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It's not about republicans, it's about mental health.
Also when mental health problems' reception in the society marginalizes you, you tend to seek for cults\sects and other such kinds of feeling of belonging to something without it being personal (because personal contacts are where your trauma is).
I didn't read the article, but suspect he also lived with his father at that age.
LMAO
What? Does anything of what I said require reading it? Use your head for a difference
Participation in a discussion requires your due diligence to at least familiarize yourself with the topic.
I think I've addressed that and you are playing dumb.
No, it's about repoublicans. Trump specifically.
Wild guess with no backing in the article at all
Cool guess, but you could also have read the article.
Just shooting wild guesses and opinions under a very problematic topic helps noone and is lazy at best.
Do you remember when those couple people tortured a developmentally disabled guy on camera because he liked Trump? Probably not.
I don't like Trump but there are definitely crazies everywhere. I think dehumanizing people with different opinions about how to create a healthy society is the dangerous thing. Saying the other side are all monsters tends to turn people with mental illness into monster hunters.
well, the people you are trying to defend have absolutely no problem at all with dehumanizing you.
Tolerating intolerance leads to more intolerance.
There will always be bad things on both sides. But one of the current sides we are talking about is doing the most harm. Spoiler: its the trumpets.
It's not a guess, it's a dependency connected to the wider subject.
It's not about the article.
My guesses and opinions are definitely better than those of apes throwing their own shit at another bunch of apes with weird red headwear.
Dunno, didn't read your comment
I wasn't answering the article, you moron. And you were answering my comment.
Why are morons like you always so confident of being able to do irony?
He didn't read it because he can't read, be nice.
Damn, i am sorry. Anal phabets are really bad in life.
Republicans are actively making it as hard as possible to receive help for or pro actively address mental health issues. They also actively shame people for such problems and want them to just shut up about it. So no, Republicans definitely bear quite a lot of guilt for such "tragedies"!
I was answering an opinion about republicans being more likely to cut off heads and spew stuff about immigrants destroying Murrica (because they all are secretly tribesmen with pipe and feathers hidden somewhere safe).
What you say is orthogonal to that.
Yeah, surely they do.
How so? The primary audience for violent propaganda are republicans. The worst you can find on the democrat/left side are people saying you should beat up Nazis. And even that is hardly done by "official" news channels.
So yeah, currently fanatic republicans are a lot more likely to commit murder than anyone on the other side. Their fetishisation of guns to "defend them self" against the government alone makes sure of that.
I think we should measure this both in periods when relative dominance is held by Democrats and when it is held by Republicans.
They feel themselves marginalized and act more aggressively.
I actually like that little thing, when it's presented like in Heinlein's books.
OK, the same was still true under Trump. Both sides aren't the same.
I haven't said they are the same. But I remember calls for military takeover.
From democrats? When?
Somewhere about Trump's election.