TherapyGary

lol, this is some grade A fart sniffing

It's got some ~~tankie~~ ~~auth~~ vanguard-elitism flair to it, but I felt it was really well written regardless

Edit: adjusted my language

OP was saying most people on .ml didn't expect Trump to be better and, if anything, maybe some folks felt he's unpredictable enough that an improvement was possible but unlikely. The point is that most people on .ml were criticizing dems, not saying trump would be better.

Obviously Trump is worse. It might be worth rereading.

I think this misunderstanding comes from the "trump is worse" part being unspoken between leftists, but liberals don't recognize that and assume rejection of their candidate means approval of their enemy

ASPD is far too broad to be worth treating on it's own. If someone struggles with impulse control and emotion dysregulation, sure, those symptoms are treatable, and treating them is likely to improve the person's quality of life.

However, most people with ASPD meet criteria because they break the law, lie about it (duh), and don't feel bad about it (why would they if they did it on purpose?). This should not be pathologized, and doesn't need treatment.

I don't even believe in free will, so I expect you're right that we won't come to an understanding on this lol 😅

You can't change society without changing the people first.

This is neoliberal propaganda

I am a therapist and I meet diagnostic criteria for ASPD.

The diagnosis itself exists to pathologize the individual to remove blame from the system that fosters this behavior.

The DSM is a joke

The point is more why are we treating the symptom rather than the disease.

Hell yeah, great point

People who take advantage of others are manipulators and by definition that's anti-social. Why is the system so broken that we can't imprison scammers?

What the fuck, how is that your conclusion?

The "disease" is the lack of safety nets- a lack of education, resources, opportunities. "Anti-social" is a copout term to justify the status quo- to pathologize what are ultimately systemic failures manifested in the behavior of individuals. The disease is capitalism, and imprisoning people for "anti-social" behaviors is absolutely the wrong answer.

Honk!

Edit: this was my 1,000th comment

Lol no, there's no saga- the story is over! I was just trying to say that there's another joke in this post, which is that habanera is not a typo, and the passage/body of the post is based entirely off the lyrics of that song

Thanks ☺

(habanera is not a typo)

Hell yeah. Both of them?

Edit: I want somebody to catch the main gag so bad, but there's no appropriate community to post this to on Lemmy

Thanks, you're very kind but, to be clear, the title is the set-up for the 2-part punchline/gag of a high-effort shitpost

Haha thanks <3

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