Maybe the lesson here is that the people who built a political movement out of the vigilante revenge fantasies of socially maladjusted and heavily armed people overestimated their own ability to control where, when, and at whom the violence they encourage would be directed.
I kinda feel like there's just a lot of nihilistic lonely guys out there and while sometimes they fall into radical politics, sometimes they just like to shoot people in public.
People will look very hard to find coherent politics but this strikes me as a Las Vegas shooter situation, where ultimately you're just gonna find a violent dipshit who flipped a coin and decided to try this rather than shooting up a mall or school.
Line of sight from 133y from the stage? That was crazy, how do you not cover that, or block the line of sight, or something? That's a bit over standard (100y) range distance, a trivial shot.
It's just like how the GOP who tried to grab power by courting racists and conspiracy theory nuts overestimated their own ability to control those people and now those people own the party.
Burmila's avi is a bookcover, it looks like. "Chaotic Neutral, how the democrats lost their soul in the center."
"Chaotic" and "Neutral" are reflected outwards a few times.
Yeah, all these fucking op eds where I’m supposed to feel bad for the “innocent bystanders”? If you get run over by Hitler’s car on the way out of the Nazi rally, I don’t actually give a shit.
Anybody can nut-pick but only one side has routine winks and nods in favor of political violence coming from its elected at a Congressional or gubernatorial level and I want the press to fucking acknowledge that
When I first read the post from his daughter was "He brought kids to a Trump rally?" Even if you agreed with all of their bullshit, common sense would suggest it might not be the safest of places.
oh that is some -prime- leopards eating faces material.
I guess, people attending a Trump rally, odds are good they were gonna be violence-stanning dicks. Still.
I don't care if I sacrificially lower the temp, but I'm going to do it. Violence begets violence, unless you make a choice not to be violent, even under threat - perceived or otherwise.