• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Wild that we let a person cover their vehicle with signs that essentially say “I have severe untreated mental illness and no grip on reality”, and society at large says “sure, keep operating that heavy machinery in public”.

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      2 months ago

      “I have severe untreated mental illness and no grip on reality”

      (Emphasis mine)

      That is a vast oversimplification of how people work. It is absolutely plausible to me that someone might believe obvious lies but is otherwise qualified to drive heavy machinery. Analyzing the society you live in is a totally different skill than driving.

      For example, if I found out my bus driver literally believes that reptilians run the world, I would still trust them to drive my bus because driving a bus has nothing to do with lizard people. Conversely, I wouldn’t trust a bus driver who agrees with everything I believe in but is currently having a panic attack.

      This is important to me because I am mentally ill (treated, but mentally ill nonetheless) and autistic (which is treated like a mental illness), and this is the kind of logic that tyrants use to manufacture popular consent to further marginalize mentally ill people.

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        The guy driving this van is probably about as functional as someone in the middle of a panic attack. Very likely erratic and on meth I would not trust to drive.

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        2 months ago

        There’s a big difference between a danger that is tangible and immediate, such as a collision with another vehicle, and something that cannot be seen or interacted with, like electricity or a virus.

        There’s nothing about this that tells me this person can’t drive safely.

  • gmtom@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Do these people think they’re convincing? Do they genuinely not see how crazy they look?

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      2 months ago

      I’d bet money it’s scitsophrenia, so no this person has no idea how crazy they look. They’re just doing their part to fight back against whatever the hell they think is happening.

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    2 months ago

    It’s like a Dr Bronners bottle on bath salts.

    Hmmm… maybe they ate (smoked? Boofed?) bath salts in the bath while cleaning with Dr. Bronners.

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    2 months ago

    This truck is on to something. I asked my dog if she put a nano chip on my body and she said no, but it sounds like something the huskies next door would do.

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      I’m afraid your dog has lied to you. We had a pretty husky back when I was a kid, before she became a farmer, and I can confirm that Huskies are incredibly stupid. Your dog wants to use the Huskies as Patsy’s for their own nefariousness.

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        2 months ago

        Honestly, sounds like my dog. She would throw pretty much any other dog under the bus, especially the ones with the gall to approach her fence.

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      2 months ago

      By “forgot his meds” you mean “forgot to go to the doctor 30 years ago to get diagnosed so he could be prescribed them in the first place,” right?

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    2 months ago

    Imagine having to extend you car with plates at the top, because there is not enough room for you psychotic scribbles. Then leaving a shit ton of white space at the bottom.

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    Why does this read like english is this persons 2nd language, but look like it was made by someone for whom english is infact their 1st language?

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      2 months ago

      Not making light, but this person’s first language is likely schizophrenia.

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      At my high school a noticable number of students could barely read. They got passed through from a combination of parents trying to fire people if their kid is held back and teachers who either didn’t care or couldn’t spend the one on one time to help the kid. There was no functional system in place at my school to help kids who were borderline illiterate

      Depending where this is, between that and possible mental health stuff English could be their first language

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        It’s tragic because a lot of these people aren’t just missing competent literacy but all the skills required to understand the world around them, and even worse often those ways of understanding have been replaced with religious nonsense by the people that raised them.

        Imagine trying to make sense of the world when you think scientists work like preachers and prophets simply saying whatever feels right or suits the moment.