I know many people forgot, and many more probably never even knew, but I will never forget reading the daily horrors committed in Afghanistan by the US military. We had B52s carpet bombing the countryside (as if that was going to smoke out Bin Laden somehow? and was he even there at that point?). I’m sure the Afghani…

100 feet? You sure he’d make it that far?

Their “support” of her has nothing whatsoever to do with her bodily autonomy, and everything to do with her right to access the money she made. That’s the only reason a republican would weigh in on this (aside from an excuse to grab airtime, as goddessoftransitory pointed out). It’s always about money with them (and…

I think cults prey on basic human weaknesses - fault lines that exist in the human psyche in general, not just the “damaged” ones. For example, everyone feels lonely sometimes, like nobody really understands who you are inside. Cults exploit that. You might come from a happy family, you could be in a healthy…

Thank you. This is good info, and makes more sense of my time working in behavioral health.

Literal skeletons are a bit harder to wave away, but I’m sure they’ll try.

Thank you for pointing out that this is cultural genocide. People need to be reminded about this more often. These children were not allowed to speak their native languages, not allowed to follow their cultural traditions or worship the gods of their peoples, were forced to adopt “christian” names, and were completely…

Damn, you beat me to it. Not the gif, but the cocaine remark.

You had me right up until you started talking about lithium. You need to go look up the effects of lithium toxicity. If they were making her take enough to cause delirium, then they were giving her wayyy too much. It is not a safe drug at high doses. Have you ever seen what happens to people who were given large doses…

Yeah, that stood out to me as well. That’s the sort of thing that could even be considered a form of “chemical restraint”, which is illegal. If they were giving her so much she felt “drunk”, then it was clearly too much.

Yep. This isn’t some indie band hitting the club circuit. This is a Vegas residency. I’m pretty sure that she was working 7 days a week as she says. They rehearse like crazy for those gigs.

“I don’t try and proselytize.”

I read “fellow devout Catholics” with a heavy degree of sarcasm (or maybe irony), but I could be wrong.

I’ve been saying for a while now that one of the worst things republicans have done is to undermine not only truth, but language itself. Not only are experts called into question / disbelieved as a matter of course, but now you can’t even rely on a common understanding based upon what were previously agreed upon…

Yeah, I caught that one, too. It’s like, “Sure, man can’t affect the entire universe. Makes sense, right?”.

I suppose if you want to go by the FOR PROFIT Dictionary System then of course your words mean something different than what I think!

Just to add on to what you’re saying, not only is it not ancient history, there are still incidents of neglect and abuse by various caretakers, be they staff in a facility or group home, or the individual’s family members. It’s just that there are more regulations in place (well, instead of “none”) nowadays, so…

Unfortunately people tend to view mental illness in extreme exemplars: the “crazy homeless person”, the “psycho-killer”, the “catatonic” - living in their own world. It’s largely because they have no frame of reference so they pick it up from popular media. The truth is, on average, far more mundane. Many people have…

Nice, concise explanation of the anarchist position. I tend to get more flustered and wordy when describing it (probably because I’m so used to being put on the defensive the second I mention I’m one).

This guy keeps using the phrase “for profit prison and health care systems”. I don’t think he cares about the actual definitions of words.