PostmodernPythia @ PostmodernPythia @beehaw.org

Sapient liberation now.

---

Read more

Posts

0

Comments

95

Joined

2 yr. ago

It might be easier for people suffering from other mental illnesses if addiction were in a different category, but addiction isn’t something you choose. You may choose to try a substance, but no serious scientist holds addicts morally responsible for their addiction in the way we hold murderers or Nazis responsible for their actions.

An example of how things are already hard enough for us: https://www.propublica.org/article/they-needed-mental-health-treatment-mississippi-threw-them-in-jail

They can open a pdf, or their Legislative Assistants can. That stuff is performative, making sure we don’t expect them to regulate huge corporations because they’re so incompetent. This is the stuff they’re interested in regulating, so they do.

As someone who has spent decades living with severe mental illness, I think your stance will both kill innocent people and ruin the lives of many that survive. It was hard enough dealing with the stigma (even in medical settings) before the culture decided that becoming a mass shooter had to mean you had a mental illness. Now that we’ve decided every bigot with a gun and a vendetta is “mentally ill,” things are even worse. And now you want to make our lives even harder by lumping Nazis in with us? Tribalist hate shouldn’t be in the same category as depression; they are fundamentally different phenomena. I don’t think you have any concept of the harm this would do to people who are already vulnerable. Besides, if you think Nazism is a mental illness, are you arguing that most of Germany simultaneously developed the same murderous mental illness for a decade or so in the 20th century? Really?

The key is defining terms like “false” and “violent.”

Let’s not mince words. Pro-gestational slavery.

Rhiannon Giddens has a great version, too.

I’d argue that fascism shouldn’t be classified as a mental illness, but a social one. Mentally ill people deal with enough stigma for things we don’t control. People choose to be Nazis. They don’t choose to be suicidal. Please don’t make “mental illness” a catchall for “bad”; we have enough problems already without that. Most of your other analysis seems pretty accurate, but empathy needs to be the core of anti-fascism.

I came here to say this. Thanks for getting there first.

Fuck yeah. Thanks, comrade.

Watch 2 minutes of her speaking, you’ll understand. She’s a GrandKaren.

1869 at the latest (Texas v. White)

America dropped a lot of our soft power while we were busy trying to invade everyone in the early 2000s; China picked it up and did something with it. As an American, I can’t be mad that they were smarter than us. As a human, I’m disgusted that resource gaps between and within countries are so big that those approaches work.

Thanks. Might give it a shot. Don’t usually track my reading, but if I do, I won’t be feeding that data directly to one of the Frightful Five.

Wow. Thank you. Sorry if I was less-than-polite, this stuff really fucks me up.

That’s a different topic, as they don’t own the outputs in FOSS.

Read “Losing Earth” by Nathaniel Rich. We came close to acting in the late 70s. But we didn’t.

Specifically in this case, they want people they perceive as women (any human with a working uterus) to suffer so they are easier to control. I worry that your phrasing erases the sex-based violence part of this. Fascists are coming for most of us in one way or another, but this particular front is about controlling people they see as women. My husband (a cis dude) didn’t have to get parts of his body removed to have full citizenship rights; I did.

Maybe? Got any cheese or good books?

Yes. The closer labor costs are to zero, the happier the average capitalist is.

It’s harder to get people to return to the 1950s if they’re haunted by the realities of the 1850s. Best teach them everything was hunky-dory.