• Tedesche@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Poor kid. It’s the mom who should be punished, not him. Obviously, there are ethics considerations but these are the kinds of stories that make me momentarily feel like forced sterilization isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

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      7 hours ago

      Having a kid really should require a license. But there is no entity on earth that could be trusted to manage the process of issuing those licenses fairly. So, damned if we do, damned if we don’t.

      • IamSparticles@lemmy.zip
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        7 hours ago

        Hell, even if you could find someone to handle it fairly, it would just be a matter of time until someone subverted that organization for their own purposes. If there’s power to be wielded, someone will abuse it.

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      The article said that the kid had stuff with Nazi and white supremacy symbols and words on it. I’m pretty sure he’s not innocent in any of this.

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        He’s in middle school. 13 year olds’ political beliefs don’t typically extend beyond whatever news channel their parents watch, and whatever pipeline YouTube has pushed them down. Could he cause a lot of damage with those political beliefs? Absolutely. But those beliefs didn’t spawn out of the ether. He didn’t just casually stumble upon them. They were put in front of him.

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        Well, kids learn from thier parents. Unfortunately he was taught to hate. I don’t think he is to blame. But of course he can’t just go free either.

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          Agreed. We really should have better mental rehabilitative services, especially for youth but who am I kidding with how this country is going.

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        He’s 14. He’s about as innocent as every other child. While he should certainly be educated and corrected, allowing a child to fall into that shit is the fault of their guardian.

        Do you remember all the stupid shit you thought and believed at 14?

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          Kids do dumb things and hopefully learn from their mistakes but I dont think actively planning to shoot up a school is one of those things you can argue as innocuous.

          The article doesn’t say whether he originally had these thoughts or if it was pressed onto him by his mother. It definitely sounds like he was at the very least encouraged to do extreme violence by his mother and he said himself that he looked up to other shooters and thought he would be famous.

          The kid needs some mental health counseling at the very least in my opinion.

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    Pardo had been aware of the threats made by her son, expressed to the school her support of his “violent expressions and drawings” and said she did not feel concerned for his behavior, according to the affidavit.

    Oh. Mother of the year award here

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    She also found an “improvised explosive device” – a mortar-style firework wrapped in duct tape – among the boy’s belongings, the affidavit noted. The explosive device had the words “For Brenton Tarrant,” referencing the shooter in the 2019 mosque attack, along with multiple “SS” symbols and “14 words” – referencing white supremacy – written on it, according to the affidavit.

    Ffs, the radical right has entirely too much influence.

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      Both of these comments having the same votes and only a single downvote is kinda wholesome props for Lemmy.

      These positions are not in competition or at odds with eachother, they are both respected in different ways.

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      On the bright side, I had no idea what that piece of shit’s name was until reading your comment, so at least the media has been relatively successful regarding that.

      Now to go back to forgetting it.

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      22 hours ago

      Loser Nazi fucks only go down the rabbit hole because they’re worthless and powerless in real life. They should bunker bust just like their dear leader did in 45’

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    18 hours ago

    Okay, so anybody knows what music is playing in the video?
    Shazam is giving me wrong tracks only…

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    22 hours ago

    Charged with terrorism for being racist and owning “tactical” gear in Texas?

    Seems more like a friendly fire incident tbh.

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      It’s literally just a tattooed girl with dyed hair. You’d be more likely to see someone like her at an antifascist protest or a punk show than planning a neonazi massacre. Ask me to pick between that and a white guy in a polo shirt for which one is more likely to be a threat to society and it’d be the white guy ten times out of ten.

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        the type of tattoos tell a very, very different story than punk or antifascist….
        for example, tear drops tattooed on the face usually mean you’ve killed someone.
        the style of tattoo, like Olde English 1992 suggests gangbanger… i wouldn’t expect her to be a nazi but, wouldn’t want to hang out with her at a punk show either.

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          You learn that on a true crime podcast or something? It’s a relatively common tattoo (at least relative to face tattoos in general) and can have all kinds of meanings. You haven’t cracked a secret code language.

          The only thing you can read from this photo is she got tattoos on her face, so she probably wasn’t planning to work an office job when she got them.

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            awfully defensive, eh?

            it’s not a secret code, bruh:
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teardrop_tattoo
            (in can mean other things, but a very crime/gang/prison thing)

            just because you’re not in the culture, doesn’t mean all face tatts are equal, or that you have any idea what you’re talking about.

            and i’m not against face tattoos, i am very against judging people based on their tattoos, and i know the difference between gang tattoos and other subcultures.

            if i were a betting man, which i am, i would put my money on: she’s being railroaded because she has crimey tattoos (most tattoos aren’t related to criminal subcultures, hers are)
            Anything i could glean from those is that she’s NOT the kind of person to support neo-nazi ideology and murder, but probably had a gun or two and ammo…

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              LOL. And are you “in the culture” after reading the Wiki page that specifically talks about how they can mean a lot of things and maybe none of them at all? Girls (and guys) get tears for all kinds of reasons, and jumping to “she killed people” or “she’s in a gang”, rather than “she’s experienced loss” or “she’s been abused” is the same level of tattoo pop-symbology that’s labeling every brown man with ink as “MS-13”.

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        I dunno. I like tattoos a lot and think they can look great on people but these are hella questionable.

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        She looks like the women who ran the bakery at the grocery chain I worked for. She also looks like the head of logostics for the third party shipper we use though her hair is Manic-Panic Magenta and Blue .

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      Reads headline “Huh?”

      Sees picture “Oh.”

      Edit: oh my god it just keeps getting better.

      She also found an “improvised explosive device” – a mortar-style firework wrapped in duct tape – among the boy’s belongings, the affidavit noted. The explosive device had the words “For Brenton Tarrant,” referencing the shooter in the 2019 mosque attack, along with multiple “SS” symbols and “14 words” – referencing white supremacy – written on it, according to the affidavit.

      Somebody forgot to explain to this kid what the 14 words crowd think about Hispanics.

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        I want to know why it’s so easy for some hispanics to become nazis. Like bruh, that ain’t a tan, you ain’t white. I got a half mexican uncle with a swastika tattoo and he does not pull it off, so what the hell?

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          They are shamed into wanting to be white

          And they’re close enough a lot of them pass

          Just like asians

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              I mean, if we’re rich we’re as white as we want to be.

              That’s how race works in this country:

              If there’s a chance that you’re secretly wealthy and could ruin the career of a shitty cop, that’s the criteria for being considered white.

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              The closest we get is being referred to as “one of the good ones” by the bigoted assholes.