• @Maggoty
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      114 months ago

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

      • @TexasDrunk
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        114 months ago

        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.

        • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
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          54 months ago

          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

          • @TexasDrunk
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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.

    • JJROKCZ
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      114 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      34 months ago

      I dunno if I like jumping to mental illness as an explanation for this in reinforcing established and disproven stereotypes

      • @[email protected]
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        24 months ago

        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.

      • @Maggoty
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        24 months ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          34 months ago

          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.

          • @Maggoty
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            14 months ago

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