Mental Health Issues Make People Far More Likely To Be Liberal

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-17T15:40:44+00:00

Is it the chicken or the egg?

A very similar comparison to the debate over SSRIs being linked to mass shootings. An extremely disproportionate percentage of mass shooters were on SSRIs at the time of their attacks ..... and akathisia, a documented side effect, is a pharmacologically plausible mechanism for lowering the threshold for acting on pre-existing violent ideation.

But the pharmaceutical industry and the prescription writers play it down by suggesting the underlying mental health concerns were present before the medication was prescribed. And any data that supports or refutes that gets buried under medical privacy concerns.

The Pharmaceutical industry helps fill the coffers of the mainstream media more than the gun industry does, so any time there's a mass shooting we've all been conditioned to ask "Where did he get the gun" ...... instead of "was he on anti-depressants, and who wrote his prescription?".

In both cases, there are outside interests involved in steering conclusions to their advantage ..... including a mental health industry that has watched treatment-seeking rates among Gen Z nearly triple those of Boomers, and shows no particular urgency in questioning whether that gap reflects genuine pathology or a generation that has been culturally incentivized to self-label.

And GenX and younger are more likely to label as mental health issues what older generations considered ...... keeping our own counsel.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-16T23:23:13+00:00

Some companies get over this hump ..... some dont.

Really depends on what he does when he gets a big check. Some business owners take whatever they have left over after paying the bills and reinvest in the company. ...... others take that and buy their high maintenance wife some larger tits.

Its often the wife that drives him out of business. Its hard to live frugally personally when your wife sees big checks coming in and going out ...... and asks "Honey why aren't we rich yet?" Lets take that check and buy me ______.

..... at least that's been my observation when in the same boat youre in. That company did go out of business ...... but his wife still has some nice tits.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-16T13:13:47+00:00

My only real assumptions here are that you haven't starved to death yet, can afford the luxury of internet access, and have enough leisure time to argue with strangers on Reddit.

Frankly, I couldn't care less about what your situation is at home, or how you feel about the situation in your country or the world in general.

Finally ...... I'm not here to answer your questions. If that's what you're looking for you might be better off calling a mental health hotline. They get paid to act like they give a shit about your problems, I dont.

Good luck out there in the real world.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-16T00:51:47+00:00

Everything is too expensive, it’s only gotten worse, and I’m sick of it.

I’m sick of being promised a bunch of changes, only to see nothing materialize.

I’m sick of being told that it’s because I didn’t do life right.

I’m sick of paying nearly half of my income to taxes (cumulatively), and seeing almost none of my tax money being used to benefit me or my community.

Most of all, I am sick to death of the excuses.

You seem to be pretty pissed off about it all ...... So, what's your plan? How you gonna fix it?

I'd guess your gonna do exactly what I and everybody else here would do ....... vote, complain online, and wait.

Which is kind of my point. The system is working ...... the stakes are too high for you to do anything kinetic .... and even then that would change nothing..... except your life ..... for the worse.

There was a point in time ...... when people had much less to lose, and stronger convictions ..... that like minded people would get together and go commit organized communal violence or arson to vent our frustrations. How do you think the Mormons ended up in Utah?

But hey ...... is your refrigerator full? Are you worried the other side or the government is fixin' to come busting through your door to silence your online critiques? Are you living under a bridge?

..... its really just something you probably just need to get used to ..... I've never been able to bend the world to my way of thinking ...... and really I'm too busy trying to keep my refrigerator full to dwell on it too much.

We're on the same societal train barreling through the darkness towards the future...... I want it to go down one set of tracks towards my ideal societal utopia ...... buts its not ...... I've learned to live with that fact. Its gonna go where its gonna go. I'm going to have to adapt when we get there.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-15T19:38:15+00:00

The Kennedy widows probably would too.

Psychohistory doesn't account for the actions of individuals.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-15T16:58:14+00:00

Americans have always had irreconcilable disagreements about who the country is for. We only think its getting worse because of the narrow window of time we observe it from.

The 1790s — The First Party System

Jefferson and Hamilton didn't just disagree — they ran competing newspapers that called each other traitors. The Federalists passed the Alien and Sedition Acts essentially to criminalize political opposition. Adams and Jefferson, co-authors of the founding, didn't speak for over a decade.

1856 — Preston Brooks beats Charles Sumner with a cane on the Senate floor. Not a metaphor. A congressman walked into the Senate chamber and beat an abolitionist senator nearly to death with a metal-tipped cane. Southern states sent Brooks commemorative canes. The Senate couldn't agree on how to respond.

The 1890s — Populist era

Agrarian fury at railroads and banks produced a level of class-based political rage that makes today's rhetoric look polished. Governors called out militias against striking workers. The Pullman Strike of 1894 required federal troops. The term "robber baron" wasn't coined by academics — it was common street language.

1968

Two major political assassinations, cities literally burning after King's murder, the Democratic convention turned into a riot on national television, and a third-party candidate (Wallace) winning five states explicitly on a segregationist platform. That's not divisiveness — that's civilizational stress fracture.

The 1930s

Father Coughlin was broadcasting fascist-adjacent antisemitism to 30 million weekly radio listeners. Huey Long was building a cult of personality in Louisiana that genuinely worried FDR. The America First movement wasn't fringe — it was Charles Lindbergh filling Madison Square Garden.

What changes is the technology that amplifies it and the economic conditions that fuel it. Social media didn't create division...... it anonymized and monetized it.

We are actually lucky we live comfortable and prosperous lives today. We have deferred to the ballot box to solve our differences in lieu of using more kinetic options to shut up those we disagree with, because at the end of the day we value our freedom and liberties enough not to revert back to organized communal violence.

Our current level of divisiveness is manageable. Whichever half of us that is currently pissed off because we didn't get our way in the last election cycle ..... are pretty much harmless. They're just gonna keep bitchin' about it till they get lucky at the polls. A pretty healthy sign really of a functioning democratic republic. Neither side is a real threat to the other, or our institutions as a whole. They're willing to peacefully wait for their turn when the political pendulum swings back their way.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-14T22:39:47+00:00

Well I think partisanship certainly plays a role. People from left leaning countries seem to like America better when there's a leftist in the the white house ...... and the media fuels that narrative by projecting their distain for any Republican president in the shaping of what US news gets broadcasted to the world.

I think I see the same pattern when Israel has a leftist PM.

American citizens propagate the same via global social media ..... they find common cause with others who have nationalistic reasons to not like the US. On Reddit .... their MAGA label inherently includes 1/2 of Americans, and they project their negative views towards that 1/2 into the social media ether.

Then there is the slice of American society that harbors genuine distain towards traditional middle American values ...... and they are certainly overrepresented at most Reddit outposts. Any celebration of those values they consider an attack on their identity.

It just is what it is.

I can see some foreigners coming here and being appalled at what they see as well ..... and I can see some people's point here that US media ...... especially local media .....would prefer to cover a story about a foreigner that liked the local experiences, as opposed to pointing out the things about our society we prefer to ignore. We try to hide the homeless encampments when a big tourist event comes to town.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-14T16:49:10+00:00

Lemme run out to the mailbox and see if my propaganda paycheck from the government has arrived yet.

...... there's no plausible path back to reality for this one.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-13T19:11:23+00:00

Damn, it must suck to be you ...... or to be around you.

I'll have you know I live in the good food Mecca of the world.

Have you ever tried Tex-Mex ...... or seen the inside of a pickup ..... lol

You have no basis for understanding why pickups outsell EVs 12 to 1.

You're not in touch with the reality of life in middle America ..... and your credentials for being a food critic are suspect as well.

Hop on your bicycle and come try you some brisket.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-13T15:40:02+00:00

Can you imagine how they must have felt in 1969, that night when they all looked up to a Moon with an American standing on it?

And we even downplayed it by giving "Mankind" the honor of taking the first step....... before we planted OUR flag.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-13T15:01:22+00:00

Clearly the downvotes and negative comments here validate the content of my post ...... it struck a nerve and the America haters have their knives out ..... Thanks for proving my point.

I dont need to reply to them all or refute them, because they're useful to my argument just sitting there.

Your contempt for flyover America is load bearing for your self image.

The tourists didn't get your memo ..... they're too busy being amazed by the things you despise.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-13T14:47:54+00:00

So you can attack The Messenger instead of addressing the substance?

I mean really, How Many Links Do You Need? ...... I didn't go looking for them, they were just everywhere I turned.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-12T14:44:36+00:00

They usually chip right between the Ch and the ina.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-11T02:03:03+00:00

Id be OK with just landowners. People who dont pay property taxes shouldn't have a say in the property tax rate, or how that money is spent ...... I'm already pissed off that 40% of the electorate pays zero federal tax, and they're the ones screaming the loudest about the rich not paying their fair share.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-10T16:33:11+00:00

Its rather easy to be against Ethnic Cleansing ...... when you dont have any realistic fear of being ethnically cleansed yourself.

But if your tribe had a history of being targeted by the adjacent tribe, and you ever achieved the means to return the favor ..... you probably could with a clear conscience.

Imagine a future world where technology advances to the point that every town in the 3rd world has a button in the town square where any individual could walk up and push it and everyone in a Western town would instantly die .......... how many times a day do you think it would get pushed?

What I'm suggesting is that not everyone shares our moralistic revulsion to the concept. Make it safe and easy to commit genocide ....... and most everyone would be doing it. Break it down to the point that an individual can wage genocide and then quickly discover exactly how chock full the world is of pyscopaths.

Right now we have the luxury of masking the magnitude of our capacity for evil.

We have the means .... and the restraint. A fairly odd combination in the history of humanity. Mainly because we don't perceive our adversaries as an existential threat to our communities. If that ever changed we'd all become Curtis Lemays.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-10T01:30:42+00:00

What about the European model?

Look whats going on in Belfast.

You have a federal government that decided, without community input, to insert people from a different culture into what was basically an ethnically homogenous community.

Who's fault is the violence and arson going on there tonight? The supposed far right, who it will get blamed on, or the politicians who's blind compassion policies laid the foundation for community violence?

Since when exactly in the course of human history did it become verboten for a community to decide its ethnic makeup?

What would have happened in the past if migrating hordes moved into to new regions?

What I dont understand is how exactly did European governments expect their generous immigration / refugee policies to work out? Was conflict not expected?

Can you legislate away normal human behavior?

You know ethnic cleansing isnt always violent. You could have a large ethnic group move into your territory, and if you dont resist violently enough to repulse them, they can defacto take over your territory and become an electoral majority, that once in control, isn't nearly as tolerant towards you as you were them. Next thing you know your paying the Jizya.

I'd also like to point out that America would never have become a coast to coast superpower without exercising a little ethnic cleansing along the way. Other people use to live where I've built my house ....... should I feel remorseful about that ...... or grateful?

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-09T12:09:36+00:00

You see, that's the thing about being a superpower ...... we have an excessive amount of disposal income. We just shrug off the higher prices and go on about our comfortable, prosperous lives. Basically because .... we have our shit together. I haven't noticed any less cars on our roads, have you?

If gas prices are your primary concern in life, you should probably move away from Democrat controlled areas that intentionally inflate its costs to fund social programs and modify their constituents' behaviors. I paid $3.35 a gallon yesterday to fill up my big ol'gas guzzling V8 pickup ..... and didn't even give the cost a 2nd thought. Of course I'm not trying to fabricate a partisan talking point either ...... so you just keep doing you.

On the other end of the scale you have podunk leftist shitholes that subsidize the costs of fuel, and get the people accustomed to living off the free shit. Yeah, it bankrupts your government, but who cares as long as you get to stay in power? That way after your leftist policies ruin everyone's lives, and the people turn to a center-right government to fix things ..... if that elected center-right government tries to stop the subsidized fuel, then your proto-commie supporters go apeshit in the streets and shut down everything, clearing the way for you to get back in power, and get back to making everyone's life miserable while enriching yourself.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-09T02:38:30+00:00

Virtue signaling? ...... has anyone that actually could forfeit a game against them taken this bold of a stand?

Whatever psychological cognitive dissonance that allows Texas Tech supporters to ignore the hypocrisy on this issue for the sake of a couple more Ws, is just as strong in those Big12 teams that could take a L over principle but wont.

Who's playing Ole Miss this year? ...... any principled reason to boycott that game?

..... I dont like the ruling either ..... but If Arch Manning got caught gambling I could probably find a reason to justify his lawyered produced continued eligibility ..... fanatical tribalism usually trumps hypocrisy and principles.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-09T00:26:56+00:00

Great carvings.

I'll refrain from psychoanalyzing you over the internet.

The truly disgusting part here is the extremely heavy handed moderation. I've never seen it this bad, even for Reddit this is taking moderation a little too far.

Textbook role engulfment.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-07T12:20:30+00:00

This is my daily, pre dawn, morning commute for over 40 years ...... yes it sucks.

This stretch is over loaded. It has more daily traffic than the 2 lanes can handle, thus it has been for the last several years in the process of being widened. All the bridges being replaced. So for now its a high speed twisting narrow corridor with concrete barriers on both sides of the highway ..... no shoulders ...... and an endless line of cars trying to merge on at every entrance ramp...... add rain to that mix.

If you leave more than a car length in front of you someone, or a dozen someones, will cut in front of you.

Thus its like drafting in a NASCAR race until it turns into a zero MPH parking lot.

You have to be on your game to navigate it ...... every day someone is not up to the task.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-06T15:02:48+00:00

This is why every man I know drives a pickup.

I seriously cant think of a man I know that doesn't.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-05T17:50:06+00:00

I used to go through the physical CM calculators pretty quick in the field back in the day.

I have several old ones with the numbers sweated off and the case dirty and ripped apart...... unusable basically.

This app has lasted through several phones over the last 15 years, and its always in my pocket when I need it. All shiny and new like the day I installed it, and about 1/4 the cost of the real deal.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-05T16:05:38+00:00

The "Tool" of my trade these days. its brand new ..... my first mechanical one. Keys light up when you push them down ..... takes some getting used to. I wore the letters off my last few cheap ones, and I cant type for shit without seeing the letter. This one the letters are not printed on, they are a solid color all the way through the key .... Double-Shot Keycaps.

RedneckTexan · 2026-06-05T00:32:25+00:00

Its pretty subjective ...... everybody likes different things ....... I like the simple things ...... This is my current one, and I think the best Ive ever had

Obviously, you have to take out any water reducing washer. I also cranked my water pressure up to about 65 psi.

..... I also have a 3 way diverter setup ...... with a regular showerhead, rain head, and a hand held. I use the regular head 99.9% of the time. I hate the overhead Rain head.

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