how do these people function in society?
That’s the neat part, they don’t
Dipshits like them are oftentimes the ones running society with not so different brainworms, so they’re mostly protected from their own dumbassery.
They’re HR mostly. Loyal servants of capital now that it’s problematic to have white men as the overt enforcers.
An entire generation of white women who rebelled against sexism only to sign their souls away to capital when they moved up the hierarchy.
True Crime slop must be snuffed out.
snuffed out.
incredible choice of words lmao
Must have been subconscious on my part, it’s been a long day lol
Honestly I watch some piggiecam videos sometimes but man the longform-narrative case building drama shit is too much man. The narration can sway the viewer any which way by controlling the tone and narrative too much
wow, so it really does reflect the “justice” “system”
Misogynists:
"[redacted] be crazy, and must be punished"Astrologers:
"Mercury is in retrograde, all Leo's should defend themselves from all Cancers with lethal force"True Crimers:
"Let me break out my Bratz dolls and show you exactly how the blood spatter evidence doesn't line up"Me:
lindsay clancy? no thanks i’m not too fond of tactical shooters
A white woman kills her kids, is she good or evil?
A. Evil, she is a woman.
B. Good, she is white.
C. A gemini.
These hurt to read, holy fuck
I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance
Who said this?
Carl Sagan
God damn he’s so cool
He was a hell of a smart man, huh?
That case is a great litmus test to detect scratched liberals/outright reactionaries, just like Amber Heard before it
As someone who only knows about this via posts like this do you have a quick tl;dr?
lady killed her kids and jumped out of a window
the killings are not in question as she admitted to it, the trial is about if she should be held criminally responsible as she claims she was suffering from post-partum psychosis at the time
Gotcha, I see. The jumping out of a window bit i hadn’t heard about, and that this is about her mental health makes a lot more sense why chuds are mad. Thanks
She went to psychiatrists for extreme postpartum depression & stress and so was medicated on multiple antidepressants, but they never caught the warning signs for her psychosis. She experienced intense psychotic episodes (I think primarily from severe insomnia & postpartum mental issues) where she had delusions, hallucinated intrusive voices in her head, had dissociative out-of-body experiences, etc
She pleaded she was in a dream-like state where a voice in her head commanded her to kill her children and herself to save them so that they can all be with God together; so she strangled her kids before cutting her own wrists and jumping out the window. Just today there was a hung jury & mistrial over her defense’s insanity plea (which was to determine if she goes to a high-security psyc ward or to prison, neither of which are remotely humane in the US tbh)
Just today there was a hung jury & mistrial over her defense’s insanity plea
And if I understand right it was one holdout juror that refused to accept the insanity plea.
Which ngl I feel like while it should absolutely take a unanimous jury to convict it should only take a simple majority to acquit.
There’s some armchair forensics out there claiming that several elements of the timeline don’t add up, but I don’t think the defense is arguing that.
I’ve also seen people arguing that it wouldn’t have been possible for her to be in psychosis and for him not to be aware of it, trying to turn it on him for not intervening.
HA yeah no. It’s definitely possible to be oblivious or not really paying attention enough to someone else’s mental state such that you don’t notice acute psychosis.
It can be especially tricky if they’re someone for whom some outward symptoms are somewhat normal (eg. You might dismiss some signs as being a panic attack and then not think about it the next day) or if they’re self medicating or otherwise effectively masking in some scenarios.
It’s possible to mask psychosis, sometimes you’re able to have a psychosis episode and not realize it until it’s over.
Absolutely, yeah. It’s actually pretty easy to not notice someone is in acute mental distress.
I think there’s a perception that mental health crises like this are cartoonishly hypervisible, that everyone in psychosis is babbling incoherently, stumbling around, and screaming at voices in their head. Or that if someone’s manic, they’ll act like early Daffy Duck.
Most people generally aren’t aware of the warning signs, he probably just assumed she was acting weird solely from depression and stress
My mom’s boyfriend went through a temporary psychosis episode last winter, and for the first month or so we genuinely had no idea; we just assumed he was extra quiet/ solemn and sometimes a little grumpy. It wasn’t until we pressed on some of his behaviors that it escalated to aggression and yelling at everyone, accusing us of poisoning him and messing with his vision, accusing my mom of being an undercover agent, the dog of having cameras in her eyes, then trying to run away with his passport, etc. All of these irrational things completely out of touch from his usual self seemed to come out of nowhere. (We called a crisis hotline and got him admitted to a psych ward, which I think ultimately saved his life before it was too late)
ANYONE of any age can experience psychosis for the first time (particularly from extreme stress, trauma, social isolation, and/or sleep deprivation); and when you enter that state you often distrust everyone around you, and so you may hide what’s on your mind. Or you may phase in and out of your psychosis, experience memory lapses of many prior mental delusions, and are trying your hardest to appear normal to others, especially if you feel obligated to remain stoic/ strong for others. And like every mental condition, there’s no universal presentation of it
Professionals aren’t likely to catch it without being told about it, because the client would have to be experiencing severe psychosis during a session to show it. Apparently the woman in this case never told any of her doctors about the psychosis. She should be hospitalized rather than imprisoned, but I don’t think it’s really on her doctors for missing the psychosis in this case.
those people have never interacted with anyone going through a psychotic episode, and i hope they never do for the other person’s sake
I swear some people think someone having a psychotic episode always has to look like a stereotypical “crazy person” wearing a tin foil hat and rambling nonsense.
Another important thing to note besides what has been said is that this is on US national news with regular updates. We had another high profile case in Massachusetts a few years back (Karen Read) and all this true crime spectacle seems to boil down to misogyny. Chuds and libs rally behind the cops and institutions of punishment, missing the point. These should have never been spectacles, but they demonstrated the corruption of the MA state police and general social evil of suburbia respectively. Their reveling itself is a symptom. The true crime pods and boomers watching evening dose of events in 90s Russia on the news are all symptoms.
the husband owns an ipad
Racists, this is how you look to people capable of complex thought BTW.
I really wish people would just sit this one out instead of litigating their own pet grievances.
real capricorn energy here ngl
ugh. Somehow the astrologers putting in their two cents somehow makes the whole thing so much worse for me for some reason.
I know TikTok poisoned people are a bit out there but this case awoke some deep slumbering demons in these people, my feed was fucking wild the past week or so.
Is this about capital punishment? What difference does it make otherwise? If they put you in psych ward for killing your own children you probably aren’t getting out anytime soon
I think people just want her to rot in prison instead of a psyc ward because they the think the psyc ward is getting off easy and she won’t be suffering as badly. Half of Americans are reactionary sadists, what’s new
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The world would be a much better place if you could be locked away and the key tossed aside.
4 day old account and this is what they decided had to be their first comment lol
Fifth comment.
ⓘ This user is suspected of being a cat. Please report any suspicious behavior.
Ah right I forgot to click their name again after clicking the instance link. Upon further investigation one their other comments is saying that a black woman who shot a white man in self defense should be charged with murder. Yet another one just says “fuck the IRS”. Real gem here.
Shooting in question. CW death on video. One of the most clear cut cases of self defense I have seen. First the guy blocks her with his car, then continues to menace her after she warns him she will shoot him if he continues pursuing her.
The comment about a black woman, plus the comment about the IRS tells me all I’ll ever care to know about this person.
Yeah thanks for the reminder, after ruminating on it a bit that person should definitely be instance banned @Demigodrick@lemmy.zip @v4ld1z@lemmy.zip yall got a Nazi in your house. Not sure if reports carry over between instances so I’m just tagging the .zip admins.
