Epidemiologist Dr. Gary Slutkin: MAGA is a "dangerous and lethal syndrome" of “Authoritarian Violence Disorder”
  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 hours ago

    It’s a symptom of a disease for sure. Lack of critical thinking, rampant misinformation passed off as facts, and unchecked campaign spending are the disease.

  • Jordan117@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    11 hours ago

    I genuinely wonder how much of the rise of this kind of belligerent stupidity can be traced back to widespread, low-level lead poisoning decades ago that’s starting to manifest in earnest now.

  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee
    18·
    11 hours ago

    There is one person that built the foundation to all of this: Rush Limbaugh. The right is always right and everyone else is lying.

  • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    13 hours ago

    Oh it’s definitely similar to a disease. It attacks the area of the brain that sources intelligence and common sense.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      3 hours ago

      I’ve been calling it a mental illness for at least a decade. I suspect that a constant exposure to disinformation induces a state similar to narcissism, with severe empathetic impairment, but there is a clear corruption to their logic and how they process information, as evidenced by the constant double-think — holding contradictory beliefs and opinions simultaneously — and defaulting to negative/positive opinions about anything based almost entirely on logical fallacies, and a child-like reasoning of “goodies and baddies”.

      “my abortion was different”

      “won’t someone think of the children” but also let em starve and die in a mass shooting.

      “Trans and gays are pedophiles” but also my teams pedos and sex criminals have my undying support.

      There are literally thousands of examples like this daily. I consider religion — which teaches you to trust your feefees, “just have faith”, and reject critical thought — to be the main source of this logical corruption and mental illness.

      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Fox News has been spreading this disease since 2000 (and the crazy right wing talk radio even longer).

        This is a much deeper and longer problem than many want to admit.

    • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      12 hours ago

      I feel like common sense is more a standard mental immune system function that helps prevent the infection from taking hold. These are susceptible populations, though, essentially immunocompromised.

      So, I suppose we need to take some MAGA, weaken it with formaldehyde or something, and then inject that into people’s brains to give the brain a chance to fight back before it gets overwhelmed.

      • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
        9·
        12 hours ago

        So, I suppose we need to take some MAGA, weaken it with formaldehyde or something, and then inject that into people’s brains to give the brain a chance to fight back before it gets overwhelmed.

        I’ve been trying to convince anti-vaxxers that it isn’t the medicine, but the micro plastics that are causing all the “new diseases” and being able to diagnose more autistic kids. I would rather them believe that it is caused by plastics and not medicine. I think being anti-plastic is better than anti-vax.

  • Jagothaciv@kbin.earth
    13·
    12 hours ago

    No its pandemic. All of the right wing nuts are colluding to return to its weirdo cult Nazi heritage.

    Spoiler alert: the uniforms went away but the ideology remained thanks in part to the western racists.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    13 hours ago

    I’ve been around Maga folks and I haven’t yet caught it. Maybe I’m immune? Or maybe it’s the skirts I wear. We need to force Maga adherents into skirts so that they get better.

    • Albbi@lemmy.ca
      15·
      13 hours ago

      Their leader tries to force himself into skirts. Forcing them to wear skirts might work though.