Supplements fuel the mix. You can’t know what you’re taking. Nothing is regulated and everyone is an expert.
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Though I’d say that if steroid usage was involved-- it’s a recent phenomena for Mateen. Though, that statement is dependent on the ages of the photos I’ve seen.
I’ve had long experience with Rx steroids for chronic issues-- and even at the low-dosages I have taken for years it affects your physiology noticeably. I’ve also known athletes who’ve done themselves no favors to extend their prowess. It’s never pretty.
I’ll throw out another factor-- employment at a state correctional facility.
That is a difficult environment to stay mentally even-keeled within.
jw1
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Regardless of what strain of superstition (religion) this monster follows, at the heart of his homophobia is still…RELIGION. The world has an obligation to discredit, criticize, expose, debunk and otherwise combat religion wherever possible. The religious community is allowed completely outrageous latitude in claiming its bigotry, fear, hatred, intolerance and anger is some form of “protected category”. It isn’t. All religions are man-made and all are false. They’re nothing but formalized tribalism. So, it matters not if this psychopath was Muslim, Protestant, Catholic or Mormon; in his beautiful mind, his god gave him permission to murder 50 people. His god gave him permission to act out his hatred. And, in spite of him not being a member of a “well regulated militia”, his spineless Congress gave him permission to “bear arms”.
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Mental Illness? Hell it’s Obama’s fault!
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And he works security. What level of training do they have? What is the culture?
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Well, concluding that the gunman’s father is pro-Taliban because his linguistic group in Afganistan resents the interference and impositions of the ISI (Pakistani Intelligence) and US is an oversimplification. Was the US pro-dictatorship because its Cold War convenience tolerated Somoza and helped Pinochet’s bloody ascent into decades of military rule? The same pundits who are jumping to the simplistic conclusion about the father’s and other Afganis’ political opinions have gone to great lengths and contortions to reconcile and justify democracy spouting American conservative embrace of Rios Mont, the Contras and Pinochet’s continued rule. Not to mention claiming there was “absolutely no evidence” that Pinochet ordered a terrorist car bomb double murder in Washington DC.
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Yes – and he grew up in a family with long standing axs to grind.
Durand Jirga board member. The name refers to the Durand line, the long disputed border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Imperialism, the gift that keep on giving. “It takes a village.” Yes, it does. Village is where one makes sense of things, understanding why laws exist, the deep seated concept of justice. Chaos is a pressure cooker. The need to seek identity is prime, especially in fraying patriarchal cultures.
They’re all operating at a literal, Santa Claus level.
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Just as an aside - I’ve always found it odd on detective and lawyer shows on TV that they are always asking whether so-and-so was “capable of murder.” And friends, family, etc are always saying no - he was a violent bastard but he wasn’t a murderer.
Strikes me as pretty silly. I mean, how can you possibly say with certainty whether any individual is “capable of murder?”
I’d like to know what the Imam preaches about homosexuality. Perhaps no one who belongs to a group that preaches hate should be allowed to purchased high powered weapons, whether it be a mosque, church, synagogue or secular organization.
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Perhaps NO ONE should be allowed to purchase high capacity weapons that have no legitimate utility except to kill people en masse.
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Excellent point. I’ve got a number of Muslim friends and former co-workers - kind, gracious, funny, dependably good people - who suffered through disdain and insults from others, including bosses. I’m retired now, so I don’t see them often, but can only imagine how a horrible event complicates their daily lives.
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Guns+Mental Illness = A cancer on this country. This is a medical crisis we refuse to treat. It’s time, now, until the next “worst mass shooting in U.S. history.”
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As a reporter detailed yesterday in a tweetstorm (hopefully it’ll be an article, because it was odd seeing it spread across 30+ tweets), ISIS’s MO regarding foreign attacks is explicitly appealing to unstable, mentally ill, or otherwise fucked up people: simply send out online propaganda, emphasizing the gore and horror and telling them to aim for weakly-defended soft targets rather then more symbolic, more secure ones, because no one is innocent. When they commit some atrocity like this, putting in some message “pledging allegiance” is all it takes to allow them to take credit.
It’s literally phone-in jihadism. No commitment on the part of either ISIS or the attacker.
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The Planned Parenthood shooter, Robert Dear Jr, was mentally ill but also somebody who bought the anti-abortion meme that Planned Parenthood was selling body parts.
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The Afghanistan-Pakisatan border needs to be redrawn. Many areas that are legitimately Afghan are now in Pakisatan. This has to be part of the political strategy for the region.
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And again, an approach appealing to someone seeking identity
Plays on lost rites of male passage, needs of any sort of belonging, validation. Worse, it’s Messianic.
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It seems that everything Republicans are doing pushes for violence. The pleasure of vengeance which they blame on their service to an omnipotent power. Oh, wait.
edited for clarity