Trump derangement syndrome. Same shit.
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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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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.
Anarchist communistic projects in Catalonia (1930s), anarchist Ukraine (around 1917), etc.: "Are we a joke to you?"
I don't know much about Ukraine but I know the one in Catalonia had roving gangs of "law enforcers" who would execute "capitalists/fascists" without trial, so I'm not sure it's an ideal to look up to.
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My guess is that the majority of communist regimes were killed by external countries.
Just a hunch, can't bother to look at numbers though, but thinking about people like Sankara.
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This isn’t a feature of any political ideology – rather it’s a feature of letting sociopaths gain power.
Now if there was some kind of political ideology that focuses a lot on not letting power accumulate into the hands of the few... /hj
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On the topic of the US declaring dissidents mentally ill, The Adrian Schoolcraft story is a pretty horrific account of what it looks like when a modern cop tries to whistleblow.
Also I don't think you even need sociopaths to wreck a hierarchy. Hierarchy collects power at the top of it's organizational structure, and power by it's nature becomes an end to itself, so hierarchy ensures abuse of it's power. Honestly calling every human a sociopath who gives in to that One Ring-style allure might actually be the same kind of medicalization that the state does to it's dissidents, in the opposite direction, but equally obfuscating. Yes it's a human failure, but the organizational structure very much sets up humans to fail.
But it’s mostly sociopaths that insist on that hierarchy. Something like 3% of any population are sociopaths, and they’re not ‘mentally ill’, they just have a diminished capacity to feel empathy. Because of that, they don’t understand altruism and think the only way society can function is if everyone is in their place – if there are strict rules governing everything, because in their worldview, they see others like themselves, and they would need those rules to keep themselves in check.
It’s very similar to people who think without laws against raping and pillaging, everyone would rape and pillage. They’re mostly telling on themselves, as most of us rape all we’d like, which is never.
Billionaires are often sociopaths. That’s how they became billionaires – because it’s all me, me, me.
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Authoritarianism is authoritarianism, no matter the flavor. If there is hierarchy in an organization, it is essentially inevitable that ultimately, one day, it will terrorize it's members. The spectre of collected abused power is more patient than the vigilance of active membership can ever persistently be.
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.
I think it's more like if you're so opposed to what any authority figure tells you to do that you will do the opposite of what your doctor tells you, for example, sometimes out of spite or vindication.
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ODD is an excuse diagnosis. It's literally "You rightfully criticise people for being authoritarian and us cops and fascists don't like that, boohoo".
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Has been spiteful or vindictive at least twice within the past six months
We all have ODD on this blessed day.
This is exactly what the GOP is pushing for with "Trump derangement syndrome".
This is what Republicans in the US want now. Unless a Democrat's in power, of course.
Something like this could never happen in a civilized country like Germany... Just ask Gustl Mollath about that...
On 6 August 2013, the Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg ordered a retrial and Mollath's immediate release, overturning a verdict of the Regional Court of Regensburg that had blocked a retrial.[8][7]
How many people got acquitted in the Soviet Union?
I was not trying to justify the Soviet Union's actions or anything... I was just remained of Mollath's case when I read OP's article.
Didn't mean to suggest that that was your intent, all good :3
not much different than the current era in modern nations - cf: a gov firebombing an entire philly block because one house had some anti US brown folk in it.
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.
As someone who works as a therapist in the mental health system in America, this is not at all how it works.
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Stoicism has become commoditized as a way to convince people that their lot in life is just their attitude, and the more they put their shoulder to the wheel to produce for the top of the pyramid, the more it works out for them, rather than questioning the wheel. The hustle and grind culture is just as much the goal of something like the heritage foundation as "deport the brown people."
Which is weird because stoicism evolved out of cynicism and inherited it's philosophical hatred of authority at least historically.
I feel like some random Austrian painter did the same thing.
The Soviet system used psychiatry as a weapon by diagnosing political opponents as mentally ill in order to confine them as patients instead of trying them in court. Anyone who challenged the state such as dissidents, writers, would-be emigrants, religious believers, or human rights activists could be branded with fabricated disorders like sluggish schizophrenia. This turned normal political disagreement into supposed medical pathology and allowed the state to present dissent as insanity.
So, this gave me a touch of the Deja Vu. And then I realized why. This is exactly the same thing Scientologists claim about the American psychiatric system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_psychiatry
In 1951, however, Hubbard's wife Sara Northrup Hollister reportedly consulted psychiatrists who recommended Hubbard be institutionalized; thereafter, Hubbard was increasingly hostile towards psychiatry.
It's also come up among the Falun Gong and the modern Protestant Evangelical Church
While there's ample opposition to the criminalization of mental infirmity, the folks who seem the loudest in opposition to psychiatry as some form of evil Soviet plot tend to be individuals and organizations that benefit from a members with untreated illness.
A problem with even well intentioned institutionalization is that once somebody is perceived as mentally unwell everything they do is looked at through a clinical lens. This can make it difficult for people who were misdiagnosed or who have recovered to convince people they are well.
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Generally, abusers make a lot of money, and sometimes can end up being louder than the actual victims. Because they make a full time job of being loud. Good luck getting your psychiatry victim association to the com budget of scientology.
Or competing with alpha-male-mindset-influencers who spend all their income on finding brand new ways of turning bad breakups and loneliness into various sales. I think they get by far the most public attention on those subjects, might be wrong.
There's a bunch of similar situations with companies selling well-being stuff, conspiracy theorist news sites, etc.
I just wanted to point out it's a general thing
“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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