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I’d rather see tons of homeless on the street, free from government tyranny, rather than live in the one flew over the cuckoo nest hell scape that conservatives
by Der_Einzige 2y ago
I’d rather see tons of homeless on the street, free from government tyranny, rather than live in the one flew over the cuckoo nest hell scape that conservatives want to fling us back into.
Thank god for Ken Kasey and thank god for desinsitutionalization and the anti-psychiatry movement.
- AStonesThrow 2y agoMost of those homeless folks are institutionalized in a very real, albeit virtual way. They're being held in chemical restraints and they're being continually monitored by clinicians when they do mandatory check-ins and doctor visits. The clinicians are also alerted, and swoop in, upon word of legal trouble or health crises. The effects of medications will encourage patients to act out, decompensate, commit acts of self-harm and violence upon others. The strategy is to get them jailed or cause serious bodily harm/death, because... Well let's just say that the incentives are perverse. Whereas lunatics of old wore visible chains and straitjackets, and were mercifully housed, fed, and clothed, now they are largely on their own, sink or swim; hope some other human family member cares enough to pick up the pieces.
- squigz 2y agoI don't think the choice is between "no government oversight" and "far-right hellscape"
- Der_Einzige 2y agoIt 100% is if you live in an economic prosperous state. The middle died in America and the wingcucks are in control of the parties. Of course, you can point to some centrist flyover states, but in anywhere worth living, it’s either extreme blue team or extreme red team policies.
- squigz 2y agoI wonder how much this line of thinking serves to reinforce the very issue it's concerned about.