I'm not trying to diagnose Trump, because you need far more background, I'm not qualified and the presence of psychopathic traits, doesn't necessarily make someone a psychopath, they might be more of a narcissist. Nevertheless, these are objective observable traits. @DanCady
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My overall point, is that self-evidently, the current president of the United States has a worrying number (most) known, observable psychopathic traits. He lies constantly, never takes responsibility for anything, and he's criminally versatile, to list but a few.
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"some of whom have clashed with riot police and could be seen throwing objects at the police line. The group seem agitated, with lots of shouting and shoving."
I've yet to see a report of any far right rally, when they have not attacked the police.
But bizarrely arrests are always low, and the police never invoke the powers they have under protest legislation.
Yet the police make mass arrests of entirely peaceful climate activists and those protesting against genocide in Gaza.
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Bizarrely the far right makes false claims of 2-tier policing, and them being persecuted by the authorities, despite perpetrating violence, and making threats of violence, that have always been illegal. Not illegal under recent made up laws to make peaceful protest illegal.
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There is something very important to understand about the Charlie Kirk murder. All the evidence shows that he was killed by a disaffected* lone gun nut, acting on their own initiative, which happens every day in the US. It was not part of some coordinated political movement.
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Any attempt to blame it on the "radical left", Democrats or whatever, is an opportunistic, mendacious lie, of the type that the Nazis and other fascistic dictators use, to take violent action against their political opponents.
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In the US, because of their lax gun laws, almost every day, gun nuts go out and shoot other people, because of an incoherent personal grievance. Sometimes mass shootings. The victims can even be innocent young children.
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"Donald Trump blamed “the radical left” for the shooting and promised a crackdown"
The man who tried to shoot Donald Trump, was a registered Republican, and so was his family. This is Nazi style lying and hijacking of a murder for political reasons.
The biggest instigator of political violence, in America is Donald Trump. He instigated a violent attempted coup on 6 January, in which a police officer died, to overthrow a legitimate election result.
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Currently, Trump is instigating militaristic invasions of states and cities run by political rivals, on entirely false and made up grounds, to intimidate them. He did it in California, then Washington DC, and is now threatening it in Chicago.
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It's very dangerous, not just in the US with the Trump regime, but with US influenced Western governments around the world, that are now absolutely denying reality, from the climate crisis, to the genocide in Gaza. A really dangerous turn.
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If governments refuse to accept such obvious truths and reality, there is nothing they can't deny or say.
The denial of the veracity of this letter is ridiculous, as it predates the first arrest and conviction of Epstein, and when Trump still openly socialised with Epstein.
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I'll briefly explain what I'm attempting to do. We face several serious crises. The climate and ecological crisis. A social justice crisis and the creeping control of us and our societies, by a powerful clique of billionaires and corporate interests. All this is interlinked.
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All this is putting our societies on a catastrophic course, where the powerful vested interests I mention, try to mislead us about the situation we are in, so they can exploit us and accumulate far more wealth from our exploitation.
It is not in the interests of billionaires and corporate interests, for the people, the public, to know, how much danger they are in because of the climate crisis, because the burning of fossil fuels are a key part of how the very rich, increase their wealth.
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So it can't be claimed that I have misquoted what @jasonhickel said during that interview with @AaronBastani, I took the trouble to carefully transcribe what he said from the YouTube closed captions.
"You have some climate scientists like Kevin Anderson, one of the UK's most prominent climate scientists uh who routinely says 3 degrees is not compatible with organized human civilization as we know it. Now, that doesn't mean that there is going to be mass deaths. ..."
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"... I think that's an unlikely scenario, but um it does mean that a lot of the things we take for granted about the organization of society, would not be feasible in such a world. So it's kind of a different sort of planet."