He gets so close-
Violent crime has risen over precisely the period we have shuttered these psychiatric institutions. And you know what? The number one psychiatric institution today is jail. It’s prison. And they don’t do a very good job. And now you then get the calls to clear the jails or to have commuting of sentences or shortening of sentences. People leave those jails in a worse psychiatric condition, often, than when they even entered.
Yes! Yes!
We can do this again learning from past mistakes without those abuses. I don’t think I want to be pumping psychiatric institutions with pharmaceuticals into people.
Seems reasonable.
Faith-based approaches – there are better ways to do this.
Oh for fuck’s sake.
And, of course, the ironic thing is that Ramaswamy is a pharma bro.
Ramasmarmy saying whatever he thinks the Republican base wants to hear. So weird seeing him bet all in on a base that despises him.
He hasn’t figured out that he will never win because he isn’t white
He probably considers himself white since he isn’t a black man meanwhile the republicans will never see him as anything but non-white. It’s similar thought processes to the South American neo nazis.
We had a Sri Lankan family friend who got incensed when anyone suggested he wasn’t white. It was odd.
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He’s making the play for token vice president
He’s not even a Christian
It’s working so far for him. He’s the rising star in the party. I’m sure there is a portion of the republican electorate that would like to vote for a brown person so they can use it as “evidence” that they aren’t racist. Just like when they claimed racism was over when Obama got elected.
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Aye. At this point I’m convinced he’s saying anything to get attention and raise money. I also wonder if it’s a play to siphon off extremist votes, but I’m not sure who’d benefit outside of moderates like Chris Christy
This is literally his brand. His books are actually filled with policy contradictions, because he’s figured out that a significant portion of Americans simply reflect whatever most recent political messaging they’ve heard. There is no attempt at broader synthesis or framework consistency.
The average voter hears something they like, neuron activation gives them dopamine, and that’s the end of the experience. This entirely explains why there are more than zero people who can vote for Obama and then vote for Trump. Because these are simple folk. The common clay of the new west. You know, morons…
This He’s just trying to get a buzzword the religious right can latch onto.
I bet he’s not even a Christian
He is Hindu, I thought.
That’s fucking dumb, people kill each other over religion every single day in staggering numbers. Maybe they can institute a program that has speakers from the IRA and the Taliban come in to talk about strong faith.
I cant believe grown adults believe in fairy tales, it’s absolute insanity.
At the end of Peter Pan, the Lost Boys along with Wendy and the other kids are tied to a mast while Captain Hook monologues at them. Peter has pushed Tinkerbell away, and she’s fading out of existence. It seems all hope is lost.
But then Peter gets an idea and begins to chant. “I do believe in fairies, I do, I do.” Soon, they’re all chanting it together. “I DO believe in fairies! I DO I DO!”
And Tinkerbell pops back into existence to save the day. This is what faith is. The idea that if you believe in something hard enough it will pop into existence.
Of course, it’s a fantasy story for children. I can’t believe grown adults think it’s true, either. It’s absolute insanity, agreed. But that’s where Republicans have to meet their constituents, who apparently live in Never Never Land.
This guy is an even bigger shill than Turd Cruz. He made his money in pharma, his wife is a physician. And yet here he is shilling for FaiTH BaSeD CuRE.
Fuck off Vivek
Ironically, his name means conscience.
He’s got none.
Religion is a mental illness.
Religion is about control and people exploiting this are 100% sane and know exactly what they’re doing. That’s the scary part.
Religion is about control
Turns out that if you can convince people that unless they behave in a certain way and follow a specific set of rules, they’ll be dropped into a burning lake of fire when they die, they are pretty easy to manipulate.
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Fuck George W Bush forever for popularizing “faith based” as a euphemism for people forcing their religion on others.
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So you treat mental illness with another form of mental illness?
Religion is not an issue itself (I am religious myself) but the misuse of it is the problem (but yeah, nah, medicine is the way) 🙂
The whole premise of religion is that it exploits willful ignorance to exert control
No, not really and you know that. Religion exists as a sign of… hope.
That’s a pretty depressing life if you have no hope for anything and just use willful ignorance to hope that things will be better after you’re dead
I guess I am a happy ignorant lol
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Democrats vs republicans…
Religion is like everything else, it would be much better if you would just remove the human element.
God should have kept with the angels lmao
If he stayed away from married women it would have solved a lot more.
Just what we need, another fake ass politician, billionaire, douche bag lying to Christians.
I don’t know. If I tell the entire church my daughter is depressed, and we all pray about it during the 11AM Sunday service, and every old lady in the church constantly asks her if she’s “feeling blue,” she’ll shut up about it and never trust me with any intimate secrets ever again. That means it’s cured, right?
Belief in fake gods has never been the solution.
I’m so sick of these narcissistic cunts who will say and do virtually anything for attention and graft.
YOU started a pharmaceutical company. Shut the fuck up. Your face is as big as Charlie’s. Seriously, there must be some sort of correlation between right-wing vitriol and small faces because holy fuck.
lol. Nobody trusts a right winger.
Lmao I read that as right whinger at first
Still apt
So now these dipshits are unironically and very seriously borrowing from the Scientology playbook…? And here I thought religion in America couldn’t get any worse.
It’s kind of like the joke “if alternative medicine worked, it would just be called medicine”.
A faith-based approach could also be called a hypothesis-based approach: the only thing that distinguishes it from a scientific approach is that it is a hypothesis that either hasn’t been tested or has failed the scientific method.
A hypothesis must be falsifiable, which anything faith-based is not (the whole point is belief without evidence), so it cannot be called a hypothesis-based approach. It’s not that it has not been tested or has failed testing. It cannot be tested by definition.
I was thinking you could test whether a faith-based approach accomplishes what it is supposed to accomplish, but you’re right, my characterization of it as hypothesis-based, even though I meant it facetiously, ignores your important point
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Only someone who is (probably) comfortably insulated from the reality that real people face in crises could say something so inane
