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pressbox69

(2,252 posts)
Mon May 16, 2022, 11:56 AM May 2022

Did the Death of Randy Weaver

Spur the recent wave of shootings throughout America, like Buffalo NY? Wasn't Weaver one of those White Power nut jobs?


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Did the Death of Randy Weaver (Original Post) pressbox69 May 2022 OP
He was a militia/antigovernment nutjob--- google Ruby Ridge hlthe2b May 2022 #1
He described himself as a "survivalist and government separatist". Haggis 4 Breakfast May 2022 #6
no llashram May 2022 #2
He died last week. There have been many shooting before that IronLionZion May 2022 #3
He was a christofascist nut before the Pig made it cool and mainstream. Yes. Thomas Hurt May 2022 #4
Yes, they don't pass the smell test. pressbox69 May 2022 #7
Ruby Ridge documentary mysteryowl May 2022 #5

hlthe2b

(112,602 posts)
1. He was a militia/antigovernment nutjob--- google Ruby Ridge
Mon May 16, 2022, 12:01 PM
May 2022

whether that extended to white supremacist policies, I can't say.

llashram

(6,269 posts)
2. no
Mon May 16, 2022, 12:13 PM
May 2022

the hate of the current GOP, their base of nutjobs and their fuhrer living in his Florida mansion did, though.

IronLionZion

(50,716 posts)
3. He died last week. There have been many shooting before that
Mon May 16, 2022, 12:15 PM
May 2022

this problem has been going on for years

Thomas Hurt

(13,949 posts)
4. He was a christofascist nut before the Pig made it cool and mainstream. Yes.
Mon May 16, 2022, 12:16 PM
May 2022

Birchers, Sovereigns, the Bundies, this dude, militias, KKK, all the same ilk.

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