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Zachary Petrizzo
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Jan 15, 2022
How has YouTube not banned Right Side Broadcasting Network yet?
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Zachary Petrizzo
@ZTPetrizzo
Trump rally-goer: The real Governor Newsom has had his military tribunal at GITMO and he has been executed.
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4:25 PM · Jan 15, 2022
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)Blue_playwright
(1,568 posts)iemanja
(53,035 posts)is past old. People aren't mentally ill because you disagree with them, and people with mental illness aren't necessarily Trumpsters who deserve scorn. I'm sick to fucking death of this bullshit. Thanks for working so hard to promote the stigmatization around mental illness. God forbid the mentally ill be treated as human.
BTW, "crazy" isn't a diagnosis in the DSM. Nor is propensity toward conspiracy theories. That is a choice. Mental illness is not.
Casady1
(2,133 posts)enough
(13,259 posts)what is the right way to talk about this in the current political context?
Thanks for your post. 🙏
iemanja
(53,035 posts)and don't think logically. Most are likely poorly educated. Describe what is wrong with their POV rather than relying on the inaccurate crutch of mental illness.
Poiuyt
(18,125 posts)I hear a lot of delusion and lack of connection to reality going on. And their leader's various personality disorders were described in Bandy Lee's book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.
iemanja
(53,035 posts)But they have not diagnosed his followers. Absent a clinical diagnosis, you can't know if someone is mentally ill. Assuming that people whom one disagrees with are mentally ill is intellectually weak and dismissive of those who do suffer from mental illness. People need to ask themselves why they feel so comfortable dehumanizing a significant portion of the population. Why do they consider us inferior to themselves? And how is that anything but bigotry?
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I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)Mentally.ill person here
I have been disabled by it.
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Yeah the stigma is everywhere for people with mental illness.
Mental illness isnt voluntary it hits you when it hits you. Then you need help.
Its not easy to live with trauma,depression,
anxiety ,thought disorders and obsessive disorders.
Cops kill a lot of mentally ill people. Because they exhibit symptoms.
Yet millions of people do.
They hide it because of the stigma.
dclarston13
(412 posts)FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)If they get enough reports, they'll finally do something about Right Side Broadcasting Network.
Also why did Twitter allow this to be posted?
Haggard Celine
(16,846 posts)in this country, but I doubt we would make the kind of investment that's needed. If we had universal healthcare that included mental health treatment, we might eventually see some changes, but probably hundreds of billions would have to be invested just in mental health treatment. It's been a problem for a long time, and the problem is seemingly getting worse by the day. Instead of dealing with the issue, we're left picking up the pieces after mental health problems go off the rails, such as in the aftermath of mass shootings. I don't know when it's going to get to the point where Americans say they've had enough and demand action to remedy the situation. You'd think we would have reached that point already.
sky_masterson
(416 posts)Resentment, projection, conspiracy, Pillow sales, and Trump fluffing.
RSBN is terrible. The live chat is psycho.
sky_masterson
(416 posts)Search for it on Youtube and
Watch at your own peril.
It will make you dumber watching it.