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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Oct-2018 17:11:22 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   I tooted earlier about the possibility that the pipe bombs could've been a ploy to make Trump look bad. Just saw a correspondent BBC World News remark that this theory has been flouted widely on American right wing radio. I just want to say that I did not intend to take the side of the American right wing when I mentioned it. I was merely positing an alternative theory to the immediately obvious one, which I didn't bother to mention, since it was so obvious.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Oct-2018 17:15:41 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      With this synagogue shooting, we've entered much darker territory. We are no longer talking an attempt to frighten people, but murder, and at that point, such a theory as the one I posited earlier is even less likely than it was to begin with. My claim was never that the pipe-bomb-to-make-Trump-look-bad theory was the most likely one. Again, I only posited it as an "alternative B" sort of thing. It's incredibly looking like conventional American racist wingnut violence.

   2. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Oct-2018 17:16:27 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      With this synagogue shooting, we've entered much darker territory. We are no longer talking an attempt to frighten people, but murder, and at that point, such a theory as the one I posited earlier is even less likely than it was to begin with. My claim was never that the pipe-bomb-to-make-Trump-look-bad theory was the most likely one. Again, I only posited it as an "alternative B" sort of thing. It's increasingly looking like conventional American racist wingnut violence to me.

      1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Oct-2018 17:22:01 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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         The Confederacy never really ended in North America. It merely transformed into a grassroots movement. It's an incredibly persistent subculture that refuses to die. It's not undead, but very much alive, and being encouraged by Donald Trump. From a Norwegian perspective, Trump seemed nutty but not dangerous, but once you add a large white supremacist subculture to the mix, what he's doing is actually incredibly dangerous and irresponsible.