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Frank Lee's avatar

Democrats: "males that self-identify as trans are females!"

Democrats: "males that are mass gun killers that self-identify as trans are white males!"

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sam's avatar

Little known fact: anti-“conversion therapy” laws enacted in many states make it a crime to “seek to change a person’s gender identity”. See for example Minnesota Statutes 214.078. Once a kid starts down the trans rabbit hole, no professional is going try to address the underlying causes for fear of civil and criminal liability. So what is a parent to do?

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BlackDogClan's avatar

Let’s stop using word, “senseless,” for these shootings. They are “psycho” logical.

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Gary's avatar

There is too much that is not known. NBC reported numerous police calls to the family’s residence over the years. Was the killer administered drugs to assist transition? Any antipsychotics? Does the killer have a criminal history as a juvenile that was hidden by MN’s Clean Slate law? Where did the killer get the weapons?

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Marie Silvani's avatar

This secrecy stuff about the killers history is so disturbing, yet at the same time understandable. Can we trust the MSM to deliver the truth? I don’t. I don’t blame the mother for hiding and hiring a lawyer. She feels threatened. But, just like the kid at Parkland, there’s a history of concern…then we need to know. Again, it would harken to what Matt and Walter are bringing up. Isn’t it the FBI’s job to be on top of these potential psychos? FBI was away of potential issues at Pulse night club too.

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Gary's avatar

The FBI does not have the resources to monitor every wacko. To do so we would have to become a police state.

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BookWench's avatar

While it would be impossible for them to monitor every crazy person in the country, they might be better able to follow up on tips, if they were less busy monitoring scary parents who show up at school board meetings to complain about gay/trans books being pushed on their 8 year olds, or Covid mandates.

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Marie Silvani's avatar

They seem to have an awful lot of time pursuing unfounded activities.

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BookWench's avatar

Like infiltrating the Proud Boys or the Oath Keepers, for instance.

I lost count of how many terror attacks were followed by statements that the perps were "on the FBI's radar."

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Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

Excellent questions. I understand his mother will not speak to the police, has gone to an as yet unknown location, and has hired a high powered attorney. Does the MN law provide for charges to be filed for a parent in this type of situation? Where’s the father?

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Steve W's avatar

A semi-nitpicky comment: the rifle silhouette seen on the sticker in the shooter's notebook is that of an AK47, not an AR15. The two look very different and are immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with these sorts of rifles. The AR15 was developed in the late 1950's by Armalite (an American company and the basis for the AR designation) as a civilian semi-automatic rifle, good for shooting coyotes and such. It was later heavily modified to make the military M16/M4, select-fire rifles capable of full auto fire. Its default chambering is the .223/5.56mm cartridge, which has little recoil and is pleasant and easy to shoot. It's also inexpensive. It's too small to be suitable for something like deer hunting, but a caliber conversion to a good hunting cartridge is cheap, easy and very fast (well under a minute) so you can train on the range using little cheap ammo and then use essentially the same rifle to bag your buck using a larger and more costly round. A good quality AR15 is very accurate and is a legitimate target rifle, while a commodity AR15 can be had for a shockingly low price, which goes a long way towards explaining its popularity.

The AK47, on the other hand, was designed by the Soviets as a military full-auto-capable rifle. It is not accurate at any distance - it wasn't designed to be because an accurate rifle is a finicky prima donna - but it is dead simple and highly reliable in even the worst conditions and with poor maintenance. It was designed to reliably kill people at close to moderate distance and it does that very well. It is the favored rifle of insurgents and terrorists everywhere. I don't think it a coincidence that it was chosen as a symbol for militant transgenderism.

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John Duffner's avatar

A lot of what Walter sees as the glamorization of the AR is a reaction to the efforts to demonize and ban it. I’ve heard anti-gun people complain about pro-2A types “fetishizing” or “totemizing” guns and I think that is projection- they absolutely do those things but in a negative way. They’ve even tried pushing studies that claim even touching a gun changes you for the worse.

And Walter is right in that something like a 12 gauge pump in a situation like this one would produce horrifying results, easily worse than what happened. The gunphobes pretend they don’t want to ban those too, but that’s reflective of political viability rather than desire, as some have admitted to me.

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Dierk Groeneman's avatar

It's too bad liberal media is so afraid of offending "the trans community". If the shooter's deep unhappiness with his life could have figured in the coverage, we as a country might have avoided some of the pall a story like this casts.

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Marie Silvani's avatar

Adult Children of Alcoholic ACA, and Alanon. Yes Camino de Santiago in Spain.

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Steersman's avatar

> "... so afraid of offending 'the trans community'. ...."

Indeed. A rather thuggish if not psychotic bunch. ICYMI, "Terf Is a Slur" has a rather damning bill of particulars:

https://terfisaslur.com/

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Marie Silvani's avatar

I belong to several recovery groups which have been infiltrated by gay activists. I don’t want to seem insensitive to their recovery needs, but they bring their activism into these meetings. They wear T shirts and share their feelings of pending doom by our current administration, they feel threatened. I’m also not discounting that. But, at the same time, our preamble and traditions explicitly state we are not to bring this into the meetings. Their argument is, where do they go to share their fears? That’s a good point too. Typically, what happens…the meetings fall apart and then they move on to the next place. For me, I’ve stop attending meetings. They show up, it seems, wherever I go. I’ve had to redefine my means of maintaining my recovery. This week, I leaving to hike The Camino. Hoping to find some answers. How do I honor others feelings while mine are being trampled on? It feels very isolating.

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Steersman's avatar

"recovery groups"? Might I be so bold as to ask, recovering from what? 🙂

Apropos of which, and of your "gay activists", that reminds me of a cartoon I'd seen many moons ago in a Playboy magazine about the time that Britain was legalizing homosexuality -- circa 1970? The cartoon showed a gay man, shown as a "poofter" of sorts, who was saying that he was appreciative of that legalization, but wouldn't really be satisfied until it was, as he put it, "mandatory". Give em an inch and all that ...

As for "The Camino", this one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_de_Santiago

Reminds me that my brother did it several years ago, and a different one there in Spain more recently. Enjoy. 🙂

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BookWench's avatar

I met gay people online before Trump's first inauguration, who were convinced that he was soon going to "round up the gays." When I asked why, I could never get a real answer. Trump had actually posed onstage with a rainbow Trump flag. He never exhibited any hostility toward gays, that I was aware of. I don't know where this paranoia comes from.

Enjoy your journey. Sounds awesome!

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Natalia Lavrishina's avatar

I translated everything that is written in that manifesto you showed in the video. I am Russian. There are few words I could not figure out, I left dots in there. It looks to me like someone who learnt Cyrillic to code his writing, not someone speaking Russian.

"Let’s get back this …. In motion

Well, welcome to part three of whatever. Things are swiftly moving into plan. I am feeling good about Anunciation. It seems like a good combo of easy atttack for me and devastating tragedy. And I want to do my research. I have concerns about founding a LAPJ info group. I want to … any parents, but with or post school pickup / dropof. I think parents are super likely to have a gun or attack me with scary ferocity. Maybe I could attack an event at the onsite church. The same at the school is in the basement so that not an option. A Christmas concert at the church would be … with kids, but also parents. I think my plan of attacking a LAPJ group of kids coming from recess is my best plan. Then from there I can go inside and keep going for as long as I can. I just have no idea how many kids are out for recess at .. time. I know .. on that place is going to be near impossible. I bet those staff members and neighbors are very watchful of their area. You know, I bet I can see the playground from the (finger on the picture) ….zone parking lot! That means I will have to wait for school to start. - Emoji - That’s ok, it’s only a few months. If I time it right, I (underscored) could (underscored) be able to catch that big assembly on the first day of school! I think that is a bit too risky though. Since everyone is outside it would be VERY FAST (caps original) how quickly everyone would disperse. I think I should wait, so some recon and make sure this place is worth atacking. I think I will go on a normal school day too … and see how many people are in the playground area. First I will need to pretend I am fixing my car so I can see when they have recess even..."

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Christopher Gaskins's avatar

Thank you very much for doing that translation. It revealed far more than anything I have heard on the news. It is also completely consistent with the 764 ideology and the FBI's relatively new categorization of criminals as Nihilistic Violent Extremists (see the recent Free Press article by Frannie Block interviewing FBI Agent Pat McMonigle, per JBlock's post below).

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Natalia Lavrishina's avatar

I read the interview with McMonigle by FP out loud to my 15 year old last night and we discussed it with her. She said she had been researching the 764 to know their ways in case she ever runs into one of them online. The whole thing is so disturbing, it’s beyond words.

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BookWench's avatar

Thanks!

That was really creepy.

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JBlock's avatar

Matt & Walter: See Free press article written by Frannie Block interviewing FBI Agent Pat McMonigle. It was a very enlightening read. He has been investigating online cult fueled by an insidious, unspeakably evil ideology that led to the end of his law enforcement career." That ideology is called 764, an online neo-Nazi group grounded in a nihilism and a perverse form of social Darwinism which encourages vulnerable young kids to release sexually explicit material, hurt themselves and even die by suicide." Agent McMonigle says, "the shooter in Minnesota fit the profile of this new threat of Nihilistic Violent Extremists to a T. I would suggest all your readers look for that article.

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BookWench's avatar

I saw a short segment on that on Infowars.

Very scary stuff.

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Biff's avatar

Jen Psaki is dog whistling (no it's not just for criticizing conservatives) with her "prayer is not enough" lecturing that they know better than the ignorant rubes who pray. Her message: "you people are too dumb to understand that you need progressives like us to run things". Frey is not go that deep. He just wants to keep his job and he knows that liberal voters in Minneapolis want to hear him come out in defense of the LBGTQ "community"

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John Duffner's avatar

They both remind their followers to be mad at the outgroup, who is always to blame.

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Biff's avatar

Deflection is their game

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Enticing Clay's avatar

All group identity is intellectual and moral suicide.

And there is no better example of this intellectual and moral suicide than the idea of group guilt.

Group guilt is simply the idea that if a person who self identifies as Christian then shoplifts a candy bar, that means all christians are guilty of shoplifting. And the explanation is the generally that the degenerate nature of the group itself that causes this behavior.

The idea of group guilt is fundamental and foundational to party politics, and group guilt is preached far and wide by politicians, media, cultural institutions and party partisans.

The obvious reason why we get these speeches every once in a awhile about how we shouldn't celebrate group guilt--is ONLY because this specific group has been chosen for cultural ascension (for whatever reasons).

Every other moment these same people are furiously (literally) masturbating over group guilt and preach it's integration into all of society.

Group guilt is intellectual and moral suicide.

Even those who depend upon group guilt know this--which is why they so strongly protect their children from its accusations.

And it's also why they teach their children to believe and preach group guilt.

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John Duffner's avatar

Many libs seem to regard it individual self defense as antisocial and dangerous, but support collective “defense” by groups they like, even if it seems to normal people like a form of offense.

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Steersman's avatar

> "... if I’m getting this correctly, Walter, it’s a man who identifies as female, not actually a transsexual, not a post-op person."

Not quite sure where you're going to, or coming from on that, but transexuals have NOT changed sex. All they've done is turned themselves into sexless eunuchs.

To have a sex is, to a first approximation, simply a matter of having either ovaries -- females -- or testicles -- males. And transsexuals have neither, ergo sexless.

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Ruth's avatar

Why so often in SCHOOLS?

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

easy prey

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Marie Silvani's avatar

and big headlines

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John Duffner's avatar

Through media coverage and consumption we tell these people what will get the most attention.

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Steve W's avatar

Schools are gun-free zones. The shooter doesn't need to worry about a good guy with a concealed weapon being present.

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BookWench's avatar

Like that shooter in Aurora, I think it was, who deliberately chose a theater with a "Gun Free Zone" sign.

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John Duffner's avatar

Per his writings, this particular one chose the time of his attack to avoid drop off time and thus the possibility of an armed parent.

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Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

Wasn’t he a former student? Maybe in their delusional state they’re going back to the beginning of the problems as they see them?

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BookWench's avatar

Because it's so easy!

The kids can't shoot back, the odds of anyone on campus (other than a uniformed police officer) being armed are slim to nil, and because these killers are basically big fat weenies.

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Belling the Cat's avatar

I have read and seen as little as possible about this incident (including much of this ATW episode, sorry guys), but you know it's inescapable. From admittedly partial info, the perp said or wrote that he wished he hadn't brainwashed himself when he was younger. My guess is that at some level he realized he didn't in fact do it to himself but it was done to him; he was led/persuaded to ruin his life, body, growth, possibilities by people around him as a kid. Why he didn't simply kill his parents is a mystery to me.

And if I had kids in that school I would be looking very deeply into its curriculum, admin, teachers, presentation, and ideology. Plenty of wacky Catholicism in the world today, far beyond losing the plot way back when they set up popes & their worldly power over Christ.

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John's avatar

Jacob Frey doing his Gavin Newsom thing.

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rtj's avatar

Leave My Bloody Valentine out of it. Great band, great music. Dark, but not in an overtly violent way.

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j juniper's avatar

Thank you.

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