a survivor of trafficking linked to work trade and "healing farms" Very disturbing stuff, the people who run these places are legitimately unhinged, dangerous and enabled
Wow, that HIV one should NOT be behind a paywall. Shame on nytimes