There’s a research study from 2025 that looked at men who killed their wives, and they were asked what tactics they used before the actual unaliving.
The perpetrators said that they isolated those women from their friends and family to create dependency. They gaslit those women until they doubted their own reality. They restricted their ability to work and earn money by making them stay at home. They interfered with their access to healthcare. Men built alliances with other men who would back their version of events, defend them, minimise concerns, or dismiss the woman if she ever tried to speak up.
From the outside, it doesn’t always look like “violence.” It looks like a difficult relationship and something people think a woman can just leave right?
The point is that it’s psychological. It’s slow, calculated, and designed to break a woman down piece by piece.
By the time it becomes physical, the groundwork has already been laid.
Be more specific.
He described abducting 18-year-old girls from their families in the dead of night, and how mean the families of the girls were to him while he did it.
Let me explain something to the MAGA crowd, because clearly someone needs to.
They seem to think NATO is cosmic room service. You pick up the phone, say “hello, we’re having a bit of a war here,” and thirty-one countries march to your rescue. A continental Uber for military adventures.
That is not how it works.
Article 5 is a mutual defense clause. The clue is in the word mutual. And it has been triggered exactly once in NATO’s entire history. After September 11. When America was attacked. Not Europe. America.
Every NATO member showed up. They went to Afghanistan. They fought. They bled. They died. In America’s war. On America’s behalf.
Now imagine they hadn’t.
Over 1,100 allied soldiers died in Afghanistan. British, Canadian, German, Danish, Polish. And yes, even Ukrainian soldiers, who had no NATO obligation whatsoever. Gone. Without them, those are American names on those graves. Sons from Ohio. Fathers from Georgia. Kids from Nebraska who never came home.
Then there is the money. NATO allies spent over 100 billion dollars on a war that started on American soil. Without that, Washington pays every cent. On top of the 2 to 3 trillion the war already cost.
And without allied bases across Europe and Central Asia, American supply lines collapse entirely. Without British forces in Helmand and Canadians in Kandahar, the Taliban reconstitutes in three years instead of ten. The gaps get filled one way. More American deployments. More American coffins arriving at Dover.
Afghanistan was bloody. But NATO took the hit. Without them, every single one of those casualties would have had an American name.
Trump called allies like these losers. Suckers.
If you are a certain kind of broken person, that probably makes sense to you. But for the rest of us, what those soldiers did has a different name. Honor. The bond between men who have been in the same dirt, under the same fire. Between Brits and Americans, Frenchmen and Norwegians, Canadians and Danes. Not a diplomatic relationship. A blood bond. Brotherhood forged in places most people will never see and cannot imagine.
In that culture, you do not mock a fallen ally. You do not sneer at the dead. It is the lowest thing a human being can do. Trump did it to a standing ovation.
If you are a MAGA supporter travelling to NATO countries, understand this. There are no friendly pats on the back waiting for you. No one will buy you a beer. The governments who share your worldview sit in Minsk, Moscow and Pyongyang. Brutal dictatorships where journalists disappear, elections are theatre and dissent is a medical condition treated in basements. Not London. Not Paris. Not Rome, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin or Ottawa.
You have abandoned the open societies, the free press, the rule of law, the places where people actually want to live. You traded the best of civilization for a very small, very dark room. Frankly, it serves you right.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
it takes people who care enough to raise awareness around things that are easier to misunderstand than to learn. things like autism, adhd and many other neurological differences that don’t announce themselves neatly or fit inside systems built to define “normal.”
i respect @orangecrushart and everyone involved for choosing to engage with that reality honestly and without chasing praise or turning it into internet exploitation.
with that said, i know there’s a wide neurological disability community watching. i’m not your role model because i’m willing to do very violent things to keep my GCW World Championship.
#VNDL48
Luigi Mangione faces the possibility of the death penalty, yet he is not allowed to meet privately with his attorneys. Additionally, his legal team has not received all the evidence, including basic police reports. Keep talking about Luigi!