The Elephant In The Room...

[harvey_rrit]

...is a jackass.
Specifically the Party that owns the MSM, which is suppressing the fact that the Las Vegas Massacre was carried out by a man who had converted to Islam before buying his illegal weapons.

Comments

[lilchiva]

I don't think he was an ISIS supporter. It will probably turn out that he had A) a tumor or B) was on the same class of psyche meds that a number of the other shooters were on. Though C) excessive gambling debt with no fucks to give isn't out of the question. I'd place solid money on some version of B though.

[allaboutweather]

Didn't some other shooter have a brain tumor?

[lilchiva]

Yes. Charles Whitman in the UTA tower. He had a tumor. He went through a 6-9 month decline and went to doctors. The only reason they checked was because his diary said "Hey I think I have a tumor. Please check after I'm dead."

Most of the time, though, these all turn out to be mentally ill people who have bought hardcore into a stringent patriarchal value system. This is a pretty much every mass killer or spree killer, including terrorists. The reason I think it's probably different, in this case, is that there's no history of violence, being a perpetual loser, or ideological nuttiness.

But, who knows? This is just tragic.

[harvey_rrit]

I am 57, and as the years pass I note a progressive [Progressive} tendency to "diagnose" various natural phenomena as disorders.

Examples:
ADHD for Incompetent teachers are boring.
Asperger's Syndrome for Undoublethinkful.
Patriarchal for Regarding success as competence.
Mentally Ill for Evil.

There has never been the slightest evidence, for instance, that Whitman's tumor made him pull the trigger.

[lilchiva]

>There has never been the slightest evidence, for instance, that Whitman's tumor made him pull the trigger

[harvey_rrit]

Doctor Asperger received the Order of Hitler for coming up with an excuse to lock up kids who asked too many questions to be suitable for the Hitler Youth.

Calling it a disorder is calling groupthink normal, so you seriously need to examine your own philosophy of life for signs that you may be willing to rationalize execution of people who disagree with you.

[lilchiva]

Ok Harvey. You do you. :)

[harvey_rrit]

Good start.

[wombat_socho]

He didn't owe that kind of money. All the evidence is that he had more cash than he knew what to do with.

[allaboutweather]

I heard he lost a lot of it gambling. :S

[mauser]

No, he was one of those Gamblers with a budget, would set aside a set amount to gamble, and gamble until it was gone. If he were broke, why would he have sent his ex girlfriend $100K?