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https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1qpnj18/a_glimpse_into_the_life_of_the_man_who_attacked/ (thread has some sources about his past that lines this timeline up)

What a pathetic loser.

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 65 points 5 days ago

Man, I feel sad reading this. I can't even muster contempt.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 39 points 5 days ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one, like the guy is a piece of shit but when it's like ">best friend died" it's just like, fuck. maybe his friend was keeping him relatively sane since that's when he started posting his shitty politics? idk. Doesn't matter but it's still kinda deeper-sadness to think about

There are people in Palestine who have endured everyone they know being murdered by fascists with the whole world doing nothing, and somehow they don’t all become reactionary racist shitheads. There’s no excuse for this

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 20 points 5 days ago

They're not the target of cordinated mass media campaigns designed to weaponize them into reactionary racist shitheads, they're just the victims of those people because capital sees more utility in simply killing them than in weaponizing them. If we're being materialist about this, there's a reason why America produces so many of these people while Palestine does not. This guy chose to be a nazi, yes, but he did not do so under circumstances of his choosing. That shit is in the air here and that's very much by design.

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If we're being truly materialist about this, getting rid of all moralism, violent drunk fascists still should be shot or tackled when they make attacks with syringes at Ilhan Omar. He got the spray off and could have killed her if he wasn't a fuck up and had something truly toxic. It's an objective, material failure to allow this person to get away with what he did.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Absolutely: they need to be removed before they can cause harm, the pipeline that creates more of them needs to be collapsed at it's entrance, and the conditions that allowed the pipeline to be built in the first place need to be rectified.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 15 points 5 days ago

sorry I forgot some people are just born evil fucked up shitheads

I don’t care why a Nazi is a Nazi and what psychological trauma led them there. At a certain point there’s nothing to be done but put them in the ground

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 20 points 5 days ago

Sure, but that doesnt mean there's no value to examining what made him this way

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If necessary. If they can be saved, why not? It's sad to see someone who seems like they can be saved pushed to capitalist induced psychosis and to the point of harming others. Assume such a person isn't killed in whatever revolutionary movement that happens, and they are now functionally a political prisoner. You just think we should execute them? How fucking grim. They can be given the reeducation and stability they need to recover, and then live pro social and reformed lives. Why wouldn't you want that for someone? Why wouldn't it make you sad that they are denied it under the status quo?

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We're discussing this in the context that he just made an attack with some unknown substance against the only leftwing politician with any principles at all in the USA. This isn't some hapless political prisoner from your hypothetical dream world. This is reality where he's an unhinged racist and fascist who uses violence against women, POC and the left. Self-defense. Her guards should have shot him 3 times in the face when he drew the syringe and lunged towards her.

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Okay. One can put down a rabid animal and still pity it for the tragedy it is. Understanding what drove it to harmful behavior and trying to cure and prevent rabies doesn't mean we don't put down rabid animals, neither does it make someone counter revolutionary or weak to pity reactionaries driven to psychosis by the material conditions around them. They're still culpable, and they're still legitimate targets of self-defensive violence. But they're also human, and I'd wish for a world where they didn't have to suffer that way. Shame on me I guess.

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

Would the fash rehabilitators sing a different tune if he brought the Glock with him instead of the syringe?

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

real "do the fascists have free speech" energy

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Nah. One can still recognize the humanity of people who get the wall. But I framed hypothetical in the way that I did for a reason—dealing with a political prisoner. Does that sound like free speech to you, ya goober? Having sympathy for our enemies and recognizing them as human is in fact part of what differentiates us from fascists after all.

This dipshit should be dealt with exactly as harshly as necessary. In the meantime, its perfectly coherent to pity the wretch and the material conditions that made him this way.

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

There's a lot of space between giving fascists free speech and literally executing them after they are already held in a secure prison.

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

why are we using a secure prison hypothetical dreamworld instead of reality of racist fascist drunk who sprayed unknown substances on Ilhan Omar. Guards should have killed or captured him on sight when he drew a syringe and lunged towards her, they failed big time here and were far too slow and let a weirdo walk right up to her. He could have killed her if he wasn't a drunk fuck up.

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago

Because that's the conversational context, if you look a few comments back. It has nothing to do with this guy, really.

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I think it's pretty simple. Become so racist and reactionary that you commit a crime or threaten the revolution in any way? Immediate punishment, up to and including death if they are not reformable. It has nothing to do with moralism, or murdering all "bad" people in the revolution or whatever. They are not punished until they do crimes. This man did a crime.

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago

"If they are not reformable" is doing a lot of work there.

Not really. The revolution is going to be dirtier than you think

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago

That is again a different subject

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

No it's not, they're talking about "after the revolution" as if that's a thing. The revolution is ongoing. Threats to it keep happening.

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

There's the current situation in America, the revolution in the sense of the active overthrow of the state, and "the revolution" in the sense of an ongoing proletarian state that has established itself. In the first we don't have prisons, in the second they are fundamentally insecure, and in the third they are secure. Summary executions in the third case simply do not make sense, and really executions in general don't either in a country like America under a DotP.

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

you can't save an active threat. Puyi wasn't reformed during the civil war.

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

Yeah, which is why I framed the hypothetical and situated my response in a particular way.

[-] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 5 days ago

I get it. One of my best friends had a kid in 2015. After they were born he found out they have an incredibly rare genetic disorder (one that’s essentially 1 in a billion) and will need 24/7 medical intervention from about the age of two onward. He started going off the deep end politically after that. COVID hit and he was unrecognizable from the person he used to be. Pain and stress can do a lot of harm. I’m happy he’s a really great dad, but his beliefs about LGBTQ people and immigrants are so abhorrent we can’t be friends anymore.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 37 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In a way, yeah, it's fucked up and sad someone could get lead so astray. Which is why I believe in reeducation than outright killing people, most of the time at least.

[-] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 33 points 5 days ago

And there are millions of men out there just like him. Not necessarily the reactionary racist part, but beaten down by life without a social support network in place to guide him out of it. It makes them susceptible to social media algorithms, and this timeline of events suggests that had a role in radicalizing him. Every town in this godforsaken country has a ticking time bomb like him waiting to go off.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago

too bad people read this as a defense of a horrible racist rather than just an expression of empathy for other people which, yeah, these people don't share, but fuck me for wanting to be better than them and for realizing that I could have very easily been born someone other than myself and whatever fucked to death shit happened to make them that way since people aren't actually born ontologically evil racists could have happened to me

like for fuck's sake people have sympathy for the literal demons in frieren and call it a mark of the show expressing fascist ideology but then turn around and go "no actually, re education is too good for a fascist, we should actually aim to mass murder every ideological opponent" like holy shit

[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Keep your empathy up, duke\duchess\ducex

[-] tocopherol@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

I really do feel sadness and pity when I look at the life of any individual fascist like this guy, no one chooses their worldview, we are all conditioned by our experiences. We have choice and willpower but can only make the choices we've been conditioned to. We don't need to have the same hatred they have to fight back and defeat them.

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