“Good luck with the future, gentlemen,” County Court Judge Kellie Blair said to the pair, as she stepped off the bench at the end of hearing.

  • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    I think there’s also just good old poverty and hopelessness.

    It seems like life is just getting harder for younger generations. No homes, shit jobs, fix the planet for us, etc etc.

    Frustration and feelings of persecution breeds this kind of tribalism and manifests as some kind of hatred.

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      Targeting young, disillusioned men isn’t a new invention – Islamic extremists have been doing it in the Middle East for decades.

      But America has brought modern convenience to the process. Fresh meat is easy to find and they only need a few hundred bucks to buy a gun for maximum damage and minimum risk.