• Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Conservatives are shooting conservatives now, so I guess I better vote conservative for being so brave by standing up to conservatives.

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          We already know he was a conservative voter, there’s no need to pile on any other mental illness diagnoses

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          5 months ago

          Kids are also just ridiculously vulnerable to radical ideologies. It’s entirely possible this guy thought Trump wasn’t extreme enough.

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            I’ve always said that if the wrong person love bombed me at exactly the right moment in my life I could have easily been part of a cult. 20 year old me needed a fucking hug and would have worshipped Marmaduke or whatever to get one. Even in my 30s at exactly the wrong moment I could have gotten sucked into some fucked up shit because my life had several extremely negative things happen all at once.

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              That’s me right now, in my early 30s and the last 14 months has just been a non stop onslaught of bad. I have to rebuild my social circle from the ground up. Doing my best not to get into anything I’ll regret later

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                Keep your chin up. You’re absolutely not alone. By the sounds of it part of what you are going through is part of what I went through.

                I’ll say it ain’t easy, but after I did come out of it (only one largeish regret!) things ended up better than ever. It took a lot of effort and more luck than I’m willing to admit but it was so worth it.

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            I’m just pointing out a truth about the disease. If you have ever witnessed someone change almost overnight at that age, it’s a possibility an undiagnosed illness is revealing itself. People do some whacked out shit, especially if they are intelligent.

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            There’s always some mental health issues with something like this. The very concept of killing someone and knowing you’re going to die as a result requires an altered mental state.

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              I wouldn’t say so in every situation. I’m sure plenty parents would say they would die to defend their kid, and I don’t think that would quality for an altered mental state.

              I mostly do agree though, but I do think you can sacrifice yourself as a rational and mentally healthy person. But it certainly not a choice that hypothetical person would make lightly.

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                Well yeah, the whole greater love thing. This doesn’t strike me as such a situation though…

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        5 months ago

        He’s a law-and-order conservative: there was nothing criminal about Trump’s failed coup d’état

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          And Thomas Matthew Crooks was just a peaceful tourist doing peaceful touristy things, just like all the Jan6 rioters peaceful tourists - I think I’m getting the hang of this.

          Like Pence almost did :)