https://archive.is/UGjjx (LA Times article)

Long before Guy Bartkus’ personal war against life ended with him the sole suspect in blowing up a fertility clinic, and himself, there was a fascination with pyrotechnics.

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    He volunteered that he wanted to kill himself by strapping an explosive to his head, setting the timer for one hour and drugging himself to sleep. He said he lacked access to any drug stronger than codeine. Available explosives were not the problem.

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    I mean, VHEMT is a great ideology and ever, but the dude seems to have missed the “voluntary” part.

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    It is unavoidable that in any social net with thousands or million users, can appear also one or several which obviously spread criminal, violent, terroristic and far right messages, because pure statistics. It can not value a social network by these, but how they treat or if they tolerate these users, instead of banning these in the same moment after posts like these.

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    Hey remember when .world was getting all high and mighty about defederating from Hexbear and Lemmygrad because they might incite violence?

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      Duh, it’s not violence when it’s against the marginalized.

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    it’s almost like the internet has allowed all kinds of extremists that would otherwise be alone in their extremism find each other in an echo chamber where they’re all “obviously correct” and that any action they choose to take is warranted and approved by their extremist community. with 8+ billion people in the world, of course you can find 1000 online that agree with you.

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    Hey look, one of these anonymous internet people was insane and became a terrorist. Sure casts a bad light on all of you.