The shooter, a white man, killed three people after writing messages of hatred for Black people. He killed himself after opening fire in a dollar store.

A white gunman fatally shot three Black people in hate-motivated shooting at a Dollar General retailer in Jacksonville on Saturday afternoon, Sheriff T.K. Waters said.

“This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people,” the sheriff said at a news conference. “He wanted to kill n------.”

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        Chicken or egg. One existed before but the other gave it a platform and kept it alive. I hope it changes in a decade.

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        Fuck off, trump has done more to bring racism and fascism to the forefront than anyone else in recent history.

        Racism, sexism and bigotry have gotten bolder in his wake, we’ve seen violence in his name, pelosi’s husband for example, as well as violence for other conservative beliefs like white replacement theory bullshit which absolutely was pushed by trumps friends like tucker (who famously hates his guts)

        But yeah go on, trump is just a product of his environment :(. He holds no accountability I guess

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    The list of violent right-wing extremist violence is is growing very long.

    All this fanned by right-wing media and foreign agents like Russia.

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    OH BOY ANOTHER LONE WOLF! CAN’T FUCKING MOVE FOR LONE WOLVES AROUND HERE!

    If you ever wondered what you would do in Germany in the 30s, you’re doing it right now.

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      Which is head-in-the-sand, “I can’t do anything about it because the other side is the problem.”

      Fascism takes over gradually, like frogs in a pot of water slowly heating.

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        fun fact: if you try to actually boil a frog, it jumps out of the pot. frogs aren’t that dumb.

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    Florida is full of Nazis. Pretty much every biker bar in Florida is home to white supremacists. You couldn’t get me to visit Florida for anything.

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    I love it that Nazis are too damn stupid to give their allies plausible deniability and keep covering everything in swaztikas.

    The Allen Texas mall shooter was a great example - the right wing media tried arguing he was Hispanic, and that he wasn’t right-wing - his huge swaztika tattoos were a false flag… That he wore for years. Even your average Fox viewer isn’t buying that.

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    Did that fucking sheriff seriously use the n word in damn press release…. What the fuck???

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        Many right wing conservatives try to claim the horrible shit their own people do was actually a false flag attack planned by Antifa. Like they did with the January 6th insurrection.

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          It would be hilarious if they all died out because of it, but there are always more. Like can they all just go all the way with it? If everything is a false flag, you nutjobs should be shooting up the NRA building or something. They’re liberal plants after all right?

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    DeSantis called it “a cowardly act” which seems like the weirdest way to talk about a shooting like this.

    Almost as if he’s saying it wasn’t brave enough and that the shooter should have done more.

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    I watched some of the security cam. The kid walks weirdly. Like he looks like he’s stomping his feet.