At the risk of getting in trouble…

[Solo Alpha]

Just now, PheebyKatz said:

Yeah, Fascism, Nazism, and soviet Communism were all leftist  totalitarian dictatorial movements regimes. We shouldn't ignore facts.

 

[Pixie Kobichenko]

2 minutes ago, Solo Alpha said:

Actually .. the conclusion of your link says this : 

Our ruling

There’s no proof to support that claim. The political affiliation of most of the mass shooters we looked at was either unreported or never verified. Experts said these events are rarely motivated by politics to begin with.

The claim you are trying to refer to was that most mass shooters turn out to be democrats.  There is no proof of that. 

[Solo Alpha]

2 minutes ago, Pixie Kobichenko said:

The claim you are trying to refer to was that most mass shooters turn out to be democrats.  There is no proof of that. 

This is untrue. Read back. I never made such claim at all. The article investigates such claim, but it was never made by me. 

You provided said link, not me.

Edited July 9, 2022 by Solo Alpha

[Love Zhaoying]

20 minutes ago, Solo Alpha said:

I actually do not know the statistics on that. 

Duly noted!

[Pixie Kobichenko]

1 minute ago, Solo Alpha said:

This is untrue. Read back. I never made such claim at all.

No,  you quoted the article.  The quote declaring that political affiliations aren’t always proven referred to Claudia’s statement:  

The article also disclosed several shooters since Columbine & what is known of their political  ideology, if any at all.

[Love Zhaoying]

Hmm..Fascists. 
Interesting!

[Ceka Cianci]

I know what all the mass murderers have in common..

They're all nuts.

[Solo Alpha]

4 minutes ago, Pixie Kobichenko said:

This is actually what I quoted from the article : 

https://gyazo.com/75aad2781de3dd4f38552b056dac651a

Are you honestly, but disingenuineously, claiming now that the title of said article is actually a quote of mine or the quote I referenced to ? 

Edited July 9, 2022 by Solo Alpha

[PheebyKatz]

Yeah when people start putting words in my mouth, I follow my own advice and leave them off over there somewhere.

I'll go find a silly thread to post in instead.

[Finite]

9 minutes ago, Solo Alpha said:

This is actually what I quoted from the article : 

https://gyazo.com/75aad2781de3dd4f38552b056dac651a

Are you honestly, but disingenuineously, claiming now that the title of said article is actually a quote of mine or the quote I referenced to ? 

Edited July 9, 2022 by Finite

[Krystina Ferraris]

2 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:

When I was very young, I remember at least one male classmate drawing swastikas, people being blown up, and things like that. I'm sure they just thought it was "cool". 

There’s always one idiot trying to be “rad” in their own way 🤷‍♀️

[Sprout Evergarden]

this made me think Magnum p.I. to be honest

[Pixie Kobichenko]

13 minutes ago, Solo Alpha said:

This is actually what I quoted from the article : 

https://gyazo.com/75aad2781de3dd4f38552b056dac651a

Are you honestly, but disingenuineously, claiming now that the title of said article is actually a quote of mine or the quote I referenced to ? 

What?  I’m sorry, but you’re kind of hard to understand.  Of course I’m not saying the title of the article is a quote attributed to you.  I really have no idea what you’re going on about at this point.  
“We rate her claim Pants on Fire”.  That is the conclusion drawn on her claim that most mass murders are democrats.

l& to be clear.  I didn’t drag political parties into this.  In the mid80s my middle school civics teacher said that one day we would no longer identify with Democrats or Republicans but liberal-progressive & conservative-regressive policies.  I didn’t understand it at the time, but I do now.

l& back to my original post while I still can.

Thanks all who weighed in.  I know I realized (again) that I can be very knee jerky in my reactions.  But I also discovered that sometimes instincts- first impressions have some validity.

Im checking out of this conversation, it’s run it’s course & no longer addresses my question of should there be a line in SL on items of dubious intent. 
 

[Love Zhaoying]

34 minutes ago, Ceka Cianci said:

I know what all the mass murderers have in common..

They're all nuts.

How hurtful they are, to the image of us nuts who manage to not kill people! 

[Love Zhaoying]

16 minutes ago, Vanessa Amethyst said:

this made me think Magnum p.I. to be honest

The original or the reboot?

[Love Zhaoying]

19 minutes ago, Krystina Ferraris said:

There’s always one idiot trying to be “rad” in their own way 🤷‍♀️

In third - fourth grade, I seriously doubt they knew.

[Modulated]

[Quartz Mole]

This thread seems to be drifting well away from the original topic, which was, if I properly understood it, the propriety, or otherwise, of selling, in SL, outfits associated with US paramilitary groups.

It would be best, I think, to try to keep it on topic.

[Pixie Kobichenko]

3 minutes ago, Quartz Mole said:

This thread seems to be drifting well away from the original topic, which was, if I properly understood it, the propriety, or otherwise, of selling, in SL, outfits associated with US paramilitary groups.

It would be best, I think, to try to keep it on topic.

Please just lock it, or delete it. 
I don’t see that anything productive will come out of it at this point.

 

[Sprout Evergarden]

38 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

The original or the reboot?

They rebooted that?

no idea just guns and Hawaii shirts just makes me think of Magnum or Hawaii five-O but I am one of those crazy a-political people.

Edited July 9, 2022 by Vanessa Amethyst

[Kiera Clutterbuck]

These are not just paramilitary groups. These groups are white supremacists who want to dominate, and in some cases eliminate, people of color in the US. They are growing in number, and increasingly taking power at all levels of government.

I worry they will harm a lot of people, and not only in the US. We have the most military power here and there is a danger to all my friends in other countries too. 

It would be impossible to remove their symbols from public view in early stages when most don't understand the gravity of the situation yet. Unfortunately only when much harm is done would that be possible.

 

[Rowan Amore]

Who caused the violence at protests? It wasn’t antifa. - The Washington Post

[Coffee Pancake]

 

The free speech people are calling for the thread to be censored (deleted) because ... checks notes ... we found a vendor of white supremacist dog-whistles.

 

 

Edited July 9, 2022 by Coffee Pancake

[Sprout Evergarden]

Arent call out threads against the rules of these forums? while they are not mentioned by name you did not exactly make any attempt to cover up there logo. LL seriously needs to lock this thread on those grounds alone. 

[Coffee Pancake]