*sigh*

This from the guy who votes a straight ticket. *sigh*

Yep I did that one time, to shift power away from Trumpists.

You might as well face it, you're addicted to th dem.

Let's hope the GOP sorts itself out before the Dems start thinking they are all that.

"wacko extremists here mock honest Americans (moderates) with their humor"
 

No, more like 'sane individuals here mockin' insane cogs with class and style'.

He had no reason. :facepalm:

So fucked up

He had a reason: nihilism. A sense of meaningless of life. You will find it in all the killers that are not mentally disturbed.

Yep.

The first leg of the three legged stool of mass killers and terrorists, according to the article I linked in post 377 above.

Due to people who only post insults, lies, and demeaning attacks, I also did this for the first time. Because the Republican party is now dominated by people who use extremist emotion to make conclusions.

When discussing adults who are still children, then those 'child like' reply with personal attacks. And nothing that is useful or adult.

Similar people also need assault rifles to massacres others. Then use their unstable thinking to justify more assault weapons.

Both are provided by right wing talk show radios. It plays constantly in rural radio stations. I have watched some change once they discovered and then became emotionally inspired by the hate they heard on extremist talk radio.

One was living with (and being supported by) an immigrant. She noted how he changed once he started listening to the Drudge Report. He would routinely blame his unemployment on immigrants. He claimed to be a network engineer. But could not answer basic concepts in Cisco equipment.

Then, when he drank, he became quite belligerent.

In mass shooters, not necessarily radicals, these people seem to have a specific take on step 1, and no step 3 at all.

They want significance, but rather than to prove worth, they want to prove worthlessness. So they seek to destroy meaningful lives ("See," they are saying, "Now you're dead, and all the things you thought were worthwhile are gone.") And they usually expect or plan their own death in the process ("If life has worth, I would definitely stick around - but in order to be taken seriously I must show that the worthlessness extends to myself.")

The one would-be mass shooter I've talked to justified it as giving them significance, that they would be more accomplished and revered as victims than anything they could manage on their own.

I don't see facts that justify the "not step 3". What justifies that conclusion?

One may become a martyr to be relevant. Martyrs don't need to stick around for confirmation. They already know they will be praised (by their peers or by their god).