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.

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[–] 128 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Ramasmarmy saying whatever he thinks the Republican base wants to hear. So weird seeing him bet all in on a base that despises him.

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    He hasn't figured out that he will never win because he isn't white

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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    [–] 73 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fuck George W Bush forever for popularizing "faith based" as a euphemism for people forcing their religion on others.

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    [–] 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Religion is a mental illness.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Religion is about control and people exploiting this are 100% sane and know exactly what they're doing. That's the scary part.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Just what we need, another fake ass politician, billionaire, douche bag lying to Christians.

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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    So you treat mental illness with another form of mental illness?

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    Belief in fake gods has never been the solution.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    I'm so sick of these narcissistic cunts who will say and do virtually anything for attention and graft.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    lol. Nobody trusts a right winger.

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  • 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.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Bruh isn't his wife a doctor lmao

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Only someone who is (probably) comfortably insulated from the reality that real people face in crises could say something so inane

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Vivek is wrong. Mental health should be taken seriously.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    What a fucking idiot

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    So his big plan is to just tell everyone, "Y'all need Jesus!"?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Sick that they would blatantly lie to try and increase conversions.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It always amuses me when people try to recommend faith or faith based healing to cure their medical or mental health problems.

    How is faith based healing any different from using the placebo effect on someone by giving them a sugar pill and telling them it'll help cure their illness? Only difference I can see is you are replacing the pill with God, another placebo.

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    I want to just say. Get fucked. Thank you, that is all.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    He’s worse than being a card-carrying member of the religious right, he’s an ass-kissing suck-up to the religious right.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    So we can safely infer he's not appropriately medicated? That explains a lot.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Sir you have a minority religion in this country. Do you think religion is irrelevant to this or are you hoping a bunch of Americans get shipped off to Vishnu camp when we get depressed?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Isn't he s pharma guy?

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