Package bombs in Austin, TX; when it comes to hate, if not 1 device then another (illegal aliens, million)

[MLSFan]

Originally Posted by RedZin

Terrorist.

terrorist, but its most likely driven by him not getting laid than some religious reasons

[TXStrat]

How about both political ideologies stop making wild assumptions, one way, or the other, about the motivation of bomber. Usually wise to let the dust settle before making assumptions either way.

From the Reddit posts attributed to the suspect, which have not been verified, he claimed that there was no political, racial, or religious motivation, and that he simply wanted to watch the world burn.

[rstevens62]

That would depend on what his motivations were for doing this.

A 'terrorist' can mean many different things and the definition can vary greatly, depending on who is defining.

An example, we celebrate patriots of the american revolution for their actions, many of them involved violence...but to England, these people were terrorists, if England had won, these people would have gone down in history as terrorists, not patriots....So it all depends on perspective.

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by TXStrat

How about both political ideologies stop making wild assumptions, one way, or the other, about the motivation of bomber. Usually wise to let the dust settle before making assumptions either way.

From the Reddit posts attributed to the suspect, which have not been verified, he claimed that there was no political, racial, or religious motivation, and that he simply wanted to watch the world burn.

Don't want to acknowledge that a child raised and home schooled in a conservative, evangelical christian family can become a serial bomber?

I wonder if he "wanted to watch the world burn" because he was raised to believe "the world" is evil.

[HockeyMac18]

Originally Posted by MLSFan

terrorist, but its most likely driven by him not getting laid than some religious reasons

Does it matter? Why is that qualifier even relevant?

[The Dark Enlightenment]

It is certainly possible that the bombings were politically motivated, intended to instill fear in opponents, and therefore terrorism. But the reasoning put forth, that because we call Islamist killers terrorists we must also call white men who kill terrorists to avoid being racist, is ridiculous. Make that argument and you might as well write, "kick me, I'm stupid" on a post-it and stick it on your ass.

[RedZin]

Originally Posted by MLSFan

terrorist, but its most likely driven by him not getting laid than some religious reasons

Yeah... but, my definition is "someone who commits seemingly random acts designed to inspire terror" and I know he did exactly that.

Everyone I knew who worked for FedEx or had family working for FedEx was legitimately terrified by this person.

Innocent lives were lost so arbitrarily. Terror.

[The Dark Enlightenment]

Originally Posted by RedZin

Yeah... but, my definition is "someone who commits seemingly random acts designed to inspire terror"

That's nice, but there is an actual definition.

[Feltdesigner]

Originally Posted by craigiri

He's white so it's "mentally disturbed".

If he was middle eastern it would be terror.
If he was black it would be "BLM are like terrorists".
If he was from Wall Street it would be "$5,000 fine for you".

:-)

basically

[foundapeanut]

I'm white and he's a terrorist in my book.