See: bombing fishing boats in the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific.
80 dead so far?
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Just spitballing here, but if this is an Afghan who immigrated here in 2021 then he may well have all kinds of deep seated grievances with the US military. Big question may be is it directed at the exit deal tRump made with the Taliban or is it more towards Biden who inherited that ? Considering the horrendously shabby treatment we heaped on the Afghans it could be any number of things
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Also, where did he get the gun?
Legally? Illegally?
Perhaps ATF agents should be enforcing gun laws?
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Yep. The shyt has hit the fan. Islamophobia, immigrant phobia, brown phobiaâŚand all the Afghan vets in NGâŚincendiary. For some odd reason I feel he was hired by Stephen Miller with Hegseth blessing.
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You mean the Deep StaâŚ.. I mean Dipshit State.
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Plus a rehash of all the finger pointing of just who was responsible for us leaving so many of the Afghans who had assisted us behind when we left. Shooting people is never justified but this guy may have some legitimate beefs with the US military. Way too soon to say but itâs going to get very bad very soon
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So MAGAts will see it. They donât do traditional media.
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Didnât I read somewhere recently that among the various immigrant populations whose refugee status that TSF was threatening to revoke included Afghans? I can imagine somebody being pretty pissed if theyâre being threatened with banishment to the Taliban, who could be expected to not be âvery welcomingâ to those whoâd helped out the Infidels.
If not, then the theory that itâs someone with just âregularâ grievances also makes senseâŚ
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Indeed. Itâs not looking good though. He was likely an Afghan refugee when he arrived in USA in 2021. What made him travel from Washington State to DCâŚit sounds like LeeHarveyOswaldâŚall planned by powerful folks.. Miller, Hegseth & Vance.
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an already tense nation further on edge due to the increasingly fraught environment we live in
It wasnât fraught last year.
Republicans suck.
If the subsidies expire, premiums are expected to significantly increase for millions who rely on the program
Especially MAGA.
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I believe the Afghanâs name is Marinus van der Lubbe.
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Getting info from CNN so maybe not the best⌠but they are reporting the suspect applied for asylum in 2024 and was granted it earlier this year. So asylum granted by Trump admin tho Iâm sure the spin will be it was Bidenâs fault
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You are on fireâŚâŚ..
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This is akin to the state of Texas sending in the Rangers and other law enforcement agencies after the Uvalde massacre. Itâs mostly performative and feel good about themselves.
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In my opinion, it would be smarter to decrease the National Guard presence in DC. To zero, even, as various judges have ordered. This incident, details of what happened and why have not yet come out, seems to be an indication that uniformed military strutting around the streets is not, in fact, calming. It seems to have increased resentment, and caused citizen violence.
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I respectfully refer you to my previous post. He provokes violence in order to commit even more violence. Small mushroom penis energy shambling its way through life pretending to be big dick energy.
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Of course youâre right. But Trump WANTS to provoke violence, so he can have the excuse to blame immigrants for everything and ramp up the repression. At some point, heâs going to try to invoke the Insurrection Act , suspend habeas corpus, and impose martial law.
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And its started⌠In many ways then worst possible suspect but only because he is someone tRump can use as a strawman for so many things. He is already blaming Biden and calling for every single Afghan to be interviewed again. Even tho it was his administration who approved his asylumâŚ
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It may be that the shooter held long-term grievances against the US and was improperly vetted. But as of yet we have no information to support that, and yet the talking heads on CNN and even MSNow are assuming that may be so. People change - he could have become increasingly psychotic or paranoid, he could have been angered by events in his own life after arrival in the US, no one knows yet. If his skin was white, mental health would be a top excuse, but itâs not, so it isnât even considered in the differential for what might have happened. But hey, itâs another opportunity for Trump to hammer on immigrants, even though his administration is the one that approved his asylum claim! His ranting tonight ranks almost up there with his video on January 6. Itâs sickening to see this racist bastard disparage immigrants in that manner.
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Watching Trumpâs reaction to the DC shootings of two members of West Virginiaâs National Guard, you see how he reflexively tries to turn the incident into a PR win, especially by bringing the discussion back to immigration, Biden and Muslims. Brad DeLong, in the tariff context, finds the same thing with Muslim-majority Malaysiaâs understanding that any tariff âdealâ would have to generate some PR value for Trump, for whom perception, rather than actual economic benefits, matters most.
The most you can say about the âdealâ is that it is a recognition by Malaysia that the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must . Except that, under Trump, âthe strong do what they canâ does not cut it, for the meaning in Thoukydidesâs Thoukydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war ⌠is that the Athenians will do whatever is to their advantage. But in the case of the Trump administration, the Trump Administration will instead do something completely random, but its actions can be somewhat shaped by giving it the PR bonus of an apparent âwinâ of some kind.
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