Osiris wrote: As in all things, once brown people catch up to white people, the playing field gets skewed pretty quickly.
Dunno about it just being about skin-colour...
Both the dude from Scandinavia and that guy in NZ racked up quite a body count but it's the semi-long term effects that matter. Two of them are chilling in first-world prisons. Not sure whether Kiwi COs are as buxom as the Swedish ones I saw in this one documentary. They had these specially shaped batons. And I am pretty sure corporal punishment involving boot-licking and spanking aren't allowed nowadays in IKEA-land. Entertaining audio-visually though.
There was that old dude in the USA but I dunno what his explanation was and he killed himself plus he was married with kids so dunno if he counts.
There's enough absence of disapproval to know part of the online thing is only helping individuals like these to, not radicalise, but kinda come to a boiling point.
Like a freak-out if that could be premeditated. Manifests and footage are on the interwebz, forbidden fruit for/among lonely white males, kept out of the light from prying eyes of concerned relatives and worried state agencies. Doesn't seem organised at all. One of 'em every couple of years making the news with a big splash and smirking for the cameras. Assholes.
As for the non-honkies: all the people involved with that 9/11 crew got wasted not-so-discreetly somewhere abroad, are on the lam for ever and a day or already rotting in some (at best) US max security cell.
The whole Middle East drama IMHO kick-started by the 2003 Iraq intervention and the not-so-but-still-kinda-indirectly suffering and plight of countless of regular citizens caught in any of those countries in the middle all those years onwards. All that organised violence. Still, better there than here ;-)
Iran and Turkey seem to be doing pretty o-kay. Some Saudis might still be funding whatever but they are getting plinked at next door by those Houthis for how long now? Regular imams keep apologising on behalf of their coreligionists after every incident. I haven't heard from intifada's in a sh!tload of years. Remember those? Kids with stones vs Israeli tanks ;-)
And the violence an sich? Western society seems to have gotten used to it a lot faster than I would have imagined.
Osiris wrote: Or when the only lunatics you read about were white people?
But isn't that pretty much still the case though?
I know better than to read newspapers or listen to politicians but people of colour quickly get categorised as religious fanatics or maybe silly foreigners and their silly foreign albeit violent so kinda abhorrent ways. Mental health isn't usually featured as an explanation unless it"s white-ish converts.
Anyhow, yeah, couple of beers in, some hash, belated weekend evening's ramblings on a deserted message board ;-)
Never met yorick IRL but Sri used to be a mod here on TFHC too and he was a funny and stand up guy when I met him in Amsterdam.
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