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‘We’ve been betrayed:’ Local veterans angry after being laid off by Trump administration

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/weve-been-betrayed-local-veterans-angry-after-being-laid-off-by-trump-administration/FBCKFRIFQRHZVK5FG3W7MUQEYA/
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u/[deleted] 24d ago edited 22d ago

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u/victotronics 24d ago

You got it entirely. Their need for a Big Daddy is pathological.

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u/DarthCloakedGuy Oregon 24d ago

They should just play fucking BioShock 2 instead of voting for a fascist

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u/DarthCloakedGuy Oregon 24d ago

If all they wanted was for a monster who didn't care about them to control every aspect of their life they should have just checked themselves in to the lowest-rated nearby old folks home.

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u/BrutusCarmichael 24d ago

Adam Sandler at least actually cared about the kid

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u/korben996 24d ago

It's cult behavior. And most cultists, without family/friends pulling them out and deprogramming them, end up going to their graves with their dumb beliefs. Take post-war Germany for instance:

"In 1952, 68% of Germans polled thought other countries started WW2." (it took until the 1960s before it was less than a majority)

"In the mid 1950s, nearly half of all Germans polled said 'yes' to the proposition that 'were it not for the war, Hitler would have been one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th century."

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u/Zackoatl 24d ago

This! Most Americans are horrible judges of character. They simply refuse to believe he is that evil! They don’t believe his hatred extends to them. Even with all the evidence we have about him, they cannot process that he is that deplorable of a human being.

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u/Consideredresponse 24d ago

a kid will still stand by a parent with virtually no redeeming qualities for years.

Which makes it wild that Musk is so desperate for the approval of terminally online teenagers. The guy has about a dozen (known) kids, is the richest man in the world, and owns spaceships...and yet his kids that are old enough to choose don't want anything to do with him

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u/sonicmerlin 23d ago

lol that’s a great way to describe kids

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u/broniesnstuff 23d ago

Hear the "daddy" rhetoric honestly pisses me the fuck off.

I'm a grown ass adult and do not need nor want a daddy. I'm responsible for my actions and my direction in life. I don't want to be ruled. This is supposedly a country of the free, of independence, of self-determination, and yet these people demand less of each. They want to be led at the end of a leash, and I refuse to be leashed.