jj4211 @ jj4211 @lemmy.world

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"The enemy" was not the same as "the shooter".

The shooter did this on his own without any 'funding' or 'organization', at most just online rhetoric generically pushing him to the edge combined with Charlie Kirk's schtick of saying extreme stuff for sake of engagement making him a target for those that do go over the edge.

"The enemy" is anyone that is a real threat to the enduring power of the administration. They largely have nothing to do with the shooting, but the shooting is useful to build the narrative. Just like the narrative omits the democratic victims.

A tan suit is, believe it or not, the uniform of antifa!

Or merely mentioning that some democrats were also assassinated this year...

49.8% voted for this, more than any other option. 0.5% voted for RFK Jr so it's highly likely that over 50% of people who felt bothered to actually vote seemed to be ok with it.

I suppose you could say they were misinformed, but people were pretty loud about it...

That would be less dangerous. They can accuse pretty much anyone of being antifa...

The great thing about there being no organization is that they can just make up whomever they think would be convenient to be in such an organization.

Conspicuously omitted some victims there...

How do they decide someone is antifa? Is it going to be just everyone they don't like?

Guys, enough. How did I die, and what am I accused of that holds me to this circle of hell?

Jason figured it out? Jason? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.

I don't have experience with monitoring software, but I could believe that a VM could be 'opaque' to a monitoring software, and so any sort of RDP or VNC or SPICE or whatever might be beyond the monitoring capabilities. SPICE being a bit appealing since it tends to be a little faster when available.

For example, my work demands that virtual machines have antivirus installed, because host level antivirus can't see into the VMs.

If it worked by screenshotting, then I don't see how it could work, but if they hook the OS in other ways I could see it.

Even if he is "getting played", does he care? He gets what he wants without having to act against his personal interests. If anyone buttering him up wants him to do something bad, Trump himself wouldn't suffer for it.

The federal conclusion will inevitably be that he was a so-called nihilist violent extremist (NVE)

That is a lot of confidence in the administration to let law enforcement do its job properly and not politicize the findings.

This is one thing that's messed up with the 'just split up' rhetoric. In almost every 'red' there are 'blue' communities.

Well if he wants to say that chatgpt can replace even CEOs, then he needs to be the sort of CEO chatgpt could replace

From my experience, a big contributor to their financial success is their unwillingness to recognize any of that.

You don't have to run fast, just faster than the bear. They just need to be smarter than the investors who aren't generally all that smart.

While an even smarter person could respond to nuance, then that person loses the investors who cannot follow. So at some point it becomes a liability to be thoughtful and nuanced.

But how would eastern California go? I feel like if states were breaking from the nation, that eastern California is risky to go with the red half.

Think that's a fair assessment. On the one hand we are more connected than ever and sentiment travels fast and echo chambers let dangerous extremist thought fester. On the other hand, Germans were experiencing just a much worse actual living situation.

I'd even say all indications are that his leanings don't matter in the specifics of this event.

It's probably more informative that folks can credibly have theories for either leaning to lead to this event. Lots of reasons that could believably drive any political leaning over the edge if they are close.

I will point out one thing that should be obvious, the shooter was only 22. So it's possible he doesn't have a very baked and stable political ideology. I knew a hard core outwardly homophobic conservative at 17 who came out as gay and did theater by 20. I knew a fairly liberal person when she was about 18 that over the years got to a place where she publicly praised Trump and called COVID a hoax and the vaccine a conspiracy. No idea how that happened, even as I saw it first hand.

Given the situation, it is at least clear he was unhinged if he would get to this point, either way. I would have hoped this would be a lesson for people that people get dangerously moved by angry rhetoric, but a lot of folks are ramping up rhetoric instead.

Unfortunately, the hypothetical blue nation would have a food problem, especially if some red parts of blue states go over. Both such countries would have serious issues.