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Lane Davis was a prolific poster on the Donald Trump subreddit, a former intern for Milo, and an editor for a prominent GamerGaters conspiracy site. Then, one day, he snapped.Source: The Daily Beast
It was a clear summer afternoon on July 14, on Samish Islanda small, idyllic community off the northwest coast of Washington statewhere Lane, a balding, bearded, Donald Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist and prolific YouTuber and Redditor, known online as Seattle4Truth, lived with his parents.
Lane had spent that Friday morning as he did most mornings, on the internet. This day, like the others, Lane read and retweeted posts celebrating the Second Amendment, bemoaning diversity, and spreading conspiracy theories that alleged Hillary Clintons campaign chairman John Podesta was involved in a child sex ring and DNC staffer Seth Rich had been murdered. It was the end of a busy week during which he contributed to the Donald Trump subreddit, and over on The Ralph Retort, a fringe blog where he worked as a political editor, (unpaid, according to the sites owner), he had celebrated the idea of a Kid Rock Senate run, claimed America was under threat of Sharia law, and wondered whether CNN was literally ISIS.
Lanes parents, Catherine and Charles DavisCharles was known as Chuck to his friends were used to their 33-year-old sons outbursts. They had become so frequent that Charles had started recording the tirades on his phone. But that afternoon, they were tired of Lanes screaming, wanted him to leave, and told him as much. Instead, Lane chased his parents around their home, spitting in his fathers face while screaming that he wasnt threatening to kill them, but pedophiles who were taking over the country.
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Another one of those very fine people.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)who still lived with his parents? A perfect representative of donnie's supporters.
demmiblue
(36,914 posts)I can see a Black Mirror episode based on someone like him.
Blue_Adept
(6,402 posts)for a range of reasons. Both as single adults and as married couples. I moved back home with my wife and kids to help take care of my parents as they went through things and could easily be labeled in any news article as "guy who lived with his parents" because of it.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)just graduated from college who move back and perhaps some adults who are taking care of their parents but it doesn't sound like this loser even had a job. What you're talking about, while more common now than a few decades ago, is still pretty rare - at least with people I know but yes, I realize NYC is its own little bubble.
BigmanPigman
(51,651 posts)I was familiar with most of the facts but the article mentioned several times that he was "also a pedophile". No where in that article did it elaborate on this "new conclusion" in Newsweek. They only said that he wanted to shoot children "to save them from authoritarian parents and teachers". How is that being a pedophile?
When I read this article my mind immediately thought that he was probably still living with his mommy and spent all day playing video games and needed to get laid. Except for the "getting laid" part my original assumption was correct.
Coventina
(27,223 posts)Sounds like a real winner!
hopeforchange2008
(610 posts)They all have rage issues, paranoia, are anti-social, and engage in petty crime. Just because he wasn't officially diagnosed doesn't mean he didn't have a mental illness.
Initech
(100,139 posts)They would be sweet!