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demmiblue

(36,845 posts)
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 09:37 AM Oct 2017

YouTube Trumpkin and Former Milo Intern Kills His Own Dad for Calling Him a Nazi

Lane Davis was a prolific poster on the Donald Trump subreddit, a former intern for Milo, and an editor for a prominent GamerGater’s conspiracy site. Then, one day, he snapped.

Source: The Daily Beast

Something had set Lane Davis off, but that wasn’t unusual.

It was a clear summer afternoon on July 14, on Samish Island—a small, idyllic community off the northwest coast of Washington state—where Lane, a balding, bearded, Donald Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist and prolific YouTuber and Redditor, known online as Seattle4Truth, lived with his parents.

Lane had spent that Friday morning as he did most mornings, on the internet. This day, like the others, Lane read and retweeted posts celebrating the Second Amendment, bemoaning diversity, and spreading conspiracy theories that alleged Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta was involved in a child sex ring and DNC staffer Seth Rich had been murdered. It was the end of a busy week during which he contributed to the Donald Trump subreddit, and over on The Ralph Retort, a fringe blog where he worked as a political editor, (unpaid, according to the site’s owner), he had celebrated the idea of a Kid Rock Senate run, claimed America was under threat of Sharia law, and wondered whether CNN was “literally ISIS.”

Lane’s parents, Catherine and Charles Davis—Charles was known as Chuck to his friends— were used to their 33-year-old son’s outbursts. They had become so frequent that Charles had started recording the tirades on his phone. But that afternoon, they were tired of Lane’s screaming, wanted him to leave, and told him as much. Instead, Lane chased his parents around their home, spitting in his father’s face while screaming that he wasn’t threatening to kill them, but “pedophiles who were taking over the country.”


Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtube-trumpkin-and-former-milo-intern-kills-his-own-dad-for-calling-him-a-nazi?via=twitter_page


Another one of those very fine people.
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YouTube Trumpkin and Former Milo Intern Kills His Own Dad for Calling Him a Nazi (Original Post) demmiblue Oct 2017 OP
33 year old loser leftynyc Oct 2017 #1
Not to mention: racist, misogynistic and completely unhinged. demmiblue Oct 2017 #7
While it applies to this guy, keep in mind that a lot of adults have moved back in with parents Blue_Adept Oct 2017 #8
I know a lot of people leftynyc Oct 2017 #9
I read an article on DU yesterday about the Sandy Hook shooter. BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #2
Busy week of posting on the internet? Coventina Oct 2017 #3
How can anyone say there's no history of mental illness with these guys? hopeforchange2008 Oct 2017 #4
Honestly I hope they all commit felonies and lose their right to vote. Initech Oct 2017 #6
One less Trump voter is a good thing. Initech Oct 2017 #5
 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
1. 33 year old loser
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 09:53 AM
Oct 2017

who still lived with his parents? A perfect representative of donnie's supporters.

demmiblue

(36,845 posts)
7. Not to mention: racist, misogynistic and completely unhinged.
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 02:12 PM
Oct 2017

I can see a Black Mirror episode based on someone like him.

Blue_Adept

(6,399 posts)
8. While it applies to this guy, keep in mind that a lot of adults have moved back in with parents
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 02:36 PM
Oct 2017

for a range of reasons. Both as single adults and as married couples. I moved back home with my wife and kids to help take care of my parents as they went through things and could easily be labeled in any news article as "guy who lived with his parents" because of it.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
9. I know a lot of people
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 04:17 PM
Oct 2017

just graduated from college who move back and perhaps some adults who are taking care of their parents but it doesn't sound like this loser even had a job. What you're talking about, while more common now than a few decades ago, is still pretty rare - at least with people I know but yes, I realize NYC is its own little bubble.

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)
2. I read an article on DU yesterday about the Sandy Hook shooter.
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 09:54 AM
Oct 2017

I was familiar with most of the facts but the article mentioned several times that he was "also a pedophile". No where in that article did it elaborate on this "new conclusion" in Newsweek. They only said that he wanted to shoot children "to save them from authoritarian parents and teachers". How is that being a pedophile?

When I read this article my mind immediately thought that he was probably still living with his mommy and spent all day playing video games and needed to get laid. Except for the "getting laid" part my original assumption was correct.

 

hopeforchange2008

(610 posts)
4. How can anyone say there's no history of mental illness with these guys?
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 10:21 AM
Oct 2017

They all have rage issues, paranoia, are anti-social, and engage in petty crime. Just because he wasn't officially diagnosed doesn't mean he didn't have a mental illness.

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