Hate Trump? According to a Proposed NIH Investigation, You Have a Mental-Health Disorder.

If hating what Trump does and represents is a mental disorder, then I am terminal and highly-contagious.

This is a foot in the door for using the mechanisms of criminal psychiatry to brutalize opposition, not a joke.
- Kennedy has been talking about putting the "mentally ill" in farming concentration camps since he floated challenging Biden. This is Step 1 to criminalizing political opposition.
- It also silences their voices and discredits anything they say so opposition don't gain more support as the GOP dismantle our democracy in front of our eyes.
  Relationships will become more strained.
Unfortunately much of this country has developed a vaccine for this apparently.
If only you were highly contagious
I don't hate him, I don't know him.
I hate what he does. I hate what he says. I hate who he associates with. I hate his voice. I hate his face. I hate everything about him.
I will celebrate with so much champagne when he dies.

Funny, that. Stalin's regime said the same thing. A lot of dissenters were labeled "mentally ill," and tortured in mental hospitals.

"It Can't Happen In America?" Wake the fuck up..it is happening.

a lot of my professors in psychiatry can't explicitly let their political leanings be known, but they have STRONGLY hinted that they are pissed off by the weaponization of mental health for political ends.
Actively speaking out and disagreeing with your institution's official view point of "silence/neutrality" is pretty much grounds for termination, Tenure or no Tenure.
So America lost the cold war against communism?
- You guys were fighting?
It’s still early days, most likely many years later it will be both worse and better than is feared by me
We only had 72 years to adapt. Let us cook

Luckily, the research on that is already done:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/resolution-not-conflict/201603/can-you-spot-10-signs-childish-adult

TL;DR:

The bill, backed by two GOP reps (Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio and Rep. Barry Moore of Alabama) proposes NIH investigation into "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS) and aims to study TDS's origins, media influence, and interventions.
The article compares it to Soviet-era tactics of labeling political dissent as a mental disorder.

Ooh I LOOOOOVE Trump!!!! That's a totally normal thing to say about a politician! You know who else can say that? No one. Not even the best Biden fans...you know he doesn't have fans? Can you believe that?
I love Trump so much I have bought his sneakers, his steaks, his socks, his hats, his shirts, his jorts, his truck decals, his crypto, his dolls, his sunglasses, his guns, his ammo...in fact, I've gone into debt just to buy more of his merch. You know who else has that? No one.

This implies that the majority of the world has a mental health disorder. Yes, that must be it...

How stupid do these MAGA clowns think people are? And: Are they perhaps projecting their own characteristics onto others?

Or is it perhaps about imprisoning dissidents for no reason?

Hmmm, that sounds familiar. Ahh, yes, Hitler and his henchmen did the same thing...

They are getting away with much bigger atrocities than this. People will absolutely be on board to suddenly have their trump-hating relative actually be mentally ill. Then you don't have to listen to anything they say because they are just crazy.
Even announcing trump derangement syndrome in an official setting so it can be in the news cycle for as long as they want is going to have a powerful impact on the personal, individual level much wider than what he has done this term so far really. Now anyone who disagrees with trump is crazy. That's just best case scenario.
- As I said, this is straight out of Hitler's playbook and serves to prepare for the next atrocities. Nazis have traditionally been interested in giving their crimes a legal veneer.
Every accusation is a confession from the GOP
- Yes, but with things like this, the current US government is actually trying to create a legal basis on which it can make undesirable people disappear. Just like the Nazis did in the Third Reich.
  It's about establishing an unjust state with the corresponding legal means.
  I really think that plans are being made here to establish a dictatorship. There are many other signs of this.
- Year 2785. The Tesla-built Trump-atons patrol the irradiated skyline of New America. The scorched remnants of what was once called Earth. Their red, white, and chrome exoshells glint beneath a sun filtered through atmospheric ash. "Nobody knew healthcare would be so complicated" can be heard over the speaker from it's silver jowls.
  From beneath a collapsed monument to Elon, a stone shifts. A malnourished human, skin sun-leathered and trembling, crawls out wrapped in a faded Trans-Palestinian Soviet flag. Eyes cracked with age and dust, he whispers into the void:
  “Every accusation… is a confession.”
  “Trump-bots are racist.”
  “General strike.”
  Centuries-old resistance slogans, preserved like fossilized dog shit, echo into silence. No one hears him. No one cares because these are decades old slogans that never really packed a punch anyways and were never adapted over time or expanded on through content creation and memetic knowledge.
  In the shadow of the gutted White House, Lauren Ro-BoeBert 2.0 strokes patriotism behind a metal dumpster her servos sticky with Trump derangement.
  The world turns. The code loops. And somewhere, deep beneath the bedrock, a spark of humanity retreats back to its lemming like hole beneath New America.

Trumpitis.

It's an allergy to orange shitbags. not a mental healthdisorder!

Not just a mental disorder, which is bad enough by its self, but some conservatives are pushing for it to be grounds for involuntary committal.

THAT'S FASCISM
- ...among many policies already in effect...

Critical Thinking is now a Mental Health Disorder?

Ignorance is strength. Sickness is health.

Will this severe mental disorder help me qualify for disability?

Unlimited mandatory treatment, in South Sudan.
It'll qualify us for the labor camps RFK Jr wants us in at least.

The biggest problem with these MAGA Nazis is that they fully believe their own nonsensical propaganda. They actually see Trump haters as mentally disabled, not angry patriotic Americans, so it doesn't occur to them that putting mentally healthy and angry people together is only creating a small motivated army that will kill their captors, take their weapons, and go house to house in the local community, killing everyone with MAGA stuff.

The administration is preparing to put them all in a "mental health camp".
Based. That's the attitude I want to hear. Remember that the ultimate enemy are the oligarch class so next they would need to be obliterated followed by a permanent revolution against fascism worldwide.
Only change is that I would take unarmed low-level Magatards as prisoners rather than kill them.
Most of them do not see opposition as mentally disabled, they see it as an internal enemy. And in dealing with it, punitive psychiatry is a times tested method.

You're not going to have anything to hang it with in CECOT

A bill like this was proposed in the Minnesota state house, shortly before one of the co-sponsors was arrested for soliciting sex from a minor.

Just like good old Generalissimus Stalin. He learns from the best!

Hitler, also. Remember that one of the only books anyone can recall Trump reading regularly is a collected volume of Hitler's speeches.

Oops! Looks like I have an incredibly severe mental health disorder. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to treat it.

Unless… maybe I can bring light or bleach into my body - almost like a cleaning. You know, to stop this disorder? I heard Trump’s team is looking into that. Should be interesting.

I've had one my whole shitty life. The Orange Jackass is just making it easy worse.

Hungarian here, we had our own version predating Trump derangement syndrome called Orbánfóbia (Orbánophoby), but so far no one wanted to treat people for it.

I might have a mental health disorder, but I am cognitively healthier than any of his butt-kissers.

Thanks

Psychiatry is and has always been political

I might be unhinged. I have a desire to call Trump and irrationally yell at him for every problem I have, regardless if it's his fault

Or, you have eyes and ears.

You have a mental diseuse, you can´t own a firearm.

Only MAGA have the right to article 2.

Job done.

And RFK wants to send you to a ~~gulag~~ "wellness farm" for it.

That's why it's important to join the 50501 movement and have mass protests.

I had to double check that I am not reading an Onion article

Christians doing their loop

I mean, most people hating Trump have some mental condition from DSM. Most people loving Trump as well.

Depression is the first disease from a second term so why not accept that as fact.

I do think hating Trump has diagnostic value. It's a strong indication of anit-sociopathic tendencies.

I agree, a lot of you are mentally ill and a bit simple. But that's beside the point.

Like the fact you all avoid confrontation and allowed TDS to culturally be pinned to the left is absolutely deranged how easily it could have been flipped. The fact the right has such a control on pushing a dominate view online and publicly is because trump opposition has mental problems. Look at the guy. He's an lol cow and yet nothing is being generated beyond a "he's racist" "orange man bad" where's your fucking fight. That's The actual TDS. The desire to passively watch the lol cow and not immediately go make funny shit

You're the same kind of guy who would comment on an article about a political assassination of a fascist with "but not like this!".
You want OTHERS to fight back, as if the legal means to do so will have any effect whatsoever.
Federal government is currently captured entirely by the fascists, state and local governments are being attacked.
What is suing going to do? What is on foot protest going to do? The vast majority of us have y'know, jobs? Families? Things to take care of? Makes it pretty hard to drop everything and just go protest, or fight back in those ways. We do what we can to protect our own and those around us, and if anyone was planning any sort of resistance it sure as fuck wouldn't be being discussed on an open public platform like Lemmy.
So cool it with all the "these stupid Americans are just lying there and taking it". Would love to see what YOU do if it was you in these shoes (don't bother commenting any big dick "I would fight back" bullshit. It's very obvious when a keyboard warrior is pushing for OTHERS to do violence)
- I want people to create content. I want the current content creators to be lifted up and supported. I want to see 10 responses that are funny or engaging for every stupid comment on Facebook, YouTube, Reddit and here. Not just bullshit like "he's racist". I want people to become more engaged and play the game. The right did something effective over the past couple decades. People need to put the ego down and understand how they did it and repeat it
I don't want politics to be a 4chan-esque game of trolling. "Orange man bad" "lolcow" Are you even old enough to vote?
- You have to. There is no other way. I'm not even being sarcastic here. You have to in the modern age. You can act like you're above it but there are consequences. Some consequences we are witnessing currently. This is a popularity contest in a digital culture. You have to speak the language. The way you answered explains so much. You said "I don't want .." that's ok. But you have to accept it's not about you or what you want. We are seeing the richest and most powerful invest in this stuff for a reason. It's silly but effective. Which is why it's often overlooked. It's the subtle appeal to base instinct. It's about capture and engagement. You can't logic your way to winning people to a side politically in the current climate.

This is not a legitimate disorder, this is Republican politicians pushing for what they've been calling "Trump derangement syndrome" to become a "real" disorder. With RFK jr talking about bringing back asylums for the mentally disabled, I'm pretty sure I'm not being too conspiratorial in thinking this will be the factor that "legitimizes" incarcerating those who speak out about how awful Trump is...