Quote (Malopox @ Nov 10 2024 08:33am)
He was severely mentally ill, it wasn't anything specific to the election. He'd be exhibiting clear paranoid schizophrenic and fatalist behaviors for a long time and warning signs were all around.
Its just a sad consequence of our total inability to deal with basket cases. In old times people like him would get locked up, lobotomized or die in an accident. Nowadays they get held for 24-72 hours and bounced from involuntary commitments.
Its like the guy who has the Trump van plastered in images of Trump and mailed out pipe bombs. Dude was clearly off his rocker if you listened to him for even a minute, severe mental illness. Politics, like religion or various other hobbies and causes, can become an obsession that they latch onto because their personalities are already predisposed to fatalism and zealotry. To give some examples, the MN guy had posted;
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'My mental health and the world can no longer peacefully coexist, and a lot of the reason is religion,' he said in July.
'I am terrified of religious zealots inflicting their misguided beliefs on me and my family. I have intrusive thoughts of being burned at the stake as a witch, or crucified on a burning cross.
'Having people actually believe that I or my child are Satan or, the anti-Christ or whatever their favorite color of boogie man they are afraid are this week.'
He had also accused Republicans of 'making it harder for women to leave' domestic violence relationships, writing 'Gilead here we come.'