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lunatica

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32. You shouldn't lump in the warped and stunted mental growth

Reply to CaptYossarian (Reply #31)

Fri Jan 3, 2020, 01:56 PM

Jan 2020

of children exposed to excess violence with mental illness. What you describe is brain washing, mental conditioning, childhood abuse, not mental illness.

And when Hinckley shot Reagan it was long after Reagan had done his worst damage regarding the mentally ill and AIDS victims. If it was karmic or if he could have learned anything from the experience is moot. He was already losing his mind to Alzheimer’s.

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