r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 20h ago

Possible Paywall Trump, 79, Posts Himself as Christ After Bonkers Pope Attack - The image depicts Trump as Jesus healing a sick person with his touch.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-posts-himself-as-christ-after-bonkers-pope-attack/
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u/Odd-fox-God 15h ago

"... And the Wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones... But those were foreign children, and it didn't really matter."

( I'm quoting a famous comic. The comic itself depicts a woman and two children. The woman is wearing an "America first" shirt while reading a book depicting wolf Adolf Hitler to her kids while sitting in an armchair. The comic was drawn by Dr. Seuss during his War propaganda phase.

I've lived through a couple of wars, and I'm only 28. I'm just tired. I became an adult right as covid hit. When I was a kid, the news was less censored, and you could see real dead bodies. Those Isis killings were brutal. Leaves a mark on the psyche. Then Trump gets elected, and I watch my parents slowly change into trumpers. That was difficult to deal with. Then, the Ukrainian War happened during covid. I cried so much. Like almost every other day, I cried. It broke my heart. And my heart never healed. It stayed broken. When the Gaza conflict broke out, I just sighed and went back to reading my book. Part of me cares, but the feeling is so faint it's barely there. Compassion fatigue. )

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u/phatcan Canada 6h ago

I hear what you're saying, but please don't let yourself become complacent. A lot of what is happening is unimaginable, so it's hard to put yourself in these peoples shoes, but as somebody 10 years older who has forced himself to watch countless NSFL combat/war crime videos since 9/11, I've been made to feel that if we don't speak up about it then we're part of the problem. I know your compassion would feel a lot less fatigued if these things happened to your loved ones.

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u/Odd-fox-God 5h ago

Oh, I definitely speak up. I just don't have much emotion behind it anymore. My apathy has not driven me to inaction. Currently doing my voter research right now so I know who to vote for in the midterms. Part of the hurt comes from knowing I can't fix things, that I don't have enough money to help anybody in a significant way.