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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" as a mental illness (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago

Guys, just steal this and use it to describe deranged Trump idiots. The right wing steals useful words like "fake news" and "groomer" and alters their meanings for political purposes all of the time. This one should be a layup because without reading into it everyone already thinks it's the condition those everyday July 4th cosplay, big truck with tattered flags morons have.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Russian stooge uses Russian method of oppression by abusing the mental health care system.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I love how far I had to read before it was clear that it's not what Trump has; it's what people who disagree with him apparently have.

Diseases are often named after their victims...

Also, and this is buried in everything he is doing, but how arrogant do you have to be to assume that every person disagrees with him just because he's Donald Trump, and not because there are valid concerns?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 58 minutes ago

its not about arrogance.

its about manufacturing cause to lock up and dispose of dissenting voices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I agree. It should be "Trump's Derangement Syndrome" law, either as impeachment or as A25 issue.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

TDS is definitely a real thing, but allowing the government to detain people for it is insane.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Disgust at corruption and criminality is not a syndrome, it's a sign of mental health.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

If you only care when Trump does it, it’s Trump derangement syndrome. Biden pushed forward with many of Trump’s worst policies, and Democrats didn’t have shit to say about it then.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 minutes ago (1 children)

You talk as if trump is “normal”, ignoring the kinds of things he says, how he says them, who he says them to, his tantrums in all caps on social media, his lack of poise, professionalism, and diplomacy. The guy is abrasive as fuck. You must have bad memory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago

Exactly. Neoliberals do not oppose Trump policies, but his lack of decorum. Which is why they had no problem with Obama and Biden quietly progressing fascism. They don’t like that he says the quiet part out loud, and gives away the game.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The Democrats didn’t but the base was sure pissed about it. That party is constantly under fire from its own base because of how much they rely on being the only option that isn’t full-blown insane-o fascism. The country at its core is broken and in a way that constantly reinforces itself. I do not envy the people who have to put the work in to fix it.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The Democrats are also full-blown insano fascist. It’s the same party pretending to be two. That’s why they’re both backing this genocide. That’s why the Democrats always manage to produce enough votes to help the GOP secure their votes. It’s why the Democrats sue anyone farther left off the ballots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

For sure, but the country has no other options. It’s like asking someone if they would prefer to be punched or stabbed and then claiming they enjoy the punching. You didn’t have “get a hug” as an option so stop acting like it’s there.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 57 minutes ago) (1 children)

So you want to fix things by electing the people who broke them in the first place. Genius.

If two people are trying to kill you, you don’t pick which one to ally with. You defend yourself against both of your enemies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago) (1 children)

That’s not what I said, but ai don’t know if what I say really matters to you more than acting smug does. Also, I live in a country with more than two parties and I do not participate in “strategic voting”.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 43 minutes ago) (1 children)

It’s exactly what you said. It’s just not how you want it to be interpreted, because it doesn’t align with your self-image.

A lot of people are groomed into supporting fascism by being made to believe they are somehow opposing it by backing a certain fascist. Both the Democrats and the Republicans are doing this right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)

The only way to read your comment as having any level of intelligence implies that there is a third option I’m missing. So what’s your alternative, then?

And “no one votes for the Democrats while knowing that the nation is full of people who can’t afford to take the risk of a Republican administration” is not an alternative. I get the sentiment, but it’s not happening. I’d say it should be primaries, but the DNC doesn’t really do those and their weird, sequential primary is designed to allow them to shape the outcome as it happens.

So please, enlighten us.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 31 minutes ago (1 children)

So then all your enemy has to do to convince you to surrender, is convince you that they are two enemies, and the next one will be worse.

Democrats are killing people too. Not all of us are willing to continue sacrificing those people to maintain our privilege.

The only viable & moral option is revolution.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 24 minutes ago (1 children)

You haven’t really answered my question, and I literally already told you that I know that the DNC uses that exact tactic. I also explained that I don’t vote that way. Gosh, you’re stupid.

So what are you doing to start this revolution? What advice to you have for people who want to join in and do real, tangible work like that? Do you understand how big of a jump it’s going to be for the most vulnerable people to go from scarce instability to guaranteed instability and do you understand how scared they are and that they aren’t pawns in your little moral soapboxing?

You talk about not wanting to sacrifice people but you’re demanding they be the foot soldiers in your revolution.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 minutes ago (1 children)

Discussing details would get the comment deleted, and possibly my account banned. I think you know this, hence the abusive goading.

Asking people to risk their lives for each other is not the same as expecting the less privileged to die for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

“Abusive goading”? We don’t need to talk about the actual act of offing CEOs(and I ain’t no snitch, mind). I specifically asked you about how you want normal people to make the transition to revolutionaries and if you don’t know then just say you’re pissed and, frankly, that’s ok because we should all be pissed right now. Hell, I’d be ok with you acknowledging that people are right to be afraid of the risk. And I’d still like to know what you’re doing and I imagine there is something non-violent, right? Like, how many protests do you go to and are you willing to skip work to go to them?

I’ll even say it for you that I’d love to see more Luigi events happening but I also understand that that’s a lot to ask of someone and if I’m not willing to do it myself then I have no moral ground to stand on to be making demands. We can both agree that it makes sense why you wouldn’t want to respond to that particular sentence but you need to understand it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

You are smoking crack.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Unless real doctors accept this as a real illness, it's just politicians jerking off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

This is potentially a legal rather than a medical diagnosis, and if the legal system is sufficiently corrupted, it doesn't matter what doctors think.

Also, in previous instances (Bush-era torture, for example), the medical and psychological professions just went along. Nover underestimate the venality and spinelessness of professional organizations.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 hours ago

The smug childishness of a grade school bully who got you in trouble after you lost your shit and finally punched back. These assclowns are infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

My guess is he's trying to rename Testosterone Deficiency Syndrome because he has it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago

As a therapist, I won’t recognize it. Fuck that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Conservatives are wild. I don’t know if they intentionally do it but their behavior is absurd. Obsessed with Obama’s birth certificate, LeTs Go BrAnDoN, and even super whacky shit like QAnon and trying to prove Michelle Obama is a man. They hate “mainstream media” yet Fox News is one of the biggest networks. They’re all about merit yet discount anything AOC says, who’s smart and studied, because she bartended. And now they want to turn the tables, claim they are and have always been normal, and it’s people who disapprove of Trump who are deranged. It makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

All of that? That's the point. That's exactly how they want us to feel: confused, hurt, isolated. They will gladly say something incredibly hypocritical and then just smile a shit-eating grin when you call them out, because we both know there's nothing that can be done short of violence and that's when they've "won."

But in all honesty, violence actually is an answer, and a proper one to bullshit like this. I don't give a fuck if you could call it assault if someone is literally taunting and threatening me when I haul off and beat their ass.

Do it. Make them scared of violent revolution and reprisals.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

These are the same morons that have Biden Derangement Syndrome.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

So trumps followers have Trump derangement syndrome. Makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

5+ years back Trumpettes threw around the label TDS at Trump detractors, saying they couldn't see reality due to their rage...

Whatever you call it, however you see it, there is significant mass psychosis associated with our nutcase-in-chief.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Fear of chaos and loss of civil rights? That sounds entirely rational based on what the Trump administration is up to.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Totally not a cult.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

Everyone who isn't with us is against us, but yeah not a cult

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