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Danielle Johnson was worried about the eclipse. 

The astrology influencer and “divine healer” who went by the name Danielle Ayoka online called the upcoming astronomical event “the epitome of spiritual warfare” and told people they needed to “pick a side,” in posts on X on April 4.

Less than three days later, in the early morning before the partial solar eclipse, Johnson left a trail of tragedy in her wake: her partner stabbed to death in the kitchen of the family apartment in Woodland Hills, her 8-month-old baby dead after being pushed from Johnson’s moving Porsche Cayenne on the 405, and Johnson herself dead after crashing her car on Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I looked at a Twitter post she made, and that girl is fucking gonzo.

To quote Ray Finkle's father: "The engines running, there's just no one behind the wheel."

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Social media doesn't necessiarially cause mental health issues, but it definitely dumps a tanker truck of gasoline on any spark of mental illness.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Under the Ayoka moniker, Johnson issued a torrent of antisemitic screeds, conspiracy theories and alarmist warnings on April 4 and 5. These included a repost of a debunked apocryphal speech attributed to Ben Franklin about how Jewish people “depreciated” societies wherever they settled, a video about Jews promoting pedophilia in the entertainment industry, and unproven theories about the origin of COVID-19.

Yeah I'm gonna say that mental illness played a part in this.

Also apparently the kid that pushed out of the car survived. I hope they're able to handle it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

that’s just hate. That’s what hate looks like.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (14 children)

I've seen enough people experiencing severe mania yell racist obscenities who later stabilized and were mortified at their previous behavior to know that no, this is not "just hate." This is either severe mania with psychotic features or straight up severe psychosis.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Nightfall is a few levels above an eclipse on Earth. I finally got the idea that Asimov was going for when playing Elite Dangerous and visiting the core, seeing millions of stars vs. what we see in our solar system. It is a bit maddening.

[–] [email protected] 141 points 6 months ago (6 children)

There are 2-5 solar eclipses every year and people still went nuts and committed murder this time.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

And on top of that, they're predictable hundreds of years in advance. We've known exactly when and where this eclipse was going to happen since before her grandparents were born. But somehow it's a bad omen.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago

It's more like eclipses occasionally happen at the same time people commit murder..

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Esotericism is absolute cancer. A lot of those people don't even understand that eclipses are very localized events. They're moronically stupid. Even more so if they're people of color, because this whole subculture is full of Neonazis.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Wait, do you mean that non-whites go crazy because they're neonazis themselves? I'm a bit confused, as I know very little about this subculture but it sounds counterintuitive.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Total solar eclipses happen every one to three years...

Also, people go nuts and kill people every damn day

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (10 children)

The sun exists every single day, too... Hmmm 🤔

The answer is clear. The sun causes violence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Also people just kill other people every damn hour without going nuts.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yep. The sad fact is that if there was no eclipse, she would have rationalized it differently and blamed something else.

Perhaps a storm, the full moon, the spoiled milk in her fridge, etc.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I'm going with meteor shower.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

…yeah, I don’t have words for this one past “wtf?!”

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