its not shocking at all. we spend far more per capita on healthcare than similarly developed nations and all of our lives are expendable in the interest of ensuring that obscene wealth remains concentrated in the hands of a small group of oligarch overlords.
Absent juror nullification, ain't no way this guy is getting acquitted.
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Not knowing the shooter's real identity until yesterday probably had something to do with it.
Correct, it's not likely. But it's foolhardy to think his appearance and motives won't change the calculus with lots of potential jurors, if even a little. Whether we're talking OJ, Jeffrey MacDonald, Casey Anthony, or the Menendez brothers (1st trial hung jury, despite a confession), appearance and affiliations can make a huge difference, even if we're talking 0.5% to 1% acquittal or hung jury.
Far Right & Far Left: Two doors to the same hell.
Haven’t seen anything to indicate an interest in syndicalism from him, anarcho or otherwise.
It will be fascinating to see what, if any, online source radicalized him. Upon first glance, he was wealthy, attractive, fit, highly intelligent, an Ivy League grad, from a prominent family, and lived in Hawaii. He’s doesn’t appear to be an easy target to radicalize.
He does? I must have tapped out of that thread early, b/c when I think of red-pilled it isn't masters degree from an Ivy, wealthy and well connected family, quoter of Kurt Vonnegut, athletic, and attractive.
That’s fair. I just meant in terms of his online engagement that I’ve seen so far.
“Like many well-off young people, he comes from a bourgeois family that owns property but decided instead of business to pursue a high-status profession that’s supposed to be about rationally improving the world, only to find that idealistic path blocked in various frustrating ways. Even for the ‘normal’ and relatively successful something feels terribly broken and alienating. When you combine these things you will get tragic and desperate attempts at heroism. The crowd already loves it.”
Not sure if you can read this without being subscribed but some interesting thoughts here.
I once read the FBI report on domestic terrorism. In there it talked about people who started showing their mental illness looking for a cause for their problems that they didn't understand, paranoia, voices for example. Often they blame other races for it and cause them to commit violence that no one expected. The right wing violence talked about in the FBI report was mostly due to a young white guy with a gun not part of any any particular group and how it is impossible to predict
