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US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

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I admire Aaron Bushnell, but that page unironically uses phrases like "Satanic Talmudic supremacy"

Thanks, updated link below: seems to have been changed since last time I saw it back when it all happened, sorry! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Bushnell

Looks like a clever little psyop to discredit him.

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Yes, I know many. Of course everyone has minor mental health problems but I know many who have basically cured mental health problems from depression to crippling OCD. None of them did it purely with counciling but with a vast combination of life experiances, including becoming more prosperous and being able to afford to excercise and enjoy a good diet and not have to worry about losing everything and starving to dea…

> Of course everyone has minor mental health problems I think this is an extremely dangerous position to take. We’re all flawed, the human condition and all that, but I don’t believe that necessarily translates to ’minor mental health problems’ .

On the other hand, you're approaching tautology with what you seem to be implying here, which is "flaws or challenges that you can fix yourself aren't mental health problems".

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I admire Aaron Bushnell, but that page unironically uses phrases like "Satanic Talmudic supremacy"

its a quote of a person, so the usage is justified

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Collateral murder.

Civilians die in wars, and that's with the best intentions of all parties to the conflict. If one or both has got radicalised, then a lot of civilians die in war.

you are justifying 9/11 attack on the US, the similar logic to yours was used by Al-Qaeda

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I suspect the Cold War of cyber warfare that is happening is orders of magnitude bigger than the public knows. Imagine knowing this and not being able to get emotional support from your friends and family.

or they just got tired of feeding data into Palantir that results in hundreds of civilians being butchered

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I wonder whether any American civilians are losing sleep over how the current administration and its supporters' robust "race realist" rhetoric and worldview might be used by adversaries for some very cruel and effective psychological warfare on military and bureaucratic personnel from minority groups in the US.

Honestly, at this point I think that people are just holding on and helping others where they can.

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Were all US soldiers in the Revolutionary War war criminals? What about the North in the Civil War? Or WWI/WWII? Nearly every soldier in any war will have directly or indirectly killed an innocent civilian. Which ones are war crimes and which aren’t? How do you decide and who gives you the authority to do so?

I'd say anyone who chooses to kill a civilian, whether based on an order or not, is a war criminal. I really don't care if they thought they were there for a noble cause or not.

What if they choose to kill a person who was a civilian until they were drafted into the enemy army the day before?

What if the civilian they kill has a substantial effect on the enemy's military capabilities, for example by being someone famous who loudly endorses the honour of signing up to fight for one's country, thereby motivating thousands of young men to do just that?

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I feel more compassion for the innocent people they killed and it's not even close.

They probably didn’t kill just innocent people.

So far about 3,000 of them, including 160 children (the 3.00 includes more children than 160 but I'm singling that out).. in this war alone.

I promise you that you didn't kill 3,000+ IRGC members.

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I talked about the CIA very negatively after having a top secret clearance (never actually used it but it gives useful context). They then showed up in my commune and after a while of unusual behavior and psyops and pretending to be hippies (they couldn’t quite get that right) they resorted to drugging me to get answers they were convinced were true. I never ordered off the dark web, I do believe my [usa] government…

Has a psychiatrist or clinical psychologist ever evaluated you for paranoid schizophrenia?

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Can you think of a single person who has cured their mental health problem?

I'm personally acquainted with multiple people who figured out that their mental health symptoms were downstream effects of natural phenomena (diet incompatible with genotype, insufficient sunlight exposure, excessive work stress, etc), with resultant drastic improvement of mental condition after root cause rectification. any reason in particular for you to have asked?

Here is a list of mental health disorders from the World Health Organization: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/mental-diso...

Which of these triggered for one of those people by one of the things you listed (like diet incompatible with genotype)?

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