The Political Satire/Meme Thread

[UKMikey]

"Scarecrows and magic and other fatal fears do not bring people closer together."

Whoops, it was The Outer Limits, not TZ as I said earlier. More apologies.

 

[TexRex]

Whoops, it was The Outer Limits

Indeed a very early one at that, and one of four starring Robert Culp. It's no "Demon With a Glass Hand," but it's not bad.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Eh both early on had very similar ways of telling a story, I too get confused by which is the Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits.

 

[Johnnypenso]

 

[Liquid]

 

[Dotini]

Illustration of the structure of Hell according to Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. By Sandro Botticelli (between 1480 and 1490). According to Carl Gustav Jung, hell represents, among every culture, the disturbing aspect of the collective unconscious.

 

[UKMikey]

Oxendale's "devastating" rejoinder here:



If he can read the bible so selectively and ignore the nasty bits, why not apply the same standards to pornography?

 

[Dennisch]

Why take someone like that serious at all?

 

[TexRex]

Why take someone like that serious at all?

Like who? The individual making the original comment or the respondent?

I saw a number of other floats from the event, but this one is new to me:

I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the possibility of Germans having a sense of humor.

 

[Liquid]

The Unequal Treaties

A 19th-century cartoon depicting the carving up of China by the great imperial powers of the time; the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, France and Japan.

The "unequal treaties" is the name given to a number of treaties signed by the Qing dynasty which forced China to give major concessions to the above mentioned empires and left China at a perceived, and even genuine, disadvantage.

 

[Johnnypenso]

 

[andrea]

 

[DK]

Meanwhile, in Northern Ireland:

 

[Rage Racer]

 

[DK]

 

[TexRex]

Not to play devil's advocate or anything, but to be fair, no administration or congress/senate/house occupancy has addressed mental health treatment in a meaningful way as long as I've been paying attention. That said, the current GOP proposal ("Better Care Reconciliation Act"--what a :censored:ing joke) is about the worst I've seen.

 

[Northstar]

I kind of have a feeling we probably already spend more than enough to have a great mental healthcare system. It's probably set up terribly just like most things the government tries to do.

 

[polizei]

Not to play devil's advocate or anything, but to be fair, no administration or congress/senate/house occupancy has addressed mental health treatment in a meaningful way as long as I've been paying attention. That said, the current GOP proposal ("Better Care Reconciliation Act"--what a :censored:ing joke) is about the worst I've seen.

It's called deinstitutionalisation. And like most good ideas it was underfunded and doomed from day one.

 

[Dotini]

Decades ago, the US had a nationwide network of mental hospitals,

Should they be brought back?

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/...the-us-bring-back-psychiatric-asylums/384838/

 

[Lizard]

Decades ago, the US had a nationwide network of mental hospitals,

Should they be brought back?

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/...the-us-bring-back-psychiatric-asylums/384838/

And what good would that do? People who don't need that kind of treatment will often be driven to suicide by being placed in one.

 

[Dennisch]

And what good would that do? People who don't need that kind of treatment will often be driven to suicide by being placed in one.

So that those pillpopping Americans can pop their pills under supervision of professionals.

 

[Dotini]

And what good would that do? People who don't need that kind of treatment will often be driven to suicide by being placed in one.

Maybe they would be helpful in preventing mass shootings of schoolchildren? Currently the Parkland killer is on suicide watch in jail cell.

 

[Lizard]

Maybe they would be helpful in preventing mass shootings of schoolchildren?

Wait are you saying you don't have any long term residential mental health care in the US at all?

 

[Dotini]

Wait are you saying you don't have any long term residential mental health care in the US at all?

No, I'm saying the US once had a large network of mental institutions, sometimes called insane asylums, in which people were housed, fed, clothed, treated and kept away from the public. They were closed down. Now the same function is inadequately served by prisons. After WWII, large numbers of veterans were treated in such asylums.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2091312?redirect=true

During the past half century, the supply of inpatient psychiatric beds in the United States has largely vanished. In 1955, 560 000 patients were cared for in state psychiatric facilities; today there are fewer than one-tenth that number: 45 000.1 Given the doubling of the US population, this represents a 95% decline, bringing the per capita public psychiatric bed count to about the same as it was in 1850—14 per 100 000 people.1 A much smaller number of private psychiatric beds has fluctuated since the 1970s in response to policy and regulatory shifts that create varying financial incentives.

 

[Lizard]

No, I'm saying the US once had a large network of mental institutions, sometimes called insane asylums, in which people were housed, fed, clothed, treated and kept away from the public. They were closed down. Now the same function is inadequately served by prisons. After WWII, large numbers of veterans were treated in such asylums.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2091312?redirect=true

Then my point still stands, why are you suggesting sending all the mental health patients to a psychiatric hospital? Not everyone needs that.

 

[Dotini]

Then my point still stands, why are you suggesting sending all the mental health patients to a psychiatric hospital? Not everyone needs that.

Could I ask you to ask your question in a different way, please?

 

[Dennisch]

, why are you suggesting sending all the mental health patients to a psychiatric hospital?

He didn't say that.

He said that there used to be a large network of asylums where people could be treated.

 

[polizei]

Then my point still stands, why are you suggesting sending all the mental health patients to a psychiatric hospital? Not everyone needs that.

Because you asked that, he did not suggest to send all mental health patients to a hospital.

 

[Rage Racer]

 

[UKMikey]