• lennybird@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Is there any chance this and the Colorado school shooting that occurred during the same time are connected? Strikes me as very odd that there is very little information being dropped on that one, except for the fact that the 16-year-old was radicalized by an online “white supremacist” group.

    What if these were synchronized for a reason and both were groypers?

    Also, why is there no wikipedia entry for that event at all? It also makes sense that Fuentes – in an extremely unusual act of restraint – was calling on his followers during his show to tone down the rhetoric and don’t exact revenge. He knows something, doesn’t he?

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      11 hours ago

      What if these were synchronized for a reason and both were groypers?

      That’s an interesting idea, but I think it isn’t in the news because school shootings have become so common that nobody (except you) thinks it’s anything but random coincidence.

      Ditto for why there’s no Wikipedia entry: it fails the “notability” requirement.

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        11 hours ago

        Nobody is a strong word when one has to immediately contradict that in parentheses. That two identical right-wing extremist events occur simultaneously, both of whom appear to have been radicalized by online right-wing disinformation ops — that doesn’t seem beyond the realm of probability let alone possibility. I am also entertaining it; I didn’t say I believe it as fact.

        Especially when we know for a fact that far-right extremist violence is the number-one domestic terrorist threat, and that both currently have links to antisemitic ideological groups.

        How I wish it failed the “notability” requirement; and yet every other single mass-shooting incident has an entry. So why would you come to think this when this an anomalous outlier?