Activities that are harmful to yourself and your surroundings are a form of not functioning.
Being poor and voting Trump is a form of self harm.
Disowning family and friends for being LGBT is a form of not functioning.
Believing prosperity gospel and donating to a church is a form of self harm, and failure to address problems properly.
Believing death is not that important because there’s a way better afterlife is outright insane, and a huge potential cause for self harm.
Except seeing how religious people who claim to believe that, are whining when they are about to die, proves they don’t really believe it.
It is very obvious that a belief system based on delusions is harmful when followed. The “Thoughts and prayers” idea is an obvious example, it allows people to do nothing about a problem with a good conscience.
And as we can see in American society, the delusional mindset is absolutely extremely harmful to American society.

The cog wheel may be turning, but it is broken so it does damage to itself and the cogwheels it is connected to with every turn it takes.

The only reason strongly religious people may appear to be functioning, is that for some reason that form of insanity is accepted by the majority, and because of that, so are the harmful effects of it.

Nope, she is literally insane. And religion is based on delusions, so that’s insanity too.

If you are delusional to a degree that it is preventing you to function in your daily life, that is absolutely mental disease. Per definition.

You are absolutely right, USA is extremely authoritarian in many ways, towards children including their own, in all sorts of institutions. It is very much based on the might makes right mentality. The economic thinking is of course different with free market. But the authoritarian mindset is much like Stalinism.

That’s very hard to make a short response to. I like it here, and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
I find myself privileged to live here, although other places can have advantages in better climate, cheaper high quality food, and warmer personalities.
But here people are more “real” than most places, we don’t do fake praising or other fake behavior as much as most cultures. I like that, but for foreigners it can be difficult.

I disagree, most people that are religious, are brought up with religion. Their ability for rational thought is compromised from childhood.

It’s the opposite here (Denmark), we have clean drinking water in the entire country, but I’ve been hearing about efforts to reduce water consumption and preserving the natural resources for instance regulating agriculture as far back as I can remember, which is back to the 70’s.
Our governments have been on top of this all the way through (mostly the left), and water is very cheap, so we have a tax on water to prevent people from using it mindlessly.

Lol hadn’t noticed my typo.
I’m leaving it to not ruin the joke. 😋

Religion is a form of insanity, but I think she would have managed to be insane without religion.

Religion is based on delusions without evidence, and the beliefs and practices are harmful to both individuals and society.
Ergo there is little difference between being religious to other forms of metal diseases.

Edit:
-mental diseases 🤣

I agree with MAGA it has become worse, especially with regard to immigrants and minorities.
And with MAGA it has become utterly unashamed.
But sociopathy has been a virtue in USA for decades, because It’s the ultimate expression of freedom.
And Americans consider individual freedom to be above everything else, even health and well being.

The Three strikes law is a clear example of this sociopathic mentality against fellow citizens.
Another clear example is the lack of healthcare for all, despite experience from other countries show it’s actually cheaper. These things date back to way way before MAGA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law

The first true “three-strikes” law was passed in 1993

Yes.

No it’s not just MAGA because this started happening way way way before MAGA was a thing.

Trump is delusional and thinks he can bend reality to what he wants to be real.
This type of delusional thinking is very typical in USA, based on the idea that if you want it enough you can make it.
This mantra has become so pervasive that some have begun to believe that you don’t even have to do anything to achieve what you want. If the wanting is strong enough, reality will bend to your will.
This is what happens in an anti science society where the mentality is driven by religion and superstition combined with desperation and a wish for ultimate freedom.
The idea is spread for instance through numerous self help books and prosperity gospel.

USA is a society that has gone collectively insane.

PS:
That doesn’t mean every American is insane, but as a whole American society is de facto insane. It’s obvious to see everyday in the news.

India is a democratic country, but unfortunately like Trump Modi isn’t behaving like the leader of a democratic country.
USA is nr. 36 on that list, behind almost every single European country.
The 3 top countries are Asian: Singapore, South Korea, Japan. Suck it Scandinavian countries. 😋

It’s all fun and games until it becomes a corporation.

Because obviously a corporation isn’t about cooperating, but the top exploiting the bottom.

Probably like Melania is as much a narcissist as Trump, Usha is as much sociopath as JD Vance.
The really weird thing is how JD Vance imagines he would ever go to heaven?

Mississippi’s prisons are worse by no small magnitude compared to other usa states

Still apparently legal under American federal law, last I checked Mississippi is part of USA. And federal law in USA doesn’t protect human rights very well, which is very contrary to EU.
So even if AfD becomes part of a coalition government in Germany, they have to observe human rights under EU regulation.
As I mentioned many aren’t even aware how bad it is in USA, and you seem to be one of them if you are American.

White House is now House of White Power.

It’s hard to be the antichrist without christianity.