• ElleChaise@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    This is the ‘guns don’t kill people’ argument all over again. Yeah, dude was a danger regardless, but it was Republican propaganda that enabled and brought that danger to the surface. Pretending anything else happened would be a slap in the face to that poor man Mike, who lost his head to fascism.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      His friends said he went bug fuck 10 years ago in college. While our political discourse was nuts back then, 2014 was nothing like today, not even close.

      The man is likely schizophrenic and would have latched into something, even if the GOP didn’t exist.

      Having said that, it is not a pass for the right-wing machine. Prepare for more and more violence after the next election.