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The Waukesha Murderer Is a Product of the Left’s Grievance Industry
Change my mind.
Maybe I’m foolish for getting out in front of “the facts” like this, but I’d put real cash money on a bet that the Wisconsin domestic terrorist believes he’s a victim of “white supremacy” and “institutional racism.” Dennis Prager has long said the victim mentality allows people to justify all kinds of evil.
Sure this guy knocked around some women and sexually assaulted them, but, hey! It’s not his fault America hates him and is holding him down. He’s just paying it forward. Even if he isn’t self-aware enough to know he’s motivated by believing the grievance narrative about blacks, the very fact of his life of crime points to a sense of despair and lack of self-mastery that the victim mentality engenders.
If Kyle Rittenhouse is a vigilante because he holds conservative values (like loving one’s neighbors by protecting them and their property — even if they’re black), then the Left owns this guy and one of the most evil acts by a domestic terrorist in our time. Make them own him.
The Waukesha murderer (I refuse to use his name) is a product of BLM, the 1619 Project, and all the other racist initiatives promulgated by the Left’s grievance industry. Hang him around their necks.
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Dear little guy.
And so must be subjected to equal or more severe sanction, punishment. Or we, “conservatives,” are just posturing. There are a great many local, state, and federal officials who must be tried and stripped of all assets, down to single-wide trailer and $2,000 vehicle level with no savings and all assets hidden in family/friendly shelters clawed back.
If this takes a constitutional amendment to overcome the self-serving 9 black robed masters, so be it. Generate the same level of lawfare, the same pushing of every vaguely colorable legal theory, to harry, to bankrupt, to punish by process and possibly by result.
That’s what I was thinking of…apparently he was some sort of fringe-Muslim-ish? Or Laura Loomer says so, but I don’t know anything about her or how seriously to take her claim. “Five Percenters” is an offshoot of the Nation of Islam…?
From Hinderaker:
FIFY.
I read a tweet somewhere from a father whose own family was okay, but he came upon and tried to help a teenage girl on the ground who was seizing and had blood coming out of her ears.
Just monstrous evil.
Nothing to say, just grief. No likes on this post.
‘ This fear of exceeding the measure of necessary self-defense lead to total spinelessness as a national characteristic’
Bingo , the left has been working on this my whole life , we all think twice for fear of lawsuits or prosecution.
The march of the far left, marxists in gut and mind, is universal. Just got a note saying that the Biden administration took the FARC off the terrorist list. Colombia was the only South American country standing in the way of marxists pretty much in the entire continent. That required an explicit decision by the Biden administration. The nature of the FARC is unambiguous.
Has this been verified? Because it’s pure evil, if true.
There’s nothing new about sociopaths who shift blame for their misdeeds. That sort of person has been with us since before history was written down. Certain ideologies encourage that kind of thinking, but ideology isn’t necessary for it.
Ideology like religion is often used to justify the expression of bad desires and impulses, but the desire came first, the evil of human nature is always there. The ideology is just a coating smeared over events after the fact to provide some sort of rationale. In that way the ideology enables the evil and makes it more acceptable, but it does not give rise to it. It’s always there, and it’s the task of society to suppress it. Leftist ideology says that we should not suppress it, we should encourage and justify it, because leftists gain power it its expression.
Mr. Brooks isn’t this waif who was over-influenced by the ideology de jure. He’s evil, and he’s been that way since he was nothing more than a twinkle in his daddy’s eye.
New York Resident son sent it to me. I’ll try to verify.
You can’t be tin-foil-hatty enough these days.
But I suspect he was just a criminal with a long record, radicalized by anti-white racists with bullhorns. (And yes, I do include the media in that.)
Send this photo to John Chisholm, accessory to murder.
You are mistaken: Ideology does turn ordinary people into monsters.
Yes, God makes all things good. But, He also gives us free will and we have a tendency to choose poorly (concupiscence).
I think it unlikely that this killer would have ended up who he’s become if he had been raised in a two-parent, Christian home where his father, especially, was adherent to the faith. There’s ideology and then there’s religion (some are better than others: Judaism and Christianity > Islam, which has a political ideology component). He’s a product of ideology.
Not just bullhorns: Some of them are public school teachers.
The bullhorns were metaphorical. ; )
I wish the teachers were.
Son sent this:
“The dailywire is usually pretty good about being factual. They are citing to the WSJ and the Guardian. The reporting is that the move is expected to take place on Tuesday, which I assume to mean next Tuesday. “
Thanks. Republicans need to get out ahead of this. I’m not holding my breath.
Main stream Democrats go along with total insanity. Is it just a product of the media? Are we going to have real elections? Then what?
Would recommend that Conservative Media and GOP Officials refer to this as “BLM Massacre or Murders”. Something like that so that it isn’t buried. I’ve seen enough of this creep’s online profile that the anti-white determination is warranted.
My experience working with psychopathic criminals in Juvenile Detention was that they were incredible liars. They could make you believe anything. It took a little while for me to grasp their patent dishonesty. Nothing they say can be believed. Nada! They will tell yo whatever they want you to believe in the moment. They do so with remarkable facility and apparent sincerity. Applying normal standards to their behavior in order to try to understand them is self-delusional. They aren’t human in the same way that you are human. They feel nothing that is in anyway congruent with what you feel. They operate in a different moral universe. It is shocking and unnerving to deal with them until you stop assigning normal motivations to their actions. I have no doubt that Stalin and Hitler and his hencemen were largely psychopaths, as have been a lot of leaders in our own country over the years. They can be quite intelligent. They can evolve complex excuses for their actions. They can convince you of their “ideology.” They are never convinced of it. That is what is so difficult for normal people to understand.
We now need a Waukesha Commission modeled after the January 6th Commission.
Those on the 6th Commission claimed Trump incited the so-called “riot” at the Capital, but it is clear that Biden, Kamala, and all the rest of the Woke Democrats incited, justified and encouraged the horrific Waukesha murders.
This act of violence will be duplicated over and over again until we take a stand for the rule of law and our Constitutional rights, and reject this coddling of violence.
Michael Knowles talked Plato and others about how not punishing criminals is not compassionate. This guy’s track record is the perfect example.
You mean, spare the rod, spoil the child?
Well, it’s a little bigger than that. If the criminal justice system had seriously punished this guy when he committed his first crime at 17, maybe he wouldn’t have continued his life of crime and ended up killing 6 people (so far) and injuring dozens of others. It would have been compassionate to him and his victims.
I won’t copy it all here, but this is an excerpt from Heinlein’s Starship Troopers that is exactly on point.
If you like you can skip down a bit to “Have you ever raised a puppy?”.
It is highly unlikely that his first crime was at age 17. Juvenile offenders do not have their crimes listed after they reach their majority. I would bet the farm on the fact that this guy spent much of his youth in juvenile detention and was a discipline problem through out his schooling. Sociopaths/psychopaths generally don’t benefit from “punishment.” They just get better at avoiding it by not getting caught.