Accused shooter’s “politics” is not what government and media say

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      4 days ago

      We’ve seen it in a lot of cases of stochastic terrorism. People end up attacking a symbol that causes them distress. It can be a post office, a school, a politician, or a gay nightclub.

      The problem for conservatives now is that acceptable targets have changed to senior executives and conservative commentators. What used to either be an acceptable loss or a tool of fear is now a potential existential threat that they can’t quite get back control of.

      • sudo@programming.dev
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        3 days ago

        Yeah. Further evidence of that was Crooks would’ve been a school shooter but decided to do something better with his life.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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        3 days ago

        As long as it ain’t the school, we good.

        Regime removed are actually part of the culture wars, so when they get wacked nobody cares.

        It never made sense why we have so many school shootings at least from rational perspective.