https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1qpnj18/a_glimpse_into_the_life_of_the_man_who_attacked/ (thread has some sources about his past that lines this timeline up)
What a pathetic loser.
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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Man, I feel sad reading this. I can't even muster contempt.
And there are millions of men out there just like him. Not necessarily the reactionary racist part, but beaten down by life without a social support network in place to guide him out of it. It makes them susceptible to social media algorithms, and this timeline of events suggests that had a role in radicalizing him. Every town in this godforsaken country has a ticking time bomb like him waiting to go off.
too bad people read this as a defense of a horrible racist rather than just an expression of empathy for other people which, yeah, these people don't share, but fuck me for wanting to be better than them and for realizing that I could have very easily been born someone other than myself and whatever fucked to death shit happened to make them that way since people aren't actually born ontologically evil racists could have happened to me
like for fuck's sake people have sympathy for the literal demons in frieren and call it a mark of the show expressing fascist ideology but then turn around and go "no actually, re education is too good for a fascist, we should actually aim to mass murder every ideological opponent" like holy shit
I'm glad I'm not the only one, like the guy is a piece of shit but when it's like ">best friend died" it's just like, fuck. maybe his friend was keeping him relatively sane since that's when he started posting his shitty politics? idk. Doesn't matter but it's still kinda
to think about
There are people in Palestine who have endured everyone they know being murdered by fascists with the whole world doing nothing, and somehow they don’t all become reactionary racist shitheads. There’s no excuse for this
They're not the target of cordinated mass media campaigns designed to weaponize them into reactionary racist shitheads, they're just the victims of those people because capital sees more utility in simply killing them than in weaponizing them. If we're being materialist about this, there's a reason why America produces so many of these people while Palestine does not. This guy chose to be a nazi, yes, but he did not do so under circumstances of his choosing. That shit is in the air here and that's very much by design.
If we're being truly materialist about this, getting rid of all moralism, violent drunk fascists still should be shot or tackled when they make attacks with syringes at Ilhan Omar. He got the spray off and could have killed her if he wasn't a fuck up and had something truly toxic. It's an objective, material failure to allow this person to get away with what he did just from a cold strategic outlook.
In other words, this was an assassination attempt by a fascist against a political figure. His assassination attempt failed because he is a drunk fuckup, but plenty of assassination attempts against Castro were also failed attempts by equally incompetent gusano fuckups. However, those attempts were taken very seriously by Cuban counterintelligence no matter how unlikely the attempts would actually succeed. I do not see the same sense of urgency and seriousness here.
Absolutely: they need to be removed before they can cause harm, the pipeline that creates more of them needs to be collapsed at it's entrance, and the conditions that allowed the pipeline to be built need to be rectified.
sorry I forgot some people are just born evil fucked up shitheads
I don’t care why a Nazi is a Nazi and what psychological trauma led them there. At a certain point there’s nothing to be done but put them in the ground
Sure, but that doesnt mean there's no value to examining what made him this way
If necessary. If they can be saved, why not? It's sad to see someone who seems like they can be saved pushed to capitalist induced psychosis and to the point of harming others. Assume such a person isn't killed in whatever revolutionary movement that happens, and they are now functionally a political prisoner. You just think we should execute them? How fucking grim. They can be given the reeducation and stability they need to recover, and then live pro social and reformed lives. Why wouldn't you want that for someone? Why wouldn't it make you sad that they are denied it under the status quo?
We're discussing this in the context that he just made an attack with some unknown substance against the only leftwing politician with any principles at all in the USA. This isn't some hapless political prisoner from your hypothetical dream world. This is reality where he's an unhinged racist and fascist who uses violence against women, POC and the left. Self-defense. Her guards should have shot him 3 times in the face when he drew the syringe and lunged towards her.
Okay. One can put down a rabid animal and still pity it for the tragedy it is. Understanding what drove it to harmful behavior and trying to cure and prevent rabies doesn't mean we don't put down rabid animals, neither does it make someone counter revolutionary or weak to pity reactionaries driven to psychosis by the material conditions around them. They're still culpable, and they're still legitimate targets of self-defensive violence. But they're also human, and I'd wish for a world where they didn't have to suffer that way. Shame on me I guess.
Would the fash rehabilitators sing a different tune if he brought the Glock with him instead of the syringe?
No. It would be awful to see all the same. In your hypothetical, a wretched creature was hurt and twisted into a thrashing animal, and lashes out hurting another person. One can rightfully see the necessity for self-defensive violence without being contradictory in wishing it wasn't necessary and pitying the creature lashing out in pain. I see the likes of Steven Miller, Noem, Bovino, Bannon, and others as far more culpable for creating the stream of propaganda driving already suffering people to violent psychosis. They can hang, whereas the propagandized can be reeducated.
There are tens of thousands of people who have been negatively affected by this person, starting with his two daughters, his two ex-wives, and the thousands of people he endangered while driving drunk, who I feel sorry more for, and after expending my spoons to feel sorry for tens of thousands of people, I do not have any left over to feel sorry for him.
Then I suggest the reeducation/punishment committee be staffed with people who have more spoons? Not trying to be belittling here, but it's your metaphor. Sneering at your comrades who see a hurt human acting out in a way that hurts others and manage to find pity in the situation isn't going to help the people who have been hurt either. Executing those who have hurt others might satisfy an urge for revenge, and inarguably it can prevent them from harming more in the future. But reeducation accomplishes the same and allows the offender the opportunity for reconstructive and pro social labor. I'm personally involved in restorative justice initiatives so finding sympathy for and helping offenders, even violent ones, rehabilitate and try to live more pro social lives is just another day for me. Whether someone is driven to their harm by poverty or propaganda, I don't think either party is as culpable as the capitalist class and propagandists who force others into that condition. Unless you're eschewing restorative justice as a model, I don't see how you can coherently hold your position with communist principles more widely.
real "do the fascists have free speech" energy
Nah. One can still recognize the humanity of people who get the wall. But I framed hypothetical in the way that I did for a reason—dealing with a political prisoner. Does that sound like free speech to you, ya goober? Having sympathy for our enemies and recognizing them as human is in fact part of what differentiates us from fascists after all.
There's a lot of space between giving fascists free speech and literally executing them after they are already held in a secure prison.
why are we using a secure prison hypothetical dreamworld instead of reality of racist fascist drunk who sprayed unknown substances on Ilhan Omar. Guards should have killed or captured him on sight when he drew a syringe and lunged towards her, they failed big time here and were far too slow and let a weirdo walk right up to her. He could have killed her if he wasn't a drunk fuck up.
Because that's the conversational context, if you look a few comments back. It has nothing to do with this guy, really.
I think it's pretty simple. Become so racist and reactionary that you commit a crime or threaten the revolution in any way? Immediate punishment, up to and including death if they are not reformable. It has nothing to do with moralism, or murdering all "bad" people in the revolution or whatever. They are not punished until they do crimes. This man did a crime.
"If they are not reformable" is doing a lot of work there.
Not really. The revolution is going to be dirtier than you think
That is again a different subject
No it's not, he's talking about "after the revolution" as if that's a thing. The revolution is ongoing. Threats to it keep happening.
There's the current situation in America, the revolution in the sense of the active overthrow of the state, and "the revolution" in the sense of an ongoing proletarian state that has established itself. In the first we don't have prisons, in the second they are fundamentally insecure, and in the third they are secure. Summary executions in the third case simply do not make sense, and really executions in general don't either in a country like America under a DotP.
you can't save an active threat. Puyi wasn't reformed during the civil war.
Yeah, which is why I framed the hypothetical and situated my response in a particular way.
I get it. One of my best friends had a kid in 2015. After they were born he found out they have an incredibly rare genetic disorder (one that’s essentially 1 in a billion) and will need 24/7 medical intervention from about the age of two onward. He started going off the deep end politically after that. COVID hit and he was unrecognizable from the person he used to be. Pain and stress can do a lot of harm. I’m happy he’s a really great dad, but his beliefs about LGBTQ people and immigrants are so abhorrent we can’t be friends anymore.
In a way, yeah, it's fucked up and sad someone could get lead so astray. Which is why I believe in reeducation than outright killing people, most of the time at least.
Keep your empathy up, duke\duchess\ducex
I really do feel sadness and pity when I look at the life of any individual fascist like this guy, no one chooses their worldview, we are all conditioned by our experiences. We have choice and willpower but can only make the choices we've been conditioned to. We don't need to have the same hatred they have to fight back and defeat them.