👈 trump effect did this
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Violent racism isn't a product of Trump. Trump is a product of violent racism.
I think there's an argument to be .ade for it being a positive feedback loop
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The list of violent right-wing extremist violence is is growing very long.
All this fanned by right-wing media and foreign agents like Russia.
“This was, quite frankly, a maniac who decided he wanted to take lives,”
~~Copycat shooter with a manifesto, armed with the usual kit: A plate carrier, an AR-15, and a Glock.~~
~~While I can see this is a racially motivated shooting, I think this pattern indicates some deeper... suicidal, martyrdom ideology. The intent includes the suicide. It's suicidally motivated, too. These plans include the repetitive messaging of a newsfeed marching down the list of mass shootings by scared whitr supremacists. Racial killing, suicide, manifesto, and the date makes it a copycat killing. Is he truly a maniac, if so many are falling into this same set of cowardly cries for help?~~
~~I feel no sympathy for the dead shooter. But I stare into the abyss, feeling I must empathize with the scared white supremacist who does this next.~~
I must empathize with the scared white supremacist who does this next.
Really?! What the fuck?
Conservatives do not empathize with you. They see empathy as a weakness to exploit. Do not empathize with them unless you'd like to become their next victim.
You can empathize with someone without being exploited by them. I empathize with prisoners suffering in solitary confinement because I consider it inhumane. That doesn't mean I'm going to allow myself to be attacked by a murderous psychopath without defending myself.
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Empathy is not agreement or defense, it's understanding. Refusing to empathize is refusing to find a solution. Stop being part of the problem.
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OH BOY ANOTHER LONE WOLF! CAN'T FUCKING MOVE FOR LONE WOLVES AROUND HERE!
If you ever wondered what you would do in Germany in the 30s, you're doing it right now.
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Just another Trumper with a gun, who lived in his parents' house.
Veritable pack of lone wolves, amirite?
Florida is full of Nazis. Pretty much every biker bar in Florida is home to white supremacists. You couldn't get me to visit Florida for anything.
I love it that Nazis are too damn stupid to give their allies plausible deniability and keep covering everything in swaztikas.
The Allen Texas mall shooter was a great example - the right wing media tried arguing he was Hispanic, and that he wasn't right-wing - his huge swaztika tattoos were a false flag... That he wore for years. Even your average Fox viewer isn't buying that.
He didn't actually die, it was all staged, and the tattoos were the temporary ink tattoos.
This is sarcasm but maybe I shouldn't give the conspiracy theorists any more ideas.
The most ridiculous part is how self-contradictory the right wing media explanations get. Like he's a false flag to make right wing white nationalists look bad, but simultaneously he's an example of how dangerous Hispanic immigrants are. Firehouse of misinformation - hopefully something sticks, right!?
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The sheriff just casually dropped the N word in this press conference?
Yes, he’s Black, and he said that it was the only time he was going to say it. I feel like it’s his prerogative to decide when he can say that in response to an attack on his community.
When said by the right person in the right context, that word can go from a word used to attack the innocent to a word used to condemn the racist.
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The shooter was clearly driven to violence by socioeconomic hardship
Also, the gun had nothing to do with it. It was because our country does nothing about the mental health crisis.
What? Government subsidized mental health care? What are you, a commie?
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Did that fucking sheriff seriously use the n word in damn press release…. What the fuck????
Yeah. I don't understand it even in context.
"This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people," the sheriff said at a news conference. "He wanted to kill n------. "That's the one and only time I'll use that word," Waters said, referring to the racial slur.
Like, what??? Why use it even that "one and only" time?
I imagine it's a quote from the manifesto. So he said it to drive home the clarity of the hate.
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Just save time and give him a urinal instead of a gravestone.
Rest in hell
Typical modern conservative. Waffling between keeping up the act or full mask-off racism.
3 fatalities doesn't even qualify as a mass killing.
How sad is that?
The mass killing in Ohio on the 24th qualifies though.
DeSantis called it "a cowardly act" which seems like the weirdest way to talk about a shooting like this.
Almost as if he's saying it wasn't brave enough and that the shooter should have done more.
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