Whoa, no way?!? Color me surprised when 85% of mass shootings are right wing Trump extremists.
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I don’t even see this as political, it looks religious. He hated mormons by the sound of it. I’ve always said that if Christians got their wish and everyone on earth that wasnt Christian was gone, they would just begin to hate and kill each other over whatever difference they find next. All the evangelists kill everyone else, they’ll then go on to start killing each other over the color of their hair or whatever. Christianity was born as a persecuted religion so they’re always trying to kill someone and play the victim.
Sounds a lot like Israel right now
Religion loves a martyr. If you’re not a victim, your faith isn’t being tested, how can you then justify your version of your faith?
There's no mystery here. During the 2024 campaign Trump promised the militias a race war - he didn't deliver because war puts oligarch wealth at risk. Now magas' are taking things in their own hands. That's why Tyler Robinson killed Charlie Kirk: he was trying to kick start the civil war. Trump is desperately trying to appear war like for his base, while protecting his money.
Appearing warlike, inciting violence with rhetoric, and all the while saying "I deserve multiple Nobel prizes for peace!"
Another good example of low quality information streams culminating in an explosive brand of dissonance. I expect more chaos of this sort, as we deepen the idiocracy, and people go mad trying to reconcile their ideologies with reality.
I do see the logic in those atop the hierarchy pushing faith-based ideologies ahead of climate calamity. Should Project 2025 continue apace, I'm very curious to see how the various denominations respond to rapid environmental change. I expect a lot of them to lose it like this guy and fight it out. On the other hand, I could also see "faith" providing the blinders needed for a larger population to persist a bit longer. The faithful are also more likely to sacrifice themselves, so it could be an effective population control lever to pull at some point, i.e. Snow Crash.
We can do better:
"Make Liberals Cry Again" shirt from 2019.
This is the shirt, in black not camo:
Definitely a leftie, this guy.
Remember back when we could all agree that people who murder other people were likely mentally unwell and didn't immediately look to see who they voted for. Pepperidge Farm Remembers.
It's because the right is desperate to throw off the well earned shade that they cause the vast majority of gun-related violence. It's almost as if conservatives, who are obsessed on only have their world view validated through the the news, get violent when the world doesn't agree with them.
Because of course he did.
Meanwhile in a totally separate reality: https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1ntf95i/mormon_church_shooter_identified_as_42yearold/
They get so close to putting the pieces together. One commenter said they were pro-union, because people can't make as much money as they used to ("a janitor in the '60s could support a family, vacations, etc" to paraphrase the commenter). Kind of missing that unions and pro-worker efforts are a big part of why society had gotten to that point of wages, job security, etc.
I looked at a random idiot's profile in that thread saying "we should be focusing on thoughts and prayers, not placing blame on politics etc...". Obviously a few days ago he was blaming "radical leftists". Shocked Pikachu face
Yes, yes, yes but we need to wait for kash’s magic marker to show us the way…
Don't worry, Kash found an engraved bullet up his butt. It turns out he accidentally sat on it. It said:
MAGA communist
This beautiful & stable MAGA person got corrupted by radical leftists
Does the reality even matter anymore?
Pop quiz: can you guys remember the last 20 major US shootings?
I can't. I certainly don't know their outcomes.
Folks will internalize the first wild rumor they heard (indirectly) from Twitter or CNN or whatever before attention moves to the next shooting, and that's the impression that lasts.
Fucking lefties!
The sign is probably on the left of his house
Stage left
It's cause he was just being sarcastic... everyone knows lefties voted for the turnip as a joke.
Clearly he's saying "Trump stop", another crazy lefty /s
Daddy stop 🥵
This is genuinely the lie a bunch of them are running with on Xitter.
The, Bart, the.
So this is a “mental health crisis” shooting, and not a “we need to round up the leftists” shooting. Got it.
No it's another attack on Christianity in America. That's the line. Never mind they don't care about mormons
Nah, this news will never make it to MAGA. They're already saying that this was "another" radical leftist.
Nah, they’re claiming that because it was attached to a stop sign it actually meant Stop Trump 🙄
Because leftists drive bigass pickups with giant American flags and a gun rack.
Well good. Let them spin this. Then they can start second guessing eachother.
It doesn't matter what happens anymore. Americas oligarchs spent several decades consolidating media ownership and constructing an alternative "conservative cinematic universe" where reality is entirely irrelevant.
The base has been indoctrinated with the fascist mental illness by their propaganda machine, and I mean that literally. Conservatives are now a mentally ill population, and de-programming them in any meaningful way is essentially impossible.
Whatever happens from now on, it will always be <insert any nazi scapegoat's> fault in their eyes, forevermore.
No, this is a "Closeted Leftist makes a false flag attack" shooting. And if that doesn't work, it's a "Look at what those violent leftists made me do!" Shooting.
This shooter just needs to find Jesus like the Kirk one.
A White Veteran with a Trump sign? This sounds like a RADICAL TRANS LEFTIST!
-CNN!
Can't help but wonder if he thought he was avenging Charlie Kirk by killing a bunch of Mormons.