His Twitter banner has an x-ray of his back after a recent surgery, he was 26 so he was no longer under his parents health insurance, and like a quarter of his Goodreads books were talking about chronic pain, back pain, and the medical industry.

Every conspiracy theorist is making it out like this guy is either just a patsy or the Riddler secretly masterminding everything. He's an upper-class outdoorsy kid who got his life permanently fucked by disability and medical debt so he decided to do something about it.

It doesn't take a global conspiracy for an angry young man to shoot an unarmed and unguarded old guy in the street.

Every time I learn a new fact about Sarah Bernhardt, I become more impressed

Absolute badass historical figure, love her

"People should be willing and able to be exposed to and discuss ideas that make them uncomfortable"

is not an incompatible position with "you should probably avoid offending people in your day to day"

is not an incompatible position with "a piece of media having bad politics does not instantly mean that media is best avoided"

is not an incompatible position with "all art is political, and we should expect more from our creators"

I come across ideas and concepts that I take personal offense to all the time, but that doesn't mean I think those ideas should never have been written down

Also doesn't mean I don't think the person who came up with them is a total headass

Oh, one more for you:

"Everyone has a right to believe and express things I don't agree with"

is not an incompatible position with "not every idea should be given the same platform and distribution, and it's irresponsible to allow bad faith actors to use your platform to mislead people"

The world is going to shit. We all know this. So I'm expressing this now. For 2025 I am planting my flag on the hill of nuance. That annoying "devils advocate" but with less right-wing pipeline and more anti-rage bait on either side.

So I beg all of you to join me in taking a moment to ask motives about statements this coming year. Look at the generalisations and say "do the exceptions prove the rule or point to a flaw?" and "bad people can do shit we agree with and we don't have to agree or condemn them fully". That latter one is going to be very important I have a feeling.


Thus concludes my abuse of my admin powers to spread ideological bs. Enjoy your day

Addendums have been made in the comments, evidently Luigi is not the first non-muslim to be charged with terrorism in the US, but IS one of very few examples

I think this could make an even stronger point: the charge of terrorism has been warped into something used against anyone who takes action against systemic violence, whether peacefully (stop cop city) or violently (Luigi)

Notable idea from the comments

I agree somewhat. I might phrase it as terrorism as a charge is relative and related to challenges to institutional authority rather than the specifics of the act being committed, but I think the core truth of the comment stands