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The past 5 years I’ve been doing a psychology degree with a minor in criminal psychology and I’d say almost all violent crime can be put down to mental health. The exceptions I can think of is violence due to being under the influence of a substance and domestic violence. With that in mind you can’t really make exceptions for some incidents based on mental health. It feels like you’re falling into a trap of confirmation bias and discounting incidents on the right. It’s natural and takes a considerable amount of effort to overcome. In Australia ASIO (our spy agency), has said the greatest and fastest growing threat is right wing radicalisation of teenage boys. I believe the US has a very similar problem. The issue is that right wing extremism (Charlie Kirk and others) has been normalised in the US. There is a strong argument that pushback from the left in an increasingly authoritarian state will be classified as political extremism. Senior members of your government have floated that the Democratic Party is an extremist organisation. As the saying goes one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter. If you want to be objective, take a look at the language on both sides of the political spectrum and see whose language is more dangerous and inflammatory. I can’t think of any mainstream left leaning figures (politicians, podcasters or comedians) that are promoting violence against the other side. Whereas the are dozens of examples on the right.

Here are some of the worldwide reactions to king Trump's speech: "The British media The Daily Mirror calls the speech "deranged". It summarises what the US president talked about for 56 long minutes – climate, migrants, Gaza, escalators, marble floors and teleprompters." "French left-wing paper Libération has a strong headline that says "Trump is pissing off the world". It calls the speech "staggering", "violent" and "incoherent". " Spanish daily El País believes Trump's aim is to "blow up the rules of the international game" Die Zeit agrees. The German magazine says that Trump's accusations are "becoming crazier every minute". "Immediately after the shocked, and even embarrassed, UN delegates had recovered from Trump’s performance, the general assembly was addressed by leaders of two large Muslim states, the Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto and the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Subianto was strongly applauded when he asserted: “Might cannot be right; right must be right. No one country can bully the whole of the human family" The current trajectory of Trump's thinking and actions are very. very dangerous.

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