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d2_e4
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5mo agoI like what someone posted in one of the other threads: "Trump's VP pick has previously referred to him as 'America's Hitler'. He hasn't changed his views on Trump, but he has changed his views on Hitler".
agamblerthen
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5mo agoUnless some new findings come to light, we may never fully understand the shooter's mindset and motives. But details that have emerged of him being a loner who was sometimes bullied in high school may be more revealing than whatever his political beliefs were.
As Michelle Goldberg wrote in an opinion column in the New York Times, "the more we learn about the shooter, the less it makes sense to analyze his actions in conventional ideological terms. Though details remain sparse, this appears to be a story less about fanatical partisanship than about the crisis of lonely and disconnected young men being radicalized into pure nihilism.
"The reporting that has emerged so far describes him as an outcast, not an activist. A classmate told CBS News that he was bullied relentlessly. Another told The Wall Street Journal, “People would say he was the student who would shoot up [a] high school.” He appears to have had a passion for gun culture; he reportedly wore camouflage or hunting gear to school and wanted to join the rifle team, though he was rejected as a bad shot. He joined a local gun club, and when he was killed on Saturday, he was wearing a T-shirt for Demolition Ranch, a gun-nut YouTube channel.
"Some who study terrorism and violent extremism find the shooter’s history of humiliation and obsession with firearms familiar. “We are starting to see some of the key markers we see in individuals that have committed acts of targeted violence,” said Elizabeth Neumann, who served as assistant secretary for counterterrorism and threat prevention in Trump’s Department of Homeland Security. In such people, ideology can be secondary to the desire to wreak havoc and win notoriety."
campfirewest
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5mo agoMaybe it was just Alec Baldwin making a movie?
