One unsubstantiated post before any facts get out can then get picked up by AI as fact and real twisted real fast.
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Maybe that’s what radicalized a 57 year old?
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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is facing criticism for his social media posts from the weekend about Minnesota shooting suspect Vance Boelter.
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Republican Senator Mike Lee faced ridicule for calling the suspect of fatal shootings in Minnesota a “Marxist.”
“This is what happens … When Marxists don’t get their way,” the Utah senator captioned a photo of alleged gunman Vance Boelter wearing a latex face mask.
The Utah senator also shared another post of Boelter with the caption, “Nightmare on Waltz Street.”
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Also for the morons in the back, DRC stands for Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Not premeditated?
That’s strange.
The dude showed up in tactical gear and was wearing a rubber mask. Sounds like he did a great deal of planning, preparation, and PRE-MEDITATION.
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His motivation to murder will be very interesting to learn.
Each case is personal. Not obvious that Walz had anything to do with this.
Sad for the victims’ families.
Walz was on his target list
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I’m still not sure what led police to the first house. How were they notified that something was wrong there?
It was after they realized it was a lawmaker who got shot that they decided to go the second lawmaker’s house which was nearby. Thats excellent police work and some amazing luck.
Timeline is in the article.
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Have we lost our way?
Jews targeted, Mexicans targeted, African American targeted, political leaders targeted, Gays targeted, Tesla owners targeted, universities targeted, vaccines targeted (among others) - WHY? All because of a difference of opinions? Sheesh!
Time for a major reassessment, IMHO.
What we have here is failure to communicate!!
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The assassination of a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife at their homes are just the latest addition to a long and unsettling roll call of [political violence]
The list, in the past two months alone: the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, the firebombing of a Colorado march calling for the release of Israeli hostages, and the firebombing of the official residence of Pennsylvania’s governor — on a Jewish holiday while he and his family were inside.
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And here’s just a sampling of some other attacks before that — the killing of a health care executive on the streets of New York late last year, the [attempted assassination] small-town Pennsylvania during his presidential campaign last year, the 2022 attack on the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by a believer in right-wing conspiracy theories, and the 2017 shooting by a liberal gunman at a GOP practice for the congressional softball game.
“We’ve entered into this especially scary time in the country where it feels the sort of norms and rhetoric and rules that would tamp down on violence have been lifted,” said Matt Dallek, a political scientist at George Washington University who studies extremism. “A lot of people are receiving signals from the culture.”
Politics behind both individual shootings and massacres
Politics have also driven large-scale massacres. Gunmen who killed 11 worshippers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, 23 shoppers at a heavily Latino Walmart in El Paso in 2019 and 10 Black people at a Buffalo grocery store in 2022 each cited the conspiracy theory that a secret cabal of Jews were trying to replace white people with people of color. That has become a staple on parts of the right who support T rump’s push to limit immigration.
The Anti-Defamation League found that from 2022 through 2024, all of the 61 political killings in the United States were committed by right-wing extremists. That changed on the first day of 2025, when a Texas man flying the flag of the Islamic State group killed 14 people by driving his truck through a crowded New Orleans street before being fatally shot by police.
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Not obvious? He had NOTHING to do with it!
Some in this thread up top ran with this disgusting narrative, and you’re not even dismissing a bold faced lie.
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Are you new to America?
Yeah, the French spoken is kind of a formal version spoken in public speeches. Maybe a mission trip?
I grew up skipping around to several Protestant Christian denominations, so his kind of rhetoric doesn’t really strike me as odd or ominous. I get it’s weird though…but the very verse he’s referring to says “I have plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”… so he’s not really whipping people up into a murderous frenzy. what I’m interested in is where his wires got crossed between his religion and his political beliefs. This new brand of American religion needs to go away.
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I was hoping I didn’t understand the point he was trying to make.
Coming back to this, what I was replying to in this post has come out as pretty clearly not true.
It would be nice if people could admit when they are completely wrong
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The weak see that as a weakness, so no.
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What I want to know is how the f*** this post is still up?
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