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[–] 14 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Back in my day, if you got sick of your wife you could just drop her off at the asylum and tell them she is "hysterical" and they'd take it from there.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    i imagine doing that would bring her to the phase where you didn't really need to lie, kind of self-fulfilling lie :D

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Yes...she can yell and scream at them and tell the doctors that she's sane and you're lying to control her, that you're abusive, that you time-traveled back from a post-apocolyptic future to prevent the machines from starting a nuclear war, etc.

    But that just proves that she's clearly unhinged and in need of serious therapy like a lobotomy or heavy medication.

    This is part of what made America "great", in the conservative viewpoint. Dissenters could be easily managed.

    And it's starting to seem that we are headed back into that direction. Women get autonomy over reproductive health taken back. For the people of color, we'll bring back Jim Crow. LGBTQ rights are fairly new, those should be able to get clawed back easily.

    The rest are all brainwashed into agreement, imprisoned over weed possession or debt, or trapped in a metaphorical prison where they are the only sane people surrounded by idiots.

    Then just throw what's left of the voting rights act into the bin and redistrict to ensure perpetual conservative victory. We'll get back there eventually, at this rate.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    She may not even complain. Look up the treatment for female hysteria.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    That's where the word "Hysterectomy" came from.

    Even though the word comes from the old Greek root "hyster" for womb, we don't call the organ itself by that name, we use "uterus" (from Latin). The name origins from being the primary treatment for hysteria.

    Hysteria, itself, was an official diagnosis until 1980, and while there are medically valid reasons for a hysterectomy, the term itself is rooted in misogyny, and some people want to rename the procedure as a result.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    How? I said hysterectomy is named from the disease hysteria. You linked etymologies saying hysteria is from early 19th century and hysterectomy is from late 19th century. That seems to be the same order I said.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I said hysterectomy is named from the disease hysteria.

    it is not. both words come from greek hystera meaning uterus.

    hysterectomy is removal of uterus, not removal of hysteria,

    That seems to be the same order I said.

    correlation does not equal causality, neither is Post hoc fallacy true.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    Additionally, mental hospitals are overused.

    When someone has a crisis, instead of receiving a meaningful intervention at the source of the crisis, the intervention will consist of locking them in a hospital and forcing them to take drugs, offering no other support. They may stay confined as long as an unaccountable judgment is maintained that they are not adequately stable, and they have essentially no rights in the interim. The whole system is farcical.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago*

    It's one more reason to find alternatives to calling the cops.

    Taking someone to a mental hospital may feel like the only option in some cases, but only because society has not developed the capacities to help people, in a natural setting, to solve actual problems at the root.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    If it's not an emergency (as in not actively attempting, and I assume this is the case by the language used in panel 1), your best bet to get someone involuntarily committed is by visiting the courthouse, filing a petition, and demonstrating with evidence they are a danger.

    If it is an emergency, the yeah you have to call, and yeah they'll probably send cops with the ambulance, and yeah the cops like doing that sometimes. But maybe you'll get lucky, most of the time nothing bad happens and so it doesn't become a national story and a point in your confirmation bias folder, so it'll probably still be fine. Probably still better to seek option one though...

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    [–] 46 points 10 months ago

    This is so unrealistic. They don't ask if it's okay.

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  • [–] 88 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    This happened. There was a suicidal black man. Someone called 9-1-1. Said "this guy owns a gun." Canines, snipers, all showed up. Somehow a miscommunication happened over the radio, someone shot the suicidal guy in the head with a sniper. Portland Oregon in 2010. Aaron Campbell. No one remembers this shit.

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  • [–] 40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Because it's happened at least a dozen times since then.

    The tactical equipment these guys use, they see it like kids see toys. They're actively looking for any excuse to break it out and play with it.

    The handful of cops I knew when I was younger and thought I wanted to be one all had the same attitude. If there's any possibility that the toys could be useful, they get the toys out. They're giddy about it.

    So miscommunication? Maybe. Sounds more like they heard what they wanted to hear and anything else was just noise between them and getting to get the toys out and kill a man.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    A couple of years back I was at a wedding and ended up talking to a cop, they were telling us as if it was a good thing how they send out helicopters to catch people underage drinking in parks. Completely absurd and far more of a nuisance than people having a drink.

    They also bragged about how their dog handler sicced a dog on a suspect and just let them get mauled, then everyone pretended they didn't see anything happen. Straight-up gloating about police brutality. The job just does not attract well-adjusted people.

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  • [–] 44 points 10 months ago (12 children)
  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Would you call the police if your house was on fire?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    lmfao, no? What are they going to do? Surround it and start yelling for the fire to come out of the house with its hands behind its back?

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    On second thought, claiming to be able to shoot them in the face is probably overconfidence in their ability to aim.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Of course, is it just the baby who’s going to catch strays then? scared

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    If you're a regular working stiff in MAGAmerica, don't count on the police to protect you. That's not their job anymore. They are there to keep us docile and confined, when we're not working or commuting.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Mental hospitals (in their current state) don't work, or so I've heard

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago*

    Depends on the hospital. I've had a couple friends genuinely enjoy their stays and claim it helped them get better faster, on the other hand, doctors have warned me about others.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    Then you should call the mental hospital, not the police

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  • [–] 41 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Mental hospitals don't have people on hold can leave on zero notice and drive across town with light and sirens. The police are out there all over and are supposedly trained to deal with all kinds of situations that do not need escalation and shooting people in the face. At least in the world outside of USA.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    At least in the world outside of USA.

    That's your problem right there: not their job description in the US, which is to do everything wrong & get qualified immunity. In the US, the police are the wrong people to call.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)
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    EMT are trained to stabilize and transport.

    We need to stop pretending that we can take a group who's responsible for one thing, and apply them to something completely different, just because we don't want to pay to have the right kind of people. That kind of thinking is shitty boss thinking. It's like your boss trying to get the plumber to do drywall because he doesn't want to pay for both.

    Don't be a shitty boss.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, except ambulance personnel are primarily trained to take care of wounds and injuries and not physically violent individuals. That's where police come in.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Tried that. They send cops to escort the psyche nurses, they absolutely get in the way. Ended up traumatizing my buddy even more, he jumped out the window. We didn't see him for four days.

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