El Paso Walmart shooting

[_Jersey Girl]

Yeah that post is upthread here, Shades.

[_Dr. Shades]

And we have no one from out of Silicon Valley who is willing to put the brakes on these so-called Internet echo chambers.

What do you suggest? "Silicon Valley" having the power to shut down any websites they don't like?

Remember, people posting manifestos and such to public websites provide police with a great resource by which to trace them.

[_Jersey Girl]

The last known residence of the man being driven to extinction by the foreign hordes:

That looks like a pretty upscale neighborhood to me.

[_EAllusion]

The last known residence of the man being driven to extinction by the foreign hordes:

That looks like a pretty upscale neighborhood to me.

Ajax is an optometrist.

They’re worried about the future based on utterly idiotic ideas about how immigration affects the economy and policy. Those beliefs are immune to correction because it’s a patina for racist / xenophobic fear of contamination.

They think migrant hordes are going to ruin their upscale neighborhoods by depressing wages and confiscating their stuff through welfare.

[_canpakes]

They think migrant hordes are going to ruin their upscale neighborhoods by depressing wages and confiscating their stuff through welfare.

And yet legions of upper-income folks supposedly paying confiscatory tax rates manage to continue to persevere and increase their wealth. Funny how that works. Funny how ajax never notices that.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

I'm surprised no one picked or commented on this part of his manifesto:

The American lifestyle affords our citizens an incredible quality of life. However, our lifestyle is destroying the environment of our country. The decimation of the environment is creating a massive burden for future generations. Corporations are heading the destruction of our environment by shamelessly overharvesting resources. This has been a problem for decades. For example, this phenomenon is brilliantly portrayed in the decades old classic “The Lorax”. Water sheds around the country, especially in agricultural areas, are being depleted. Fresh water is being polluted from farming and oil drilling operations. Consumer culture is creating thousands of tons of unnecessary plastic waste and electronic waste, and recycling to help slow this down is almost non-existent. Urban sprawl creates inefficient cities which unnecessarily destroys millions of acres of land. We even use god knows how many trees worth of paper towels just wipe water off our hands. Everything I have seen and heard in my short life has led me to believe that the average American isn’t willing to change their lifestyle, even if the changes only cause a slight inconvenience. The government is unwilling to tackle these issues
beyond empty promises since they are owned by corporations. Corporations that also like immigration because more people means a bigger market for their products. I just want to say that I love the people of this country, but god damn most of y’all are just too stubborn to change your lifestyle. So the next logical step is to decrease the number of people in America using resources. If we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can become more sustainable.

tl;dr - Extreme environmentalism "F"s White supremacism, creates hybrid baby that hails back to the good ol' days... probably around mid-1800's. Weird.

- Doc

[_MeDotOrg]

From a Washington Post column of Jennifer Rubin:

The alleged killer had regurgitated white nationalist bile and hatred of immigrants. If a Muslim preacher’s words were repeated nearly verbatim by Islamic mass murderers, we’d consider him a threat to national security. And yet, when venom drawn from President Trump’s vicious attacks on immigrants, his channeling of “replacement” conspiracy theories, his dehumanization of immigrants and his demonization of the media show up in the ramblings of serial mail bomber Cesar Sayoc, the Tree of Life synagogue and Christchurch mosque mass murderers and now the slaughterer of innocents in El Paso, we don’t collectively hold him morally accountable, insist his recant his views and demand an end to his presidency.

So is Jennifer Rubin stating flatly that Trump has culpability for the shooting in El Paso?

We will hear a lot of talk about violence in video games and mental illness in the next few days. All first world western nations have mental illness and video games. None of them have anything remotely approaching the number of mass killings we have in this country. I am not saying we shouldn't examine mental illness, alienation, juvenile sexual frustration, and violent video games as contributing factors. But you don't have to be a genius to see a relationship between our lax gun laws and the fact we have a lot of mass shootings.

The largest herd of ostriches in the United States is fed and watered by contributions from the NRA.

Ironically, last week at his Cincinnati, Ohio rally last week described the Democrats as 'rage-filled'. I wonder if the President will have the cajones to say if there is no room for hate, then there is no room for white nationalism. We shall see...

[_canpakes]

It just took a few days, but here it is ...

After mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, this weekend, a Republican state lawmaker from Ohio blamed the violence on “homosexual marriage,” “drag queen advocates” and more in a bizarre Facebook post.

State Rep. Candice Keller complained about Democrats playing “the blame game” after every mass shooting in a post on her personal Facebook account. The lawmaker from Middletown — a small city 30 miles south of Dayton, where a gunman killed nine on Sunday — wrote that the real blame should be on the “breakdown of the traditional American family” and “acceptance of recreational marijuana.”
“Why not place the blame where it belongs?” Keller asked before listing the issues she believes are to blame for mass shootings in the country:

The breakdown of the traditional American family (thank you, transgender, homosexual marriage, and drag queen advocates); fatherlessness, a subject no one discuses or believes is relevant; the ignoring of violent video games; the relaxing of laws against criminals (open borders); the acceptance of recreational marijuana; failed school policies (hello parents who defend misbehaving students); disrespect to law enforcement (thank you, Obama); hatred of our veterans (thank you, professional athletes who hate our flag and National Anthem); the Democrat Congress, many members whom are open anti-Semitic; the culture, which totally ignores the importance of God and the church (until they elect a President); state officeholders, who have no interest whatsoever in learning about our Constitution and the Second Amendement; and snowflakes, who can’t accept a duly-elected President.

Keller concluded the post, writing: “Did I forget anybody? The list is long. And the fury will continue.” The post is not visible to everyone on Facebook, but screenshots of Keller’s remarks have circulated on Twitter.

[_Some Schmo]

The breakdown of the traditional American family (thank you, transgender, homosexual marriage, and drag queen advocates); fatherlessness, a subject no one discuses or believes is relevant; the ignoring of violent video games; the relaxing of laws against criminals (open borders); the acceptance of recreational marijuana; failed school policies (hello parents who defend misbehaving students); disrespect to law enforcement (thank you, Obama); hatred of our veterans (thank you, professional athletes who hate our flag and National Anthem); the Democrat Congress, many members whom are open anti-Semitic; the culture, which totally ignores the importance of God and the church (until they elect a President); state officeholders, who have no interest whatsoever in learning about our Constitution and the Second Amendement; and snowflakes, who can’t accept a duly-elected President.

Man... that quote was dripping with stupidity concentrate. It was layered in stupidity. It was stupid on several levels.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

The NRA has a script for this. After a public massacre the NRA recommends:

1) Say nothing as long as possible.

2) When forced to comment, insult people for raising the issue: "How dare you stand on the graves of those children to put forward your political agenda?”

3) Use friendly press to spread stories about crime that wouldn’t have happened if the victims had been armed: "two to five of those a week.”

4) Ghost write articles for pro-gun law types to publish: "with their name on it so that it looks organic."

5 Use social media to push videos that show how useful a gun is for self-defence. "We call it like 'the outrage of the week’."

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/ ... ng-1350701

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/ ... 28105.html

It looks like video games are being used as a scapegoat now, too.

- Doc