Quote Originally Posted by sonatine View Post
#7 literally the only tweet that mattered:






psychotic dad
full time gambler
highly successful businessman

there just arent a lot of entry points there for radicalism. im not going to be like [ EXPLOSION SOUND ] MIND BLOWN if he decided one day out of the blue that jihad was the answer but its Really Fucking Dumb to connect those dots at this point.


but that's not what she's doing. she's saying she can't just reject the notion that he was radicalized. she also makes a decent argument for the premise that ISIS's claim of responsibility is a fact that makes it more likely and not less likely (or neutral), that he was radicalized.