4,500 lives saved a year, and you want to act like this is some heavy hand of dictatorship?

Money is the real dictator in this country. Which is why those people were being killed in the first place. So fat assholes can make more money burning our planet.

And the President nominated the head of the EPA. That’s what is meant by his administration. That doesn’t mean he dictates everything the person does. That was Trump that tried that, remember? Kept firing everyone like his bad reality TV drivel because they wouldn’t do his biding. That’s how a dictator acts.

Of course, I suspect you’re just parroting the rights projections and that your comment has no real substance anyway.

Sure, cycles of emotional abuse and neglect which are being caused by people with antisocial personality disorder.

It’s the cycle of the drama triangle. In the end, everyone ends up a victim.

That doesn’t mean half the country isn’t caught in it.

Police are trained to ‘keep the peace’ in a lot of situations. Like, in a bad traffic accident, the cops are there to direct traffic while the EMTs and Firefighters take the lead.

We just need to teach them to do the same with mental health workers and make that the standard for anything that’s not a criminal complaint. They already do this with stuff like CPS calls in a lot of jurisdictions.

But yeah, a lot of cops are drawn to the job because they love power and authority. And it will take decades of restructuring of US policing to change that cultural tendency.

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Man, I was just telling my girlfriend today because we had a Canadian friend coming over. He was so polite and communicative in texts, I’m sure he’s up to something.

Also I wanted to add, his humble manner really gets under my skin.

Mental health student with his own emotional issues and that raised two small kids .

Yes, often the way to desecalate is to take space. It’s anger management 101. If someone is not able to recognize they need space, the one able to should call for a time out (this is how time outs should be used by parents, not as punishment).

Police are trained to exert authority. It’s not de-escalation training generally.

Which is why mental health professionals should accompany police in situations like this.

Came to say the same thing. A symptom can also be a cause. Trump is also both a symptom and a cause of ‘anti-feminist attitudes’.

Though, I prefer the term misogynist attitudes myself.

Individuals reacting to oppression in a way that causes disease (mental illness) is part of the study of pathology.

Also, modern psychology is well aware U.S. culture is a pathogen, and the journalist was also aware considering they drew parallels between mental health and U.S. culture.

In fact, psychology is becoming more blended with sociology and medicine all the time. They can’t really be separated out the way they’ve been done in the past. Because of this, I’d like to point out, that the psychologists aren’t trying to blame individuals, but point at the conditions creating the disease.

And in the paper’s abstract, they pointed at U.S. political culture specifically (our social systems of oppression).

Implications for contemporary political discourse are discussed.

And good online services but… never mind, I’ll settle for backwards compatible.

They are more likely to objectify and exploit other people, to behave rudely and aggressively and to dismiss social and environmental impacts. They have little interest in cooperation or community. People with a strong set of extrinsic values are more likely to suffer from frustration, dissatisfaction, stress, anxiety, anger and compulsive behaviour.

So, half the country has antisocial personality disorders, basically.

I clicked on the article before I replied a week ago, and before I replied just now.

The article title does not include the word bad, management, or processes and the word companies is inclusive of those things so it doesn’t matter that it doesn’t.

I’m all for blaming management over rank and file employees. But generally, when I see the word companies I think managers (it’s inclusive of management and processes, as I stated earlier). And it’s not inclusive of employees, who are not the company but work for the company.

In other words, I think we agree outside of you being pedantic :P

Even non-private prisons suck.

Here in WI, the state owns the prisons, but contracts out a lot of stuff such as commissary, phones, and healthcare. The issue with these contracts is that they create a monopoly inside. Want a ramen? It’s going to cost. Want to call relatives? It’s going to cost. Want healthcare? Well, that one they’re not supposed to deny you, but they charge a $15 copay, which is an arm and a leg when you make .15 an hour. And if the healthcare sucks, you’re shit out of luck.

That’s the headline in the article.

Unless you’re being pedantic about ‘Companies’ not being specific enough. Because bad management and lack of proper process is inclusive under the word ‘Companies’ when used in the context of this sentence.

And some very high police.

ACAB, even the ones that claim to be retired from the force and ‘moderate democrats’.

Yes, the children who aren’t even old enough to vote and the people who vote blue clearly deserve to freeze to death while the politicians other people put in power make callous jokes about it.

If it had been your grandparents that died in Texas last winter would you still be laughing? Or are callous jokes about people freezing to death while politicians hide in the tropics only funny when it’s someone else’s family?

Considering a lot of people are struggling just to keep up with rent/food/bills; you think they had the opprotunity to move out of Texas and start a whole new life in another state? New job, new apartment, new social supports. In a state that likely has a higher cost of living if you’re trying to flee the GOP death cult. Easy right?

Your privileged take is almost as tone deaf as Cruz’s joke tbh.

Mushrooms are in phase three trials and have been for awhile. That doesn’t help a lot of other plants that were misclassified under Nixon, several of them used in religious contexts such as Ayahuasca (DMT) and Peyote (mescaline).

Essentially, all of these medicines need to be reviewed because scheduling was based on political motivations and not any understanding of their pharmacology. They were being used as medicine by medical doctors (psychiatrists) when Nixon scheduled them. This was a great injustice to anyone with mental health issues and direct violence towards groups already using psychedelics (rather medicinally, spiritually, or recreationally). And this injustice and violence continues to this day.

We all know Nixon was a crook and that the drug war is a crock of shit. Yet, we continue locking people up and denying access to medicine (or spiritual food depending on your outlook) because we don’t like the substances people choose to have a relationship with. We’re complicit in his violence everyday we let it continue as though it’s justice.

Anyway, I hope the DEA reschedules cannabis. It would be a great first step. But we have to recognize that it’s just one step and not the end goal. The drug war needs to end. And we can’t be content with only weed being looked at.

Yup, I figured service jobs would be some of the last to go honestly. Replacing a person that works at a desk on a computer all day with a computer is just cutting out the middle man. Replacing someone that requires a lot of physical ability to move around and manipulate objects requires tech that doesn’t live in the cloud.

And considering I’ve been reading about AI taking other jobs for the last year or more, I guess they kinda are the last to go. Now we just sit back and watch it accelerate. Either get UBI or a revolution that leads to UBI. Or the cyberpunk future the oligarchs plan to leave us with as they set their power hungry sights on Mars.