Originally published at: FedEx mass shooter was brony who hoped to see Applejack in the afterlife | Boing Boing
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How did he get from “Friendship is magic!” to white supremacy to killing people? That is not what Applejack would want at all.
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It’s next to impossible to get competent mental healthcare in the US and higher education, which might foster critical thinking skills and cultural tolerance, is hideously expensive. Guns, on the other hand, are cheap and plentiful, and Fox News is free. At some point you have to assume that this outcome is the one we are designing for.
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There’s so much tragedy in that story I don’t know where to start, but to express my sympathy to the victims’ families (including the young man’s mother).
I’ve got nothing original to say on the lax gun laws in the 'States or the treatment of mentally ill people or the morass that is white supremacy and social media.
What I want to say is that this timeline is weird as fuck! Being with Applejack in heaven? Really? How does someone get to a point where that’s… plausible?
In the 2000AD Judge Dredd series there was a recurring condition known as Future Shock (distinct from the recurring series of the same name). That’s what occurred to me when I read the piece above. That that young man went Futsie…
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I am curious how these Nazis find meaning in something as evidently wholesome as a cartoon about friendly horses. The dissonance has to be through the roof. But then again the same group of people will often claim that they hold a deep and biding love for a poor rabbi carpenter who believed in treating strangers well, healing the sick, and feeding the hungry while being generally anti Semitic and saying the same things are all evil socialism when people try to do them now. I suppose we shouldn’t expect internal consistency from those who have hate as their defining worldview.
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i will admit that i have reached the point where i really do not understand what is going on out there.
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I am getting really tired of all these losers.
Guessing that there will be a brony AK edition soon enough.
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THE BRONIES ARE BUILDING AN ARMY: CHECK OUT THIS COLLECTION OF MY LITTLE PONY-THEMED GUNS
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/bronies_are_building_an_army_my_little_pony
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Gun fetish goes to 11.
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Gun fanatics make everything about guns eventually. I can barely look up stuff about edc keychain tools and flashlights without being bombarded with glocks, punisher logo shit and NRA ads thanks to the effing stupid algorithm.
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Welp, given the Brony context I think we can anticipate the Right-Wing defense will have something to do with feminizing our young men, and this being his lashing out in gender confusion because he wasn’t taken hunting enough.
It is truly wild how hard his mother tried to protect him from himself and the world from him and got no meaningful response. The “family values” conservative line clearly long ago gave way to the gun-humper state. Given the “Women are sacred / get this smothering nag off my FREEDOMS” dichotomy though, perhaps it ever was…
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He was able to buy two assault rifles, one in July and another in September of last year, despite having had his shotgun confiscated after his mother called authorities and expressed concern about his mental health. Mr Hole was for a short period placed under psychiatric detention after his mother reported to law enforcement that he was considering “suicide by cop”.
FBI agents found no crime had been committed when they interviewed him in April 2020. Paul Keenan, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Indianapolis field office, said that Mr Hole had no “racially motivated violent extremism ideology”.
Republican Senator Todd Young questioned whether the state’s red flag law had been enforced properly in the case of Mr Hole. The state has had the law on the books since 2005 and allows authorities to seize guns from people who are considered to possibly be a danger to others or themselves.
Mr Young said: “We know that we have a Hoosier family who cried out for help, knowing they had a child who required mental health treatment. We know we have members of our law enforcement community who, for a period of time, responded to that call for help. And we know that in the end, that wasn’t enough.”
This was the real story, but they led with the My Little Ponies angle because it would get more attention that way.
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My first exposure to bronies was in 2012. Along with a couple other neuroscientists, I hosted a discussion on the future of BMI and neuromancing at Houston’s Comicpalooza. I was shocked to see the schedule listed discussion sessions on the philosophy of My Little Pony. I don’t recall the details, but they were serious conversations on metaphysics. The bronies there were described as weird, educated, anti-nazi types (there was an article at the time specifically about bronies pissing off neo-nazis).
Apparently the internet is just a great big pit, with all paths sliding toward violence, misogyny, and white supremacy.
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In all seriousness, the answer to your question is because irony is a parasite that consumes its host.
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It occurs to me that perhaps having white supremacist 2A radical police assessing the safety of potentially violent white supremacist gun nuts may not be as effective as we would like.
Red flag laws are meaningless until we have a federal licensure program, only allow certified sales, and register all guns.
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I thought crack killed Applejack?
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I couldn’t resist.
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I mean… you could swap out Applejack for Jesus and the story would read the same.
My understanding of Christianity is that God is love, Jesus is forgiveness and died for your sins so you could go to heaven, you should treat others as you would want to be treated, turn the other cheek and forgive those who trespass against you, blessed are the meek… really, a lot of great ideas.
No idea why the believers tend to be so toxic, but there you go.
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