How the fuck do you go from building a treehouse for them to stabbing the child trying to hug you
CW: description of racist beliefs, description of death/the dead, amateur psychoanalysis/rectally sourced conjecture
spoiler
you start out thinking that they are “one of the good ones” and have your little hallmark “racism is over” montage building a treehouse, proving that America can civilize even the most barbaric savage (with your help!), then you see an AI generated picture of a well-done infant, have an emotional breakdown because you are not terminally online/desensitized enough to corpses to tell its fake, and feel like you have been betrayed and need to do something to fix your mistake, for the memory of holocaust victims and idealized settler families “just like yours” (and dontcha know hamas ALL MUSLIMS just beheads babies for no reason!)
I will raise my children as Maoists. Nazis, landlords, colonizers, cops, and bankers will be seen as pure wickedness and savagery. They will stand shoulder to shoulder with Beezelbub and Bael. The monster under their bed will be a creatire who threatens to take away their home, and the scariest part is that it has a man’s face
That wild of a shift has got to be dementia or something right
going from building a treehouse to this is such an insane shift though. building a treehouse is a lot of effort if you were just hiding it
It can be a combination of mental illness manifestation and racism coming to full view.
There are many stories of seemingly normal and rational people becoming obsessed and paranoid and terrified of everything after 9/11.
There are also stories about seemingly normal and rational people who got cooped up at home due to unemployment or the pandemic and got caught in QAnon and every time they blink they see literal babies on spikes.
Landlords have weak brains, who’da thunk
I hope he gets life.
Hope he gets in between. Like the God-Emperor from Warhammer, but powerless. Not dead, but not alive, for eternity.