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LA Times reports that Palm Springs bomber had an account on Lemmy.world (www.latimes.com)

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Imagine my surprise reading this on the LA Times this morning (emphasis mine):

“I would not acknowledge reproduction as a human right, but instead as a form of rape,” IndictEvolution wrote on Lemmy.World in July 2023. “I am also not bothered by infanticide as long as it is done humanely...”

Here is an archive of the article.

Here is his account.

It looks like he only stayed on Lemmy for about a month, most likely a temporary Reddit exile with the earliest exodus on June 2023. The article mentions threads on Reddit but doesn't provide any quotes from there. User IndictEvolution on Reddit deleted their account, and the article makes it sound like they are referring to a different username that they don't specify.

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[–] Montreal_Metro 19 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

100% guarantee that he also had a Steam account and wore pants at some point in his life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

"Looking for a man who recently drank milk?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

100% of people who consume water die!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Our very first terrorist. We're going places boyos. Just hope this doesn't bring like minded people here, especially since reddit banned that sub, and Lemmy's is still up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

We're still so young, we haven't even killed anyone yet.

quick edit: I do have suggestions tho

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago

Preemptively bombing a fertility clinic as a last resort.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

We're hittin the big time boys!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago

We did it Reddit!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

Woop! We made mass violence perp level!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I love how quickly lemmy.world speed ran the aesthetically lib to fash redditor pipeline problem without even a profit motive behind them.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I mean lemmy.world aims to be Reddit 2, and reddit had jailbait, fatpeoplehate, the_donald, keeps Gamergate subreddits open, r/conspiracy, and so many more horrid things kept up because it made more clicks.

So why wouldn't lemmy.world keep an active terrorist on board? Think of the potential money to be made.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Fucking wild that Lemmy made it on mainstream news.. of course it had to be some stormfrontian to get it to that stage..

[–] [email protected] 16 points 15 hours ago

If I had to choose between a bomber and something like r/jailbait (which was the medias first big look at reddit) as the sites big first exposure to the world, I'm going for the bomber every time.

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