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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 15, 2025

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor and Nuclear Physicist, Nuno Loureiro, was shot to death last night in his own home. Loureiro was reportedly Jewish and somewhat vocally pro-Israel. No suspect is in custody. I cannot help but think that this might be related to the shooting at Brown University last week. My knowledge of the geography of the northeast United States is limited, but I believe the two locations are at most a couple of hours apart. The shooting at Brown seems to have targeted the class of a professor of Israel-US relations.

I think we are are now approaching five left wing domestic terrorist attacks in as many months. When I suggested we were on the verge of slipping into another Days of Rage after the Israeli embassy attack, everyone here pooh-poohed the idea. But my concerns have only deepened since.

Everyone is out over their skis on the Jewish professor. You shared no evidence that it was a political murder, and not personal or a robbery of some sort, and I haven’t seen any elsewhere yet. Happy to be proven wrong, but let’s hold ourselves to higher standards here.

You’re lucky I didn’t post my 40 page schizo ramble about Rob Reiner’s death. But anyway, If you sit around and wait for “respectable media outlets” to tell your what’s going on, you’ll never get anywhere.

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It’s indeed been a busy week when I forgot to mention this one in that other comment in this thread.

  1. His and his wife’s throats being cut does not seem consistent with the type of crime it allegedly is. Half-out-of-their-minds meth junkies committing a family annihilation crime of passion during a domestic disturbance aren’t usually that precise. 70 stab wounds a piece I would buy, but not throat-cutting.
  2. The police and the media (People magazine specifically) announced that the son did it way too fast. People Magazine would be gambling with a libel lawsuit in any other circumstance. I have never seen the suspect of a murder announced that fast, especially not for a case involving a celebrity.
  3. The fact that the daughter’s first instinct was to call a neighbor (Billy Crystal), rather than the police. The fact that the daughter immediately told the police that her brother probably did it, White House Farm style.
  4. Trump’s weird and kind of disturbing post about the murders.

It seems fishy to me.

Trump's post was weird but I think he put it out as "crazy left-wingers driven nuts by TDS running amok and murdering people" and no more than that. He's as subtle as a brick, so it was taken as victim-blaming.

My immediate reaction to the news was "sounds like family member did it" because there have been a few recent cases in Ireland of people murdered by their (drug-addict/mentally ill) adult kids in these same circumstances.

A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!

Helps to have the post in front you. Also... man, I don't know how to say this, but having family in literally the exact same position as Rob Reiner, it's hard to describe the causal link unless you've seen it. In fact, seeing this headline deeply upset my wife, it parallels so closely with the situation my in-laws perpetually put themselves in with their own mentally ill, drug addicted, violent felon of a son.

Now you might ask, fairly, "What does this have to do with TDS?" And it's a tough explainer, except to say, their TDS is so enmeshed in every decision of their entire lives, and it sucks up so much of their mental space, that somehow they've developed a blind spot to this family member who is obviously going to murder them that they allow to live with them. There are no problems in the world that they can perceive unless they reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. No matter how many people tell them "Hey, your son is going to murder you", no matter how many police wellness checks their neighbors call in on them because their son is in the backyard acting like he might murder someone, no matter how many people refuse to go to their house anymore because they are living with someone who constantly talks about murdering people in a manic state, etc, etc.

And just like Rob Reiner, when my wife's parents are murdered in their home, without knowing anything else about the situation, everyone who's ever known them will know exactly who to point to, it was so obvious to everyone except them.

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