What the fuck is wrong with people (thread)

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One of my "in 50 years" predictions is that people will look back at the way we treated mentally ill people who committed crimes, even the most horrific ones like Sandy Hook, with horror.
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mister d wrote: Thu Jan 10, 2019 1:53 pm One of my "in 50 years" predictions is that people will look back at the way we treated mentally ill people who committed crimes, even the most horrific ones like Sandy Hook, with horror.
You give future people too much credit.
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sancarlos wrote: Thu Jan 10, 2019 2:31 pm
mister d wrote: Thu Jan 10, 2019 1:53 pm One of my "in 50 years" predictions is that people will look back at the way we treated mentally ill people who committed crimes, even the most horrific ones like Sandy Hook, with horror.
You give future people too much credit.
I really like Mister D's outlook, and I think when science can help us identify and understand mental disorders, people will have a different perspective. I think we are already starting to see it former football players we thought were violent assholes, then learn CTE has damaged their brains. Without the ability to accurately or easily diagnose (beyond psychiatrists guessing) mental disorders, we chalk it up to the people being horrible or evil. If we can point to a gene or brain scan that shows a disease, people will view the mentally ill as having a disease, not merely being an enormous asshole.
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I think if you look now at our knowledge of all kinds of mental disorders vs. in 1968, it's pretty plain we'll be more compassionate and understanding about mental illnesses.

I think the tell is our enhanced understanding and compassion as a society of developmental disorders. I realize those aren't the same thing -- not even close, but it's hardly a stretch to assume we'll be more enlightened about all kinds of stuff having to do with the brain and how it works. Assuming Trump and his minions don't send all of the scientists to gulags.
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Just knew this was bumped for this piece of garbage... of course mental illness is very definitely in play here too. "I chopped her up... I chopped my landlord up too" is generally not the optimal response to how do you plead?

https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2019/01/ ... ports.html
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Going back to the Tyler Trent story - I am jaded enough to imagine that every single person who gets media coverage has received death threats. It's just what people do these days.

Being an asshole and hiding behind an alias because you are angry that some one is in the media spotlight isn;t a mental illness - it's a sign of a person being human garbage.

Now, this guy could have a mental illness, but I wouldn't assume so just because he made threats.
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brian wrote: Thu Jan 10, 2019 3:06 pm I think if you look now at our knowledge of all kinds of mental disorders vs. in 1968, it's pretty plain we'll be more compassionate and understanding about mental illnesses.

I think the tell is our enhanced understanding and compassion as a society of developmental disorders. I realize those aren't the same thing -- not even close, but it's hardly a stretch to assume we'll be more enlightened about all kinds of stuff having to do with the brain and how it works. Assuming Trump and his minions don't send all of the scientists to gulags.
Looking at my kids, I see an unbelievable shift in how developmental disorders are perceived. Kids who today are diagnosed as having Asperger's or high functioning autistic are accepted by kids today. When we were in school, they were mercilessly picked on for being different, now my kids will talk about other kids with developmental disorders in a matter-of-fact way, and understand that they respond differently to social cues. I was ready to kill a boy at my daughter's birthday party, because he was completely out of control. Before I could yell, my daughter tapped my arm and said, "he has ADHD, he isn't a bad kid, it's just hard for him to sit still for that long." When we were 9, no fucking way. We would have called the kid a spaz, yelled at him for acting weird, and possibly hit him. I was a psych major, and I've read a lot about autism, but I think my kids have a more inherent understanding of autistic kids than I do. They have just been exposed to it more, and informed at such a young age, they just accept it as part of the norm.
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I’d bail you out.
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mister d wrote: Sat Feb 02, 2019 11:00 am I’d bail you out.
Good to know.
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mister d wrote: Sat Feb 02, 2019 11:00 am I’d bail you out.
that would be the fastesr hit goal in swamp gofundme history. id put a paycheck in
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I'd kick in but I wouldn't sign for him. He smoke that stuff you know.
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So one of our popular promotions that our partners do especially this time of year is a "Cutest Couple" contest where you send in a photo and the TV station or the newspaper votes on the best one yadda yadda yadda. It's pretty dumb and harmless all things considered.

So just got an urgent case from our partner where some dumbfuck who had entered him and his girlfriend in the contest last week actually killed her last night. (Link to story).

So I have to scramble all jets to delete this thing at 7 p.m. Eastern on a Friday. Just living the dream I guess. Here's the entry (by the time most of you see this the actual internet link will be dead so I took a screenshot):

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Pruitt wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2019 6:26 pm Man learns he's dying from doctor on robot video at Kaiser Permanente hospital in Fremont

This is a Phillip K. Dick nightmare come to life.
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One Man - 100 Rapes

I am so, so sorry I read this. It makes me want to kill someone
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Pruitt wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2019 4:44 pm One Man - 100 Rapes

I am so, so sorry I read this. It makes me want to kill someone
it might take a bit for me to layout 100 individual ways to torture him without killing him before i kill him..but im willing to work
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I think this fits here. Not exactly a piece of work like others in this thread, but still. He is enough of one.
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Pruitt wrote: Sat Apr 20, 2019 11:42 pm In Quebec, they call fruit salad "Macedonia."
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A minor thing, but when you see an able bodied person park in a handicapped spot and there are open spots all over the place, you should be legally allowed to vandalize the car.
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Pruitt wrote: Tue May 14, 2019 12:52 pm A minor thing, but when you see an able bodied person park in a handicapped spot and there are open spots all over the place, you should be legally allowed to vandalize the car.
They may look able bodied to you from just looking, but it is sometimes hard to tell what afflictions they may have. If they have a tag or plate I always give them the benefit of the doubt. No tags or plates, then they are just assholes.
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duff wrote: Tue May 14, 2019 12:59 pm
Pruitt wrote: Tue May 14, 2019 12:52 pm A minor thing, but when you see an able bodied person park in a handicapped spot and there are open spots all over the place, you should be legally allowed to vandalize the car.
They may look able bodied to you from just looking, but it is sometimes hard to tell what afflictions they may have. If they have a tag or plate I always give them the benefit of the doubt. No tags or plates, then they are just assholes.
Oh absolutely.

The plastic surgery addicted woman who stepped out of the BMW at the drug store this afternoon was perfectly able bodied.
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I'd like to know what kind of disciplinary action the school took. What a load of shit.
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Five people are charged with murdering a mentally disabled woman, 19, after they 'invited her on a hike, duct taped her feet together, shot her in the head and threw her in a river'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... lling.html

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I regret opening this thread today.
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I saw it was a Daily Mail article and futilely hoped maybe it happened in the UK instead of the US, but nope...of course not.
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I don't get it. How can the doctors operate without diagnosing anything.
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And in today's edition of 'What the actual fuck?'

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Auschwitz yoga mats? Who is the customer for that item?
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Nope, not typing any of these
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Ryan wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2019 9:58 pm Nope, not typing any of these
Yeah, for a split second I considered looking at the Pixels site, simply out of morbid interest. But, I caught myself.
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The Sybian wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2019 9:53 pm
Auschwitz yoga mats? Who is the customer for that item?
To mansplain it... These are print-to-order items. Basically one of those sites where you upload an image and it costs nothing to just offer it on anything they can print on. The libz looking for yoga mats will totally get owned.
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The Sybian wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2019 9:53 pm
Auschwitz yoga mats? Who is the customer for that item?
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