There’s a clear campaign against the mentally ill with the global rise of fascism. Lots of it shows up in anti homeless rhetoric, but you can see it in the MAHA and anti vaccination movements.

There’s no reason to use the word “r-tarded” to describe someone. As someone who’s worked with the intellectually challenged, it’s an insult to them to compare them with people who are willfully ignorant.

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      Again, Trump wasn’t even using the word this thread is about in that picture but he was mimicking someone with a disability so I don’t see what point you’re even trying to make.

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            I dont think it, I know it. Your problem is your focus is on what Trump did, and I not what I said.

            ie, if I call Trump a retard. If I post that meme to call him a retard. No one, other than you, is thinking about anyone else, but Trump being a fucking retard.

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              You’re still not saying what you know I think you’re saying. Tell me. I wanna know. Because I think you’re misunderstanding my point, and because of that it’s leading you to believe I don’t understand your point. So tell me what you know I think you meant so we can move forward.

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                  No, tell me. You’re so adamant about it. Going so far out of your way, you just insist that I don’t, but when I just simply ask “oh, well what do you think that I think you mean” you just crumble. You just keep repeating that “that’s not what I said, reread what I said” so clearly there’s a miscommunication somewhere. And I’ve reread what you said every time. I’m not getting any new epiphanies from it. So tell me what you think that I think you mean so we can work though this misunderstanding.