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thanks

artappraiser — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 04:58:26 +0000

In reply to Not quite Gloria Steinem's

thanks

Not quite Gloria Steinem's

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 04:52:34 +0000

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Not quite Gloria Steinem's but she approves:

https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/gloria-steinem-quote-abortion-and-gun-rig...

pic.twitter.com/CNh7OyhlWE

artappraiser — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 04:33:00 +0000

In reply to Repost: WORTH A REMINDER: ALMOST ALL VIOLENT EXTREMISTS SHARE ONE THING: THEIR GENDER

just thought-provoking, not that much on topic:

pic.twitter.com/CNh7OyhlWE
— Marie-Caroline (@NoWay7790) August 9, 2019

A Common Trait Among Mass

artappraiser — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:12:20 +0000

In reply to Repost: WORTH A REMINDER: ALMOST ALL VIOLENT EXTREMISTS SHARE ONE THING: THEIR GENDER

A Common Trait Among Mass Killers: Hatred Toward Women. Misogyny and mass shootings in the United States are closely intertwined. https://t.co/jofxiI4A9J
— alain servais (@aservais1) August 11, 2019

What was smoking dope all

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 05:21:00 +0000

In reply to P.P.S. Easiest way though, I

What was smoking dope all about? Chilling at the crib, listening to Bob Marley, get the munchies, Snoop & Martha chumming it up... but no, gateway drug, 3 strikes, no tolerance, million in jail... obviously part of the narrative is accurate, but stoners beat wives less than drunks, tend not to be running out to buy guns to shoot people - that's meth, as documented so well in Breaking Bad.

We might want to consider

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 05:17:16 +0000

In reply to here ya go: "methods and

We might want to consider what passing out spare Iraq equipment to police departments (good bucks for contractors) did to escalate the paramilitary focus of policing these days and the public view of assault weapons. Just a data point, but didn't recall cops as so threatened by any pedestrian back in the day.

P.P.S. Easiest way though, I

artappraiser — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 04:25:29 +0000

In reply to here ya go: "methods and

P.P.S. Easiest way though, I am still a believer: scientists to get on to inventing that calming Soma for young males (and their older compadres who never got better) with rage control issues. But then, that's not even about terrorism. That's about fodder for terrorists and warmongers and haters.

P.S. I can see Trump light

artappraiser — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 04:04:39 +0000

In reply to here ya go: "methods and

P.S. I can see Trump light bulb moment going: oh, I see, one background check question can be: have you now or in the past ever belonged to Antifa?

here ya go: "methods and

artappraiser — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 04:02:40 +0000

In reply to Yes, finding out the Dayton

here ya go: "methods and messaging in terms of intolerance and hatred". The personal death and violence becomes political. It's sicko in itself if you really think about it.

Ask Trump about white nationalism and he responds with antifa. Ask him about El Paso and he points to the Dayton shooter's tweets. Talk about background checks and he thinks Republicans need to get something, too.https://t.co/E8HMmF1Rtt
— Philip Bump (@pbump) August 8, 2019

Excerpt, pointing out a zero sum game of whatabboutism:

Trump seems incapable of considering the massacres outside of the context of partisan politics, as a zero-sum game of punditry and cause. Consider the first question he was asked by a reporter who was difficult to hear over the helicopter: What do you say to your critics who say your rhetoric emboldens white nationalists and inspires anger?

“So my critics are political people. They’re trying to make points,” Trump said. “In many cases they’re running for president, and they’re very low in the polls. A couple of them in particular, very low in the polls.”

I have a tendency to think we've got to stop doing it. After all, there are Islamic extremists who don't follow the precept that terror attacks against the infidels will get them somewhere?

Terrorism is the problem, not the ideology sponsoring it? Lots of guns easily available make it easier. A reminder, too, that we actually have freedom of hate speech in this country, and one reason is to blow off steam and not act out from a hidey hole underground. Noooo I am not defending a president that practices hate speech. That is definitely not what the founders intended, checks and balances and all. (And also a pretty amazing understanding of the dangers of populism and demagoguery for the 18th century. Okay well, on second thought, maybe allowing for hate speech against kings and potentates....but the first George W. was widely popular because he was like an anti-extremist in personality...no doubt this was partly due to the individualistic "damn the old country" of the colonists, for many differing reasons.)

But then I'm one who felt that incidents like the 2002 Washington DC sniper shootings should definitely be labeled terrorist acts, simply because they were clearly meant to terrorize a whole community. The desire to terrorize, it's a power thing, not about the ideology, not unlike rape in many ways.

I really am starting to think: leave the mass shooter's politics out of it. I see little benefit to stressing it. Just as I didn't see stressing extreme Islam as the reason for 9/11 was going to help anything. It was a ploy to get the west involved in a war of civilizations. There were other ways to free the women of Afghanistan than taking the bait of a war of civilizations that Osama bin Laden wanted.

Talking about motive, what does that get ya? FBI infiltration of extremist groups and baiting them to act out. 9/11 report and many other stories about say, Gitmo residents, and history like the Black Panthers and MLKing tell me they aren't so hot at that.

Regulation of tools of war is a better answer. And heavy duty prosecution and severe punishment of acts after the fact.

Yes, finding out the Dayton

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 08:04:20 +0000

In reply to David Hogg (of Parkland

Yes, finding out the Dayton killer was "a leftist" changed what, exactly? It's the methods & messaging in terms of intolerance and hatred, not really the specific political leaning. It's just in *general* there's been more survivalist and ex-military cultivation of anger and bitterness and hate towards the rest of society as a victimology to avenge by the barrel of a gun, vs. trust in yelling or the ballot box or other less violent recourse. Haven't seen a lot of US leftists holding gun training out in the wilderness for when society falls apart.