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It's always the ones you most suspect.
When news of the shooting broke I was with my dad who said "the shooter was probably radical Democrat since they are the violent ones". FoxRot is real and dangerous.
Back in the old days of Fark, I remember there used to be a flowchart of people's reactions to mass shootings:
- Mass shooting happens
- initial reaction: guy is a terrorist Muslim and we need to bomb some country in the middle east.
- news shows it's a white guy
- "Oh my...how sad. He must have been really struggling."
I feel like the right has replaced the second step with whatever out group they are trying to target.
Following the Oklahoma City Bombing, EVERYBODY jumped on the Muslim Terrorist bandwagon, but it didn't sit right with me. Why would a Muslim bomb a building in OKC? Most Muslims wouldnt even know what Oklahoma is. Why wouldnt they pick a more iconic target? It's all about making a statement, after all. It just smelled like a homegrown terrorist to me, and those around me derided me for being a "Muslim-lover."
Then it turned out to be a standard issue American white guy, with blurry motivations beyond being generally pissy about the government for some incomprehensible reason.
Critical Thinking Skills are the most important skills you can learn in life. They keep you from being stupid and falling for propaganda.
Then it turned out to be a standard issue American white guy, with blurry motivations beyond being generally pissy about the government for some incomprehensible reason.
He had a copy of The Turner Diaries and connection to a cult compound called Elohim City which is operating to this day in Oklahoma. He clearly viewed himself as part of some sort of Aryan resistance movement. (Don’t forget the involvement of Nichols - who got the death penalty as well - and the Fourier couple, who our tax dollars put into witness protection to insure that no one would face any consequences.)
There’s more than a few in OKCPD who were sympathetic to his cause. Unfortunately, Terrence Yeakey was so disturbed by whatever was on the missing VHS tape that he slit his wrists and shot himself from behind…
He was also specifically pissed about Waco and Ruby Ridge. Tucker Carlson has been suggesting that people go Ruby Ridge themselves of late..
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Wow, i haven't heard anyone mention Fark in ages! I spent a lot of time there before Digg...
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No terrorism charge? That's crazy. /s
Turning Point USA a designated terrorist group? Yes please.
The terrorism charge only takes place when the victims exceed a certain income level.
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I notice they didn’t charge him with terrorism and the death penalty.
Because he didn't hit a Tesla.
Or a CEO
He was at the center of a custody battle since he was a toddler, with his father alleging his mother neglected and abused him.
Kind of have to wonder which parent was actually abusing or neglecting the kid, seeing as all this happened under his father's roof.
TBH that sucks for the kid.
Yup. Kids always pay the price for their parent's fuck-ups.
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The mom is still with the sheriff office after her kid used her issued weapon to murder people? That seems like an immediate resignation type of event, with potential for criminal negligence charges down the road.
I'm from Tallahassee and small correction. It was her former service weapon that she purchased from the department after it was decommissioned. It was her personal firearm.
Well, perhaps, but you neglected to include the Florida clause.
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This one of the home grown terrorists I hear about? Or does this not qualify?
/s just in case
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... but I repeat myself.
Ikner cited this “tragic event” in 2015 when he went to court to change his name from Christian Gunnar Eriksen.
Changing your name is so woke!
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There was another article that said the shooter used the step parent's service gun.
It used to be her service weapon. It was purchased from the department when they updated equipment.
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Another MAGAt Nazi. Living their death cult dreams.
Unsurprising.
Who could possibly not have foreseen this?
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