The whole attack does just seem a little off. He planned for a year and wanted to “kill them all” and chose to use fire as a weapon? Not a car? Not a bomb? Not an illegally acquired gun?

And his target is a kind of innocuous group who are kinda Zionist but not clearly so, who just happens to have an 88 year old Holocaust survivor among their number? These people may have even been publicly opposed to continued war.

It just seems like a lot of time to plan an attack that wasn’t very effective against a group that doesn’t make a very effective statement, by a person almost tailor made to reinforce right-wing talking points. I dunno about active deal-making, but I could definitely believe he was targeted and groomed by someone intending to use him for political purposes.

But he could also just be a moron who spent a year plotting a dumb attack.

Hey, quick question. What’s the name of the guy this post, which you very definitely didn’t read, is about?

Is it Elias Rodriquez? No? Huh.

Based on fucking what? Did you even read the article?

Oh, he was saying things then too. He was one of the main spokespeople defending the genocide.

Biden is not a piece of shit

So someone who enables genocide is not, in your moral framework, a piece of shit. Full stop. Not even a “lesser evil” argument, just straight out not-evil.

Good that we’ve got that definitively stated.

State Department Spokesman. Not a policy maker, but he was definitely a significant person involved in providing cover for Israel’s atrocities.

The question you’re trying to dodge was “is Biden a piece of shit for enabling a genocide” not “is Trump worse”.

This is unhinged. Someone building the mainline of an interoperable communication service should absolutely be helping others making software trying to interoperate with it. Complaints can be made about Rochko rejecting PRs, but complaining that other people’s time is going towards a thing they don’t want is insane.

“So they reached out to us and we had conversations about what they want to do, how they can do it, and we had more detailed conversations about how to do X, how to do Y protocol-wise. We helped them resolve some issues when they launched their first test of the federation because we want to see them succeed with this plan, so we help them debug and troubleshoot some of the stuff that they’re doing. Basically, we’re talking with each other about whatever issues come up.”

But from the perspective of hundreds of instances have signed the anti-Meta FediPact, and hundreds more are blocking Threads without signing the pact, any resources devoted to to improving the Threads/Mastodon integration are wasted.