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The picture has already been taken down. Really, you should know better than to use reddit as a host for this sort of thing.
The photo wasn't, at the time of me posting this, taken down. @ZeStriderOfDunedain did not link it properly. reddit post, photo. The trick to getting a link to a picture which starts a reddit post, is to use old.reddit, then right click.
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Kiwi Farms thread with photos and videos
Xitter account of the perpetrator here unlike previous cases it is still standing (so far). Oversight or deliberate change of Xitter policy?
Is that a... Trans Groyper?
"Latest School Shooting, Shooter Is Trans Groyper"
Imagine you have to explain this ordinary daily news to someone from 1956, even science fiction fan of the time. This is how life in the future feels like.
What's so difficult to understand? "Cross-dresser suffers psychotic break and kills 2 before committing suicide" seems like a pretty straight forward headline.
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You sound surprised.
I still don't really get what a groyper is other than a Fuentes fan. And Fuentes is a Mexican who hates Jewish people and women but claims he is not gay despite finding women disgusting. And people think he's funny because he says stupid gross things confidently and without shame. Like a low-production-value Nazi Colbert Report.
Are many of his fans trans?
Fuentes is funny because he’s just a funny guy.
Latinos can obviously be white. Amerindian is a better slur. Spanish blood people are considered extremely close to proper white.
I also don’t think Fuentes hates the Jews. Jews are not fully assimilated in America. They have values around money that white people do not. Mostly a desire you see pop up of generating large amounts of generational wealth which is looked down on by the rest of society. Plus an increased ability to do some really bad things.
What is that saying about taste?
Nothing. A guy can be funny even if you disagree with his message. He just has that autistic presentation that’s legitimately hilarious.
When he says things like he doesn’t want to live by black people sure that’s a layup because saying things that everyone knows but your not suppose to say is easy humor. Especially in Chicago when the city is very racially divided and the black neighborhoods are very violent.
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I don't know about Fuentes in particular, but trans-identified males with far-right opinions are more common than you might think.
A year ago when Hollywood was shocked that the Latin American trans actor nominated for Best Actress had posted racist things online, I found it amusing that everyone was so surprised that this person whose identity revolved around provocation and rejecting societal rules didn't contain their provocation and rejection of rules to progressive boundaries.
It's no surprise to me that people who are a) trans and b) interested in shooting people may also have a c) that defies easy categorization. Their umbrella ideology is "notice me; everyone else can go fuck themselves."
Or the surprise that someone who Notices differences between men and women could also Notice differences between other groups of people. Or the surprise that just because a man believes he’s a woman, doesn’t necessarily mean that he also believes in worship of blacks and Arab Muslims.
I suppose it’ll always be a surprise when a member of the Coalition rejects one of the three central pillars of modern leftism, much less two of them:
Additionally, the Gascon incident provided further evidence that blacks and Arab Muslims have social credit scores higher than that of Persons of the Alphabet, including the T.
If anything, PotA should have greater incentives to be skeptical of black and Arab Muslim worship. Blacks are the disproportionate source of violent crime against them, perhaps to a greater extent than blacks are the disproportionate source of violent crime in general—and Arab Muslims tend not to have such warm and king feelings toward them either, to say the least.
In any case, Gascon ended up apologizing anyway. its_all_so_tiresome.jpg
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I think it feels like an over representation because they have a higher propensity for being terminally online.
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