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niyad

(127,004 posts)
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 01:15 PM 14 hrs ago

Just a reminder: the alleged shooter is a 22 year-old man, not a boy, not a kid.

I can just see the reichwing praising him as an assassin on one hand, but pretending he is very young, and therefore not responsible for his actions, on the other.

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Just a reminder: the alleged shooter is a 22 year-old man, not a boy, not a kid. (Original Post) niyad 14 hrs ago OP
"Troubled boy" SheltieLover 14 hrs ago #1
Yes, of course! niyad 14 hrs ago #3
Always the case. SheltieLover 14 hrs ago #11
According to the media, white men in their 20s are kids mcar 14 hrs ago #2
Yes! niyad 14 hrs ago #4
To be fair, most GOPers act like theyre 5 Johonny 13 hrs ago #15
Sadly, you do have a point there. niyad 11 hrs ago #20
Wow, what are the odds?It was a white guy in his twenties Tribetime 14 hrs ago #5
I know, right??? niyad 14 hrs ago #8
Don't forget a religous/forgiveness angle. They will do that too. RockRaven 14 hrs ago #6
But of course! niyad 14 hrs ago #9
I was noticing the same thing Johnny2X2X 14 hrs ago #7
But watch the pretzeling/knot tying begin! niyad 14 hrs ago #10
Oooh, a Republican family! Omnipresent 14 hrs ago #12
Amazing, is it not??? niyad 8 hrs ago #27
I've learned. Short cuts can hurt. multigraincracker 14 hrs ago #13
What a world the conservatives have created for us. Baitball Blogger 13 hrs ago #14
That's Exactly What I Said Zackzzzz 11 hrs ago #19
Like his Fuhrer, a spoiled child in a man's body. But "adult" under the law, as it should be. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz 13 hrs ago #16
Exactly! niyad 8 hrs ago #28
Remember Gingrichs "youthful indiscretions" BattleRow 11 hrs ago #17
Shudder!! unfortunately, yes. niyad 10 hrs ago #22
That's the same age as Thomas Fugate - currently head of violence-prevention LeftinOH 11 hrs ago #18
Now there is an unnerving fact! niyad 10 hrs ago #23
I was a sergeant in the Air Force at that age Skittles 11 hrs ago #21
Exactly! niyad 10 hrs ago #24
Glad to know my offhand reference inspired an OP. maxsolomon 9 hrs ago #25
I know that yours was an offhand remark. But it served to remind me niyad 9 hrs ago #26

mcar

(45,291 posts)
2. According to the media, white men in their 20s are kids
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 01:16 PM
14 hrs ago

and Black kids in their teens are men.

Tribetime

(6,828 posts)
5. Wow, what are the odds?It was a white guy in his twenties
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 01:18 PM
14 hrs ago

Who would have ever thought it

Johnny2X2X

(23,367 posts)
7. I was noticing the same thing
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 01:18 PM
14 hrs ago

22 year old man, period. This wasn't some troubled teenager, this was a 22 year old White Nationalist from a relatively affluent Republican family.

Baitball Blogger

(50,867 posts)
14. What a world the conservatives have created for us.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 02:02 PM
13 hrs ago

A 22 year old man who kills someone is called a boy. And a 13 yr old rape victim is called a woman. It’s time to to leave their rabbit hole behind.

Bernardo de La Paz

(58,199 posts)
16. Like his Fuhrer, a spoiled child in a man's body. But "adult" under the law, as it should be. . . . nt
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 02:11 PM
13 hrs ago

LeftinOH

(5,583 posts)
18. That's the same age as Thomas Fugate - currently head of violence-prevention
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 04:19 PM
11 hrs ago

at the Homeland Security department.

Skittles

(167,241 posts)
21. I was a sergeant in the Air Force at that age
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 04:44 PM
11 hrs ago

so no, he ain't no child, and neither was Monica L

niyad

(127,004 posts)
26. I know that yours was an offhand remark. But it served to remind me
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 06:38 PM
9 hrs ago

exactly how that framing will be used by the chattering classes to make robinson look like a poor, helpless victim, so I wanted to remind people.

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