First two comments are branding this is an over-reaction, but living in the USA I constantly hear terms like “moocher”, “parasite”, and other insults.
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KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto World News@lemmy.world•Hardliner conservative Sanae Takaichi becomes Japan’s first female leaderEnglish33·4 hours agoFemale Hitler let’s goooooooo!!!
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•Every person should be given a free mandatory psychological evaluation once a yearEnglish4·4 hours agoI’m not sure if you are genuinely this trusting of institutions, but weaponized psychology has been a tool of oppression for the field’s entire existence; lobotomizing anyone deemed “degenerate”. Feminists were deemed insane. Women who reported domestic abuse were deemed insane. Homosexuality was in the DSM-4, and there are STILL gay conversion programs running now in the USA and other countries. “Gender dysphoria” is a condition in the DSM-5.
Also consider: if the government is mandating the evaluation, they can easily weaponize it to stifle dissent. Any “safeguards” against that type of behavior would ultimately collapse the moment the government just decides it doesn’t want to follow said restrictions. What would that look like now in the USA? Is opposing the PotUS a symptom of Trump Derangement Syndrome. In the UK, is opposition to the Digital ID system of excessive paranoia? of “histrionic personality disorder”?
Just hear from experiences of people who were exploited by hospitals and other psychological institutions, including in the USA of a few years ago. These peoples lives were destroyed under the guise of acting “for your safety”. You’re talking about mass-imprisonment and drugging of people who have not even committed a crime.
…And the worst part is, I’m not even sure this is an unpopular opinion. The widespread adoption of “Mental Health Holds” in recent decades is proof that many lawmakers support these policies. I’ve seen it in the USA, and heard testimonies from the UK and China of the same problem. The President of the United States directly built off this mentality with his executive order Ending Crime And Disorder On America’s Streets. California, which is as far opposite from the current President as you can go, recently created a parallel institution for this purpose with its “CARE Courts”.
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto News@lemmy.world•A New Bill Aims to Ban Both Adult Content Online and VPN Use. Could It Work?1·4 hours agoNow, normally seeing a question in the headline suggests the answer to that question is “no”; but I’m not sure the “Now” is “normal”
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Just Another 20 Million, BroEnglish5·1 day agoBingo. If you haven’t heard of her, I recommend you check out https://www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber - I found her videos extremely informative.
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Just Another 20 Million, BroEnglish4·2 days agoThere can’t be a foreign occupation. Our nuclear warheads guarantee that the only way the USA falls is from civil unrest. No one is going to rush a nation capable of Mutually-Assured Destruction.
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Just Another 20 Million, BroEnglish16·2 days agoAfter his Trade War on the first term, Trump gave major subsidies and bailouts which really benefited large farmers. Trump promised similar subsidies for this term, and Trump actually delivered on that in his spending bill; but farmers were expecting more than what was promised, and they haven’t gotten that.
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory5·2 days agoThank you for sharing this with me. I hadn’t heard of this theory or the documentary. As I read, this is everything I’ve been seeing; just people being ushered from work to home, shutting themselves off from the world to do meaningless busywork.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation#A_Cautionary_Tale Donald Trump jumpscare lol
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory2·2 days agoput on App Store aaaaand it’s gone. And Google’s blocking it on Android.
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory4·2 days agoOoh definitely. Everything from childhood is so structured: Structured youth sports; Structured socialization through social media; Structured dating with algorithmic match-ups; Even applying for jobs now is largely done through apps. Every system feels so obfuscated and de-personalized. As Gen Z growing up in the 21st century, the internet was the only place I could actually meet people, but for the last decade those spaces have been restricted by major corporations and inflicted with this “Protect the Kids” surveillance mania.
It feels like independence and social freedom have just been forgotten. I’m genuinely worried that young USAmericans do not understand the value of autonomy and anonymity, because they’ve grown up in a world with everything structured and surveilled – and have grown used to funneled from station-to-station, even outside of school and work. It’s hard to form a revolution movement when the masses have had a mixture of learned helplessness and “hustle culture” ingrained in them.
There’s a dating app, and a social media app, but no “Revolution” app. ChatGPT isn’t designed to suggest violence to you, but it can post a hotline copline that can tell you to go to a hospital. There are social media posts for BetterHelp and “Hims”/“Hers” (mentioned in article), while the posts calling for bricks in windows get suppressed, shadow-banned, or outright blasted. The more I think about this, the more I realize how vital that internet control was.
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory143·2 days agoI keep coming back to the thought that anti-depressants and the mass-adaptation of therapy – both of which are designed to pacify clients – are the reason that the Western world has gotten so bad with such little push-back.
In the past, Major Revolutions broke out over shortages of food and infringements of freedom (like the French and American Revolutions). And today, just the president of South Korea declaring martial law got the streets flooded on no notice. Hong Kong had massive resistance movements over the CCP censoring their media; Yet the USA has been declining for decades and people mostly let it happen. Yes there were protests – Occupy Wall Street, the Veteran anti-war movements, and yesterday’s No Kings protests – but we are facing state-sanctioned mass-terrorism, and now have Gestapo “secret agents” storming our streets; and people largely let it happen.
Looking at the proponents of targeted violence the USA has seen: Kirk’s killer, Tim Robinson, was a Mormon from Utah ; they’ve got religion and don’t believe in therapy. Trump’s attempted assassins were a young Republican man who realized Trump was a part of the international pedo ring; and two different elderly guys. Luigi Mangione, the alleged shooter of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, supposedly had many grievances with the healthcare system. These are all profiles that make me believe they’d largely reject therapy.
Meanwhile in spaces branded “progressive”, following the script on mental health seems to be the norm. One of the ways spaces are deemed progressive is by “acknowledging mental health”, which mainly means encouraging therapy and copy-pasting a bunch of disclaimers. Of course, the bigger picture of their movements are to improve the system, which would improve our mental health; but it feels like the “ask for help” virtue-signaling around mental health is far more prevalent than argument that “Yeah, you should feel that way. We shouldn’t put up with this shit any longer.”
I’m not making any broad call-to-action here. I’m just trying to dissect the idea that has baffled me for years: How the system could be pushed this far. How fascist politicians and greedy corporations alike could make the system this bad, and people continue to tolerate it. How feminists and the queer community could be this visible, and yet as fascists declare war on them I’ve hardly heard any calls for violence. Yet alt-right teenagers go out and attempt to blow up pretty cheerleaders because they can’t get laid; burn down houses of politicians they don’t like; randomly assault trans women on the street. What empowers them, and why are we so passive?
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Posts AI Video in Which He Drops Feces on No Kings Protesters7·2 days agohe also posted, twice, J.D. Vance’s AI clip of Trump putting on a crown.
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Posts AI Video in Which He Drops Feces on No Kings Protesters5·2 days agoI hope what everyone remembers of the USA as a whole is that we’re the nation that let a bunch of rich pedophiles and Silicon Valley tech nerds take over a country, culminating with hundreds of billions of dollars spend to make a tool that slops out propaganda and algorithms that cultivate delusion. Raegan, Bill Clinton, Obama, Bush, Biden – all deserve to be remembered in that light. Yes, even Obama and Biden, who made deals with Peter Theil and allowed bill corporations and tech-freaks like Mark Zuckerberg to grow unimpeded while selling all of our data and inciting genocide abroad.
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Posts AI Video in Which He Drops Feces on No Kings Protesters8·2 days agoAnd for the actual artists - let’s make some political propaganda. Memes are great, now I want to think bigger. The Epstein/Trump statue was beautiful. Make Music, more art; perhaps some video games.
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto World News@lemmy.world•Thieves steal ‘priceless’ jewelry from the Louvre in seven-minute raidEnglish2·2 days agoI’m sorry. The guards just let it happen because they were threatened with angle grinders? not even ranged weapons? Do they not have TASERs?
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•on manosphere and incel cultureEnglish6·2 days agoand “get rick quick” schemes with extremely bad trading advice, which require high memberships.
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Apparently JD Vance posted this bullshit on Bluesky today (10/18/2025).5·2 days agoI completely agree. We must point this out, incessantly, forever. The fact that it looks so stupid only makes our argument stronger. I want the USA to always be remembered as the nation that rounds up civilians and sends them to random tyrannical governments while chain-posting immature AI slop.
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Apparently JD Vance posted this bullshit on Bluesky today (10/18/2025).17·2 days agoYesterday (18th of October) Trump reposted this on Truth Social, twice, following a AI-generated video of him flying over a No Kings Rally and air-dropping feces on the protestors.
KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•RFK Jr. Warns Teenagers Now Have Less Sperm Than 65-Year-Old MenEnglish2·4 days agoEugenics has been spreading mainstream since the New Zealand shooter platformed “Great Replacement Theory” (white-erasure conspiracy theory)
I’ve been checking out DLive. I’m not really well-versed on options, but it seems to have a good balance between central over-reach, and being dominated by Nazis (Kick).