White Supremacist Killer Testifies He Was Radicalized by Conspiratorial Content Like Infowars

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• ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Alternative Headline:

  Small-brained individual blames other for the thoughts in his own mind

  Listen, I’m not saying these communities aren’t an issue, but the first amendment is a thing (etc etc ad nauseum). We need to hold individuals responsible for thier conscious choices. Idc if someone convinced you to be a bad person, facts are you’re a bad person, and will be judged accordingly. In a fair and just trial.

  Nobody should get off the hook for acting on things other said to do.

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  • rebul@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But that does not align with the movement to forbid dissenting ideas. Please reconsider.

    /s

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  • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Who are you arguing with?

    No one is saying his sentence should be less because the ideology he fell into turned him into a raging asshole.

    The argument is that these communities exist to create raging assholes. It’s an indictment of the right-wing media ecosystem as a whole by reasonably associating it this person’s clear hateful actions. In other words, others should be on the hook along with this asshole.

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    • ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Who are you arguing with?

      When you start your reply by gaslighting me, you’re off to a bad start

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• Skyrmir@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m really interested why Lemmy says there are -6 new messages? That many deleted comments or what?

  As for the story, it turns out water is wet. Not really a surprise.

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  • PizzaMan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At the moment, lemmy is not great with comment integrity. If somebody deletes a comment (mod or the user themselves), the entire chain basically gets nuked.

    So it looks like a conservative got embarrassed that they were supporting a white supremacist killer, and deleted their comments. Or maybe they got banned.

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• random65837@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Funny, I’ve been reading the good, the bad, and in insane from infowars for years, and I’ve for some unknown reason never felt the need to go kill people who weren’t white. Probably because this is just stupid and an an excuse from a childish adult that wanted people to feel bad for him because he got caught. Nice try.

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  • PizzaMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just because you aren’t gullible enough to be easily radicalized doesn’t mean the same applies to others.

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    • BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So much this.

      We can’t have a crappy education system and expect our population to be able to tell BS online from anything factual.

      Unfortunately enough people in the USA are gullible enough that this particular person probably isnt the only one.

      A well-educated population is harder to control or deceive.

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• tallwookie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  it’s politically acceptable to agree with insane people who reinforce your own biases.

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