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submitted 1 year ago by deconstruct@lemm.ee to c/news@lemmy.world

A Republican activist who has been a reliable donor to Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — despite a racist tweet that put him on the outs with DeSantis’ predecessor, Rick Scott — shot a woman and then himself in the parking lot of a Palm Beach County restaurant, according to sheriff’s deputies.

The activist, 72-year-old Steve Alembik, died. The woman, wounded in the back and arm, survived when she ran into the restaurant bleeding and was rushed to the hospital.

The shooting happened at a Burgerfi outlet in Delray Beach a week ago Monday, although Alembik’s identity wasn’t revealed until last Friday in the Boca Raton News. The wounded victim was believed to be his wife.

Over the past 20 years, Alembik, gave more than $200,000 in political contributions, mainly to Republicans, including thousands of dollars to both DeSantis and Donald Trump. The founder of a Boca Raton digital marketing company, the Democrat-turned-Republican earned notoriety in 2018 by referring to former President Barack Obama as a “f******* Muslim n*****” in a post on the social media platform X, then known as Twitter.

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[-] Parabola@lemmy.world 164 points 1 year ago

“Activist”. What idiot wrote this? If they were brown it would say terrorist.

This redneck fuck was a terrorist. Good riddance.

[-] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

He also would have been described as a "responsible gun owner" 24 hours ago since the gun was likely legally purchased and he hadn't lost control of his emotions and killed anyone with it yet.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

It's rare to see someone rightfully point out the fact that all bad guys with a gun were once good guys until they suddenly... You know.. Weren't.

[-] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And then magically, they don't count, despite buying the same guns, from the same stores, with the same checks then carrying it around under the same laws and storing it with the same optional safety.

It's a perfect setup. Responsible gun owners can never commit crimes. Maybe it's time we all started calling the murderers committing crimes with legal guns "former responsible gun owner so and so".

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's like a mixture of survivor bias and a no true scot fallacy.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Surprised they didn't call him a "protestor". Shit journalism.

[-] vivavideri@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

For fucking real. Dude's a domestic terrorist.

[-] moosepuggle@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago

We need more investigations into these kinds of domestic terror networks.

[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Technically he is brown, I really don't know where the line is anymore for who's a terrorist and who's not according to the Peter Griffin skin shade scale, but it's seemed to devolve into "if he's a far right person then he must not be a terrorist" because you can't say it's conservatives because Jihadists are conservatives, then you have Hindu nationalists, the line really only seems to be "Donald Trump fan" not a terrorist, all others, terrorist.

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Because everyone is afraid of what the lunatic fringe ~~will do~~ is already doing. Nobody wants to appear responsible for escalating the violence.

This demands repeating:

Politicians, media, prosecutors, judges -- There is already violence. There will be more violence. Not if, when. The sooner you stop thinking we can go back the way we came, the quicker we'll be done with all this. The only way out is through.

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