Random Politics & Religion #37: W/ Bubba The Love Sponge

Good morning fone! It's Opening Day!

To make up for it Macklemore is their opening act...

Don't know and don't care, but I will say I haven't seen any terror plots coming out of them. Doesn't change the fact that Facebook is doing the right thing by banning white supremacists. Spin away though.

Hey we are making progress, Rav denounced them. But nausi denouncing white supremacy? That would be a sight.

And those of us who come from nothing appreciate the wealth more.

I got to my current position the old-fashioned way. Hard work, an education, and taking advantage of an octogenarian heiress. There's nothing more American than that.

Vic only cares about white violence, dismisses all others.

Thats racism folks. This is why we can’t have nice things.

How many massacres in this country have been committed by members of Black Lives Matter or even by black panthers?

How many by members of white nationalist groups?

Mass shooters are rarely motivated by a political agenda, experts told us.

Mass shootings are often perpetrated by young men who are socially isolated or have a mental illness, experience a trauma or conflict that sends them reeling emotionally, and have easy access to guns, said Alan Lipman, professor at George Washington University Medical Center and founder of the Center for the Study of Violence.

"Their motives are almost always, without exception, nonpolitical. And they don’t describe themselves as having a particular political motivation," Lipman said.

Some — like Dylann Roof, who killed nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 — might channel their rage at a specific group of people, said James Alan Fox, criminologist at Northeastern University and author of "Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder." But that doesn’t mean they’re acting on a Republican or Democratic mission, he said.

"Very few are motivated by any sort of political agenda in terms in parties. They might be anti-gay or anti-black or anti-white. You could argue those are political, I guess," he said.

Even then, those beliefs are often born out of personal vendettas — not political propaganda, said Katherine Ramsland, professor of psychology at DeSales University.

"Look at Stephen Paddock. We don't know his motive," Ramsland said of the Las Vegas shooter. "Devin Kelly — his political affiliation is secondary to his family disputes and need for payback. I just think it's overly simplistic to align a mass shooter's influence with a political ideology unless it's clear from the shooter that this was his (or her) driving issue."

Vic only cares about white violence, dismisses all others.

Thats racism folks. This is why we can’t have nice things.

Not at all Skull.

Its just white nationalists, nazis, and other assorted scum on the far fringes of the right have these violent tendencies. Sometimes with mass murder as a prominent feature.

I can't think of any massacre committed by black nationalists. I can vaguely remember something by a black sovereign citizen.

Also two by incels.

But the worst mass shooting was by someone who left no political footprints.

It would be nice to know more about the Las Vegas shooting as it was the worst mass shooting in American history...

I dispute your claim and insist you provide my evidence for me.

Foxx’s office walking back her “recusal”. As if it was ever believable anyways.

https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1111287817559248896?s=21

lol, as usual, nausi is posting a trash source that cherry picks the official statement from the DA's office. Try posting the entire statement, and don't ask anyone else to do it for you.