School Shooting in Minneapolis

[TheVat]

Do you remember the bit in Major League about how, "he was due"? Statistically speaking, it's inevitable that someone would eventually pop a conservative. And here, I'm not trying to justify any particular dimension of crazy, but, rather, what I mean is that whether it's hits on Democratic politicians or Asian and Asian-American women in spa parlors, at some point the victim of one of these spectacular murders was going to be a definitively conservative political figure.

Yup. And there is the risk of the big spin where, if the spectacle maker is someone a faction agrees with, then there's the noxious branches of interpretation: either hagiography as striking a righteous blow for freedom, or the converse of dismissing them as crazy loners with an impulsivity disorder and Not True Whatevers. If said spectacle maker is perceived as the opposition, then they become another bogeyman used to conjure fear of that slice of the political spectrum.

That it's Charlie Kirk, and not an office holder, is its own discussion; I haven't divined the dimensions of that part.

Me either. I'm somewhat dealing with the shock of not being shocked.

 

[Tiassa]

… of course Mom insists he wouldn't hurt anyone and was just trying to sound cool to his friends …

We might suggest a question whether the youth was homeschooled because he was antisocial, or was antisocial because he was homeschooled.

That's a really complicated question, though, with almost equal potential for a third answer that homeschooling and antisociality were, in this case, utterly coincidental.

And there is also this: I can't quite express to skeptics and cynics the psychological power of words, but, sure, there is a context in which even the written statements anticipating future statements aren't actually threats. Flip-side, nobody is really attempting that complicated an explanation, and it leads to one of those all-encompassing indictments of society, considering unwieldy pretenses of psychomoral decay as a psychological question instead of a moral crisis..

Spoiler

 

[Wizard of Whatever]

The red and blue are moving further and further apart, and the purple zone is shrinking.