A fire, a fascination with explosives and family discord marked path to clinic bombing
www.latimes.com
Guy Edward Bartkus is the sole suspect in the bomb attack at a Palm Springs fertility clinic last Saturday. In the years leading up to the incident, his life was touched by family acrimony and a keen interest in explosives.

Imagine my surprise reading this on the LA Times this morning (emphasis mine):

“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…”

Here is an archive of the article.

Here is his account.

It looks like he only stayed on Lemmy for about a month, most likely a temporary Reddit exile with the earliest exodus on June 2023. The article mentions threads on Reddit but doesn’t provide any quotes from there. User IndictEvolution on Reddit deleted their account, and the article makes it sound like they are referring to a different username that they don’t specify.

  • surfrock66@lemmy.worldEnglish
    457·
    7 days ago

    The implication here is that somehow that’s a problem with lemmy and lemmy.world…but I bet he also had an amazon account and no one is blaming them.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      91·
      6 days ago

      Small niche where the user is active, big international service that everyone uses that has zero connections to them.

      Gee I wonder why people are talking about lemmy.world

      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        32·
        6 days ago

        “Active” being a dozen posts from two years ago.

        Though right now we’re probably inflating our own importance by thinking anyone at all will associate Lemmy with this guy in any meaningful way. The name was referenced by the reporter because they needed to say where the random posts came from, and talked about like it’s just a general social network rather than an organizing place for a radical ideology.

    • turtle [he/him]@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      34·
      7 days ago

      I didn’t read it as any particular implication, but that they just found the money quotes they wanted on lemmy.world.