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Originally Posted by whell

The point is you have no idea at all what motivated the shooter. Absolutely none. You have much conjecture and finger-pointing, and that's all.

Oh, really?

San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus told reporters that Ikeguchi tore down the Pride flag outside Mag.Pi and “yelled many homophobic slurs” before the shooting, per The Guardian. Ikeguchi also had an extensive history of making anti-LGBTQ+ comments on Twitter; in fact, his pinned post, which remains up at the time of writing, is a picture of a burning rainbow flag captioned, “What to do with the LGBTQP [sic] flag?”

On the right-wing social media platform Gab, Ikeguchi was even bolder. One of his pinned posts, according to Vice, read, “We need to STOP COMPROMISING on this LGBT dictatorship and not let them take over our lives. Stop accepting this abomination that the government is forcing us to submit to these mentally disordered tyrants.” The suspect also allegedly shared a link to a video called “When Should You Shoot a Cop,” with a caption reading, “There will come a time that we have to do this.” (Ikeguchi’s Gab profile was removed on Monday.)

Ikeguchi’s bigotry was not limited to the LGBTQ+ community, however. Many of his posts aligned with Christian nationalist views. On June 28, Ikeguchi posted that abortion and same-sex marriage “are both immoral and are design [sic] to destroy humanity one by one.” “So if someone is pro-abortion and pro-LGBTQP, they are at war against the foundation of family values,” Ikeguchi wrote. Ikeguchi also posted about a variety of other standard right-wing conspiratorial content, including anti-vaccine content and anti-Semitic memes.

You and WaPo are so full of crap. The FBI report doesn't even use the term "right-wing" or "left-wing".

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/...eport.pdf/view

Oh, really?

The FBI director, Christopher Wray, told Congress that the 6 January insurrection wasn’t an isolated event and “the problem of domestic terrorism has been metastasizing across the country for a number of years”.

Wray added that white supremacists comprise “the biggest chunk of our domestic terrorism portfolio overall” and “have been responsible for the most lethal attacks over the last decade”.

You still haven't answered why Far Right extremism is responsible for 75% of domestic terror attacks (3X higher than those attributable to the Far Left). Why is that?