• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    By comparison with a world in which the major superpower can’t muster a candidate who opposes genocide? Yeah, the world is way sicker than this guy was.

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      2 months ago

      I’m not nor was I comparing it to anything. If you self immolate, that’s a very strong indicator you’re not mentally well. Again, I agree with their cause but it’s really weird to imply they were mentally healthy when they decided to light themselves on fire and die horrifically

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          Wow, that’s some deep thought, there, R D Laing. What if we’re the crazy ones?

          People close to me have schizophrenia. It’s as much a disease as cancer is. If you don’t believe that, you’ve never experienced it up close, or you have an inability to learn from direct experience.

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            2 months ago

            People close to me have schizophrenia.

            Same. I don’t use their illness as an excuse to ignore atrocities.