SF 2589 as introduced - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)
www.revisor.mn.gov

This came up in my health care forum.

Right now, you can legally detain someone medically when they are a danger to themselves or others for up to 72hrs. The details vary by state, but this is how we lock down individuals trying to suicide or someone mentally off the rails making threats of violence.

This variation on that law would also make opposition to Trump qualify.

Civil commitment can follow as with individuals who have profound mental illness and are not safe to be out in the world.

This is the loudest scream that democracy is dead short of hauling people out into the street and shooting them.

It’s important to note the police are currently the people who bring individuals in for the 72hr mental health holds.

  • Carmakazi@lemmy.world
    1181·
    2 days ago

    It’s important to note the police are currently the people who bring individuals in for the 72hr mental health holds.

    I think it is also important to note that it appears many of these officers are not wearing Level IV plates daily, and plainclothes cops may not be wearing any vest at all.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      45·
      2 days ago

      It’s also important to note that they’re planning on introducing gun control for people considered to be mentally ill. They are going to declare every antifascist mentally ill, and use it to take their guns away.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
    941·
    2 days ago

    What is wrong with people that they would rather live under the boot of dollar-store Hitler than in a tolerant society of people just getting on with life?

    • Hazor@lemmy.world
      43·
      2 days ago

      They believe the propaganda that others hate them or are trying to destroy their way of life, and that dollar-store Hitler is their champion fighting for them.

      • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
        21·
        2 days ago

        They believe that bullshit against all common sense and by very deliberately ignoring any kind of evidence. Fascists are always assholes first and the fascism just serves to rationalize their shitty behaviour.

    • pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 days ago

      That’s what I don’t get. Like, why can’t we just all get on with our lives, help those you have it worse than us, and work together on a better future for our children?

      But no, there’s a bunch of narcissistic assholes amassing wealth and convincing the other wannabe narcissists that everyone is out to get them.

      I have a small kid and have no clue how to explain to him what the fuck was going on in right now when he’s old enough to ask.

    • Sektor@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 days ago

      Lack of empathy. Fear that they are fed. Hate for different people. Sense of superiority over people who have even less than them. Total lack of responsibility. Religion.

  • salamandermander@lemmings.world
    721·
    2 days ago

    This is literally how the soviet union suppressed dissent in the 80s. Disagreement with the party was legally considered a sign of psychological issues. They did this to replace the gulags.

    • zephorah@lemm.eeOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      Having a human labeled as internally broken has always been effective. Even on the small scale, society takes a step back, maybe, at most, pities, but the label utterly destroys all leadership capacity due to the seed of doubt it plants in everyone.

  • casmael@lemm.ee
    41·
    2 days ago

    Oh look it’s incredibly fucked up fascist policy again wow I’m so surprised who could have predicted this ?

  • uuldika@lemmy.ml
    41·
    2 days ago

    it’s legislative shitposting/meme magic. one of them gets an idea for the meme: adding “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a mental illness to troll the libs. it provokes a reaction in us, because it’s 2025 and for all we know the damn thing might pass at the rate the fascists are consuming the state, and the Republicans’ base feeds off of our panic and grief, fueling their schadenfreude. Republican voters are the real trolls; these legislators are just their proxies.

    basically, this is the meme magic formula that took 4chan from “ironic” Nazi trolls to an outright fascist resurgence across the West, that took Trump from a meme candidate to the Oval Office, that took the 51st State rhetoric from obvious hyperbole to deadly serious. it’s “just a joke” when you’re defending it, it’s “just trolling” when you’re pushing it through, and it’s “owning the libs” when you’re executing on it.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
      11·
      2 days ago

      As long as you aren’t playing it down (I don’t think you are but not 100% sure) I’m with you. Historically, that’s how we got here.

      Still, it needs to be called out, every step of the way. The more such “troll legislation” passes - possibly unseen - the worse things get.

      Also, there’s no 3- or even more-D chess going on. MAGAGOP is just throwing shit at the wall, not too bothered if something doesn’t stick, but immediately ready to follow up if it does. So let’s make sure it doesn’t.

      • uuldika@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 days ago

        definitely not playing it down. the whole point of meme magic is that it shifts the Overton window so bills like these can actually pass. it’s a kind of “irony laundering.” they “troll” the Left, the Left raises alarm, the Right keks and calls us hysterical, the Center sees us as crying wolf and tunes us out. the Right pushes the “troll” legislation as far as they can because “it’s just a prank bro,” until we’re weakened enough they can actually pass it.

        it’s like how the Right goads us into calling them “fascists” because they’re literally being fascists, the Right gaslights saying we’re always calling everyone “fascists,” until fascism reenters the Overton window because the Center thinks “fascism” doesn’t mean anything anymore.

        honestly, the Left should have used this kind of meme magic back when Republicans were calling centrist Dems Socialists. if we’d used this strategy as well as the Right did we could be executing Billionaires by now.

    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
      26·
      2 days ago

      It won’t. Even if it did Walz would would veto it.

      Every single elected Nazi will probably vote for it, but they don’t have a majority and they are super upset about it.

  • Placebonickname@lemmy.world
    33·
    2 days ago

    U guys remember that scene in Schindler’s List where the little girl is screaming “Good bye you Jews!” To all the families as they are being marched off to a slave labor camp? Well this is how that sorta shit starts. Make the opposition the demon and get away with anything.

    • whodrankarnoldpalmer@startrek.websiteEnglish
      22·
      2 days ago

      This is indeed how that sorta shit starts.

      Worse, Americans also seem to have forgotten how to make that sort of shit end. Everyone agreed on what to do with Nazis 80 years ago.

      • Jerkface@lemmy.world
        31·
        2 days ago

        Everyone certainly did not agree. A very sizable segment of US citizens were Nazi sympathizers before and after WWII. Remember what it took for the United States to get involved in the war effort in the first place.

  • elatedCatfish@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    2 days ago

    This sounds like a great way to get a bunch of cops shot. Which is something they’re trying to push the death penalty for…

  • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    “Trump Derangement Syndrome” means the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies and presidencies of President Donald J. Trump. Symptoms may include Trump-induced general hysteria, which produces an inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology in President Donald J. Trump’s behavior. This may be expressed by: new text end new text begin (1) verbal expressions of intense hostility toward President Donald J. Trump; and new text end new text begin (2) overt acts of aggression and violence against anyone supporting President Donald J. Trump or anything that symbolizes President Donald J. Tru"

    Just in case you missed it

    • zephorah@lemm.eeOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      What’s intense hostility these days? “Eat the rich”?

      A meme post that involves suggestion of a Trump micro penis?

      There’s too much interpretation left in the wind with some of those phrases.

  • Azal@pawb.social
    26·
    2 days ago

    I saw on a conservative discussion group about making “TDS” (Trump Derangement Syndrom is what they’re calling it) an actual entry into psychiatric work. I was wondering where this was coming from.

    There it is.

  • ExhaleSmile@lemmy.world
    27·
    2 days ago

    Subd. 28. Trump Derangement Syndrome.

    “Trump Derangement Syndrome” means the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies and presidencies of President Donald J. Trump. Symptoms may include Trump-induced general hysteria, which produces an inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology in President Donald J. Trump’s behavior.

    • Wren@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      I always thought it was a mental condition suffered by those who lack the cognitive function it takes to not vote for a fascist dictator.