Who wants to bet the Cyber truck exploding at Trump Tower Vegas is Muslim related?

Originally posted by: MaxFlavor

Well, it turns out the guy voted for Trump, according to his family, and also was a Tesla fan.  Serving in the military caused mental problems including PTSD, that he delayed getting treatment for. Since MAGA believes all Muslims are evil is this proof that all MAGA folks have mental issues and that's why they idolize a con man?

 

Did the guy in New Orleans have mental problems that caused his radicalization or was it because he had a Muslim name?

 

I look forward to your thoughts, MAGA folks, let's see what kind of "pretzel logic" you need to explain this to me.

 

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MAGA is in and of itself a mental illness, and treatable. But as with all mental illness, the patient has to first admit that he has a problem.

 

Being proud to be a MAGA is like being proud to be a sociopath.

It's probably errant to affilliate any of these two noteworthy recent acts of violence (NOLA and LAS) to anything other than mental illnesses; PTSD, depression, anxiety, and other unknown mental conditions. These guys were nut jobs in the end. Let's face facts that these guys actions likely had little to do with their political, religious, and sociocultural ideologies when the real issues were due to mental disease. Even radicalized members of most political, religious, and/or extreme cultural persuasions  don't as a group drive vehicles through crowds or blow themselves up and plant explosives. Sure, the most extreme reps of those groups can and do commit random acts of insane violence on occasion; I'd just offer that those extremists including these two individuals are mentally around the bend rather than members of Muslim, Christian, Republican, Democrat, or MAGA faiths as the primary causative factors behind their actions.

 

We all might occasionally entertain images of busting kneecaps, sending people off a cliff, hanging a neighbor, wreaking havoc through violent acts; but the great grand majority of people don't act on it. Acting on it signals insanity /mental illness. Massive difference.

Edited on Jan 5, 2025 12:12pm

I wish I could agree with you, and it's tempting to think that attempting or committing one of these horrific acts is ipso facto proof of insanity. I don't think that's necessarily so, though. Such a person could a) be inured to violence, for example having served in the military, b) be prone to angry outbursts (not in and if itself a mental condition), and c) have recently experienced some trauma or misfortune. Otherwise, perfectly sane.

 

We do have a culture that glorifies violence and all too often, touts it as the solution to all problems. And of course, we just elected someone who is a convicted rapist and has on several occasions, fantasized aloud about shooting people. So obviously, such imagery doesn't bother us.

 

 

Edited on Jan 5, 2025 12:47pm
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