The way I think it’ll happen to me - involuntary institutionalization in a psychiatric hospital. You are right in that the mental health angle will be easiest to pursue, especially in coordination with defunding/purging SAMHSA under RFK Jr’s rule.
Categorizing inconvenient people as mentally ill so you can lock them up is a common trick for authoritarian regimes. This one seems worryingly plausible.
I went (voluntarily) inpatient a few months ago. I was physically assaulted, forced into a women’s, and denied any communication with the outside world. There are supposed to be state regulations where you can speak to a patient advocate or call out - they refused to let me. They actually threatened to hold me longer if I kept asking (they said they could do up to five days, or longer across a weekend).
Behavioral tech jobs are terrible, but easy to get. If your job desperate and physically built a bit more, you can be a first line of defense here. It’s such a shit job that working a week or two and being a whistle blower/getting fired isn’t the end of the world.
The place I was at let the tech have her phone at on the floor even. I don’t think HIPAA is being enforced actively, and the actual moral weight behind that law would need to guide one’s actions, but… there’s not a lot of ways to demonstrate the routine and inappropriate application of the “booty juice.”
The way I think it’ll happen to me - involuntary institutionalization in a psychiatric hospital. You are right in that the mental health angle will be easiest to pursue, especially in coordination with defunding/purging SAMHSA under RFK Jr’s rule.
Categorizing inconvenient people as mentally ill so you can lock them up is a common trick for authoritarian regimes. This one seems worryingly plausible.
I went (voluntarily) inpatient a few months ago. I was physically assaulted, forced into a women’s, and denied any communication with the outside world. There are supposed to be state regulations where you can speak to a patient advocate or call out - they refused to let me. They actually threatened to hold me longer if I kept asking (they said they could do up to five days, or longer across a weekend).
The system is already set up where I live.
Sounds like we need to add every one of those locations to a map. Be ready folks.
Idle thought -
Behavioral tech jobs are terrible, but easy to get. If your job desperate and physically built a bit more, you can be a first line of defense here. It’s such a shit job that working a week or two and being a whistle blower/getting fired isn’t the end of the world.
The place I was at let the tech have her phone at on the floor even. I don’t think HIPAA is being enforced actively, and the actual moral weight behind that law would need to guide one’s actions, but… there’s not a lot of ways to demonstrate the routine and inappropriate application of the “booty juice.”
I hate that this is even a plausible future. Good luck out there, friend.