Rhode Island - Another crossdressing male mass shooter

Thank you, much appreciated.

FFS that headline! He didn't spare his daughter, she was explicit that the only reason she wasn't killed was because of the bystander who intervened.

I do think that in the UK we should do all we can to avoid this left / right labelling. It doesn’t mean here what it means in the US and it seems to me to be a massive distraction from the real issues

I'm not surprised they were related, they both look exactly the same.

No woman would be permitted to dress like this crazy man in the workplace.
They would be called in to meet HR for breach of dress code.
I remember a colleague being sent home on "casual friday" for wearing flip-flops. He argued that these were no different to sandals that the women wore in summer. HR disagreed back then - probably not now if he declared himself to be a woman.

Maybe they put the resident MRA on the article.

Awful. What a cunt. I’ve seen idiots saying “no matter what he did his pronouns should be respected” Ugh. I absolutely despair of such bullshit.

Terrible article on this in today's Times: https://archive.ph/o32Jx I honestly think journalists should have to go on domestic violence training courses before they are allowed to write about these kinds of cases: https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/robert-dorgan-trans-shooter-pawtucket-wvdc3r7gb

There's the full gamut of excuses for male violence right here, along with a confusing flip to female pronouns mid-article - an ex-colleague talking about Dorgan's 'much loved kids', worshipping the ground they and his ex-wife walked on - which is called into question by the fact he murdered his ex and son - plus some victim-blaming... not being 'fully accepted by family' and speculation something was said 'to push him [NOT her] over the edge'.

A lot of papers have stopped publishing this dangerous slop about domestic violence when it involves a man who isn't in a dress, but clearly there's some way to go to change attitudes if the killer was trans.

I don't understand why his employer didn't have a word with him about his unsuitable dressing at work (stiletto heels and mini skirts are not appropriate dress for most jobs but most definitely not for manual work at a shipyard).

Society seems to have decided that men like him are allowed to do whatever they want all the time (like the Family Guy meme) and then people in charge act shocked when the behaviour escalates to dangerous levels because it's been encouraged by a lack of consequences.

Jesus wept.

TIMs come in all shapes and sizes and political persuasions.

It's only viewed as left-wing in the US - the Tories supported trans ideology as much as Labour when they were in government and that was for most of the ascension of this crazy cult.

He's been disowned due to his Nazi tattoos and right-wing views.
The man was seriously mentally ill and should have been sectioned for his own safety as well as others.

It took me a while to understand that it's perfectly possible for men on the Right and the Left to have the same sexual fetishes (thanks Pornhub /s) and for them to argue for different political, economic, and social policies.

Actually it's quite chilling to contemplate. So many ticking time bombs.

Rigid thinking and a massive sense of entitlement can be found all over the political spectrum. It's like the horse shoe analogy. Look at our own dear Ms Sturgeon!

People with disordered thinking latch onto various extreme ideologies, and don't mind interbal contradictions, because they are so accustomed to cognitive dissonance and disordered thinking.

I’ve come across quite a few that are that way.

It is oddly libertarian to be transID and have extremely right wing politics.

peak world gone mad

Sherrif Judd of Polk County Florida style reporting has its advantages.

It’s interesting how the country of origin has affected coverage. The female US Sherriff had good language - i thought - in the press conference saying the “birth name” and the “alias” in the presentation . And also that this “didn’t seem to have anything to do with the investigation at this time”. In doing so she seemed to give (some) press outlets the ability to report her words rather than fully obfuscate. Obviously thats with Trump at the top providing air cover for the truth (how ironic!). In Canada no such protection so everyone still scrambling and talking nonsense

Earlier the genderwoo-friendly Metro reported the shooter as "turning the gun on themselves". This morning they deadnamed the killer, and avoided pronouns by saying "had used the name Roberta Esposito since transitioning". They seem notably squeamish about she/her on this particular occasion, for some reason...

Daughter of trans shooter who killed family: “He had a vendetta”

https://www.thetimes.com/article/e971cce7-e245-4e28-bb7b-9e8d86dbc25b?shareToken=c15e4c38bdef1b136aa0a0e41e12201e

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Agree, and when mixed up with the idea that you can be anything you want to be (when you wish upon a star...) it's toxic.

No one thought he passed. Not even him.