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Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social |
This article makes a very good point about why the Goldwater rule is outdated: "This was the heyday of classical Freudianism, and most of the Fact magazine commentary was rooted in theoretical mumbo jumbo rather than empirical facts."
But....
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Antifa Guerrilla
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Interesting that it says "The vindication of Bandy Lee" and not "Dr. Bandy Lee". One would think the president of the World Mental Health Coalition and head of the Violence Prevention Alliance for the World Health Organization would garner respect regardless of gender. 2022 - Penis still required.
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Perazza
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The line “Since 1900, every time a Republican president has taken over, economic inequality has increased and the country has become more violent” really jumps out. I work at @epi-org.bsky.social (creative) and we recently released a report that supports this 100% www.epi.org/publication/...
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Sock Puppet Pundit
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Diagnosis of psychopathy is based on interviews of those around the subject as much as interviews with the subject themself. We have far more information on him because he's an attention seeker and the wonders of 24/7 media.
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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“The issue that we are raising is not whether Trump is mentally ill,” Gilligan writes in his chapter. “It is whether he is dangerous.” Seems like a fit question for somebody desiring a position of immense power.
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Amanda Marcotte
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Modern psychologists who clocked Trump's sociopathy are grounded in research and simple, straightforward tools like symptom checklists. As the article notes, the rootedness of this science is also proved by the nearly perfect track record of predicting his behavior based on a sociopath's profile.
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uptownJimmy
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Paul Applebaum’s privilege is willful and monstrous. Tittering and wringing his hands about diagnosing fascists from afar, so noble, so ethical, so utterly insipid.
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