if we were assholes like the alt-reich, I could see peddling the theory that orange

[niyad]

arranged the LV event to take attention away from russia and his crap on Puerto Rico.

but that is beneath us.

[unblock]

1. But he needs attention diverted on a daily basis so we'd have to have a mass shooting almost daily

Wait a minute...!

[niyad]

2. you mean this:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029667361

[Sucha NastyWoman]

3. Don't do that

We are not them

[Girard442]

4. Try this analogy:

Let's say for some odd reason I want to annoy the crap out of one of my neighbors so, in the spring, I till a section of my property but do nothing else with it. In time, ugly, noxious weeds grow. Did I take any action to make that weed grow right there? Well, no, of course not. Nevertheless, doing what I did pretty much guaranteed there would be weeds.

That's what the Kochs and their ilk do. They create an environment where it's pretty much a sure thing that bad, scary things will happen on a regular basis and they benefit from a populace that's in a constant state of fear and terror and anger. Do they conspire with the individual doers? No. They don't need to.