Reply #24: You're exactly right.

[Stinky The Clown]

I said that, more inartfully, the day the shooting happened. The "reasonable" people who wanted some direct link to the right shouted me down.

There will *never* be a direct link to the right - or any other group. They spew what they spew to an unknown, but very specific audience - as this article says, the lone wolf nut job.

I said the shooter was either a willing tool (not likely) or a useful idiot. It appears more and more as if he is a useful idiot. I said this an was chastised for the term useful idiot - which actually has an actual meaning, quite apart from mental health.

Anyway, thanks for posting that.

Stochastic Terrorism.

I shall remember that.