politics

I propose we make CBS a mental illness (Chronic Bootlicking Syndrome), people who have CBS may inhibit the following symptoms:

1. Blind obedience to authority
2. Lack of critical thinking skills
3. Inability to think independently
4. Blind anger and agressesion towards those who are weaker
5. Inability to feel sympathy and/or regret
6. Lack of empathy and/or love
7. Inability to form genuine interpersonal relationships with ones peers (that are not based on coercion or fear)
8. Forming strong parasitic relationships with authority figures to the point of obsession
9. Delusional visions of the world including the past, present, and future
10. Delusional visions of ones place in society, specifically the idea that they will gain leverage in society by bowing down to authority
11. Severe lack of class consciousness to the point that they feel closer to the capitalists then their peers (workers)

This list is not complete, people who have CBS are highly advised to read some theory and maybe try feeling human emotions. However if left untreated for too long it may become terminal and kill any ounce of humanity left in the person. As of now there is no cure, however therapy is a great treatment (effectiveness may vary).

Just gonna leave these five names and their contact info here, for no particular reason at all:

1. Eric Lucero - District 30 - (651)296-5655
2. Steve Drazkowski - District 20 - (651)296-5612 (publicly listed home address: 1646 Cherry St. East, Mazeppa, MN 55956)
3. Justin Eichorn - District 6 - (651)296-7079
4. Glen Gruenhagen - District 17 - (651)296-4131 (publicly listed biz address: Gruenhagen Insurance & Financial Service Inc., 624 13th St. East, Glencoe, MN 55336)
5. Nathan Wesenberg - District 10 - (651)296-4913

Why do they even need this? There's already "oppositional defiant disorder", etc. It serves the exact same purpose. Psychiatry has always been about hegemonic control.

• Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill, and How This Helps America’s Illegitimate Authorities Stay in Charge

This is the most dystopian shit I've read this week. Impressive, all things considered.

So explaining reality to a Trump supporter is Trump Derangement Syndrome? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The senators who proposed this should be removed from office. This is beyond a farce.

This is a test. They’re seeing if they can outlaw objecting to Dear Leader by legally classifying it as a dangerous psychological condition.

This is not about mental health diagnoses. This is the pregame to the American edition of the night of the long knives.

Never, ever forgive magats for bringing this to our country. Don’t let them squirm out of it or try to play dumb, this is exactly what they wanted. Trump is the symptom and they are the disease

Accusation in a mirror

the fucked up part is if there is a president after Trump it will take decades to fix the damage he did in 2 months.

we're still suffering from Regan's decisions

We live in a fucking clown world.

The real mental illness here is the "Trump following syndrome", where people still support him despite what he does.

So Gender Dysphoria is bullshit, but TDS requires tax payer money thrown at it...

Shut up GOP you're drunk

Geez, all of this because Obama just had to wear that tan suit in 2014.

I've always thought Trump Derangement Syndrome better described MAGATurds. THEY are the ones who are absurdly and inexplicably in love with him, no matter how poorly he treats them.

They haven't seen deranged yet. And thats a lot knowing their own actions. Wait until their wrecking ball of an economic plan makes food impossible to buy. Then you'll see deranged.

...they freaked out because Obama ate spicy mustard...

It's funny because the Republicans are the ones suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Since when do senators diagnose shit?

I can't tell if they're joking or are dead serious anymore.

I have a mental illness -- 2 of them actually, Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Possibly will get PTSD thrown in that mix soon too. Therapists and Psychiatrists use a little book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-5 for short. Unless they can convince the APA to include TDS in the DSM-6 then it's not a mental illness.

This is nothing but thought policing and a way to label someone with mental illness when they really don't have one. It's also causing all of the work that's been done recently by NAMI, MHA, and AFSP to try to end the stigma surrounding mental illness to be set back to the era of mental institutions (something that their beloved Reagan did away with).

But what the hell, might as well add it to the DSM-6 and slap TDS on top of all my other mental illnesses 🤷🏻‍♂️

Me getting my monthly disability check after beging diagnosed with "TDS":

In first reading the title I was wondering if the bill was talking about people blindly following Trump.

It's the other way around.

The mental illness is not "paranoia about Trump's doings", paranoia about Trump is normal when you're a decent human being who is thinking clearly and fact-based, because then you should absolutely be paranoid about an unhinged, mentally unstable, dangerous fascist taking power in the US. If that doesn't bother you, I'm sorry, but you're probably simply uneducated. See old Nazi Germany for "prior art" on this one.

What could be considered a "mental illness" is what causes people to believe or support Trump, or the current Republicans, or the MAGA movement, or the current right-wing extremism in general. This is likely an issue of either low education, low intelligence or naive belief in various forms of internet propaganda. Or multiple of those issues combined. So it's not really "illness" but rather a misinformed and/or radicalized person. Similar to what cultists become in real cults. Fascism is very cult-like in general. There's usually a supreme leader and a doctrine (usually based on falsehoods) to live by, and everyone who doesn't do that is considered an "enemy" or at least inferior. What you read on the internet and especially social media or "alternative news sites" is already often weaponized and might be able to radicalize you or lead you away from the fact-based truth. There's TONS of disinformation, sometimes harmless, sometimes funny, but sometimes not. Sometimes it's dangerous, especially if you're not able to spot what's likely true or not. If you aren't able to filter out disinformation, propaganda, lies, half-truths, weird memes, i.e. if you are unable to stick to reputable sources, peer-reviewed science, and so on, then you WILL fall for at least some amounts of misinformation and you MIGHT even become part of a cult (e.g. MAGA movement, conspiracy believers, anti-vaxxers, QAnon, radical right-wing extremism, ...). And again, it's all weaponized and that is useful for various involved parties for various reasons. For example, Putin wants misinformation on social media because with it he can destabilize Western democracies, because common citizens fall for this stuff and lose faith in their own governments. The end result helps Russia, because Western democracies will then do less and be less united against Russian attacks. Billionaires like Musk or Zuckerberg want misinformation on social media because with it they can better control the narrative and extract more money from the users because polarizing and extreme content gives them more interactions and thus money. Billionaires also want less governmental regulation, which is why Musk already demolished several regulating bodies in the US. Autocratic fascists like Trump also want misinformation on social media because with it they can control the narrative better. What these involved parties all don't want is the actual truth, so they are usually anti-science, anti-education, anti independent journalism, and so on. It's better for them if the common people are uneducated and uninformed, and follow the newly created doctrine. It's easy to tell that they want to create their own fake version of the truth, and control the narrative in that way.

TDS was always a sham, a way to write off all concerns and protests of Trump. "Oh don't listen to them, those who question Fearless Leader only do so because they're insane. He is perfect and loves everybody"

Obviously, this horrendous and fascist (par for the course). I think there is also a subtle insidious layer to this that would imply stripping all dissidents of their gun rights, therein stifling rebellion.