Look, I grew up in a seriously abusive household which caused me constant psychological distress and I can relate to hearing the key in the front door being the "Oh shit, here it comes... I wonder what shit is going to come down on me today" feeling.

What I cannot tolerate is the idea that this is in any way close to what the US and its shitbag allies inflicted upon Afghanistan.

Does this person seriously believe that the counterinsurgency work, the rampant human rights abuses, the kidnapping and literal torture, the fucking war for God's sake, etc. inflicted by the NATO axis upon Afghanistan is in any way comparable to an abusive household?

Do they think that the issues of domestic violence didn't occur in Afghanistan during the war and the occupation, like they were somehow put on pause, rather than the war and occupation compounding the trauma that abused children in Afghanistan faced and continue to face today as a consequence of the war?

Have they no idea how domestic violence rates increase as a direct result from war and occupation? Or do they just have no compassion for other victims of abuse?

Did their psychologically abusive father happen to use depleted uranium weapons on them, for fuck's sake?

This is just gross and a classic case of a victim not only appropriating the trauma of other survivors but using that appropriation to silence the very victims whose trauma they are appropriating and they should be disgusted in themselves for doing this, if they had any capacity for humility or shame.

I had a similar childhood, but this is a ridiculous take. If you're projecting your trauma onto strangers, you might want to switch your focus into therapy and not politics, that's just not healthy

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Thatcher's "there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families" worked for killing unions so why not stretch it to justifying imperialism?

I wonder if this person got their dream of a president who never raises their voice. Someone should find out.

Personally a big fan of the three-quarters measure myself.

I don't even watch Breaking Bad and this bit gets me every time

Just as a clarification, our hatred of liberals is not the same as that of right-wingers. We hate capitalist ideology, not "wokeness" or something nonsensical like that. We are the exact people conservatives are trying to shit on when they say that.

The only people with bad experiences of hexbear are bigots and ideologically committed neoliberals.

we're very active and have an anti-lurker culture + no downvotes, so if we see a bad take, we reply instead of downvoting and moving on. this leads a lot of people to get very animated and angry about us.

I think it's in the same vein as all the handwave-y claims as the bigotry and hate that's present on hexbear and lemmygrad. Nobody ever links a post, it's just an oft repeated fable that somehow becomes "truth". (Yes, I realise the irony in not linking to a post here, but I'm lazy and I'm sure you've seen them)

Getting called the reactionary grandchild of a Wehrmacht collaborator was my own Stalingrad