Star Member applegrove (88,378 posts)
1. Nobody on the left expresses hatred for people out partying at clubs on a Saturday night.
this is the first post after this thread:
crazytown (3,774 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212348455
Connor Betts, Dayton Shooter, described himself as a 'Leftist'
He said, 'I want Socialism' and would happily vote for Elizabeth Warren. He responded to a person’s tweet that read “if you nominate anyone other than sanders, you’re going to lose” by writing, “I think Warren has a decent shot, as well.”
On Nov. 2, 2018, he wrote: “Vote blue for gods sake.”
https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/connor-betts-twitter-politics-social-media/
You can't make this shit up...
crazytown (3,774 posts)
6. No.
Where ever his hatred came from, it did not come from progressive politics. At highschool he kept and hit list and rape list, and bragged about them to fellow students.
crazytown (3,774 posts)
9. A fellow student said he was arrested after making death threats
and also told her she was on his rape list. He bought the gun and accessories online. No background check. No red flags
crazytown (3,774 posts)
2. He was following the primaries
He would vote for Warren, but not Harris because she was a cop, and wished Joe Biden's generation would hurry up and die.
Star Member Cha (231,803 posts)
18. What?! he actually said
that about Biden's generation?
Asshole.. we'll die when we're ready.
And, "leftist.. "! My god.. that sounds so far from what anyone on the left would do. All those poor people Massacred!
But, wait... the idiots at the DUmp have seen through his clever ploy:
ChoppinBroccoli (3,014 posts)
3. His Use Of The Word "Leftist" Outs Himself
Only far-right hate websites use the word "leftist" to describe liberals. And he was specifically targeting blacks and minorities, and he loved guns. Yeah, I'm sure he was a screaming liberal. He's just another in a long line of Trump ballwashers who's trying to throw the media off the scent. I'm sure it's no coincidence that Trump was in Cincinnati just days before, and I'll bet you a shiny new dime that he was there.
mathematic (683 posts)
8. Are you under the impression that "leftist" is a slur for liberals?
Cuz it's not.
This guy was a self-proclaimed socialist, according to his published tweets. Socialists aren't liberals. Socialists are leftists. This guy was not a liberal and was not using "leftist" to describe a liberal. He was a leftist and using leftist to describe a leftist. Pretty straightforward.
stopdiggin (432 posts)
10. are Socialists generally hate mongers?
In 2017, Professor Stephen Kotkin wrote in The Wall Street Journal that communism killed at least 65 million people between 1917 and 2017: "Though communism has killed huge numbers of people intentionally, even more of its victims have died from starvation as a result of its cruel projects of social engineering"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimesmathematic (683 posts)
12. He literally described himself as a socialist and a leftist
He posted a pro-communist meme with the old soviet flag on twitter.
He was not a liberal.
You remember how much dust was kicked up on DU a few months back over what the definition of "socialist" is? How the Nordic countries aren't socialist and so forth? The people insisting on pointing out the actual definition of socialism were doing so because actual socialists EXIST and they should not be confused for liberals, regardless of what republicans say. This guy was an actual socialist, not a liberal and everybody should know the difference.
so... how long til the DUmp claims he was a white nationalist?
