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people will dissect the CEO shooter's online presence for years but the question of "what radicalized him" has a pretty obvious answer
he posted X-rays of his back surgery
he read multiple books about chronic back pain
he shot a health insurance CEO
he was radicalized by pain
the horror of being appointed by trump to run the FAA and then realizing doing literally anything your boss wants will make you responsible for killing more Americans by plane than Osama Bin Laden
bill hicks used to do a bit about how we should use the same tech in smart missiles to shoot food at starving people and decades of hard data have proved that is the best way to spend money overseas to increase national security
robert pattinson doesn't do what he does for a statue. he does it for the chance to move and talk more like a goblin than any conventionally handsome man has ever done sans prosthetics
my man could've played a convincing Gollum without CGI or make-up
it's actually crazy to me how this man has yet to win an oscar because he's one of the most talented, influential, actually impactful actors in this generation with flawless range. you can't find talent like this just anywhere now. x.com/flawlqes/statuโฆ
i am sure the fact that a blackhawk just crashed into a civilian airliner won't become fodder for any insane conspiracy theories also i have never in my entire life met another person
pretty wild how cold war era anti-socialism focused on like Stalinism and the threat of apocalyptic nuclear war and now that the USSR is gone we've moved to "socialism is when you don't beat disabled 4-year-olds"
Oklahoma Sen. Shane Jett (R-Shawnee) says a bill to ban school officials from using corporal punishment against disabled children is "socialist" and "in violation of scripture."
i am seeing a lot of "ceo shooter's family was rich what reason did he have to hate healthcare CEOs" and lemme tell you, being rich doesn't mean you are not at the mercy of health insurers. i'm not rich-people-rich but i am normal-people-rich and i scream over insurance weekly
"this character who fucks up 100% of the time and nearly always does the wrong thing must be the mouthpiece the writers chose to launder their real political beliefs"