Oddly enough there is something to this.
Of course at the core of every Conspiracy Theory is a kernel of “truth”. According to Court Records 68% of Q-Anon followers arrested following Jan 6 had a pre-existing diagnosis for Mental Illness. Compared to the general population of 19%.
so he’s got that going for him.
It’s impossible,
To suffer brain damage, you need a brain to start with
A defense attorney for a Capitol rioter is himself a crass scumbag?
Golly.
There’s any number of people imprisoned today that barely understood what they were doing, or too incapacitated to fully understand.
Should they be? Excellent question, but that’s irrelevant here. They’re also not accused of violently attempting to overthrow the government and organizing others to do so.
I have exactly zero pity for Mr. Organic Food. He spent literal years doing this and his mother supported him. If he was so unbalanced, she should have done something to prevent him before.
Don Rickles, Esq.
At least they had a bus. He was obviously educated under a compost heap.
He can’t stretch his claims to a criminal instanty plea, so where does that leave him and his gentleman client?
Oh the problems with the Golgafrincham plan was just that they aimed wrong.
Just have Disaster Area plan the route and all the problems are resolved.
Nah.
The guidelines request that folks not speculate on the characteristics of others (of which mental state is one), if it hasn’t been either self-reported, or reported elsewhere.
For example, Q Shaman has been reported as being on the spectrum. Speculating about how that might have affected his behaviour is completely valid given that fact.
Our goal is not to shut down discussions about mental health! Mental health is an important topic and should not be only discussed in the dark places of the world - that’s part of the problem! But attributing shit behaviour to mental health conditions is also part of the problem and one that those who are legitimately living with mental illness have to face every time some asshole is somehow excused because “they must be nuts”.
We know that some members of QAnon do live with mental illness - we know this because several of them have been reported as having such diagnoses. That doesn’t mean they all are, as suggested by this asshat lawyer here, or more importantly, that there’s some sort of correlation because asshole, racist and bigoted behaviour and mental illness.
Well the good news is that we know this attorney wouldn’t last long as a boingboing commenter. The bad news is we can’t flag him and send the mods to boot him from the community.
I mean, to be honest, if people actually considered the propaganda responsible…in the sense of doing something to make those putting it out accountable for incitement, or at least put some regulations on the lies passing as press…I wouldn’t hate it. Instead, it seems to be another way of say “yeah, people tried to overthrow the government, but you just gotta accept it, boys will be boys”.
Exactly that. Yes.
Thank you; there’s a huge world of difference between having mental health issues and being a bigoted asshole who was enflamed by “mob mentality.”
And if they’d successfully caused enough mayhem to destabilize government and Trump had stayed in power, they’d be carving statues of them. No matter how they portray the mental state of the insurrectionists, you can bet they will always be characterized as “well-intentioned.”
“You’re honor, if I can’t smoke and swear, I’m fucked!”
Hey, you know who sent the buses to pick up the “short bus people”?
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Somehow, not a crime.
“Nobody could have seen this coming”
-Republicans desperately hoping you’re as stupid as the average republican.
Asperger syndrome is no longer an official DSM diagnosis. There are good reasons that the label persists to help a subset of Autistic people identify. But it is more of a self identification than a clinical term. Many would disagree with it being a form of mental illness. I suspect that if a vote were taken, the Q shaman would have his Asperger card revoked. And that has nothing to do with whether he is mentally ill.
I think the only thing he got right was the part about propaganda.
Not only is it focused and repetitive, but it’s so incredibly pervasive.
Never before has propagandists had such direct access to a population no matter where they are. Constant mobile updates, constant firehose of misinformation.
It’s incredible, really.
Asperger’s was never classified as a mental illness even when it was in the DSM. It was a developmental disorder. Autism, PDD, and ASD are all still classified as developmental disorders.
