Reddit has also banned a subreddit which was anti-natalist, in response to the Palm Springs event.
Twitter? It certainly is a terrible place. Unfortunately I’m not talking about some random crackpot with 13 followers. I’m talking about specific crackpots like Matt Walsh with 3.7 million followers.
Unfortunately, it’s hard to name a right-wing pundit/influencer that isn’t a nutjob. Trump, Trump Jr, Hannity and rest of Fox News, Loomer, etc. Where does one go to find non-crackpots on the right? This garbage is already on the Fox News website: Trump reacts to Biden’s prostate cancer: ‘Somebody is not telling the facts’"
That’s a real headline. Not just social media. Rightwing = crackpot
Something about the term “specific crackpots” just seems hilarious to me. Thanks for brightening my morning.
I’ve run across plenty of “humanity is awful and it would be great if we were extinct” people on the left. I’ve just never run across one who actually got violent about it.
That said, the modern American Left is both very small and very non-violent (mostly a matter of learned helplessness and despair), so I wouldn’t expect to run across such a person. That after all is why everyone immediately jumped to the conclusion of “right wing terrorist”; because that’s the norm. It’s common, and has been for decades.
Yes. The Right is factually wrong about basically everything it believes; therefore, everyone in it is either irrational, gullible, or a con artist. The former leads directly to the latter. The fact that being wrong is a basic qualification doesn’t leave room for anything else.
“relationship issues” could be a lot of things - getting fired for mouthing off to his boss or being estranged from his parents, for examples.
There is enough stigma around mental illness already without applying an extremely pejorative label to a young man with depression.
“Asking” and saying “might” is “applying” now? You might want to watch that knee.
Just spitballing here, but we’re lacking a lot of information to make judgements about the identified perpetrator, no need to tear each other up over what is likely a combination of limited information, poor reporting, and ongoing investigation. Some of us keep coming back to the thread (even though it isn’t currently labeled as breaking news) hoping to find out more facts.
Indeed; there’s also no need to act as if a question is a declaration.