Exclusive: ‘Come on bro let’s go hunting fairies,’ Joshua Cole wrote to a friend two days before the Abilene Pride Parade, according to an FBI probable cause affidavit reviewed by The Independent
I mean he’s a vile piece of shit but this is like, par for the course chatting shit for west texans. This doesn’t even remotely read as an actual threat to me. You have to understand these are uncivilized and stupid people who have thoughts only marginally more sophisticated than their cattle and dogs.
haha what if shoot (thing we don’t like) we should do that.
They’re stupid but not ‘genuinely invite homie to do a mass shooting together with a public faceboook post’ stupid. Even these yokels would assume ‘surely nobody would take this literally.’ Who among us hasn’t seen a picture of a white nationalist march and thought things you wouldn’t post publicly. It’s that frame of mind but if you were a bigot and too dumb to have a filter.
tldr; put him in the reeducation camp for bigotry, not for posting
You can say ‘they’re all talk until they’re not’ about anyone. There is no doubt in my mind that this guy would gladly do some gay bashing if he was getting out of some shitty abiline bar/““honky-tonk”” and saw somebody visibly queer walking into a relatively isolated street. But I also understand the gulf between that and publicly planning a mass shooting. Don’t get me wrong, I hate this exact type of hick in a way that is indefensibly bigoted in it’s own right. But they aren’t that stupid.
You can say ‘they’re all talk until they’re not’ about anyone.
Sure, you can say anything about anybody. But that does not mean it is equally accurate in all cases. That’s why we pay attention to actions and history.
I mean he’s a vile piece of shit but this is like, par for the course chatting shit for west texans. This doesn’t even remotely read as an actual threat to me. You have to understand these are uncivilized and stupid people who have thoughts only marginally more sophisticated than their cattle and dogs.
haha what if shoot (thing we don’t like) we should do that.
They’re stupid but not ‘genuinely invite homie to do a mass shooting together with a public faceboook post’ stupid. Even these yokels would assume ‘surely nobody would take this literally.’ Who among us hasn’t seen a picture of a white nationalist march and thought things you wouldn’t post publicly. It’s that frame of mind but if you were a bigot and too dumb to have a filter.
tldr; put him in the reeducation camp for bigotry, not for posting
They’re all talk until one of them actually shoots some people, which regularly happens.
You can say ‘they’re all talk until they’re not’ about anyone. There is no doubt in my mind that this guy would gladly do some gay bashing if he was getting out of some shitty abiline bar/““honky-tonk”” and saw somebody visibly queer walking into a relatively isolated street. But I also understand the gulf between that and publicly planning a mass shooting. Don’t get me wrong, I hate this exact type of hick in a way that is indefensibly bigoted in it’s own right. But they aren’t that stupid.
Sure, you can say anything about anybody. But that does not mean it is equally accurate in all cases. That’s why we pay attention to actions and history.