The Curious Case of Oregon Shooter... – A Social Media Profile Shaped, Modified and Deleted…

...Yesterday, while reviewing the social footprint of Oregon shooter Chris Harper-Mercer, an almost identical world-view to Eric Sheppard Jr. was evident in Mercer’s social media history. --Chris Harper-Mercer, a mixed-race angry 26-year-old, was essentially the mirror image on social media as Eric Sheppard Jr. --Mercer held sympathetic words and thoughts for the Virginia shooter Vester Flanagan, and similarly raged against white people, and expressed sympathy toward the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Cruz splits the apple [William Tell style]

The Belmont Club's Richard Fernandez at PJ Media makes an analogy between crack-shot William Tell and candidate Ted Cruz in a post he titled "William Cruz". He writes:

Michael Van Der Galien has tried to understand why the Ted Cruz presidential candidacy announcement has set social media on its ear and advances a tentative theory. “But why are leftists’ heads exploding as well? I’ve got no doubt I know the answer: they fear him. Tremendously even. He is everything they oppose: a true, small-government conservative.” If that were all Cruz were guilty of it wouldn’t be half bad. It’s far worse. His “Imagine” speech seemed calculated to ridicule every Leftist shibboleth with predictable effect. The Left lost no time characterizing him as a Christian bigot, a patriarchal supremacist...

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