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Indianapolis FedEx shooting suspect was part of My Little Pony subculture of 'bronies (www.washingtonexaminer.com)
posted 5 years ago by xleb2 5 years ago by xleb2 +58 / -0
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– TentElephant 42 points 5 years ago +42 / -0

“Brony online culture has displayed elements of far-right and white nationalist extremism,” an internal memo from Facebook read, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Bronies get the helicopter too.

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– Grumman 52 points 5 years ago +52 / -0

Of course it's not true. People liked the show because it was a nice, wholesome show.

There was a post timestamped less than an hour before the shooting that read, “I hope that I can be with Applejack in the afterlife, my life has no meaning without her,” and it featured an image of the cartoon pony Applejack.

That's not a far-right white nationalist extremist. That's a guy who is so hopelessly depressed that if you took away that one good thing he probably would have gone postal months ago.

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– brappablat 37 points 5 years ago +37 / -0

The hard capital R Retards on OG reddit are blaming this on every fucking thing that nerds have ever enjoyed ever basically ensuring that no comforting dopamine hits outside of their approved pipeline is allowed.

You're not getting into woke heaven without paying the tithe.

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– thepalagoon 22 points 5 years ago +22 / -0

Government and media working together to demonize every group that might not go along with Building Back Better... sounds oddly reminiscent of some times in history.

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– w-duranty6489 8 points 5 years ago +8 / -0

FDR maybe?

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– brappablat 29 points 5 years ago +29 / -0

The lion's share of early 2010's bronies moved on to Steven Universe and/or being professionally trans

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– deleted 9 points 5 years ago +9 / -0
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– Gizortnik 14 points 5 years ago +14 / -0

What they mean is that some bronies are potentially based because it's fundamentally counter-cultural. Remember that MLP had an entire episode that attacked the concept of equality.

I've seen random based furries on Twitter too.

My argument is that this is the result of genuine blow-back niche counter-cultures reacting to an establishment culture, which happens to be leftist & authoritarian.

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– WhitePhoenix 23 points 5 years ago +23 / -0

The only fucking thing the so-called "Brony culture" displayed was massive amounts of autism.

Holy shit I can't believe I'm reading that line and they're saying this unironically.

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– Lurker404 21 points 5 years ago +21 / -0

lol, Bronies are alt-right now? What a fucking joke.

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– Galean 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

That is offensive and should be considered hate speech against the far-right. Will furries be the next alt-right?

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– Gizortnik 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

Nazi furs are a thing.

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– deleted 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0
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– Gizortnik 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

No, I'm pretty sure they still have both of those.

I expect it has to do with being 2edgy4me

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– MrGiggles 30 points 5 years ago +30 / -0

Something is not right here. The media hasn’t been focusing on the fact that the shooter was white, and I don’t understand why... They are trying to stoke the flames by implying that it was a hate crime against Sikhs because 4 of the victims happened to be Sikh, but the identity is not being shoved in our faces relentlessly. I wonder if this is another suspicious incident like the Las Vegas shooting...

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– MrJ4242 19 points 5 years ago +19 / -0

Simple if they can blame entertainment that isn’t pushing their propaganda they can have Biden push to outlaw all non leftist approved entertainment.

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– Lurker404 15 points 5 years ago +15 / -0

I've read in some comment somewhere (so take that with a grain of salt) that the guy was on the FBIs radar, like several of the latest shooters. Seems fishy.

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– Cuzyoudbeinjail 20 points 5 years ago +20 / -0

He's had a shotgun taken from him by police for past mental health issues. So that in it self should have disqualified from buying a firearm legally. So the blame falls directly on the fbi.

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– w-duranty6489 13 points 5 years ago +13 / -0

It glows brightly.

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– deleted 10 points 5 years ago +10 / -0
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– brappablat 26 points 5 years ago +26 / -0

They're just picking on nerds. This is ridiculous. I read his manifesto, it reads like somebody who hasn't been on the internet since 2011.

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– censorthisss 12 points 5 years ago +12 / -0

Cliff notes if you don't mind?

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– brappablat 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

https://archive.ph/sTqgu

A post timestamped 10:19 p.m., less than an hour before the shooting, featured an image of the cartoon pony named Applejack. “I hope that I can be with Applejack in the afterlife, my life has no meaning without her,” the post said. “If there’s no afterlife and she isn’t real then my life never mattered anyway.”

It then goes on to call himself an incel with dumb fetishes.

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– w-duranty6489 13 points 5 years ago +13 / -0

FBI let the guy go in 2020 because he's a brony

top lel

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– deleted 12 points 5 years ago +12 / -0
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– TakenusernameA 13 points 5 years ago +13 / -0

I;m not even sure if that thing is a "him".

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– xleb2 [S] 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

All I can ever think of when I hear the word brony, is Ghost raving completely out of his mind like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO26949ONz8

I wonder if Ghost is still around.

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– Soup_Navy_Admiral 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

displayed elements of far-right and white nationalist extremism

It's really hard to goose-step to "Winter Wrap Up."

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