master thread - Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk shot at Utah Valley University

[Ban Hammer 14,491]

19 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

Who of any persuasion would consent to a date with HER?

someone desperate for a green card?

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,451]

On 9/16/2025 at 4:32 PM, yuna628 said:

It started in the late 70s-80s. But hey didn't your generation have swingers, hippies, and free love? 

 

But as I've said from my old moderation days before social media was a thing... the very concerning kids back then are now adults and apparently raising their own concerning kids and are as completely dense as their own parents were back then as to what is going on. Kids that feel completely abandoned and isolated will turn to dark corners of the internet and social media for validation and acceptance, and.. well the love they don't believe they have in the 'real world'. They can find validation of their unstable thoughts and feelings. Based on the documents today there was quite a bit of contention between the values and expectations of his father and the person he wanted to be. Everyone wants this killer to fit into some neat little box to exploit, and the truth is the kid was an absolute mess. Lately, there's a been a bunch of these type shooters like this.. individuals who have been exploited online - some by new types of extremist groups that society does not have a handle on.

 

It's hard not to laugh at some of the bizarre clearly insane types that are produced...  at a hearing about Luigi today there was a woman that is adamantly claiming she's in an online AI relationship with him. There's been many articles posted lately about people having 'relationships' with AI. This is similar, it's not a bot convincing someone to kill, but anon users ****posting brain rot to vulnerable kids willing to consume and act on it. The parents will say they had no idea, all the while there was probably warning signs, but they continued to blindly feed guns and online access.

Well thought out explanation.  Back in the day if you were diffrent, you found a way to fit or else suffered miserably. Usually you found a way. 

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,451]

On 9/16/2025 at 4:32 PM, yuna628 said:

It started in the late 70s-80s. But hey didn't your generation have swingers, hippies, and free love? 

 

But as I've said from my old moderation days before social media was a thing... the very concerning kids back then are now adults and apparently raising their own concerning kids and are as completely dense as their own parents were back then as to what is going on. Kids that feel completely abandoned and isolated will turn to dark corners of the internet and social media for validation and acceptance, and.. well the love they don't believe they have in the 'real world'. They can find validation of their unstable thoughts and feelings. Based on the documents today there was quite a bit of contention between the values and expectations of his father and the person he wanted to be. Everyone wants this killer to fit into some neat little box to exploit, and the truth is the kid was an absolute mess. Lately, there's a been a bunch of these type shooters like this.. individuals who have been exploited online - some by new types of extremist groups that society does not have a handle on.

 

It's hard not to laugh at some of the bizarre clearly insane types that are produced...  at a hearing about Luigi today there was a woman that is adamantly claiming she's in an online AI relationship with him. There's been many articles posted lately about people having 'relationships' with AI. This is similar, it's not a bot convincing someone to kill, but anon users ****posting brain rot to vulnerable kids willing to consume and act on it. The parents will say they had no idea, all the while there was probably warning signs, but they continued to blindly feed guns and online access.

Safe to assume that if bullying was still accepted and the internet was not around, you would have almost no school shootings etc.

[yuna628 9,907]

5 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

Safe to assume that if bullying was still accepted and the internet was not around, you would have almost no school shootings etc.

Bullying is not the answer... and it has never stopped. I think... for some of these kids their parents just aren't around, they aren't there for them. They don't know that they love them, they don't feel like they'd ever be accepted by them, and some of them really should never be exposed to shooting guns. We all remember going through some period of our lives when we felt like our parents or anyone really just couldn't understand us. I think it's getting worse now because there are lots of parents just checked out. They aren't even trying! They had kids... but don't actually want the kid. They don't want to know what they are up to. They don't want to know the messed up thoughts and feelings they might have. They don't want to learn what they do or enjoy. Kids are suffering emotionally and spiritually.

[Ban Hammer 14,491]

1 hour ago, yuna628 said:

Bullying is not the answer... and it has never stopped. I think... for some of these kids their parents just aren't around, they aren't there for them. They don't know that they love them, they don't feel like they'd ever be accepted by them, and some of them really should never be exposed to shooting guns. We all remember going through some period of our lives when we felt like our parents or anyone really just couldn't understand us. I think it's getting worse now because there are lots of parents just checked out. They aren't even trying! They had kids... but don't actually want the kid. They don't want to know what they are up to. They don't want to know the messed up thoughts and feelings they might have. They don't want to learn what they do or enjoy. Kids are suffering emotionally and spiritually.

my boy and i have some issues where he thinks what he is doing isn't my business - and i remind him that everything he does is my business - and it will be that way until he is out of high school.

Edited 1 hour ago by Ban Hammer