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[–] ileftreddit@piefed.social 30 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

“My schizophrenia is JUST AS VALID AS YOUR ‘FACTS’”

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

EXACTLY THAT! Thank you!!!! 🙏✝️✌️

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

in a way it is. they both have exactly one vote.

[–] ileftreddit@piefed.social 3 points 6 hours ago

If votes will ever be counted again lol

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 26 points 13 hours ago

America is winning so fucking hard right now!

/s

[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 30 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

America has lost its collective fucking mind.

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 20 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Collective? No just 40%, but they were given the keys to the car.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Jesus take the wheel.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's 100%, because the other 60% is refusing to wrestle the keys away from them despite the car careening towards a cliff, out of some one-sided misguided sense of decorum or fairness or whatever.

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I think it’s fear of being deported or assassinated. You don’t politely argue with and protest against Nazis and win.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

We were busy.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, there's a psuedoscience moron that they haven't given a position in the NIH yet?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Well, you need morons at the local level, too.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

It's only fair

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Make psychiatric institutions great again.

I wonder how much better psychiatric institutions could be if they were set up in a manner where patients could go willingly and have their expenses paid while they were there and jobs protected like a pregnancy leave or something. The way our system is now no one goes until they have completely snapped or lost it and I'm sure some of that is likely tied to our lives being overwhelming controlled by money. Like if everyone had mental health leave of at least 30 days a year, and they could go to a place and talk to a therapist/psychologist or other professional for free, have warm meals, a safe place to sleep in a controlled environment to monitor them and help them, maybe the amount of people who actually "lose it" would drop drastically.

Some would say "the number of people in mental institutions have sky rocketed because they are lazy just trying to milk off the system"

But really the number of people who kill themselves, drive a car through crowd of people, or shoot someone... May drop drastically as well.

Healthcare is an investment in a happy/healthy society.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago
[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

That's just the alligator meth talking though.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago
[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Superstitious savages, all of us.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 12 hours ago

MU HA HA HA. You finally realize the trap you are in. My chemtrails are programmed to target all of maga and the fools will never figure out that they must seal themselves into hermetically sealed bunkers for the next 4 yours to even have a possibility of surviving!

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

I’m getting a flu shot this year! Oh no, I guess I’ll catch the spectrum 🤦🏻‍♂️

[–] tla@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Ain't natural selection a biatch.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago