@kryptogal Oh I've never doubted it, I didn't even have to read the article. Brexit and Boris Johnson works for Putin just like MAGA and Trump worked for Putin until they didn't anymore. If UK and US are on his side, Europe and NATO become nothing but peanuts.
I took photos and got 3 churches reported to the IRS today to have their tax-exempt status revoked due to their posting political signs on their property. Trying to get my rights taken away. I think Newton had some comments on that about an equal and opposite reaction.
@scribecheck@usagi_matto THIS. It's not even just the consequences are hypothetical to them. The idea that other people have "rights" is merely hypothetical to them, too. I was literally told this the other day by such a person.
@SteveJohnsonTFP @indyfromspace He was/is having a bipolar manic episode as evidenced by his writings. Diagnosis, meds, and/or therapy could have prevented this episode from becoming what it did. Trumpism took hold of an already weakened mind and impulse control system.
@themoosespeaks @indyfromspace I think the causation is in the bipolar manic episode the shooter was clearly in the apex of, which you can see in his writings - delusions of grandeur, prophetic purpose. Earlier I.D. of the problem could have prevented the episode (meds, therapy). Cultism got to it first.
@FascismResister I started a lengthy and productive discussion on fb, calling in my international friends to tell us what the problem is from the outside. I suggested the mental part; they insisted on the gun part. I conceded and they led the rest from there. Same person saw the whole thing lol.
Me: that shooter has a clinical mental illness
Dummies: how dare you NOT rail about American gun fetishization and how it's all the fault of white men, you and your country are g*rb*ge and how do you explain every other shooting ever in its history huh
Me: I saw a bison today
@FascismResister My other interest in these shooters is bullying and suicide. I say "let's look younger, and be better role models, a better world they'll want to live in instead of bailing out in a mass-murder-suicide-by-cop" and I get laughed at for that, too. Shoulda started 30 years ago tho.
@FascismResister 100% agree, and thanks for the stat, where does it come from? I would have ended up there in the original convo, but this person couldn't handle me starting with "here's one example that we could have prevented with earlier identification" when they had other focus, ha.
@DavidSRobinson1@spamandjelly@jonw0224@LPNational@LPGeorgia I'm out, btw. Tell your fascist guy that I blocked that, for the record? I've been openly FOR his gun rights and his right to remain unvaccinated. He's no Libertarian. A real one would be for these AND for abortion and birth control access rights.
@spamandjelly@DavidSRobinson1@jonw0224@LPNational@LPGeorgia People who ARE NOT PREGNANT, I should clarify, have been denied rx's because the med poses a risk to a fetus. Not even birth control rx's, just regular meds for a range of conditions. Nice to know you don't see fascism when it's all around you.
@spamandjelly@DavidSRobinson1@jonw0224@LPNational@LPGeorgia Since Roe was overturned, people in various states have been immediately denied their various rx's which pose a miscarriage risk to a fetus. You are stunning my dude, truly stunning, as an example of an uninformed voter.
@iputahexonyou Anyone who never learned about Cassandra as a child is having a really hard time existing in the ignorant reality we live in right now, guaranteed. And those who did are, too.
@spamandjelly@DavidSRobinson1@jonw0224@LPNational@LPGeorgia I did, you ignorant pineapple. The Supreme Court hasn't yet overturned the protection of my right to birth control, and if/when they do, THEN the legislation comes. Oxford would never have let YOU in, chum.