Anon's grandpa does his own research
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Welcome to mental illness. Many people are perfectly functional, yet still deeply sick.
I had an uncle like this. He definitely held it together okay-ish (though that's up for debate) for most of his life. But the conspiracy bullshit was a consist sign that he was not well.
And then when his wife passed, he also lost his ability to be functional, so the sickness took over entirely, eventually even took over his body. Nobody could help, not even his children.
I had an uncle just like this. He spent all his time listening to conservative AM radio, which he proudly called "hate radio". He died of who knows what alone in his trailer in Florida and wasn't discovered for two months because nobody gave a shit about him. My other uncle tried to rehab the trailer (which would have maybe been worth five grand) but gave up because the smell was too horrifying. My dad inherited a small bag of his belongings and the stench on those things was unimaginable.
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He moonlighted as a drummer for Spinal Tap.
Nonsense - they were The New Originals in 1963.
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Cue Sarah McLachlan music.
For the price of a cup of coffee per day, you could help prevent Spontaneous Presidential Cranial Disassembly.
SPCD affects many of us.
Cut to Mary Todd Lincoln
“Worst play ever. Also my husband was killed. ”
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Seriously though, JFK tried to do some good things. I’d be curious to hear the tankie response. Probably something about the Cuban missile crisis.
You don't have to be curious anymore. You can summarize the entire argument rhetoric into, "Supported america in any way/shape/form, therefore bad. Must immediately dismantle imperial hegemony of terrible capitalistic empire.
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This is what happens when old men don't take up model railroading.
Or wargaming, which is a type of model railroading.
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not necessarily schizophrenia, but likely another psychotic disorder. possibly delusional disorder if no other symptoms are met. schizophrenia has several criteria that must be met beyond delusions
On one hand, schizophrenia is much more common than delusional disorder, on the other hand, schizophrenia is much less likely to go completely undiagnosed for so long. Either way, grandpa will have to see a proper Hutu psychiatrist to know for sure.
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I know a coworker who is an anti-vaxxer and won’t scan a QR code because they think it will steal their identity, but they happily use Facebook, TikTok, and Ozempic.
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Thought schizophrenia also needed an audio or visual hallucinatory component?
nope! either/or. usually has both delusions and hallucinations but as long as there's at least one
and with minimal insights, they may not perceive the voices as hallucinations. to them it might be a broadcast or just a noise or something
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On one hand, schizophrenia is much more common than delusional disorder, on the other hand, schizophrenia is much less likely to go completely undiagnosed for so long. Either way, grandpa will have to see a proper Hutu psychiatrist to know for sure.
wrote last edited by [email protected]that we know of! the trouble with delusional disorder is that it by definition presents without many of the troublesome characteristics of schizophrenia. and delusions, by definition, persist in the face of evidence, so insight is generally lacking. in other words, we could hypothesize that most cases of delusional disorder are never reported!
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I had an uncle just like this. He spent all his time listening to conservative AM radio, which he proudly called "hate radio". He died of who knows what alone in his trailer in Florida and wasn't discovered for two months because nobody gave a shit about him. My other uncle tried to rehab the trailer (which would have maybe been worth five grand) but gave up because the smell was too horrifying. My dad inherited a small bag of his belongings and the stench on those things was unimaginable.
Oh, that's awful.
My uncle also had very few allies left in this world, he was just the embodiment of an asshole to pretty much everyone. My dad and aunt were the only people that would even bother to try to communicate with him. Fortunate in some way, they'd talked on the phone the day before my uncle passed, and he agreed to let my dad stop by to drop off some food the next day. Meaning, he'd been dead less than 24 hours before my dad found his body. Otherwise, it very well could have been weeks or longer.
But the house? Total loss. My uncle had become a trash hoarder. Fueled by depression, but also by his beliefs that the government was tracking him (and would go through his trash if he were to set it outside). My dad and my cousin tried to locate some family memorabilia like photos and things, but they gave up. The house was literally bulldozed and the remnants hauled away, it was in such bad shape inside and out.
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nope! either/or. usually has both delusions and hallucinations but as long as there's at least one
and with minimal insights, they may not perceive the voices as hallucinations. to them it might be a broadcast or just a noise or something
Well there goes my Psych 101 education from 35 years ago!
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Well there goes my Psych 101 education from 35 years ago!
hey you were close, sounds like you remembered something
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it's weird but back when that huge Earthquake in Syria happened there were a lotta people with no relation to Syria at all adamant that it was a hoax because of stupid things like not seeing the ground shake (in an era where image stabilisation technology is the norm lol) I can't even begin to understand conspiracy theorists but people like Anon's granddad are pretty common
Why would you expect to see the ground shake? You'd expect to see everything ELSE to shake, since cameras are usually attached to the ground.
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lol this is the best theory I’ve ever heard. Except they would have shot him like three times by accident. Then they go to Nixon’s house where he is complaining about his wife’s coffee.
I would pay to see that movie.
Did you notice a sign in front of my house that said dead president storage?
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Cue Sarah McLachlan music.
For the price of a cup of coffee per day, you could help prevent Spontaneous Presidential Cranial Disassembly.
SPCD affects many of us.
Cut to Mary Todd Lincoln
“Worst play ever. Also my husband was killed. ”
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Seriously though, JFK tried to do some good things. I’d be curious to hear the tankie response. Probably something about the Cuban missile crisis.
Are you sure he was not a macho womanizing stud, who conquered the moon?
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They take up mental railroading instead?
They take up narrative railroading.
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My favorite conspiracy is that no one killed JFK. His head just did that.
It was Maxwell's demon!
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lol??? imagine being like this, i suppose everyone needs a hobby
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I don't think it having "ideological connections" makes this metaphor weaker. In fact, I think it highlights exactly why using a comparison out of left field makes the metaphor stronger. The only reason non-fundamentalist-Christians and Jews in the west have for denying the genocide in Gaza is that it has become normalised to do so. If you take a step back and think about why a white moderate "Christmas-and-Easter Christian" (or even an atheist) American, Australian, or European might have a connection to what's going on in the Middle East...like, really think about it, there is no rational explanation. Only because others have decided to politicise it and make it a talking point and a part of political identity, do westerners end up having disproportionally strong opinions about it. It's self-reinforcing in that way, but it's no more rational than the Welsh Rwandan genocide denier, at its core.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of genocide. and it behoves us all to act as best we can against it.
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I know a coworker who is an anti-vaxxer and won’t scan a QR code because they think it will steal their identity, but they happily use Facebook, TikTok, and Ozempic.
Ozempic is such a wild thing. Who knows how it will effect people in 20 years (it is not approved for weight loss after all).
I keep getting brain candy vibes from its increasing use. (Good movie FYI)
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Why would you expect to see the ground shake? You'd expect to see everything ELSE to shake, since cameras are usually attached to the ground.
Scrub inland dwellers don't know what going through earthquakes is like, signed coastal faultline chads
