ReallyActuallyFrankenstein

Hmm, it appears if we squeeze tighter, more blood will come out. Surely there is no natural limit to this principle.

I fully believe once this is all over (for better or worse), this will be analyzed as the largest documented case of a narcissistic abusive relationship in history.

There must be tens of millions of MAGA who are basically abused spouses, so psychologically dependant on Trump that nothing short of a brush with literal death, a personal sustained break and intervention, or focused multi-year deprogramming, will snap them out of it. But the scale of it makes it hard to understand.

To paraphrase Eddie Izzard, if you narcissistically abuse one person, maybe you go to prison. Ten people, you go to Texas, they hit you with a brick. Twenty people, they put you in a hospital and look at you through a small window. More, we can't deal with it. Thirty million people, we're almost like... Well done! How would you like to be president?

Idiocracy timeline:

2006: Wow, so hilarious that this could be life in 1,000 years.

2016: Wow, it's like we're living in Idiocracy.

2024: Please, can we go back to living in Idiocracy?

Joined 12 minutes ago and already posted three articles about third parties, two about Jill Stein.

I'm stumped...there was a "new" Meet app. Why didn't they just use the same "new" app as an update to the old app? Why make users download another new competing, confusing thing?

My understanding is that after the Supreme Court overturned a formalized forgiveness application process, Biden has been using a different method and forgiving specific debt in waves, and that method has neither been challenged nor overturned.

Yup, I think everyone outside of Fox News knew it was just a thinly-veiled Trump rally, but Fox's editing out comments from the audience members that they already were Trump supporters is the really damning part. Fox News knew it was supposed to look neutral and that is an admission that they were trying to hide it.

What are the solutions though? I don’t think this descent stops until the MAGA crowd gets most of what they want...

That's where we're headed, sure. What we need is someone to explain (a) the forces at play at some deeper level, and (b) tell us how we fix it.

That's why this is a disappointing article: The headline proposes an interesting idea - treat the Trump/MAGA mental illness as a disease - and then immediately forgets about it. We deal with diseases all the time, and even if mental disease is a challenge to diagnose and treat, it's a great framework! Studies may be able to show most MAGA disease vectors are people with X, Y and Z verifiable, objective psychological disorders or features. They may theorize that if we treat those disorders, we can save those people from this type of self-harm (which is what MAGA is at this point). That's a fantastic concept! Similar to the far too unexplored concept of treating this as a cult deprogramming. If we work the problem maybe we can come up with a solution that doesn't involve fascism winning, or us all killing each other in a civil war.

Instead, it's just "this is bad...really bad." Ok, thank you Mr. WHO epidemiologist.

(I know, I'm not helping either - but I'm not smart enough in epidemiology, or cult deprogramming. Comment posting is my therapy, nothing more.)

The earth's orbital speed around the sun is 67,000 miles per hour. So this is really gravity's fault.

This was such a disappointing article.

Yes, I agree with all of the things said and will be voting for Kamala. But this is a former WHO epidemiologist, so do we get information on how we would apply the learnings of epidemiology to treat this epidemic of irrational, self-harming personality-worship? Do we get any diagnostic characteristics? Any way to contain the spread? Any practical guidance whatsoever?

Nope, just a low-effort rant.

This is just another gawker, pointing and gasping at the slow-motion trainwreck of Trump running into democracy. I really really wish some of these articles would actually try to propose solutions.

Exactly... It's almost too on the nose, unfortunately.

I want...juicy oil and milk

Your honor, I yield my rebuttal time and rest my case!