This forum can be a fine place for reasonable discussion. It's just the extremist types who's only goal is to come in here and stir s**t up, who spout off things they likely don't believe, they just want attention and feed off of antagonizing others.
It's also the internet itself, which gives lots of people artificial courage. Couple that with avatar accounts that don't reveal your true identity, and we get stupid shouting matches at their worst.
If this was on Facebook at least, you have to identity by your real name and be prepared to back up what you say, because it's really you saying it. It's written in digital ink forever.
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"I'm not smart so much as I am not dumb." - Harlan Ellison
I like to incite both liberals and conservatives to show how thinly veiled their arguments are and how close they can be to one another. In regards to liberals and conservatives, they are both vehemently opposed to one another which is fun. I have to true politics. I support Biden and Trump equally.
An American father charged with killing his two children with a spear fishing gun claims he was "enlightened" by QAnon and other conspiracy theories, and was saving the world from "monsters" who had "serpent DNA."
Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, told authorities in California he knew he was doing wrong, but that "it was the only course of action that would save the world."
Coleman was charged Wednesday with taking his children, aged two years and 10 months, to Mexico and killing them there before returning to the United States, where he was arrested.
The children's mother first raised the alarm on August 7th when Coleman took them from the home they shared. He had said he was taking them camping, but refused to tell her where, and did not answer calls or text messages. He also did not have a child car seat with him.
A day later, police tracked him using Find My iPhone, which showed his last known location as being in Rosarito, Mexico.
When he crossed back in to the United States the next day, he was detained by the FBI at the border.
Coleman confessed to shooting both his children with the spear fishing gun and leaving their bodies in Mexico, where they were found by Mexican authorities.
He "stated that he believed his children were going to grow into monsters so he had to kill them."
He told agents that he was "enlightened by QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories and was receiving visions and signs revealing that his wife possessed serpent DNA and had passed it on to his children."
He told federal law enforcement he believed he was "saving the world from monsters."
Coleman was charged with the foreign murder of U.S. nationals.
The man suspected of killing five people before turning the gun on himself in a mass shooting in England on Thursday night was an incel Trump supporter who posted about "devil worshipers" in government.
The suspected shooter has been named by police as Jake Davison, a 22-year-old who is reported to have worked in construction. Davison allegedly killed two women, two men, and one victim who officers described as a "very young girl," during the rampage in Plymouth.
Before the shooting, Davison expressed his admiration for Donald Trump on Facebook and posted multiple self-pitying YouTube videos in which he identified himself as part of the incel community.
In his last vlog post on July 28th, he complained about his physical appearance, said all the things he had wanted to do in life had "amounted to nothing," and that he had been "beaten down by life." His channel was subscribed to gun-related accounts, and another named Incel TV, which features content related to "involuntary celibacy."
Signing off on the 11-minute video, Davison said: "I know it's a movie, but I like to think sometimes I'm the Terminator or something. Despite reaching almost total system failure, he keeps trying to accomplish his mission."
Davison, who claimed to be from Arizona, reportedly was obsessed with American conservative politics, following Trump and all of his children on Facebook, as well as other right-wing accounts including those belonging to Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz, the NRA, and "Ted Nugent for Senate."
"Trump has proved time and time again he is indeed for the people," Davison wrote on Facebook in 2018. "You may not agree with his political views (I do) but he is different from the scum like Hillary or the people running our country like the neo-con sellout that is Theresa May."
QAnon and Nazi "Influencer" Unmasked as FL Evangelical
GhostEzra, who first appeared online at the end of 2020, has made claims about Jewish control of Big Pharma, the media, and central banking. The account has also claimed that Jews are responsible for both world wars and that the people who “"dentify as Jewish but are not actually even Jews" have a goal of "total world domination and control."
He has linked his followers multiple times to neo-Nazi propaganda, including a 12-hour film that, among other claims, asserts that Jews created communism with a goal of "total world domination." As a result, the comments under the account's Telegram posts now effectively function as a neo-Nazi discussion forum.
The man behind the account, Robert Smart, is an evangelical Christian and serial entrepreneur who attends several churches in his local area. He appears to have previously operated at least four other QAnon Twitter accounts, each set up within a day of its predecessor being suspended.
GhostEzra has recently emerged as one of the most influential figures in far-right online spaces, amassing well over 300,000 Telegram channel subscribers since the beginning of the year.
The account also shares unsubstantiated theories about President Biden being dead, the 2020 election, and coronavirus.
Researchers identified Smart as the individual behind GhostEzra using images taken from Telegram that led to Google and Yelp review accounts and in turn an email address.