Insane right-winger beheads own father

[sir drinks-a-lot]

Oh you mean like this guy?

Sorry, that was actually a right winger who set a police station on fire then shot it up during the protests.

Or these two?

Damn, those are far-right terrorists who were doing the same thing.

It's so hard keeping them all straight seeing as how political violence is so accepted by the mainstream right wing these days. We just forget that they are the overwhelming source of it the same way we forget about car accidents and school shootings.

What does any of this have to do with Norman Alexander mistaking photos of left wing violent agitators for bushfires?

 

[varwoche]

If you think that poltical volence is limited to only one side of the political spectrum, you live in a bubble.

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What a bizarre presumption.

 

[bruto]

Of course there's violence on both sides of the aisle, and crazy is crazy, and all that. The question is whether those who advocate, or simply discount, violence, hate and worse as a valid answer to problems have any responsibility at all for the result.

I think there's a partisan divide there. Excuses for insurrection, dog whistles and coded language for racism and hatred, open calls for violence against political opponents, violent rhetoric of all sorts. Allegations of communism and disloyalty, book burning and banning, threats of uprising, sure, you can dismiss it as just a matter of style, just rhetoric, but you'd have to live under a rock to pretend it's not there.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Let's also remember that "Lone Wolf Violence" is, in fact, a coordinated far right-wing strategy derived from the Turner Diaries, and encouraged through stochastic terrorism and selective doxing.

Whenever a right-wing Politician says "Lone Wolf", they know they are talking about someone from their side of the aisle.

 

[bruto]

Thinking a bit more on this, I find we seem to be getting back to the old conservative dilemma, in which the only explanation for something one wants to deny or minimize is an alternative just as bad. When corruptions and the like are revealed, someone is always ready to say it's just a misunderstanding, and you can't be blamed for picking pockets if you're too stupid to know whose pants are whose. And when you tout violence and hatred and repression, it's no big deal if you're just spouting and too clueless to mean what you say or say what you mean. Just rapping, just joking, just asking questions. But ultimately I don't think it matters. Whether you're stupidly radical or radically stupid, you're dangerous either way.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Yeah, probably a little unfair to make this about the guy being a right winger, but totally fair to point out that the right wing media ecosystem weaponized his mental illness. His grievances read like Fox News chyrons.

I would say that it is unfair to chalk Mohn's crimes to mental illness when it is clear that the "mainstream" right wing ecosystem drove hom to the state of his beliefs.

 

[Norman Alexander]

I recognized a few of those as photos not of bushfires but of the violent left wing mobs that ran wild throughout the cities of the US throughout 2020. My favorite is the one near the center where the guy (yet another violent left wing thing) mistakenly light his own feet on fire. Hilarious!

How do you know some guy is "left wing" just by looking at him? Is it the big "LW" tattoo they all have on their foreheads that gives it away? Or is it because you believe ANY person dressed in black is a violent left wing "BLM" protester? You do know that is not right, don't you.

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What does any of this have to do with Norman Alexander mistaking photos of left wing violent agitators for bushfires?

Because some of them are indeed bushfires, including trees on fire and firemen trying to put them out. The other photos are of absolute dickheads setting themselves on fire and getting photographed doing it, which usually means they are right wing agitators according to the police arrest records.