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.
In America black people are diagnosed schizophrenic or psychotic because they talk about institutional racism to white clinicians that don’t believe them
Pretty sure America does that.
Somewhat relatedly, the W Bush administration expanded mental health screening and recordskeepint, and broadened the use of somewhat dangerous antipsychotics for non psychotic conditions in the wake of the Patriot Act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Freedom_Commission_on_Mental_Health
I’m sure this comments section is going to be thoroughly hinged
Quite, I fully intend to have civil and reasonable fact based discussions about the USSR which will not trail off into tribalistic whataboutist tirades.
A big part of Soviet propaganda is their use of whataboutism is deflect criticism against their regime. Supporters of the USSR and far left ideologies have inherited this tactic, which is why whenever you see anybody criticize someone on the far left, they always resort to using whataboutism, especially about the US. It’s recycled material from a dead regime.
I don’t consider the USSR or CCP to be far left or really any form of left. They’re just red fascists.
Wow. How did you pull all of that out of your ass?
This isn’t something new, controversial, or some hidden secret. It’s something that’s academically studied and well documented. This was literally the USSR’s go to propaganda tactic when it was still around. Literally only out of touch tankies cannot comprehend common knowledge like this.
Sure, but does all of the far left do that and did they get it from the Soviet Union?
You made a far out strawman argument. Admit it.
Yeah, waiting utill guys from lemmy@ml and lemmy@hexbear come here and start protecting the USSR.
Jokes aside, is there any really independent instance? Or at least one that kinda in the middle?
Cause currently it feels like one side of lemmy on crack and support Soviets (which I can’t stand, cause I lived in post-soviet country and I know why soviet system failed = cause it’s piece of shit), while other heavily tripping on LSD, while supporting palestine (which I can’t stand, cause I’m not into killing and raping, no matter the excuse “Al Jazeera” propagandize).
From my perceptive both are in da wrong and I get shit from both sides, lmao. Do I like, get back to reddit? Or there some place that won’t ban me for my “radical opinion”?
Not a word of complaint about Israeli 4k livestreamed genocide? Shooting children in the head? Blowing up hospitals? Murdering aid workers? Starving an entire population in an open-air prison?
You could condemn both October 7th and Israel but you don’t. Your “middle” is skewed as fuck.
Your opinion isn’t “radical”, it’s straight up genocide-apologist.
Your opinion isn’t “radical”, it’s straight up genocide-apologist.
And just like that “I hate hamas and people that do raping\killing” turns into “you focking genocide-apologist”. That why I can’t stand you people.
Okay, maybe I need to add some clarity. I will try to explain it to you like you are 5, cause it’s most probably pretty close: hamas wants to kill everyone. Their current target: every jew. They won’t stop. Their religion - kill jews and kafirs. Google what “kafir” is. By condemning Israel you basically saying “stop fighting and give up”. That basically mean “stop resisting and let them kill you”. You saying that jews needs to die. You are the person that can be described as “genocide-apologist” here, not me.
Israel is not all jews. Stop conflating the two. Many jews are horrified by what Israel is doing.
Fuck Israel. Fuck Hamas.
I am against ALL genocide without exception.
Try sh.itjust.works. Most folks don’t notice us.
Why would you recommend your instance to a Zionist?
This user has been banned from hexbear.net
ml wiped out his whole family
How does one have a monopoly on eggs in a non-hypetindustrial country? Did grandpa invent the chicken and visit every village and start renting out hens XD
Eggs aren’t exactly hyperindustrial, but after the fall of the Qing dynasty entailed a lot of private acquisition to feed the foreign business interests flooding in.
I dunno if there ever was a monopoly on eggs for all of China, but maybe in the export industry though.
But how would a private business monopolize chickens which have been extant in the area for thousands of years? Especially with multiple foreign entities flooding into the market? Even exports, there would be so many competing foreign interests a monopoly would be silly.
More likely methinks is that the intensely tonedeaf tweet is agitprop bullshit, especially because the only reference I can find about this it all leftymemers dunking on the screenshot. I didn’t look too hard just now, so could be wrong!
Am I supposed to feel sorry for a billionaire that made money by hoarding a basic necessity?
No you’re supposed to read this and be furious!
Not read this and think “how would a monopoly on eggs in preindustrial China exist, this story smells of bullshit”
So it’s like lemmy.ml
You’d be hard pressed to find a communist system that doesn’t inevitably end up like this.
In b4 “ackshully that’s not real communism”. Sure, sure.
We used to give lobotomies to those who didn’t fit in right in capitalist workplaces.
Now we just make an overnight hospital visit cost $38,000 so so that people without workplace-provided healthcare die instead.
As a bonus - people who get too sick to work have their Healthcare canceled so they’ll die too.
Pure whataboutism. I never said everything capitalism did is good, simply eluded to the fact that the natural end state is communism seems to be a state terror, and general life horror for everywhere it’s been implemented.
That’s not whataboutism. It is making a point to illustrate, that this might not be an exclusive feature of communism.
And not everything bad that happened under a so-called communist system is a result of communism.
