hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4hr ago
A big chunk of the horseshoe theory, in my mind, is just ‘crazy people have certain similarities but their politics isn’t one’.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
How’s Red Eye on fox doing?
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
The US executes a low-mid double digits number of people per year, the majority in southern states. We’re regularly beaten out by China(lol huge population totalitarian regime), and some Islamic theocracies. Other states with the death penalty very rarely use it, either due to low crime rates(Japan) or to being small(some of the Caribbean countries), or both(Singapore). Add in the basically-failed states of the world that would execute lots of people if they were able to enforce criminal justice in a meaningful sense(much of sub Saharan Africa), and the US execution numbers don’t tell us much.
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
one can only anticipate the prizes that are coming. Destiny and Hasan are obvious trophies that the right would love to claim,
There is a major difference between these people and major pundits employed by tv networks trying to stand on their reputability. The big three have some standards because of who they are.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Yeah, MAGA base doesn’t have a lot of sympathy for the guy because most people don’t understand root causes and the healthcare industry sucks for ordinary people.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
Most people think highly of their partners and don’t want to believe they’re murderers? Intentional ignorance is a hell of a drug.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It seems relevant to note that democrats language control has mostly failed. Latinx backfired badly, after all. Political correctness in general just doesn’t win elections.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
That may be the reason for his nervous breakdown.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Very high pay for the skill level is almost uniformly much blacker than the general population these days. They're not as black as the stereotype suggests but there's definitely an overrepresentation.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I assume there's usually not a cop who wants to nail them bad enough to falsify evidence.
It further seems like the usual false evidence a beat cop would plant would be drugs.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Actually seems very relevant. One's right wing beliefs were basically words, and could be molded to a general worldview which was not terribly right wing. The other's left wing beliefs were part of how he lived his life.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Luigi showed the classic signs of a nervous breakdown in the runup to the assassination, IIRC.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
22/23 is the natural age to do these kinds of things, though. Old enough to do it, young enough to still be bad at making decisions.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There aren't any hardcore libs in my filter bubble. There's democrats, sure, but of moderate factions who have boring, coalition politics reasons for supporting democrats. No progressive activists, no one pro-trans, none of that.
I don't hate these people and want them dead, although I suppose there are some progressive-approved behaviors I think should be a crime. I don't believe they're any different- yes they want to take my guns away but they don't particularly want to hurt me, even if they might out of ignorance and stupidity. Oppressing people is a lot of work and it seems like not how people are.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It's very, very common for conspiracy obsessed loons to have an idiosyncratic hodgepodge of beliefs that look like the far end of whatever side of the spectrum you find most distasteful.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Did... this guy need discrediting? Convicted felon conspiracy theorists who claim to personally commit high profile murders they obviously weren't behind seem like the last people the government would try to discredit. More likely he just happened to be deranged in more than one way.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Now, you might think such a person would have a strong incentive to avoid being picked up by the police and have his phone searched, but Mr. Zinn did not seem to have much hesitation.
I mean, someone who immediately fesses to a high profile assassination in a red state is willing to suffer the full wrath of the criminal justice system. Having kiddy porn on him might be strictly worse, but does it really change the calculus?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
That’s possible. Also possible- policia armada is being handicapped for Spanish political reasons(AIUI it’s actually a thorny political issue in Spain and their government is propped up by a coalition that includes some of their equivalent of far left wackadoodles) or Spain just wants to give Palestinians a platform in a way France doesn’t.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Most ultra-orthodox Jews, especially in Israel, are not satmar.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Aren’t Spanish cops known for being more skull cracking and thuggish, not less?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Totally possible this gets pinned on trans successfully and Rico takes out some lefty groups.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
In the US? Not really, no. There are a tiny handful of radical gun control activists that want some kind of east Asia tier scheme where hunters can apply for permission to own bolt action rifles kept at the local police station when not in the hunting field. But they’re about as fringe as animal rights activists(not that they necessarily overlap but the same level of hardcore nut).
It’s very plausible that if the DNC could abolish the second amendment and rewrite US gun control from scratch, many kinds of guns would be banned. It’s very plausible that purchasing the ones that are not, such as the one in this attack, would require some kind of waiting period/weekend class/whatever that serves no purpose except being annoying. But an actual ban-or near enough ban- on grandpas deer rifle is about as plausible as mandatory nude exercise or giving dogs standing to sue- yeah, you can find someone advocating for it, but you know…
hydroacetylene
2d ago
One relevant difference between Tyler Robinson and David depape(who granted does seem to have been motivated by right wing prolefeed conspiracy theories, although not of a kind that are necessarily uniquely right wing) is that Robinson was immersed in living a lefty lifestyle with the trans partner. Depape was still a hippie.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean, red tribe failsons who washed out of trying to make it blue have been a thing. The question is why are they turning violent just now- leftism(and actual left, like left of the dems, leftism is generally an ideology of losers) has been a thing there for a while, the bartenders from Iowa who dreamt of becoming moviestars but shared an apartment and can’t get cast anywhere have always been on the left.
I suspect a ton of it is genuine over representation- kids from conservative backgrounds becoming progressive are just going to spend a lot of time on the internet.
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