My apologies to the guy who first proposed that the shootings were related--I thought that was a real stretch.
Unless there was a reason to believe they were related, I wouldn't apologize to a broken clock.
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there really much of an anti-immigrant narrative here?
Any crime by an immigrant or by a non-immigrant can be twisted into an anti-immigrant narrative by Trump. And this one has been.
Which non-immigrant crime was twisted into an anti-immigrant narrative?
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#193It does not make sense why kill Loureiro.
Sorry, but it seems very brittle as a story.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Last sentence went a little insane I'm drawing a moral analogy to mass murder, so the whole thing is going to tend towards the unhinged. But I'll stand by it. There is something sad in ordinary people bending to banal evil. Monsters being monsters is just horrific.
Mass murder is about as far as you can get from banal. It's an extremely rare tragedy to experience. But we're talking about two things: one is a violent crime and one is a civil matter involving a squatter. The building owners do have a right to occupy their own building, right? Or are you proposing we deny them their ownership as some kind of reward to the hero? That would amount to advocating that two wrongs make…
> Calling the building owners 'assailants' for simply wanting to peacefully occupy their own building is quite insane.
The characterization of “us” as “assailants” is an acknowledgment of the sorrowful fate that we as a society inflict on nearly every whistleblower despite the fact that we as a society encourage people to be whistleblowers.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
"this guy's turn to violence makes me suspect he had some serious issues driving him, possibly in the mental health realm" You "suspect possible mental health issues"? Amigo, what further evidence could possibly be required?
I actually have tons of experience with people who suffer mental health issues, including psychotic illness. One thing that experience gives me is to be cautious about making armchair diagnosis from afar.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know much about the suspect, but I do know that people have been saying for years that they go into deep debt to get degrees, even in things that are supposed to be respected or in demand, and then it turns out there is actually no job market or success path for that degree. I assume the implication is it had something to do with this kind of frustration. (Though the suspect went to school two decades ago and…
"this guy's turn to violence makes me suspect he had some serious issues driving him, possibly in the mental health realm" You "suspect possible mental health issues"? Amigo, what further evidence could possibly be required?
When we define criminality as evidence of mental illness, all we’ve done is medicalize criminality — which if anything hinders our ability to recognize abnormalities of the mind which may or may not lead to criminality.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
Now compare these two divergent "endings": would you rather be gone from this cold and cruel Earth, finally free, or denied reward money for failing to call the correct phone number, still homeless and (probably) hungry? Obviously I am not saying to off a bunch of people prior, but still.
that's why there will be a day of judgement that God has set
Everyone truly evil believes that they are the good one and God wouldn’t punish them.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mass murder is about as far as you can get from banal. It's an extremely rare tragedy to experience. But we're talking about two things: one is a violent crime and one is a civil matter involving a squatter. The building owners do have a right to occupy their own building, right? Or are you proposing we deny them their ownership as some kind of reward to the hero? That would amount to advocating that two wrongs make…
> Calling the building owners 'assailants' for simply wanting to peacefully occupy their own building is quite insane. The characterization of “us” as “assailants” is an acknowledgment of the sorrowful fate that we as a society inflict on nearly every whistleblower despite the fact that we as a society encourage people to be whistleblowers.
This is conflating whistleblowing with the need to pay rent on your residence. This guy is not exactly a Julian Assange.
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#200Worth noting that a partner at Sequoia (Shaun Maguire) publicly accused the wrong guy of being the shooter. https://www.fastcompany.com/91463942/sequoia-shaun-maguire-b...
Shaun Maguire has a long history of inflammatory comments and pushing false information on Twitter. Every time he’s involved in a new scandal I’m surprised all over again that he’s still a partner and Sequoia still hasn’t pressured him to stop.
It's because they agree with him.