Oh, he’s been working on that, to make sure they can’t!
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I can’t eeeeeeeeeeeven, y’know?
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(There’s earlier instances of the same thing, but this guy was really blatant about what he was doing.)
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What an asshole.
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It’s apparently pretty easy to use a recording of the song to cancel it out in editing software, allowing one to post it anyway.
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(I’ve removed the paywall)
A Massachusetts school can continue to use electric shock devices to modify behavior by students with intellectual disabilities, a federal court said this month, overturning an attempt by the government to end the controversial practice, which has been described as “torture” by critics but defended by family members.
In a 2-to-1 decision, the judges ruled that a federal ban interfered with the ability of doctors working with the school, the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, to practice medicine, which is regulated by the state. The Food and Drug Administration sought to prohibit the devices in March 2020, saying that delivering shocks to students presents “an unreasonable and substantial risk of illness or injury.”
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This could also be put in the “Nazification of America” thread.
I feel sick in my stomach.
And in Massachusetts? REALLY? Well, that’s what happens when you have no more reasonable Kennedys left there, I guess.
Addendum: I’m very thankful that this sort of thing wasn’t in any of the public schools my son attended. And fercrissakes, why don’t they try microdosing with LSD?
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Electroshock is bad, but it still amazes me just how recently a transorbital lobotomy would have been the go-to solution.
The Freeman–Watts prefrontal lobotomy still required drilling holes in the skull, so surgery had to be performed in an operating room by trained neurosurgeons. Walter Freeman believed this surgery would be unavailable to those he saw as needing it most: patients in state mental hospitals that had no operating rooms, surgeons, or anesthesia and limited budgets. Freeman wanted to simplify the procedure
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Freeman at some point conceived of approaching the frontal lobes through the eye sockets instead of through drilled holes in the skull. In 1945 he took an icepick from his own kitchen and began testing the idea
They would just pin someone down, hammer an icepick through their eye socket into the brain, and wiggle it around to chop up the neural connections. Without anesthesia or even a surgeon. And that wasn’t some weird old medieval cure-all, that was within our lifetime (many of us anyway).
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ECT isn’t designed to be painful. It’s administered under general anesthesia — or so says wikipedia
The devices used at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center are designed as aversive stimuli. The amperage is less than ECT, though.
The lobotomy article describes Freeman’s work.
Walter Freeman coined the term “surgically induced childhood” and used it constantly to refer to the results of lobotomy. The operation left people with an “infantile personality”; a period of maturation would then, according to Freeman, lead to recovery. In an unpublished memoir, he described how the “personality of the patient was changed in some way in the hope of rendering him more amenable to the social pressures under which he is supposed to exist.” He described one 29-year-old woman as being, following lobotomy, a “smiling, lazy and satisfactory patient with the personality of an oyster” who could not remember Freeman’s name and endlessly poured coffee from an empty pot. When her parents had difficulty dealing with her behaviour, Freeman advised a system of rewards (ice cream) and punishment (smacks).[21]
The Judge Rotenberg Educational center believes in punishments but is reportedly quite stingy when it comes to anything resembling a reward.
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Yes, I know. Ugh. I think I first read about that as a teenager and I was like, how can this happen here?
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At first it wasn’t though. An older family member (now passed away) got it for postpartum depression, back in the early sixties. Absolutely hated doctors after that, for good reason I think (but unfortunate).
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But as I asked in the comments of this video: What is a deterrent for sedition/committing acts of sedition?
And this is just one person who didn’t shit on the floor, make a nasty self-vid, et al. He’s gonna find out that life after the joint isn’t the same as it was before his incarceration.
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Rigorous teaching of civics in school at every level. No exceptions for religious schools. There are national “American history” exams at a couple of points during the education process, but they’re not very difficult to pass, so make them as difficult as the citizenship test is (or just use the citizenship test).
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It’s also clear that there needs to be a lot more education in the U.S. on how the election system works. Or, “systems”, as is more appropriate. So many conspiracy theories out there that would be insane to try to pull off in reality.
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I totally agree.
But what about the adults who’ve already been indoctrinated?
That’s all a part of civics. I’m old enough to remember when it was standard instruction in schools.
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Ah, yes, there’s the rub.
Maybe passing the civics/citizenship test is required to get a gun license? Just spitballing here.
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That IS a good idea, though.
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