Mosque shootings in New Zealand

Sonic67

I think in his life he went though different views. He seems to have settled on the far right. Moseley is his favourite, though he lists others.

richp007

The usual condemnation from all the usual suspects. Yet nothing will change. It never does. Our positions of power are filled with the pathetic and the inadequate.

A sad day

Toko Black

I am not going to engage with your nonsense as it's clearly politicised trolling without any regard or respect for the poor victims of the horrific and abhorrent acts of a dispicable lunatic.

Pacifico

exactly

Pacifico

But what can they do - the guy today was obviously a lunatic and no politician is going to be able to outlaw that.

pinnocchio

Just watched the full livestream of the attack on youtube.....

At one point this guy takes in effect a selfie......

While these deranged whack jobs will always personally claim, or be associated by others, with some philosophical viewpoint, it's sad to say they mostly are sad, lonely, communicatively challenged twa*s who spend too much time reading cr*p on forums.

I love the quote earlier in this thread

".....but all terrorists are muslims....."

takes about 5 seconds to tear that nonsense apart.

blackrod

I would go with that. He is a compete lunatic. Not sure I would watch it though, in fact I am certain of it. There is no delete button for your mind.

tapzilla2k

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ” George Orwell.

The language politicians use can be quite powerful, and when it's not used with caution it can help to fuel atrocities. Decent Politicians understand that, while others only care about using populism to win. As it's usually ordinary people doing ordinary things that get caught up in horrible acts of violence while populist Politicians look solemn, then after the appropriate amount of time jump straight back on the populist bandwagon, learning nothing at all.

Sonic67

Might not be. He seems to be deliberatly echoing far right Internet memes. "Subscribe to Pewdiepie" seems to be one.

I'd love to say he was stupid or a moron or something but I don't think he is. He's planned this for a long time.

His "manifesto" was first written in January with edits immediately before the shooting, even the title of it is meaningful. His Twitter feed had numerous photos on the days leading up to it. All of the magazines and what was written on them.

His weapons all have extended magazines. The live streaming is a sick work of "genius" rather than just "the banality of evil."

It's been shared so much, YouTube etc can't cope with removing it.

Everything was calculated which is why it's all so evil.

SteakAndCake

He's not stupid, reminds me of Anders Breivik, and Tim McVeigh.  The smart ones always have higher death tolls.