Wasn't it only like a week or two later that a Florida man killed his father for getting the covid shot?
I'd keep spamming the notion of not rewarding the banner of right-wing extremists who take the cake in causing the vast majority of political violence and homicide.
I feel we're sitting at the intersection of several risk factors... too many uncontrolled guns, not enough healthcare (including mental healthcare), a very stressed society, and an entire political and media infrastructure telling people not to trust their doctors, not to trust their medicine and not to trust their neighbors. I've got my own opinions about who is responsible for most of that, and I'm sure everyone else here does too.
I think we're in for a long time of random act of violence, some from deeply unwell individuals, and some calculated and planned by rational, if sociopathic, actors.
Dont forget the toxic, brain-damaging lead in the air and soil!
And rampant substance abuse, and traumatic brain injuries (eg, football).
traumatic brain injuries (eg, football).
This just made me think about a news story I saw a few years ago talking about how the Marines used to use a rocket launcher that gave the troops who fired it concussions and maybe/probably permanent TBIs, and I was just about to comment about how they used to use those...
2018 - "Marines Who Fired Rocket Launchers Now Worry About Their Brains"
2023 -"U.S. Troops Still Train on Weapons With Known Risk of Brain Injury"
As soon as you mentioned these launchers, I immediately thought about the Carl Gustav launcher. I didn't see these formal investigations by journalists but I heard veterans (in the context of seeing these launchers given to Ukrainians) recounting just how jarring it was to fire these.
It's tragic you can see the culmination of all these debilitating forces on peoples' brains at a national scale.
alt-right violence is on an unprecedented rise, and if you traced it back I bet nearly every fuckdamn one of them was a gamergater to begin with
G*mers getting mad at this
Wait this is a DIFFERENT right wing depatercapitator? Goodness. If I had a nickel...
God in heaven you're right: https://www.wesh.com/article/father-killed-lake-worth-vaccination/46671473#:~:text=BEACH%2C%20Fla.%20%E2%80%94-,A%20Florida%20man%20made%20his%20initial%20court%20appearance%20on%20Tuesday,the%20suspect%2C%20Brian%20McGann%20Jr.
Killing your father to own the libs.
Yup, perfectly responsible gun owner who purchased a perfectly legal gun a perfectly reasonable time before using it. No way a background check could've stopped this, so let's not bother pushing for them.
Every gun owner is a good guy with a gun until they aren’t.
Totally normal Trump supporter.
Guy will probably be the keynote at CPAC.
One thing that I hope eventually happens as conservatives become more delirious is that the children of these parents are apprehended by CAS and taken away. As someone who has a big interest in extremists and spends a lot of time in their spheres, I can say without a doubt that most of them are very dangerous for their children. They are unvaccinated, uneducated (they literally prop them up in front of conspiracy theory YouTube all day under the guise of homeschool), malnourished, unregistered in any legal sense much of the time, and don't socialize with others, as well as being physically disciplined. The guy who killed his kids in Mexico for Qanon reasons illustrates how dangerous these people are to children, as well as the guy who killed his kid for almost being vaccinated (this is much less well known and heartbreaking: https://longreads.com/2023/04/06/a-vaccine-dispute-turns-deadly/)
Yeah it's frightening that there's literally a cult developing of home schooled zealots brought up on the wackiest conspiracies on YouTube. I was friends with a guy that was brought up by intese Jehovah's witnesses and even though he stopped participating and believing it took a long time for him to understand the stuff they'd taught him was crazy - like he was shocked that I believed in evolution because as far as he knew it was long since disproven.
The real problem was critical reasoning skills and learning skills, he had no idea how to verify information or seek out out from reasonable sources. I think we're going to get a lot of people in the same boat, except a lot more violent and terrified of the world.
Sorry, source on that guy in Mexico? Haven't heard about it
It happened in 2021.
A California father took his two young children to Mexico and killed them with a spearfishing gun after he claimed he had been "enlightened by QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories," federal authorities say.
According to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in California, Matthew Taylor Coleman reportedly told investigators he had been "receiving visions and signs revealing that his wife possessed serpent DNA and had passed it onto his children" and that by killing them he was "saving the world from monsters."
This is a good in depth piece about it; https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/matthew-taylor-coleman-qanon-children-killing-1239151/
An apparent non paywall link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmjzq/matthew-taylor-coleman-santa-barbara-qanon
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