[–] [S] 1 point 11 months ago* (2 children)

Corporations are evil, you cannot expect them to do the right thing voluntarily.

It is up to the people to defend themselves from the corpos. And in theory a democracy should be a giant representation of the people, capable of fighting said corporations at comparable or greater scale and with full authority over what happens in itself.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Because your religion never stops at you. History has shown that every chance it can, religion will try to control peoples lives.

    It’s like being anti-capitalist. Wanting a revolution would infringe your freedom to choose to exist in a capitalist society, but everyone else would be better off for it.

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    The Soviet system used psychiatry as a weapon by diagnosing political opponents as mentally ill in order to confine them as patients instead of trying them in court. Anyone who challenged the state such as dissidents, writers, would-be emigrants, religious believers, or human rights activists could be branded with fabricated disorders like sluggish schizophrenia. This turned normal political disagreement into supposed medical pathology and allowed the state to present dissent as insanity.

    Once labeled in this way, people were placed in psychiatric hospitals where they could be held for long periods without legal protections. Harsh treatments were often used to break their resolve. The collaboration between state security organs and compliant psychiatrists created a system where political imprisonment was disguised as medical care, letting the Soviet regime suppress opposition while pretending it was addressing illness rather than silencing critics.

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