Assassination in my view is non-personal killing.

e.g. you hire an assassin to take out someone for a personal reason, the assassin does the actual killing as a business transaction, nothing personal about it.

Fair call.

But that boat has sailed my friend. There are 100’s of news articles blasting his name across all media.

I’ll not use his name again.

Thanks, I was wondering weather it was legit.

It wouldn’t be hard to fake!

I get what you are trying to say; even if it is not political, it ends up being political just because of the target. The motivations of Thomas no longer matter.

The media is screaming at the top of its lungs that this was a politically motivated shooting, I’m just not convinced that it was.

Where is his unhinged manifesto posted on 4chan, or anything overtly political about this guy? I saw @Zerlyna@lemmy.world posted a screenshot from reddit/twitter about “ending Epsteins’ evil empire”; that could very well be his entire motivation.

For all we know he didn’t like the color orange.

Made me laugh

If he didn’t go for the glory shot and instead went for center body mass, we would be having a different conversation!

Well that adds some context to the conversation.

Yep 4chan is a cesspit of hatred.

Learning to ignore the crazy person on the street corner is a life lesson.

While I agree fully with your sentiment, the internet brings all the crazies of the world to the same street corner and emboldens them. They think their views are the norm because everyone around them is spouting the same shit, whereas in times gone by the crazies were isolated and the shit didn’t leach from them like a cracked sewer main.

I empathize with Thomas, because that was my experience of school. I was bullied every day for basically my entire school career. I was the weird kid, who didn’t understand people and was smarter than average.

I fantasied about killing my bullies, but in NZ we don’t have access to guns or the fucked up relationship with them that the US does.

I feel sorry for the kid. What he did wasn’t right or good in any way. But I assume the school shootings and this act come from a place of great hurt. The world has shat on them for their whole life and they don’t see it ever ending.

To go further, it took years (many years) after I left school to come to terms with who I was and how to change to be a well adjusted member of society. If I had the kind of access to guns that you seem to in the US, I don’t know what would have happened, I was an angry hateful person who blamed others around me (rightfully so in a lot of cases, but not always) for all my troubles.

Good point, this is the title I used in Unpopular Opinions. I’ll update it.

I agree, tried to post in unpopular opinion first…oh well.

After reading about him (from the other side of the world), I felt sorry for him. He was by reported accounts a nice young guy but was bullied all the time at high school. That is really sad.

The fact that he is no longer at school does put a hole in my theory, but just because you leave school doesn’t necessarily mean that the hurt has gone away.

Agreed.

Have the two men in this instance killed before? I didn’t get that from the article.

I know I shouldn’t engage.

But how exactly is it racist, to be concerned with the fact that a murder occurred. I don’t find murder a political issue.

Why do you think murder is political?

I’m not trolling, I read the article and a few things stood out.

This guy has two kids, I have 3 at similar ages, he has a family that loved him. The article states he had some mental health issues, but doesn’t go into how severe (I assume low level, otherwise it would have stated it). It says that he was unarmed, you know what American gun culture fucks up to many things for you, this shouldn’t even be a point of note.

The least interesting thing about a murder victim should be their race. Would it make any difference if he was Chinese, Indian or Samoan? A man was killed, his kids will miss him, is family will morn him.

As for

You know exactly why it matters.

I have an idea why you think it matters, I know why I think it doesn’t. If this was a race based killing, that can be taken into account at sentencing.

Shouldn’t they be held accountable for killing a human?

I thought murder was bad, as a general rule.

Why does it matter that the guy was black?

How about something like:

Hotel guards kill father of two, holding him down while he cries for help.

Some days it’s good to have aphantasia

Last Windows I ran full-time was XP, ran Win7 for a couple of months before switching Ubuntu 10.04; still used Win XP and Win7 in VM’s for years for specific applications.

Win10 is the OS on the work machines, some of it is really nice, but so much feels backward. I don’t get why there is still control panel and the settings app. Why is notepad so shit…

I used Win11 recently, it looks quite nice, more consistent than 10 at least. But everything I have read makes me want to stay away.

Ran Ubuntu LTS’s finishing with 20.04, have since been running Mint. Snap’s made Ubuntu a worse experience for me.

But could His Royal POTUS rock Kim’s sweet fade

Make America Grovel Again