The suspect, stepson of a deputy sheriff, was on the Sheriff's Youth Advisory Council, and had a history of anti-communist rants, support for the Gaza genocide and hatred towards minorities.

The suspect in the Florida State University shooter, who faces first degree murder charges for killing two and injuring five on Thursday was a member of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, a fascist youth group around the Republican Party, and is a registered Republican voter in Florida. The 20-year-old suspect, Phoenix Ikner, is the stepson of Leon County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jessica Ikner, who has been with the department for 18 years.

  • @[email protected]
    24•3 months ago

    Is he short?

    He looks rather short.

    I wonder if that got to him. Seems to be a weirdly touchy thing to some.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•3 months ago

      Right wing, insecure short dudes who don’t know how to talk to girls are some of the absolute worst people on the planet.

      Meanwhile I knew a guy around the size of Warwick Davis who had to stay in a wheelchair, or at least used a cane and other mobility aids when he was at home. Outgoing, great sense of humor. Threw great parties. Got cute goth babes like, every other week. Just the nicest dude you ever met.

      The difference is accepting who and what you are and learning to love it and trying to find something worth enjoying in life.

      • @[email protected]
        2•3 months ago

        Self love leads to love of others.

        Wanting it bad is also so unattractive. My heart is happier hearing about a Warwick Davis dude fucking goth cuties.

    • @[email protected]
      13•3 months ago

      Just another antisocial, fantasist incel loser who gravitated towards extremism. This asshole can now enjoy prison for the rest of his life.

        • @[email protected]
          2•3 months ago

          Some conservatives get those.

          Mass shooters don’t tend to get that treatment.

          It’s the bridge too far scenario. If this little shit head had joined the police department and then shot a bunch of people, the right would cheer, because that’s how things work in their mind.

          But becoming a rouge element and shooting random people… No that’s just murder.

          I’m sure there’s a better way to phrase it, but I’m at the tail.end of a nasty cold and can’t think straight.

  • HellsBelleEnglish
    58•3 months ago

    He was at the center of a custody battle since he was a toddler, with his father alleging his mother neglected and abused him.

    Kind of have to wonder which parent was actually abusing or neglecting the kid, seeing as all this happened under his father’s roof.

  • @[email protected]
    213•3 months ago

    When news of the shooting broke I was with my dad who said “the shooter was probably radical Democrat since they are the violent ones”. FoxRot is real and dangerous.

    • @[email protected]English
      99•3 months ago

      Back in the old days of Fark, I remember there used to be a flowchart of people’s reactions to mass shootings:

      • Mass shooting happens
      • initial reaction: guy is a terrorist Muslim and we need to bomb some country in the middle east.
      • news shows it’s a white guy
      • “Oh my…how sad. He must have been really struggling.”

      I feel like the right has replaced the second step with whatever out group they are trying to target.

      • @[email protected]
        18•3 months ago

        Wow, i haven’t heard anyone mention Fark in ages! I spent a lot of time there before Digg…

      • @[email protected]English
        21•3 months ago

        Following the Oklahoma City Bombing, EVERYBODY jumped on the Muslim Terrorist bandwagon, but it didn’t sit right with me. Why would a Muslim bomb a building in OKC? Most Muslims wouldnt even know what Oklahoma is. Why wouldnt they pick a more iconic target? It’s all about making a statement, after all. It just smelled like a homegrown terrorist to me, and those around me derided me for being a “Muslim-lover.”

        Then it turned out to be a standard issue American white guy, with blurry motivations beyond being generally pissy about the government for some incomprehensible reason.

        Critical Thinking Skills are the most important skills you can learn in life. They keep you from being stupid and falling for propaganda.

        • @[email protected]
          13•3 months ago

          Then it turned out to be a standard issue American white guy, with blurry motivations beyond being generally pissy about the government for some incomprehensible reason.

          He had a copy of The Turner Diaries and connection to a cult compound called Elohim City which is operating to this day in Oklahoma. He clearly viewed himself as part of some sort of Aryan resistance movement. (Don’t forget the involvement of Nichols - who got the death penalty as well - and the Fourier couple, who our tax dollars put into witness protection to insure that no one would face any consequences.)

          There’s more than a few in OKCPD who were sympathetic to his cause. Unfortunately, Terrence Yeakey was so disturbed by whatever was on the missing VHS tape that he slit his wrists and shot himself from behind…

          He was also specifically pissed about Waco and Ruby Ridge. Tucker Carlson has been suggesting that people go Ruby Ridge themselves of late…

        • @[email protected]English
          8•3 months ago

          Critical Thinking Skills are the most important skills you can learn in life. They keep you from being stupid and falling for propaganda.

          And that’s why we don’t teach it here in Bangbangshootyland.

    • Fingolfinz
      71•3 months ago

      Magats are lost causes and they’ll never be functioning members of society in any meaningful way again. They are class traitors who want to watch the world burn