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      Fuck. Here they come with their annoying facts. Don’t ya hate when that gets in the way your support for western expansionism?

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        ah yes, support for western expansionism, which is why the op comic doesn’t criticize the US at all

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          Supporting a Democrat-led expansionist proxy war causes the criticism of Republican-led expansionism to fall flat. But that’s actually a pretty great representation of the fickle morality of liberals, so maybe I’m being too harsh.

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            or, people who oppose these also opposed biden’s expansionism and you’re just strawmanning… I guess we’ll never know.

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              This isn’t a strawman. The Putin reference in the comic is a straightforward support for Biden’s narrative to justify the proxy war.

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                There didn’t need to be U.S. political justification for U.S. to support Ukraine. U.S. supported a democratic nation getting invaded by an authoritarian nation… as it should ALWAYS do. That’s one of the things that makes it the shining beacon on the hill.

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                  The US overthrew their government in the 2014 Maidan Coup, and installed a far-right puppet regime to fight their proxy war.

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    Too many fellow Canadians forget that we share a contested maritime with Russia. All this make Canada American shit seems to be Trump and Putin trying to spit roast Canada and take the land.

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    Canada and Greenland, sure! Those are big boy US states…51st and 52nd states.

    I’m thinking here, I’m calling Cuba! I call Cuba!

    Nobody wants Cuba, so I’m Calling Cuba Jerry! Im calling it!

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    Dismissing them as “crazy” isn’t only ableist, it’s also counterproductive - they are literally some of the most powerful men on the planet, and they will keep doing everything within their means to achieve those goals, and worse, unless they are opposed.

    All in all, a shit take.

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        Mentally ill people are significantly more likely to be the victims of violence and abuse than the perpetrators of it, and it isn’t mental illness that causes bigotry nor the exploitation and destruction of others for profit, it’s privilege, entitlement, unimaginable wealth, and an entire systemic framework of capitalism, white supremacy and so on.

        Stop scapegoating mental illness and furthering the stigma against an already marginalised group of people (or since you don’t seem to care about that - giving dictators an out from accountability for their actions) because that’s easier for you than to critically think about the well established structures and systems that allow and even encourage exploiting and harming others.

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          Okay, but they ARE mentally ill and we can all plainly see it. Or at least, those of us who live with illness every day can plainly see it. Not only that, but the details of their pathologies are fucking relevant to all of our lives.

          Mentally ill people are more likely to be the victims of violence and abuse, but the children of mentally ill people are tremendously more likely to experience violence, abuse, and neglect. And we are all the children of these fuckers right now. It’s not an analogy, it’s not a metaphor, and it not an ad hominem to draw attention to their pathologies. They genuinely need to be treated like dangerously disturbed people, because that is what they are.