In America black people are diagnosed schizophrenic or psychotic because they talk about institutional racism to white clinicians that don't believe them
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Trump derangement syndrome. Same shit.
I came in here to say the same thing. It was pointed out that the USSR did this when Republicans first started with that nonsense, and it was my first thought upon seeing this post.
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Russia does it too; transexual? Mental illness.
Did I forget to say they also forbid "mentally ill" people to have a driving permit?
Not just trans people— all LGBTQ+ people are regarded this way
USSR never went away. And if you dig deeper, it's still just russian empire in a trench coat
took off the purple robes, but on a red hat.
took off the red hat, put on a capitalist neoliberal necktie.
now took off the capitalist neoliberal necktie, put on some ironheeled jackboots.
the goal is to take off the jackboots and put on the purple robe
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Somewhat relatedly, the W Bush administration expanded mental health screening and recordskeepint, and broadened the use of somewhat dangerous antipsychotics for non psychotic conditions in the wake of the Patriot Act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Freedom_Commission_on_Mental_Health
The Soviet Union at its height had the largest percentage of incarcerated individuals, more than double the USA's percentage of the population today. These were hard labor camps, too, where millions worked until they died.
and yet people romanticise and justify that shit
I've had a Tankie write me a 10 page essay comment, with citations, about how great the 1930s economy was. The middle of a famine.
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this is only true for the stalin years i think.
in any case, living in a country without due process kinda sucks
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This sounds very familiar to the CIA's practices with MK Ultra... although in a different way.
Goes to show, that neither system would be optimal - and that it's better to chase the path of democratic socialist movements.
It’s crazy to me that many people think ‘this is what communism does’ when it’s actually what authoritarianism does. You can get authoritarianism all over the spectrum, in anything from communism to fascism.
This isn’t a feature of any political ideology – rather it’s a feature of letting sociopaths gain power.
The US is trying to do this now, what with declaring the bogeyman known as antifa a mental illness AND a terrorist threat.
Part of it is that the vast majority (all?) of the communist regimes of the 20th century pretty rapidly descended into authoritarian hellscapes (Democracy/Capitalism took a few decades to catch up...). So people tend to less say "Well. The horrors that unfolded in X were a result of a misapplication of the core tenets of communism" and instead "My family literally had to flee a communist regime because we were being ethnically cleansed"
Part of it is that Democracy/Capitalism won and very much built up Communism as a bogeyman for obvious political reasons.
And the last part is that... Communism fundamentally requires a central source of power/truth. You can't have a managed economy without folk managing it. Which, inherently, centralizes power which is one of the big first steps towards authoritarianism. Similar to how Democracy fundamentally enables populism and Capitalism oligarchy.
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“Liberalism is a mental disease!”
A phrase often said by MAGAs. It’s no distance at all saying the same thing about nationalism.
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Pretty sure America does that.
They certainly are trying with calling people who hate Trump by calling it "Trump Derangement Syndrome."
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Today it's called ODD, "woke", or "tankie" if an anarchist pisses off the wrong lib.
It's fuckin insane that ODD is still in the DSM. That alone is enough for me to want to dismiss the entire text.
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Kinda how it works in our late stage capitalist societies to be honest, except that it's collective pressure/belief instead of state-imposed.
You have trouble accepting the shitty state the world is in? You don't want to be exploited and end the month with not enough to pay your rent? You're fed up with that human crushing machine that keeps on destroying the planet because There Is No Alternative?
Well, you should consult you might be a tiny bit depressed. Take antidepressants and shut the fuck up. Learn to see and focus on the beauty in life and the little things instead. Take small hobbies, a lover or a cat. How you deal with all of that is your own individual problem.
Does it seem so normal that you really can't see any other way? Congratulations, you are well programmed. Those problems aren't to be delt with on an individual level, they are political.
In the past, most people formed unions and parties and did strikes, political rallys, protested and burned the landowners' manors as a way to process those kind of feelings.
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