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[–] 77 points 5 months ago (1 child)

The kid knows that Israel is not a legitimate state and that Palestine is the only state solution

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  • [–] 62 points 5 months ago

    You can observe the son is calmer because he's safely inside a communism dome, invulnerable to attack

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  • [–] 57 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The mother: He’s so calm

    The son: dissociating

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  • [–] 42 points 5 months ago

    madlibs ass headline

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Can we get a spoof of all those shitlibs focusing only on saving pets in disaster zones and ignoring the (often homeless, poor, and/or POC) pet owners like they aren't even there to the point of outright kidnapping the pet away from the owner, but instead it's about saving Israeli children from their genocidal mass-murdering Zionist family and society?

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Ah! I wanna read the article! It looks like such a top-notch hate-read!

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Once again we're in a state of emergency. But, bizarrely, states of emergency actually calm my son. Maybe it's because of the surprising synchronization between his internal world and the outside situation.

    He's finally not the only one experiencing anxiety and disruption; everyone is anxious and tense and everything is disrupted, so he doesn't have to be the guard at the gate. He can simply let it go and trust us to worry for him.

    Not sure where I'd even start looking for references, but I have read about this phenomenon being observed repeatedly in different conflict zones, where people who struggle in "normal properly functioning society" due to "mental health" problems tend to have significant relief of their symptoms when society re-adjusts to less abstract concerns like "get some food for the day and don't die."

    Obviously autism isn't a "mental health problem" and I'm not trying to conflate the two at all, in particular its the symptom of anxiety that the mother mentions that makes me think autism aside this is probably the same thing manifesting.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago*

    Yes, it's very evident that our way of life is unhealthy and many mental health issues can be aggravated or even caused by the abstract and arbitrary and unnatural way we are forced to live due to the capitalist mode. A lot of people recoil in ways subconsciously from participating with a society that they feel, rightly, isolated from because they are in a cruel, depersonalized and alienated society. This manifests in a lot of stress, trauma and defense mechanisms - overloading from things human were never expected to do until recently.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago

    Spoiler: it's because the son is woke

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    tbf I too am calmer when Iran's missiles fall on isn'treal

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago

    Holy shit, me too!

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago*

    the dry boys should do a reading series on this

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago

    That son is literally KHamas

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Lil dude looking like he's about to pull an Akira timmy-pray

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Just shutting down because of sensory overload. Me too buddy, every time I go to the store.

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