Would a girlfriend have prevented a senseless tragedy?

A commenter writes:

You guys are completely batshit crazy if you think that someone who shoots 70 people and kills 12 of them would have been totally fine if only he'd had a girlfriend. Sorry, but would YOU want to be his girlfriend? People pick up on loony vibes. There are thousands of geeky graduate students living in shitty apartments eating Ramen and not getting laid and they don't go on a shooting rampage. And he'd only started his program last year, so it's not like he could be considered some sort of giant failure - you study and get paid for it, not so bad.

The guy was fucking nuts.

Actually, I do think he would have been totally fine if he had had a girlfriend. And just because the vast majority of “geeky graduate students living in shitty apartments eating Ramen and not getting laid” don’t succumb to beta-male rage, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t a lot of them on the edge.

So far, the news reports haven’t turned up any evidence of schizophrenia, so I don’t think this guy is any “nuttier” than Japanese Kamikaze pilots.

Also, I think that as other commenters have pointed out, fifty years ago this same person would probably have been set up with a nice girl and have maybe even been married, despite sending out “loony” vibes. I don’t think that someone truly loony could do so well in school.

But hey, evidence could surface in the next day or two to prove me wrong about my hunch.

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Also, this NY Times article confirms my theory that Holmes was not loony, just shy and socially awkward.

“There was no way I thought he could have the capacity to do commit an atrocity like this,” said Mr. Kromka, who is from Aurora. Mr. Kromka said that Mr. Holmes’s “disposition was a little off,” that he was usually socially awkward, one of the quieter people in the lab. He spent much of his time immersed in computer, often participating in role-playing online games.

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A spokeswoman for the University of Colorado Denver-Anschutz Medical Campus, Jackie Brinkman, said Mr. Holmes was in the process of dropping out of school because of academic problems. She said the university was unaware of any incidents with campus police or disciplinary problems involving Mr. Holmes while he was enrolled.

It wasn’t the same as with Seung-Hui Cho who was known around his campus as having mental health issues.

Comments

[J1]

It's not that giving him a girlfriend would have prevented this, but that having a girlfriend would indicate he wasn't the sort of lunatic that would do something like this.

[rightwingnut]

Well judging by the latest news I'd say yes. He published an online profile where his intro said "Will you visit me in prison?"

http://www.tmz.com/2012/07/20/james-holmes-sex-website-penis-cops/

So based on that, I'd say he was craving female attention and this over the top rampage was his 'plan' to get it.

It's rather sick. And with all the planning he did, wearing body armor not be taken out by the police on the scene, I'd also say he wasn't a total nutter, just a megalomaniac in desperate need of women.

[Bekenstein]

Sounds like the average nerdy white guy. Socially awkward but quiet and nice with teachers and classmates, and spending most of his time in the virtual world of videogames, forums, warez and porn.

Indeed no sign of insanity in these descriptions.

I would pay a few dollars to have a glimpse at the websites he visited or the comments he posted on the Internet. It would perhaps reveal interesting political and ideological ideas.

[nebbish]

Schizophrenics don't always have any obvious signs of mental illness prior to the onset of disease. They aren't always obvious Loughner-type sputtering crazies, and recall that the media even tried to find ideological motivations for Loughner's act before his mental illness was formally diagnosed. Schizophrenia can initially manifest as social withdrawal. It is far from conclusive at this early point in the investigation that mental illness can be ruled out.

[Foseti]

Apparently his mom was not surprised he did it. That seems like more than "socially awkward," no?

[Hugh]

This story is certainly bringing out the Sodinis on this blog.

[Bekenstein]

"Schizophrenics don't always have any obvious signs of mental illness prior to the onset of disease. They aren't always obvious Loughner-type sputtering crazies, and recall that the media even tried to find ideological motivations for Loughner's act before his mental illness was formally diagnosed. Schizophrenia can initially manifest as social withdrawal. It is far from conclusive at this early point in the investigation that mental illness can be ruled out."

As someone who is more or less "socially withdrawn" (in the sense I prefer solitude to the company of dumb people), I feel a bit insulted by your comment. But I understand your point.

[whiskey]

I think the guy was crazy. He shot people he never knew, never even met. Thats crazy.

But its a huge social loss. And we will see more of it. Crazy people CAN function. Often for their entire life. A whole lot of major scientists were pretty damn nutty, including Einstein. And yes, if he had a girlfriend he probably would have pulled it together enough to function.

This guy was an honors grad out of UCR in Neuroscience. Not only are those people dead, but Holmes won't ever find a cure for say, Alzheimers or better treatment for strokes. That could affect any number of people reading this. By contrast, say Omar Thornton, angry and rage-filled WITH A GIRLFRIEND (ironically, White) killed 8 White guys before turning the gun on himself. Over getting fired from a beer distributor (after he was caught stealing on camera).

If you want to contemplate true horror, imagine this guy say, cooking up Anthrax and just killing tens of thousands with it. And NEVER GETTING CAUGHT. Because he was never identified. The Anthrax killer(s) were never caught.

[Rain And]

I suppose females will write him in prison now. Maybe even a few slightly attractive ones. But a few nifty penpals will probably be all he gets out of this. Well..that and nightly violations from his NAM cellmates.

If you're going to be a spree-killer, it's smart to do it in Norway instead of the US, where you'll be thrown in with the most deranged barbarians in the history of earth.

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1989083,00.html

[Blue willow]

" I don’t think that someone truly loony could do so well in school."

You're not serious surely. The Unibomber must have done very well in school. I am certain Holmes is mentally ill. Maybe the schizophrenia didn't appear until the last year or so.

[dearieme]

As a fresher I shared chem labs and tutorials with a biochemistry student who sent out “loony” vibes: the girls in the class were particularly alert to it.

Thirty years later I saw him on a news bulletin, being taken to jail having been found guilty of attempted murder of his wife using his biochemical skills (though not using them very well, evidently).

[CamelCaseRob]

"The Unibomber must have done very well in school."

Lol, big understatement. He graduated from Harvard at 20, and his doctoral thesis in mathematics was so complex "maybe 10 or 12 people in the country could have understood or appreciated it".

The media downplayed this, but the only real job that the Unabomber ever had was as assistant professor of mathematics at UC-Berkeley. In fact, he was the youngest man ever to become a professor there.

[James B. Shearer]

Another example of a crazy person who did well academically is the mathematican, John Nash, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash,_Jr (subject of the book and movie, A Beautiful Mind). More precisely he did well before he became too crazy to function. Nash was married when he went totally nuts so any protective effect of marriage is partial at best.

[asdf]

1) Yes, a girlfriend would have probably prevented this.

2) No, no particular girl owes him or needs to "take one for the team."

3) The system isn't changing. These things are going to happen. You can't put the sexual revolution back in the bag, so women don't have to service betas for resources anymore. The only thing I can think of that might have helped this guy is legalized prostitution, but I doubt that is changing either.

4) I understand and empathize with the guys situation, and understand that under different circumstances he might have acted differently, but at the end of the day actions matter. He sinned, he will pay for his sins.

[Dan]

The irony is that his value in the marriage market was about to shoot upward.

Being a techie, white collar, professional man in America makes a guy a catch in our new world where women are getting college and graduate degrees at a far higher rate than men.

Where I work, in a tech job where everyone is well paid and many are nerdy, nearly 100% of the men around me are marriage or in a LTR (including some who are both awkward and ugly), while around 50% of the women around me are single.

[John]

I'm with HS here. This is what will happen to any subset of males who don't have either a romantic partner or a successful career. Holmes had neither.

Some guys will get out of the rut, some will retreat into inaction, possibly having violent fantasies, but not acting on them, and some will act.

Loony or not, there is no way he would have done this if he had a girlfriend. Of course the women who are being interviewed now are going to say, "Yeah, I didn't date him because he seemed crazy." They are not going to admit, even to themselves, that "I didn't date him because he was into all of that geeky science and computer stuff, and he wasn't hot."

[KLO]

The difference between a true nut bag spree shooter and a desperate, embittered person driven to become a spree shooter by circumstance can be seen in their choice of targets. The craziest of spree shooters choose targets that are largely, if not totally, unrelated to the source of their desperation. Often these targets are local, familiar and convenient and really nothing more. The more sane shooters choose targets that are closely connected to the source of their frustrations.

On the spectrum of completely nuts to very sane, Holmes is dangerously close to the very edge of complete and total insanity. The people attending a Batman movie at midnight are not the source of his problems, and yet he went after them. He makes George Sodini look like Dwight D. Eisenhower.

[The Undiscovered Jew]

I'm getting the impression that rather than discounting this freak-event as a statistical rarity, the country will react with overanalysis, crackpot psychological theorizing (AKA mainstream psychology), hysterics from "expert", hand wringing, and moral grandstanding.

And Sigma himself will, of course, be all over this story to wring every possible drop of web traffic out of this incident as he, in his incomparable wisdom, possibly can.

Long live Sigma for giving us this soapbox!

[The Undiscovered Jew]

"Lol, big understatement. He graduated from Harvard at 20, and his doctoral thesis in mathematics was so complex "maybe 10 or 12 people in the country could have understood or appreciated it"."

The humanities majors in the media may have to drop the hammer on white nerds and portray them all as borderline homicidal maniacs waiting to explode.

Meanwhile, blacks will be allowed to run free and wild in the streets with nary a comment from the MSM.

But at least they're on the case of white nerds.

[whiskey]

Consider all the guys like Holmes who are more ... focused. They can't get a job other than working at NAM-infested McDonalds where no White guy works without being labeled loser.

Now imagine you know all sorts of biology and biochemistry, and are unhappy and want to better your situation.

If you follow the arc of TV "heroes" like Breaking Bad's Brad White, or anyone from Sons of Anarchy, or the Shield's Vic Mackey, or Tony Soprano, or Nucky from Boardwalk Empire, or the guys on Game of Thrones, what do you do?

You kill a LOT of people using your skills, anonymously, so you don't get caught, ever, maybe even a whole city. A place where there are lots and lots of people working at companies you'd like to work at, but are too White and nerdy (and not a comp sci guy aiming for Google/Facebook) to work at: Roche, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, etc. Kill enough of the people there (and hey, why not a whole city! even) then you can get hired. Because everyone else is dead. On a small scale, that's the Fox 1990's tv show "Profit" starring Adrian Pasdar as a high functioning psychopath. Hey it worked for "Dexter" now didn't it?

Cut high IQ young men out of the action, eventually a society that has prided itself on "no limits" will reap the cable TV bad guys it sowed. To its horror.

[Just Speculating]

"I'm getting the impression that rather than discounting this freak-event as a statistical rarity, the country will react with overanalysis, crackpot psychological theorizing (AKA mainstream psychology), hysterics from "expert", hand wringing, and moral grandstanding".

Yes, agreed. This incident pales in comparision to all the gun toting NAM events that the mainstream media don't see fit to print.

[Mirco Romanato]

This guy could had a few psychotic episodes gone undetected or untreated. It is not uncommon for the first episode to be untreated because the familiars or the school misunderstand what is really happening. Social retreat is a symptom of a psychosis but it is easy to be mistaken for a trait of the character. It is not "I like to be left alone for long time periods", because a healthy man will be able to be with other people if needed. A psychotic is unable to adapt and be in tune with the environment around him. He could be able to endure it for a few day or week, then he explode.

If there is a mental problem this doesn't make him incompetent or unable. If he believe to be the Joker, this doesn't make him incompetent, because he knew the Joker actions would be wrong, evil and against the law.

A girl would not make a lot of difference in his behavior (apart from being the first victim or rat him out).

The fact he acted as he acted is, IMHO, because the society and culture at large made "acceptable" in his mind to behave as he behave. It gave the mold he used to give form to his insanity acting out. If he was born in Saudi Arabia, he would volunteer to be a suicide bomber and in other cultures and times he would have killed himself in other ways or killed someone other in different ways.

[spandrell]

Well not getting laid was a sufficient but not necessary condition.
Being nuts is a necessary condition.

If you wanna get laid, you save some money, go to Thailand and go on a fucking spree. It's a pity that smart people can't figure that out.

His AFF profile seems to imply that he is looking forward from getting female fans at prison. How lame is that?

[Anonymous]

Off topic-

What's going on with the shooter from Arizona? Have we learned anything new about him? Seems like that dropped down the memory hole

[Jeff]

No, no particular girl owes him or needs to "take one for the team."

WRONG. We live in a society, where we all have some responsibility to see that the society functions properly. Right now men have responsibility (taxes, child support) and women don't. Women fuck with no consequences and have babies on our dime. Women take up the vast majority of the worthless government jobs, again, on our dime. If you're a man with enough money/looks/social skills to do well with women, you deal with it. But if you're not such a man, what incentive do you have to care about anyone else around you? What incentive do you have not to go out of your way to HURT others around you?

The answer is, none. And that's why these incidents will continue unless we get a handle on the real problem - feminism. For me, I don't want to see my parents get hurt. That's why I haven't acted violently yet.

I have no desire to hurt others, unless they have personally wronged me though.

[AE]

I'm from Aurora, and it might comfort you to know that Aurora is filled with NAMs and proles. So most of the people Holmes shot were of no value to you anyways. In this case, rather than the NAM terrorizing an upper-middle class white guy, the reverse took place.

[AE]

Fascinating. Could it be that our killer is Jewish?

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/colorado-shooter-was-camp-counselor-for-jewish-big-brothers-and-sisters/2012/07/21/

[J.M.]

@Hugh "This story is certainly bringing out the Sodinis on this blog."

Certainly if not the Sodinis, this story is bringing out some manginas, captain-save-a-whore aka white nights and/or women trolls for sure.

The guy was not healthy mentally-wise but a case like this would have never happened in the 20's, (indeed it never happened, even well into the 50s) not even in your dear "Anglosphere". Whether the likes of you want to admit it or not is irrelevant, but the hard fact is: leaving millions of men without male guidance and venues for satisfaction in the real world is the cause behind this. The sexual revolution CANNOT be reversed, so start getting used to a collapse in civics and augmented security measures to compensate for this and more excuses for government intrusion into your private lives.

There are millions of young ones in his situation and don`t break down and start shooting people? Well they are more resigned to it and anyways they either figure their way out (learn how to be a man aka game) or just become herbivores, in which case become a burden to society.

In a serious society this man would executed and his parents put in jail, especially his father for not mentoring his son on the ways of the world and teaching him common sense (Aka some Game). Anyways in a serious society this wouldn`t have happened...

[Just Speculating]

An alternative take is that this is a staged event so that gun control laws can be enforced. This seems to be another thing brewing.

[The Undiscovered Jew]

"Women fuck with no consequences and have babies on our dime. Women take up the vast majority of the worthless government jobs, again, on our dime. If you're a man with enough money/looks/social skills to do well with women, you deal with it. But if you're not such a man, what incentive do you have to care about anyone else around you?"

Men with money/looks/social skills rarely have babies with welfare case women because they are rarely good looking.

Holmes would have preferred a hot woman, but hot women don't normally go on welfare chronically because it reduces their SMV for a quality man looking for a long term partner.

[The Undiscovered Jew]

"I'm from Aurora, and it might comfort you to know that Aurora is filled with NAMs and proles. So most of the people Holmes shot were of no value to you anyways."

1) If these were the types of people killed by Holmes then he might not have been motivated by hatred of good looking women who had turned him down. If he wanted to strike out violently against good looking women (as a few posters here seem to...) then he would have shot up a gym in health obsessed Colorado where the ladies are hotter.

2) White proles are not worthless. They're patriotic, serve in the military, and are good fixing appliances for middle and higher class white people.

If there were no white proles, what white person would you rely on to fix your car or join the Marines? A feeble nerd-weakling like Half Sigma?

[J.M.]

@By the way this lack of opportunities and venues of real satisfaction and accomplishment are absent in the Middle East, hence their inherent instability and in the case of the U.S. the ability of anyone (from terrorists and government) to recruit disengaged males for staged attacks used as an excuse for further erosion of your liberties will be a lot easier in the coming years.

[nebbish]

Fascinating. Could it be that our killer is Jewish?

From the article, "Camp Max Straus is a nonsectarian program for children ages 7-14, which is run by Jewish Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Los Angeles." Given his middle name (Eagan, probably a family name) and surname, I would guess that he is likely not Jewish.

[The Undiscovered Jew]

OT, Sigma, we need more college bubble posts from you.

The college bubble continues to make news.

Obama has just called for making private loans dischargeable in bankruptcy court. However, private loans are only 15% of all college debt. The rest is federal loan debt, and Obama doesn't want to make that debt dischargeable because it would harm the extreme leftist academic system to cut off their funding too much.

Republicans should one up Obama and demand federal and private loans be dischargeable.

Also, the college administrators and liberal arts professors should be either sued or sent to prison for being financial criminals. 54% of college graduates are underemployed and over 300,000 waiters have college degrees.

The college scam (now running at $1 trillion of loan debt for degrees of increasingly declining value relative to cost) is a bigger scam than Madoff or Ken Lay ever dreamed of trying:

Janitors With College Degrees and the Higher-Education Bubble

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/18/janitors-with-college-degrees-and-the-higher-education-bubble.html

Good luck if you majored in gender studies, communications, art history, pop culture, or (really) the history of dancing in Montana in the 1850s.

Current and former collegians now owe more than $1 trillion in student loans—and only 26 percent of the debtors are currently paying anything back, down from 38 percent five years ago. (These loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, a reform imposed to stymie borrowers who would graduate and promptly file for bankruptcy.)

The cost of college rose 440 percent between 1982 and 2007, compared with cost of living increases of 106 percent and family income growth of 147 percent over the same period. The Sallie Mae report indicates that even students from high-income families are taking out student loans—27 percent used federal loans in 2012, up from 19 percent last year.

According to the “Bennett hypothesis,” named for former U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett, federal aid doesn’t help students because colleges and universities just cream off the extra money by raising prices. Peter Wood, now president of the National Association of Scholars, recalls numerous meetings of college administrators where the topic was setting tuition for the next year.

“The regnant phrase was ‘Don’t leave money sitting on the table,’” he writes. “The metaphoric table in question was the one on which the government has laid out a sumptuous banquet of increases of financial aid. Our job was to consume as much of it as possible in tuition increases.”

Where does all that money go? Much of it to lavish spa-like facilities and grand new construction, including $100 million or so for multicultural centers and sports stadiums. The debt taken on by colleges has risen 88 percent since 2001, to $307 billion. Jeff Selingo of the Chronicle of Higher Education writes about a “lost decade” of wild campus spending: “The almost insatiable demand for a college credential meant that schools could raise their prices and families would go to almost any end, including taking on huge amounts of debt, to pay the bill. In 2003, only two colleges charged more than $40,000 a year for tuition, fees, and room and board; by 2009, 224 were above that mark.” And now many are inching toward (or past) $50,000 a year.

[Just Speculating]

This tragedy is now being analyzed by conspiracy theorists.

http://www.examiner.com/article/conspiracy-theorists-call-dark-knight-shooting-a-staged-government-plot

One of the commenters on the site said this: "if you believe that a 24 yr old med student with no prior formal combat training or experience would have the capability and poise to tear gas a movie theater then fire off 200 rounds from assault rifles and shotguns then you need to check into a mental hospital for treatment. who would benefit from it? the government that would love to take the publics guns away maybe? not to mention its an election year and like a previous poster said we're not talking about the real serious issues that need to be addressed. its going to be all about gun control now. just like in 2004, when the terrorist alerts conveniently went up right around election time. you keep the people in fear and you can control them".

[The Undiscovered Jew]

And here's where the trillion worth of tuition dollars is going; To fund the liberal arts political activists AKA "administrators. Again, the liberal arts professors and college administrators should be charged with running a pyramid scheme:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/18/janitors-with-college-degrees-and-the-higher-education-bubble.html

A good deal of the money also goes to a spreading bureaucracy of administrators, who now outnumber teachers on American campuses. They work in multicultural programs, deal with the blizzard of government paperwork, and have job titles unheard of a decade or so ago: “Assistant Director of Residential Education,” “Vice President for Strategic Enrollment Management,” and “Student Services Program Coordinator.” Colleges gain another windfall by employing “adjuncts,” the serfs of the academic world, who teach for about $3,700 per course. Adjuncts and other “contingent faculty,” such as lecturers, make up more than half of college and university teachers.

[Hugh]

I'm from Aurora, and it might comfort you to know that Aurora is filled with NAMs and proles. So most of the people Holmes shot were of no value to you anyways. In this case, rather than the NAM terrorizing an upper-middle class white guy, the reverse took place.

Posted by: AE | July 21, 2012 at 08:58 PM

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All the dead victims identified so far are white.

[Hugh]

The guy was not healthy mentally-wise but a case like this would have never happened in the 20's, (indeed it never happened, even well into the 50s) not even in your dear "Anglosphere".

Posted by: J.M. | July 21, 2012 at 10:01 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster

[Gil]

Gun control, J. Speculating? Good. Let the nuts and crims be debarred from the ownership of guns. Quite frankly, no, gun ownership, and all weapon ownership for that matter, shouldn't be a free-for-all.

[J.M.]

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster

Posted by: Hugh | July 22, 2012 at 02:03 AM "

Interesting however therein lies a difference: The person was mad, yes and didn`t deny there were mad persons back then but as far as I could read the massacre was motivated for FINANCIAL GRIEVANCES, one of the oldest reasons known for killing someone else. The crimes you have seen perpetrated in the last decade have other undertones, unheard of (sexual frustration, society alienation anyone...), so unless there is more info we can safely conclude that our killer didn`t kill the people in the theater because financial grievances like foreclosure of his farm...

[asdf]

Jeff,

Even if we ended welfare, child support, and alimony this guy might not have a girlfriend. The biggest difference isn't those things. The biggest difference is that jobs are less physical, and thus women can work now. Anybody can tally up accounts receivable for megacorp, it doesn't take a dick. And that accounts receivable job at megacorp pays enough that the woman doesn't need to marry lonely wierdoes for support.

spandrell,

If working at McDonald's Thailand was probably outside of his means. Also, it's an expensive and extremely temporary solution. Prostitution is a bandaid only, and I think it would really only work as a decent bandaid if he could get some locally in a safe environment at prices he could afford.

The Undiscovered Jew,

Nerds go where the money is. If the money was in HVAC repair they would be in HVAC repair. Nerds built those fighting robots on TV, certainly they can repair their own appliances. But the money is in office work so they work in offices.

White proles have changed. White proles used to be much more Hank Hill. Hank Hill is great, I'd like him for a neighbor. Now they are more Bill Doughtrief, or worse.

[asdf]

I had a lab wierdo guy that I took on in one of my bedrooms onetime. He was 33, Bio PhD, working in some lab for $40,000 a year (even though he worked 60 hours a week). He was a total basket case, probably like this guy. Had to kick him out after a month.

He got really bad after he heard my GF and I fucking in the other room. After that he seemed to be in a constant rage.

[StopPretendingBitch]

This commenter is retarded. Guys actually do this based on their principles or ideas much of the time, girlfriend or not. And if it is a lack of ass that did this to him, why not all these dumb bitches reward smart guys with snatch instead of rewarding bums for being bums? If smart guys were rewarded with ass and cash we'd probably not be behind China in progress. One day I predict some authority is actually gonna make these broads bang smart guys and impress the bums into the army.

[StopPretendingBitch]

"I had a lab wierdo guy that I took on in one of my bedrooms onetime. He was 33, Bio PhD, working in some lab for $40,000 a year (even though he worked 60 hours a week). He was a total basket case, probably like this guy. Had to kick him out after a month.

He got really bad after he heard my GF and I fucking in the other room. After that he seemed to be in a constant rage."

Did you like the fact that he heard you fucking in the other room? I mean did you feel like 'haha, you ain't got none'? If you did you would be typical. I try to be nice to these kinds of guys since no one else is and since they are mentally superior to me. It is un-western to be rude and cruel unnecessarily.

[The Undiscovered Jew]

"Nerds go where the money is. If the money was in HVAC repair they would be in HVAC repair. Nerds built those fighting robots on TV, certainly they can repair their own appliances. But the money is in office work so they work in offices."

If forced to do manual labor, nerds could do it, but they wouldn't be good at it like white proles are.

Nerds don't have as strong as blue collar whites, they don't have as good hand-eye coordination (hence their reputation for dropping balls during sports games), and they don't have as much endurance as blue collar whites.

And specialized mechanical trades pay well. Lexus mechanics, for one, can haul in $80-100,000 a year depending on their experience level.

[asdf]

StopPretendingBitch,

Honestely, I wasn't sure if someone could hear anything in another room. New place. Also, since I got rid of him the new roomate, who is totally cool, remarked that you can hear loud things but if you put in ear plugs you hear nothing and can sleep comfortably. So it was definately this wierdoes fault.

[asdf]

StopPretendingBitch,

China has a GDP per capita of less then $10,000. Less then 20% of the US GDP per capita. They are a polluted backwards shithole where their peasent slave laborers can't even breath the air anymore. Behind China in progress?

[asdf]

The Undiscovered Jew,

How many white proles do you know that are Lexus mechanics. Most of the white proles I know are barely functioning drunks. My half brother is a prole house painter and I'm pretty damn sure I can do anything I want better then that bum.

[lushfun.com]

STill think a GF woulda made him mellow out and none of it woulda happened.

Odd that we are beginning to stretch the books and thoughts into realiaties from a bygone era that is slowly forming to morph this one.

[fComp]

@KLO

Why? It isn't hard to see reason in his course of actions. He blames society, not the individual. He doesn't blame the 3 women who rejected him as the source of his rage, because his ineptitude with women wasn't limited to those three in particular, or probably even with women in particular. He was in rage with his status within...or rather, his relationship with...society itself.

He hates the society he live in. And a movie theater of such a popular movie, on opening night...what could be a more perfect target.

[The Undiscovered Jew]

"How many white proles do you know that are Lexus mechanics. Most of the white proles I know are barely functioning drunks."

White mechanics of all types (not just those working for Lexus) are overwhelmingly proles.

"My half brother is a prole house painter and I'm pretty damn sure I can do anything I want better then that bum."

Middle class and higher whites don't WANT to work as mechanics, generally. As long as they don't want those jobs, somebody has to do blue collar work (do you expect white MIT students will want to make a career of rotating tires even if they were highly paid?) and as long as someone has to do it then it might as well be done by white proles who are more physically adapted to do hard manual work then physically weaker nerds.

[fComp]

@asdf

Saying America is behind China in progress is pretty retarded, I agree, but I think the better statement to make is that America has less capacity for progress then China.

If Mainland China were to say, advance its infrastructure and economy to the level of even say, Taiwan, with its population of 1bil+, it would have already surpassed the West in all regards. And there is no reason why China cannot make that progress, China, like Taiwan, is 99% Han, it stands to reason that it is capable of the same.

[QT]

The so-called sexual revolution can easily be reversed. Those who say it can't either lazy or afraid of being called names.