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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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What does the stuff with his kids have to do with anything
Parents are definitely affecting by how their children are doing. They feel guilt, shame and it affects them personally if their kid ends up substance abusing to the point of being committed. Many feel like a failure as a result of it, others will look for someone else to blame.
I think the timings of posts shows an estrangement too. This is a man who drove everyone away from him and within that isolation he became even more extreme than what drove away the people around him.
After he attacked Omar there was the usual scramble where internet chuds attempt to link the attack to left wing causes. The closest thing they were able to find is he has a trans kid, which is somehow supposed to matter.
Yeah seems kinda doxxy since it's not like his daughters did anything wrong (that I'm aware of, so far)
Yeah, not okay, but two points kinda make it relevant. For involuntary commitment the guy was probably a shitty and abusive dad; a lack of support will make psyche problems a lot worse. Kids with pronouns made him lose his shit even more.
this list was compiled by what looks like a strange guy on xitter
Being a parent of children with these kind of issues is taxing on a person, and it adds to the story of someone being left behind (both voluntarily or involuntarily) by everyone he cares about.
He is not the victim here lmao. Is that really the take away for you? That the black girlfriend shouldn’t have broken up with him and made him racist?
This kind of man shouldn’t have just been “left behind” he should have been dumped in a mine and the entrance sealed
Obviously he's the guy who tried to kill someone, so he isn't the victim in that case, but to some extent he is a victim, as is everyone who eventually drinks the coolaid of right-wing mass media propaganda.
Clearly the guy, while obviously struggling to be a decent human being, wasn't outright vile initially. I may be reading into it a bit much, but can you not see the story of someone who has been through hardships, that was eventually accepted by a group that took advantage of his desire for being part of something? Obviously he cannot shirk blame or fault for the path he ended up taking, but I could see things playing out quite a bit differently if there were reasonable people he could turn to for help and guidance.
Don't spin my words, I'm not saying anyone made him racist, or that the fact that his girlfriend was black had anything to do with how he turned out. He got divorced twice. His best friend died. One of his daughters is institutionalized. His girlfriend left him. That kind of stuff can cause someone to feel like they have no control over their own life, and unfortunately the right is very good at convincing people they have the solution for that.
I was raised republican, and made the switch to democrat in college, and then again to socialist a while after that. I've personally had to help people I know from losing their head and falling for the shit Fox News is shoveling in hard times, so maybe I'm just more likely to assume that there could have been conditions in which this guy didn't become a racist asshole who tries to kill a congresswoman. I believe very strongly that, if the left showed any semblance of compassion for the normal folks being targeted by the right, there'd be quite a few less people pulled into being extremists.
I feel more sorry for Ilhan Omar, his ex-wives, his children, his ex-girlfriend, all the people threatened and hurt by his 10 DUIs. I don't care about him at all. These aren't things that passively happened to him. He became a racist troll and drove everyone around him away and destroyed everyones lives along with his own, by his actions. Yeah in a decent society someone wouldn't have been created, because he would have been kept in check from the very start instead of his racist and misogynist abusive drunk tendencies being enabled perpetually for years.
Aside from his friend dying he was a participant in the rest of his life sucking.
clarify? evidence?
what group was he accepted by? evidence?
That would be a true feeling based on the evidence you supply. Of course! He/you/I/we do not have control over our own lives. We are not gods. Dealing with that is part of humanity! Please tell me who was exempt from this. We cannot all be Henry VIII. Every person whos eyeballs land upon this have had such tragedies befall them.