They found more pipe bombs in a bedroom inside Mr. Spafford’s house, loosely stuffed in a backpack that bore a patch shaped like a hand grenade and a logo reading “#NoLivesMatter,” prosecutors said.

No Lives Matter is a nihilistic, far-right ideology that largely exists on encrypted online messaging apps like Telegram

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    The guy is white, so let’s try the good old Ctrl+F “terror” and yup, sure enough, zero results.

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      Guess Italian isn’t white enough after all since they have no problem throwing that terrorism charge on an actual working class hero, Luigi

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        Reading about who were considered white 100-150 years ago is a wild ride. It basically meant brits, Germans, and french. I guess us scandis as well, but nobody really cared about us at that point (to the extent anyone do nowadays). Italians were basically the brown people of europe, and I guess that’s how they managed to go with terrorism charges.

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          I think a bunch of it had to do with Catholicism too. Anglos didn’t like that either.

          I care about you scandiwegans, I especially respect your needs for personal space, cold weather and cheap healthcare.

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            It’s fun living in colder climates and having unironic discussions where people are agreeing that -10° C is a nice winter temperature since it’s still relatively warm, but you don’t have to worry about slushy, frozen roads or high humidity.

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        To be fair. In the 1900-1960 eugenics movement in the US, italians, greeks etc. were considered inferior compared to the “purest” races of northern europeans.

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        Luigi was actually the son of the owner of Mangione Enterprises, got a masters degree from an ivy league university, and worked a desk job in tech, so not really working class. Also, terrorism is a requirement of first degree murder charges in the state of New York, otherwise they wouldn’t need to give him the label.