The suspect in the Florida State University shooter, who faces first degree murder charges for killing two and injuring five on Thursday was a member of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, a fascist youth group around the Republican Party, and is a registered Republican voter in Florida. The 20-year-old suspect, Phoenix Ikner, is the stepson of Leon County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jessica Ikner, who has been with the department for 18 years.
Back in the old days of Fark, I remember there used to be a flowchart of people’s reactions to mass shootings:
I feel like the right has replaced the second step with whatever out group they are trying to target.
Following the Oklahoma City Bombing, EVERYBODY jumped on the Muslim Terrorist bandwagon, but it didn’t sit right with me. Why would a Muslim bomb a building in OKC? Most Muslims wouldnt even know what Oklahoma is. Why wouldnt they pick a more iconic target? It’s all about making a statement, after all. It just smelled like a homegrown terrorist to me, and those around me derided me for being a “Muslim-lover.”
Then it turned out to be a standard issue American white guy, with blurry motivations beyond being generally pissy about the government for some incomprehensible reason.
Critical Thinking Skills are the most important skills you can learn in life. They keep you from being stupid and falling for propaganda.
He had a copy of The Turner Diaries and connection to a cult compound called Elohim City which is operating to this day in Oklahoma. He clearly viewed himself as part of some sort of Aryan resistance movement. (Don’t forget the involvement of Nichols - who got the death penalty as well - and the Fourier couple, who our tax dollars put into witness protection to insure that no one would face any consequences.)
There’s more than a few in OKCPD who were sympathetic to his cause. Unfortunately, Terrence Yeakey was so disturbed by whatever was on the missing VHS tape that he slit his wrists and shot himself from behind…
He was also specifically pissed about Waco and Ruby Ridge. Tucker Carlson has been suggesting that people go Ruby Ridge themselves of late…
And that’s why we don’t teach it here in Bangbangshootyland.
Good ol’ Fark. That and Fazed were my go-to websites back in university.
Wow, i haven’t heard anyone mention Fark in ages! I spent a lot of time there before Digg…
You guys wanna hang out on there.com later? It’s trivia night!