Matt Walsh #wingnut

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If we're reading this lunatic's "manifesto" and taking it seriously then what about the part where he says he was radicalized from spending all his time online during the COVID lockdowns? I guess we're just glossing over that part. Not the conversation the media wants to have.

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The lockdowns may have given him more free time but it isn't the cause of him being radicalized.

We should read the manifesto and take it seriously but that doesn’t mean we have to accept everything in it as a fact.

Many of us were in lockdown but didn’t shoot anyone. So that’s not THE common factor.

Right. Spending all his time online, listening to people like you.

And what did he do while online? Get radicalized by cunts like you, perhaps?

I have some dark suspicions what direction you’d want to go to combat the scourge of “free time and literacy” and how you’d rather that be seen as the gateway to extremism rather than identifying these psychotic manifestos - this one specifically saying the “lockdown” was part of a plot to kill everyone, a plot members of the Republican Party directly espoused - and how they spread to a populace being constantly told the world is out to get them. Again, by people like you.

So did a lot of people. They don’t grab a gun and go shooting random people, especially black ones.

If he were radicalized by his time online during lockdown, it would have been by people like the OP. They can place the blame squarely on themselves for this if they wish - or they can abandon that line of political fuckery for what it is: bullshit. Lockdown was a common experience. Most people didn't grab guns and shoot other people up with them.

Matt Walsh #wingnut twitter.com

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