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In that same period, Bartkus’ rhetoric on alternative social media sites was dark. “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...”

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So this guy is 25, and his dad is 75. Hm.

Hasn’t talked to his dad in a decade. Dad did stalk him out on Instagram to cyber bully him about 4 years ago, though. Hmm.

Mom’s age isn’t listed here, but she’s 63. 12 years younger. Honestly was expecting a larger age gap. Same last name as Sophie. Hmmm.

The father: Despite my past history of both alleged and documented abuse, restraining orders, estranged family, and seemingly multiple people in my orbit that have expressed a hatred for living, I want you all to know I consider myself to be a loving father and a good person.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

The article allows the dad to speak in his own defense, then ever so casually sprinkles in bits of evidence that dad was a shitbag that likely led to his instability. It's art.

His son, he said, ended up graduating with honors from Yucca Valley High School. Richard Bartkus did not attend the graduation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yo I get what you're going for but I think the age of the father and age gap between the parents aren't nearly the same red flags as the other stuff

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah, certainly. Age gaps are one of the things I keep an eye out for, so when an article doesn’t mention one partner’s age, I mentally flag it.

Included it in my comment because the linked article didn’t reference it, and if I pick out that sort of thing, surely someone else would, too. Maybe I saved someone a search?

The weirder part was that Sophie - who the article doesn’t provide a last name for - has the same last name as his mother. Lumped ‘em together because I didn’t have a good fit for a ‘third option’ in the flow of the comment.
Because - you know - if I’m going to speculate wildly about strangers on the internet, I’ve got to do it with a bit of panache, and that means I gotta follow the rule of three’s.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I do find it odd that lemmy's first major insident isn't from .ml or any other Tankie instance, it's .world.

Does speak to the mismanagement of the moderation. This dude was fucked up in the head and only taken care of after this terrorist incident. You can call out moderators and be banned, you can be a dickhead edge lord who would later be a terrorist, and never get touched until the mods deal with it after.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Marxism is a scientific materialist system of philosophy which contradicts both anti-natalism (lib bullshit) and adventurism (anarkiddie bullshit)

You would know this if you picked up a fucking book other than YA novels

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I do find it odd that lemmy’s first major insident isn’t from .ml or any other Tankie instance, it’s .world.

Does speak to the mismanagement of the moderation...

Keep in mind that Lemmy.world has almost the same amount of monthly active users as the top 7 other Lemmy instances combined (according to FediDB). It's statistically very likely that they're from there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Correct, but for an instance that tried to stop posts about Luigi, has wanted people to "Debate" flat world and transphobia, they just didn't do anything with the communities that lead to this attempted attack.

Meanwhile I know people who proved a mod wrong and got banned, and the mod hasn't been punished.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

The communities that incubated this were on reddit. His lemmy.world account only made a few comments and posts 2 years ago and then never again. He created an anti-natalist community on lemmy.world in that time but it never became active.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Finally some exposure for Lemmy in the news.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

transphobes continue to be weird losers, shocking

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Isn't that him expressing his support of "trans stuff"? Still, quite a wild statement to "despise nature" though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

An edgelord approving of "trans stuff" because he sees it as an affront to nature, but good because he "despises nature". if that's what "support" sounds like I don't want it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

tbf i think he means bioessentialism, cause antinatalism is against the fact that it is "in our nature" to reproduce, therefore we should, and it's easy to conflate the two.

I do agree that he is an edgelord tho, and probably doesn't fully understand antinatalism in its full depth

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Holy Shit. What a dumbass.

Is other people’s choice to have kids or not really the hill you want to die on??

Well anyways, if this article is legit, looks like we’ll have a couple FBI agents joining us here. Welcome!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is other people’s choice to have kids or not really the hill you want to die on??

Look at politics since USA founding. Nathaniel Hawthorne warned us. Buddha, Jesus, Rumi, others taught unity, with self and others and vexed the greedy politicians and religious power structures that propped them up, telling us wealth is to be shared, and other teachings that ended up stripped from religiopolotical structures because they threaten those power structures.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Look at politics since USA founding.

look at the way the natives were treated, the overall general thing that you could say about the north american natives is that they respected each others existence and life. And for the most part believed in respect for nature. The Conquistadors were monsters and brought monstrous behavior that we still deal with today. Trump is just following in Jackson's steps trying to displace more people with native blood. Just the new displacement is happening to those with blood from the south

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

How did they connect the user to this account though? Post history doesnt show anything that could lead to it.

Using the same username is not proof they're the same person online.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

they probably have access to his electronics and web history

he lived with his mother and sister. I am sure he left a logged in system somewhere