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[–] Zink@programming.dev 146 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My eyes almost rolled all the way out of my head reading this article. The dude is from IRAN, and this blindsided them.

To be clear, it sounds like this dude is a loving family man and member of the community, and he did not deserve this. And even if he was a scumbag, we don't use secret police to deal with scumbags.

But sometimes it hurts to have the depth of some people's oblivious ignorance revealed so starkly. Some other comments have already pointed out the stupid "golly I think there might be bad people on the left AND the right!" conclusion at the end of the article. But here's another gem from in the middle:

“My husband himself, even being from Iran, supported Trump, his immigration policies, and understood he was trying to protect the American people and was praying he helped free the Iranian people,” Gardner told Newsweek.

These people look at an elderly hateful narcissist of a grifter and parasite, and hear his messages of hate and division and exclusion, and apparently the image formed in their dusty brains is Captain Fucking Planet!

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be clear, it sounds like this dude is a loving family man and member of the community,

That is how the other narcissistic morons always describes one of their own. During covid there were so many obituaries about these "loving family people" who had died from being unvaccinated, and when you checked their social media history it consisted of nothing but heinous hateful memes.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 15 points 1 day ago

Yeah, no disagreement there.

[–] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

By your powers combined....I AM.....CAPTAIN......PLLLLLANNNNUUUTTTT uhhhhhggg mmmmHmmm