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.

    • badelf@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      You’re not scared because your great grandmother wasn’t thrown out a 4th floor window by Nazis. You really don’t understand a dictatorship, do you?

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        My grandmother was a German citizen. My blood runs deep and I fully understand how you put these people in their place.

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          15 hours ago

          To be clear, screaming on rooftops didn’t put the nazis in their place, communists with guns did.

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              14 hours ago

              It is an observation of historical facts, I am not prescribing any particular action.

              Running in the woods and trying to wage a protracted people’s war against the local police didn’t put the nazis in their place either, so who exactly would I be calling to arms?