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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn case there was any doubt, it appears the Atlanta killer was a Trump fan.
"The original post, written by another user, appeared to pay tribute to a friend, wishing him a "day filled with the power of Trump and 7.62x54R," a reference to a particular rifle round specifically designed for the Mosin-Nagant model."
"The Daily Beast also reported that an Instagram account that appeared to belong to Long had the bio: "Pizza, guns, drums, music, family, and God. This pretty much sums up my life. It's a pretty good life."
catbyte
(34,406 posts)Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)Not really
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,459 posts)PortTack
(32,778 posts)magicarpet
(14,155 posts)Shouldn't he fit "Failed Incel" in his bio ?
A bit of a freak type,... who turned off the ladies. So he had to get his sex a la carte... and pay dearly for it.
After awhile finding it quite costly and very superficial,... so he went on a bang bang shooting spree to teach these foreign ladies that they don't own him.
The power structure was very much the opposite. He was not being used. The fact is he and his gun used them for his purposes,... then he discarded them.
He wanted the world to know he and his gun were the alpha power players of this transaction. He wanted to show them not one shred of love more than they gave him, which he ultimately found superficial, cold, and very costly.
He likely wanted to show them some cold love in return - because he felt that was all they dished out to him.
So that is exactly what he did.
ironflange
(7,781 posts)BlueNProud
(1,048 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I'm sure young Mr. Long didn't mention his economic anxiety so as not to alarm any of his friends.
Jilly_in_VA
(9,983 posts)Is there any indication he was in DC on Jan. 6, or is my theory correct, that he was pissed off that he wasn't?
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Targeting women is or should be a hate crime.
Sex workers are disproportionately women of color, and are very frequently targeted by male mass and serial murderers.
But women getting killed is so very common that it barely gets a mention as a type of hate crime. This slug (won't call him a man) hated women -- as so often is true, the excuse is, "They tempted me into sin."
This is the excuse men have used to kill, oppress, and exploit women forever, and it should continue to appall us rather than be taken as kind of rote and unsurprising-- as if racist motivation is more evil than sexist motivation. (They're both Very Wrong, of course.)
Is this such a big murder motivation in other countries? Of course, the US murder rate is so much higher than anywhere else... but do men murder sex workers and women at this level elsewhere?
Apparently this jackass doesn't remember the commandments.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)racist incel men are.
Midnight Writer
(21,769 posts)If Democrats had a media machine like the Republicans, we could broadcast that over and over again until everyone knows it.
As things stand now, it is just a footnote.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)Maybe they will find out he was at the Capitol on Jan 6.
The vilest thing ive heard is him/them saying this was not racism.......