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countersignal:

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alternaterealitygame:

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lovessevy:

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the-phandom:

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it gets worse

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I have bipolar and I laughed.

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Me too.

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This is stupid not only because of the schoolmarm/whitecloak mentality \u2014 we, the righteous, must protect the fragile little ones who are incapable of interacting with the world without our righteous protection, and we must do so by curbstomping everyone else, those filthy, disgusting shitlords who aren\u2019t as righteous as us \u2014 but also because it\u2019s completely historically illiterate. Lithiated beverages were widely sold for this exact purpose until they were banned a few years after the end of WW2.

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But, that\u2019s right, history doesn\u2019t real and cultural memory is shitlord shit that ought to be torn down and destroyed, the better to let the whitecloaks reprogram everyone they don\u2019t feel like killing.

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Invoke tradition of mineral springs as cure-all (Lithia Springs, GA; Lithia Springs in Ashland, OR)

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Invoke tradition of \u201cwater cure\u201d sanitariums as cure-all

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Invoke vitamins (\u201cvital minerals\u201d) and 19th century nutrition science

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Invoke American mythology of elemental salts as mind control/public hygiene (fluoridated water; sulfur as anti-aphrodisiac in army food, lithium as public water additive?)

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Invoke \u201crehab centers\u201d as successor idiom to water-cure sanitariums and mineral springs as cure-all

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