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      i-am-adolf-hitler We’re raising awareness of Mental Health problems!

      soviet-hmm That’s great! Improved healthcare will be a huge boon for mentally ill people!

      i-am-adolf-hitler Now that people are aware of Mental Health we’re going to weaponize broader public awareness to blame all the crazies for societal problems.

      ohnoes Fuck.

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        The one single time public outcried (even one bishop joined) in III Reich at the cruel policy was the extermination of people deemed mentally ill. Hitler even listened and ordered to pause the action… after nearly every one of potential victims were dead. And this outcry only even happened in the first place because the victims were overwhelmingly German.

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      Seriously, it’s plain as day with a material analysis. The material conditions for the working class aren’t improving either way, but the party with red hats have a (wrong) solution, to blame immigrants and the gays. People falling for fascist rhetoric are miseducated (yay American education system), disillusioned and desperate. A competent and well meaning political party could turn that anguish and contempt for the status quo into results, but Dems are neither of those things. In the end, they also serve capital.

      To meaningfully reform healthcare is to make workers less desperate, it will allow disgruntled and abused workers to leave their workplace and therefore dilute the power of the employers and to take away from the pharmaceutical companies. To meaningfully push through higher wages is to take away from capitalists at large. To meaningfully reform housing is to take away from landlords. To meaningfully reform prisons is to take away from the private prison industry. To meaningfully stop the genocide in Gaza is to take away from the Military Industrial Complex. They’ll promise and pay lip service to those things but will never meaningfully change them.

      They are not well meaning. One of the few aspects in which they are better is abortion and they fumbled that so hard, because they’re also incompetent.

      But no, to the diehard libs, it’s because half the country are mentally ill. That’s the only explanation.

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    Yes my life is more important than Palestinians

    Push a liberal hard enough and you will see the black hole of racism at their center turn into a hypergiant in real time

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      They think they’re prepared or desensitized because every week theres a mass shooting. Some sickening machismo in there. But they have no idea what these other people really go through.

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        10000% agreed. They don’t understand the neverending string of holocausts after holocausts the west inflicts particularly on Muslims, indigenous peoples (and what they back against those in Latin America is even worse than in the north, too- full on death squads), upon Africa, what they have inflicted in living memory (60s, 70s, 80s) and want to return to inflicting on east and southeast and south Asia.

        I must admit, while it would be terrible and things should not go that far (unless it’s MAD, then let the punishment of the heavens spew radioactive shit all over the Great Satan), if only they knew what it’s like. YanKKKeestan and the west will either have to learn empathy or the rest of humanity will inevitably be driven to the point of wiping them out in complete and utter self-defense.

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          I will keep reiterating the devastation they’ve bought upon iraq in the 90s cannot be understated. When I listened to the episode on blowback I had no idea that many children were affected.

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            Yeah. Radio War Nerd, whenever they discuss famines or AMerican style total war, emphasize that it’s kids who starve first, kids who get sick first, and kids who survive severe malnutrition or illness often suffer serious developmental problems that result in lifelong harms and burdens. Shit’s fucked. What the US and Israel are doing, and what the US did/is doing in Yemen, are calculated to massacre children and permanently injure the survivors.

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          I pray for it. I genuinely pray I get to see these crackers vindicate every last word of Malcolm’s that they haven’t yet already. These crackers are not my countrymen, ain’t a single fuck I give what happens to them. I just hope it’s loud, fiery, and traumatic for them.

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    NGL, this week is probably the closest I have ever been to sympathizing with 2016 Trump voters who voted for him to “make the libs mad.”

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      I get the feeling you’re by far not the only one.

      Harris is so annoying it’s unreal. I don’t think Hilldawg ever came close to this level.

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      Honestly it’s pretty common for me, particularly after Gaza (but before since Biden as well). At the very least the out-and-comparatively-““honest”” fascists tend to believe on some level what they do. Libs know and embrace or deny exactly how vile they are, I have infinitely more hatred for them as a result now that they’re all going on their usual high horse about yellow peril (strike 1), Russian “orcs” (strike 2), and then supporting genocide regardless of how much they try to shrug and wash their hands of the matter (strike 3, 4, 5, and onwards)

      If shit were ever to go down with me in it (would ideally gtfo) I would rest… easier anyways, so long as the libs get theirs, what they support and advocate for, in full as well. Legit if I were to vote for anyone out of spite (as I have absolutely nil belief in electoralism) these past few years it’ll be literally anyone other than libs, I’d even support an ““honest”” fascist over them (though I wouldn’t support a fascist or a lib- not that there’s a difference- ever, plain and simple).

      All they need to do is stop the genocide. They won’t do that, we all know they won’t do that. Might veer into some dangerous places saying this but such behavior is real- well, they might be human beings but they sure as hell ain’t the same as the rest of humanity in their actions and I’d stick to that and act accordingly

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        I mean ya they might biologically be human, but mentally whatever is going on be it something broken when they were born, or just something that developed over time due to their twisted worldview is fucked up in there. They have no empathy, no compassion, no morals. If Aliens showed up i would rush to meet one so i could try to explain that we all arent like these monsters and not to judge us as a species based on their evil. In reality most of the like base of support are just brainwashed people who dont really know what we as leftists know, but still have empathy and compassion. Thats even true for a good chunk of like fascist supporters too. They could be fixed if you just like got them to listen and explained things to them. Altho that would be hard. But many of these leaders and more committed libs know everything we know and actively choose to be evil. Those people arent savable. The only cure for that is to imprison them, fight them, and make sure they have no power in this world to hurt others with.

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      I look at it as a broken clock moment. I keep telling myself to not forget that those are the vanguard of fascism in this country; but… Goddamn they have precisely one good point about these gladhanding neoliberal compradors. Heartbreaking.

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      It was my birthday last week and I was out of the country. I was having a shitty day and one of the Harris phone bankers called me. I kept telling them now is absolutely not a good time and they kept talking over me.

      I hate yelling at people over the phone but I was not having it; it’s become so fucking common to try to talk over people now. I hate it. Always like to play victim too when someone doesn’t deal with their shitty behavior either 🙄

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    Emotionally what it boils down to is that they’re mad Palestinians in the middle of their genocide dared to interrupt and spoil their favorite political sport

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    yeah ive seen them angrily reverting into genocide support for a variety of reasons when pressed. mlk was right.

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      Malcolm was right.

      “The white conservatives aren’t friends of the Negro either, but they at least don’t try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the “smiling” fox.”

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    and not depend on other people

    Like the Zionists depend on amerikkka?

    This person not only is a rightwing nationalist little whiner, but also is too slavishly pignorant to have awareness of why there is struggle in and about the US specifically over it.