Waffle House hero: Today in Tweets 4/22/18 Edition

I’m happy that they apprehended the Waffle House shooter, and I’m glad someone was able to disarm him; That man’s a hero.

Y’all– I’m a gun owner, and at this point I’m willing to turn in mine if it’ll help at all. I ain’t got an AR, just a pistol– I have one because I live out– and the police might not show up for some time in case something happens. But, I also feel like the paranoia surrounding that “what if” in gun culture is what breeds these mass shooter types. I really don’t ever want to use my pistol to kill anybody– but I also fear that I might make a poor decision in the heat of a crisis, too.

I know a lot of folks who seem to believe that guns can fix the things they don’t like. Well, guns can’t stop change. But, Change can stop guns– I believe that. I hate that shootings keep happening, but I feel like they’ll keep happening until something is done. And that “something” can’t be just handing out more guns. Heck, I go to breakfast sometimes– and I’d like eating a big ol’ Belgian Waffle without fear for my life.

Sorry for the rant– but I had to let it out, I guess.

The Quebec City Mosque shooter is giving me the strongest vibes he was poisoned by the incel community among others.

The media isn’t picking up on these hints, but the fact he had trouble connecting with women (awkward and inappropriate behaviour) was mentioned in an earlier article. He claims to have debated shooting up feminists instead. Now in this article now he’s apparently obsessed with Eliot Rodger (with wanting to stop him, he says… I’m not sure exactly that I should believe him on that point, given he was talking to a psychologist his defense would call to testify).

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/alexandre-bissonnette-sentencing-defence-1.4631294

Lamontagne, who assesses the potential risk dangerous convicts pose for reoffending, said Bissonnette had struggled with suicidal thoughts since adolescence, when he was bullied by classmates, but “the downward spiral started during the spring of 2014.”

Relying on his own interviews and on Bissonnette’s extensive medical records, Lamontagne laid out how the young man had become absorbed by Elliot Rodger, who killed six people outside a university campus in Isla Vista, Calif., in May 2014.

“He started to have this fantasy that he could commit suicide and go back in time, to prevent this drama from happening,” Lamontagne explained.

Once he was ready to carry out his plan, Bissonnette told Lamontagne, he realized the people who had bullied him during his adolescence would have another reason to laugh at him if he killed himself.

“That’s when he said he came up with the idea of killing people before committing suicide,” Lamontagne said.

Yeah, I saw the Toronto news after I posted that rant. Anybody else starting to feel down in the dumps? 🙁

…What’s happening, man?

Since the authorities seem to not be understanding why incel could be a motive beyond the standard “he must be a mentally ill lone wolf” boilerplate, maybe Ontarian Mammotheers could email police tip sites or elected officials with links and tell them what incels are up to. Because those incel sites are just as much of a breeding ground for radicalization as any Nazi or ISIS recruitment effort.

How is this not terrorism?

Because he was white and domestic and a white supremacist/misogynist, rather than brown or foreign or Muslim. :/

This is an open thread, right? Anyone else sick of headlines about Melania’s hat? Here is the antidote.

https://politics.theonion.com/melania-trump-hosts-state-dinner-in-stunning-black-shro-1825514894

All my best wishes, Dvärg.

Ok I’m resurrecting this thread because I had that other job interview today and I so really really really really want this job. I have been so nervous and anxious about this interview before, I’ve had trouble eating for days now because I get nauseous when I get anxious, although weirdly at the very interview it’s like I made full circle or something and came out the other side super confident. So I was interviewed by a whole bunch of faculty people, they were like “hope you don’t feel intimidated by being interviewed by so many people” and I’m like “nah I’m good but really, for the sake of equality you should have allowed me to bring my posse, like an entourage of people that could stand behind my back cheering for me while you ask me questions”. Also they asked me which subjects I felt most and least confident teaching, I said I have so much teaching experience and so much skill basically you can throw anything at me and I’m just gonna go into the lecture hall and kill it. If I have to say something I’m less competent in then okay I’ve never taught symbolic logic. Although I could totally do that to. And I’m basically an expert in everything else.
Then after the interview and trial lecture my head felt completely empty and now I’m drunk so I’m writing this drunk.
OMG how much I hope I get this job.

@Dvärghundspossen
I really hope you get the job! Best of luck! Cheers! ?