To be less snarky, there is a location in the escalation before the weapon comes out in which some kind of similar distraction might reduce the temperature.

“You staring a my girl?” Not that you were but you glanced in that direction and they guy was looking for a fight.

“I thought she was Lydia Anderson, went to high school with her.”

Can’t hurt, but long before anybody’s going to call for mental health distraction professionals.

We are moving into a new version of “1984” written by Franz Kafka.

One of the original excuses for allowing transgender students to use the bathrooms of their claimed gender (not their biological sex) was the alleged discomfort they felt because of the discrimination that they were experiencing by being allowed to use the bathrooms at a nurse’s office, or even staff facilities.

IOW, instead of the trans persons being on some kind of private list (too few to have a register, and certainly not filling out a mental health form), now the greater number of distressed persons have to do that.

https://www.declassified.live/p/the-george-floyd-ing-of-kilmar-garcia?

The flipside

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/08/the-week-in-pictures-societal-suicide-edition.php

Thanks for the quotes above. I guess if I thought more about Mamdami in terms of 1984, I would have caught on to the “community intervention” as a method to declare anyone who disagrees with the government as “mentally incompetent”. Not only did Orwell point this out, but we’ve seen it in action in the Soviet Union and in China. Classic Marxist ploy.

https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/toc-ready-room-14-august-2025-gaza-et-al-russian-missiles-perspectives-on-qatar-iran-mental-health-more/

I’ll conclude with some comments I assembled based on a report of Zohran Mamdani’s plan to reduce funds for police in favor of “intervention” teams for the community. The intervention agents would not be sworn officers, bound by the state and U.S. constitutions, but would be sent in a twilight zone of poorly-defined authority and powers to “intervene” in, precisely, instances of mental unwellness (e.g., emotionally disturbed persons) as well as domestic conflict, potential child endangerment, and so forth.

It merits mention that Mamdani’s plan for a “Community Safety” department with the police, focused on “mental health,” is a classic move of aspiring collectivism. The more it’s empowered – without the lawful limitations of sworn-officer policing – the more community safety will be enlarged to make more things a matter of “mental health.”

Complaints about deficiencies of mental health in the public would increasingly be coming for everyone. Having the police department operating in a twilight zone as regards the lawful obligations of sworn officers would facilitate that. “Defunding the police” has, from the beginning, been about setting non-sworn officers loose on the public, and thereby fudging the boundaries of law that the sworn-officer police are not allowed to transgress. “Community safety” would create a pipeline through which constitutional rights could be violated in the name of mental health as a menace to community safety.

Mamdani has mirrored the attitudes of Marxist-Leninism closely enough that this shouldn’t be ignored. In the last century, use of declarations against mental health was a tool rampant in the toolkit of successful communist/socialist takeovers. Many dissident Christians and Jews in communist nations had mental health judgments issued against them to give dictatorial governments excuses for mistreatment. [The same was true of others, like gays, opposition politicians, and academics simply exercising freedom of thought. – J.E.]

This is not a light matter. It contains the basis for falsely making a whole lot of people “mental health” cases in order to limit their rights and control them, through a process that never has to reach an auditable conclusion.

Her observations on the other topics are, as always, worth reading, although not everyone will be interested in the full menu.

One caveat: the post was written before the latest murder by the clearly mentally ill trans shooter, so a few of her comments in re gun control are out of date.

I’ve written before, though it’s been quite a while, about attempts to leverage mental-health premises and the proposal for mandates to categorically limit the right to bear arms. The effort is not to identify individuals on the presumption that such a designation requires rigorous standards, applied individually, and the protection of rights is the goal to deviate from. Rather, it’s to declare “guns” a mental-health issue and an inherent threat to society on that basis, and normalize declaring whole categories of people ineligible to own firearms, and classify them prejudicially for that purpose.

Hardly anyone poses that risk to society. There’s no demographic class whose propensity justifies this kind of use. If any nation on earth demonstrated that, it would be the United States, where gun ownership is pervasive throughout society, yet hardly any gun-involved injuries or deaths are due to mental health pathologies.

The mental health related killings are still a very minor fraction of the whole, and the vast majority of gun-related injuries are still accidents and suicides, but the mass murders get more attention in the press, even if the Regime Media refuses to acknowledge the causes.