I hardly think that one could call the Texas shooter as a white supremacist; he is a Latino man named Mauricio Garcia. Among other things he has a tattoo on his hand, Puro Tango Blast, that is associated with Latino street and prison gangs. The concept of racial supremacy is not exclusive to white people.

I don't like to agree with Greg Abbott, but he's not wrong. That horse has left the barn.

Gun ubiquity. Gun omnipresence. Gun ouroboros.

The city did not shut down because Sound Transit was repairing some infrastructure. Yes, it was inconvenient, but riders soldiered through, Sound Transit level set expectations and then exceeded them, and things are back to normal. I am honestly so thrilled that stations are clean again, there is a measure of security presence, and the ratio of stable to unstable/antisocial passengers is at better levels. What does it take to get some kudos around here, or at least pause the complaining?

@1: Maybe you can't call him a white supremacist, but I'm going to call him one.

"After investigating Garcia’s social media accounts, the FBI found hundreds of posts and images expressing white supremacist and neo-Nazi views, Rolling Stone reported"

It walks like a duck. It posts to social media about how it identifies as a duck. IT'S A FUCKING DUCK. And by "duck" I mean "white supremacist".

Also, it's not like one needs to be white, to be a white supremacist. Exhibit A: Clarence Thomas.

@4: No, the adjective (white) does not correctly modify the noun (supremacist) in the case of Mauricio Garcia.

Of course, woke culture has everything malleable these days, like genders.

woke!

@5 Whatever dude, advancing the cause is good enough. Why do you care if they let him sit at the lunch table or not?

What a time to be alive!
Hispanic…I’m sorry, Latinx, people can be white supremacists now.
Glad to see those groups finally embracing diversity.

You can be a white supremacist without being white. However, this murdering jackhole's RWDS seems to indicate he supports fascism. It's just all coincidental that there have been mostly white examples of fascists in history.

@1, 5 The adjective "white" in "white supremacist" doesn't refer to the race of the individual, but to the overall concept of whiteness. To use an analogy: I'm not personally Ukrainian, but in ideological terms I'm definitely a "Ukrainian sympathizer."

@9,

I too find it baffling that a man who chooses to go on a mass killing spree as a means to address his problems employs seemingly inconsistent and counter-intuitive narrative ideologies to justify his behavior.

@13: No need to always explain an asterisk. Plenty of terms can be applied to extreme political ideologies without conflating with the race of the individual.

Jury Duty is fucking hilarious. Glad you enjoyed it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QixQMUu4CKI

Under the American system of classifying ethnicity, a person may simultaneously identify as both Hispanic, and also as belonging to any other ethnic group. So a Hispanic-identifying white supremacist is perfectly consistent with how Americans see such things.

Heck, during WWII the Germans recruited Ukrainians into the SS, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician) . This is what Putin meant about “de-Nazifying” Ukraine as his casus belli.

@21.....You've got that right about selective ethnicity; take a look at Elizabeth M Hoover and Rachel Dolezal. Really ethnicity is totally bogus; it's all about social status. As long as you have the money you can be on the A-List. As long as the money is there they don't care about color, race, gender etc.

it's 'challenging' to call them
Supremacists? does Mass Murder
make it Leas so? does it Also assist in
calling them fucking Terrorists? they Are
using mass murder to Further the Patriarchy

'scuze me: mostly
'White Terrorism.'

or is it merely
Dominionism?

Another fan here of mockumentary Jury Duty. The thing is if they do another season, they'd likely have to find an actor instead of a a real jurist who's not in on the joke to be the one talking to the camera about his observations of the insanity.

The first thing a reporter should do when they hear about a mass shooting is check to see if there's a manifesto. If there isn't, can an ideology be inferred from social media posts?
Next, check to see if the manifesto roughly aligns with A: team Blue, or B: team Red. If a case can be made that the manifesto originates from the Away Team, then report it as a an integral part of the story. If, however, the manifesto appears to originate from the Home Team, leave it out.

Texas’s Abbott is such a dildo. He can’t be as clueless as he pretends to be. He must be saying what the checks are telling him to say. Saw a press conference this morning. He was justifying his inaction on gun control after all the carnage of late. His reasoning was that these tragedies happen just as often in blue states where there are strict gun laws as they do in red states where there is little or no firearm regulations. Yeah, maybe, but where were the guns bought? He’s not even a dildo; he poses as mental molasses bought and paid for and a half-witted rationalizing mouthpiece for mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers who need snap logic for having their guns.

I didn’t know people in low income neighborhoods were buying EVs. Look, this is like the Industrial Revolution in terms of huge change as we finally wean ourselves off fossil fuels. Mistakes will be made. Hopefully, they’ll all be minor or reparable. I think priority number one is making sure someone can take a 250-mile trip without having to worry about finding a recharging station. That in itself is a huge task. Next, we should cater to suburban people who insist on driving into work – sometimes 50-100 miles roundtrip. Later, when EVs drop in price, we should make sure lower-income neighborhoods are set-up and ready to go. Big mistake, though, to put a recharging station now in a place where it would probably lie and go derelict. I think this because I don’t believe households struggling to keep the lights on and food on the table are spending $40K on a car. I could be wrong. If I'm not, taxpayers and power suppliers – and most importantly electric vehicle detractors - would point at underutilized stations and proclaim what a waste of money THAT was – not unlike all those venues in ruins from the 2004 Athens Games. Yeah, Greek people will one day be into field hockey. If we are going to be wise about this transition, we will also have to be practical. Inner city recharging stations? You bet, but not right away.

Ice cream at a concentration camp is the epitome of classlessness. Oh my shit, really?

@1 - Having lived most of my adult life in Texas in and around the Latino world there, I can tell you that more than plenty of middle-class Latinos see themselves as white, just as white as their pasty-skinned cousins of northern European descent. It may seem weird, but there ya go.

And the Nazi apologists have arrived. Or maybe they never left.

It would take the dipshit brigade all of five minutes to search for rightwing / fascist / White nationalists / white supremacist groups alive and well in the Latino community and through out Spain, Mexico and latin America. FFS sake what do you morons think Franco was?

It's about hierarchy and skin color.

"Mauricio Garcia, 33, maintained a profile on the Russian social networking platform OK.RU, which included posts referencing extremist online forums such as 4chan and content from white nationalists, including Nick Fuentes, an antisemitic white nationalist provocateur."

If it squawks like a Nazi... it's probably a Nazi.

The dude had a literal swastika and SS tattoos for fucks sake.

@28

What do you infer from this, dipshit
(Tattoos of on the shooter):

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/13c0929/looks_like_mtg_was_right_about_the_gang/

Not only a white supremacist, but also an indelible.

So we have a twofer.

“Incel”

One would think that the tech sector, with as much experience that they have with these sorts, would get around to adding the notion to their autocorrect lexicon.

@38: It was a quickie "thank you" hug from Lindsay after Dianne had pleasant remarks to say about how he ran the committee. And it wasn't really a hug, their faces were never close, kind of a cross between a side hug and a pat on the back. See for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfEecegypWA

What a thing to still be ruminating about - happened a few years ago. But more to the point, what's so wrong with getting along?

Apparently racial and ethnic supremacy isn't exclusively white. Inclusivity is a loaded buzz word but in reality it is really a hypocritical joke used by the partisan media.

@44: So noted. Bye

(lol)

I notice the Nazi apologists slinked away pretty quickly. I'm sure they and their innumerable sock puppets will be back. What else have they got? Well. What else other than trolling and inevitably committing a mass shooting.

@49.....Nazi apologists; are you referring to the ice cream vendor at Auschwitz? I think I only saw one comment about that matter in this thread of the SLOG.

City Light, like all city departments, gathers exhaustive amounts of "community" input. ("Community" = the sort of people who respond to surveys sent out by city agencies).

It's my understanding that the "community" in the valley overwhelmingly view EV charging as a sign of gentrification, and did not want them in their neighborhood.

All the information is a matter of public record. Maybe just ask for it and make your own judgement, instead of wringing your hands and reposting an article from the Times, Nathalie dear?