Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "The New York Times" channel.

Yeah he let him go. And yeah Dylan absolutely is by far more likely to actually have seen the error of his ways at that moment, Eric was having the time of his life. But by then it was too late.
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If he was being louder and/or more boisterous then I think it's again just because the two fed off of each other just to begin with, like I am convinced if they didn't meet each other and become friends this shooting may never have happened. But it did. Like it was almost similar to certain homosexual relationships (I am not calling them gay, don't get me wrong) or even in just a lot of human relationships in general, there was a dominant one and there was a submissive one. Eric may not have been as vocal during the shooting but based on his journals alone compared to Dylan's journals it's very clear that the mastermind was Eric. Dylan was probably just trying to please his master, so to speak, as he often did when it came to Eric, or maybe it was in some pseudo way to convince himself that what he was doing was actually OK. It took him spotting a friend to revert to a chilling casual remark, "Oh, just killing people". I can't help but think in that moment maybe Dylan felt a little bit of shame but again, they were in too deep by that point. I am just theorizing here mostly. Actually I am watching an interview with one of the kids who was in the library, Craig Scott, and he claims "they were both whooping it up".
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Eric was RAPED? What? That's news to me, I have been meaning to read the book for years though. I am guessing maybe that is in the book or something. I gotta admit that actually paints the entire situation in a completely different light. In all my years doing research on this tragedy I've never heard that he got raped. That actually falls under the motivation that it was revenge against bullies which is precisely what they were saying in the days/weeks following the shooting on the media, a point of which supposedly was recently proven untrue, but reading all that I guess not... Oh and the only reason I say Eric was the "mastermind" is because to my knowledge he was the only one who actually had drawn maps and outlined his motivations which were starkly different from Dylan's. Dylan was suicidal; Eric was homicidal, a point of which he makes clear in his journal that he hates human beings and wants nothing more than to destroy as much as possible on his way out. Interesting points though you brought up, I gotta admit.
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I just want to thank you for this conversation my friend. I learned a lot.
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Mind = blown. Btw, have you read that book? The one simply titled Columbine, it's quite lengthy, but if it neglects this aspect of the case I won't waste my time because it literally changes everything. If not that, then what resources did you use to find this information? How recently did it even come to light? Because it all adds up assuming you're right. Anyway, OK, but why then if Reb and Vodka were intended as fictional superhero identities created for the purposes of defending people against bullies/corruption did they go to a school and shoot dozens of people, murdering a total of 12? Unless they legitimately blamed literally the entire school, people who had nothing to do with it or people who actually were the bullies themselves. If the bombs went off this would've been even worse as an utter tragedy if not the single most deadly attack in American terrorism history depending on how high the death count was according to their original plan (before 9/11 of course). Sure they may have gotten some of them. But not all of them, and in addition to that maybe even some of their friends and people who were nice or people who otherwise weren't mean enough to engage in the bullying. It seems to me that they became the bullies if that was the case, which is quite obvious, but go on because this is fascinating. This is absolutely incredible, though. Thanks for doing this.
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I am pretty sure Colorado is a death penalty state, and that's almost certainly what they would've gotten. So probably death row in a supermax until their final days which could take years, meaning that they may actually be still alive today if they did NOT suicide. Aurora, Colorado is like not even that far away and of course you already know about the other shooting that happened there. The Batman shootings. That guy's on Death Row last I heard. I think that this act was basically just one of many forms of suicide, they just brought other people down with them -- for reasons that may be arguably justified or not, I dunno, I think the best I can do is understand it. But this kind of thing should never happen, and yet it does all the time. Sadly. I don't think they planned on leaving alive, and they were hoping in the beginning to get even more people via bomb, people they wouldn't have to look face to face. I think seeing a lot of people they were at best neutral or even liked as they were killing them eventually made them at the very least feel the slightest pangs of guilt. Especially if Eric himself was sick after doing what he did. True sociopaths would revel in it, not get sick. Unless it was as a result of a superior dose of dopamine from their brains as a result of it. I have to hope in my heart and mind that they regretted what they did before it was done.
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I actually just realized that Colorado's not exactly a death penalty state anymore. I don't know where I heard that, nor did I know all this other stuff you're telling me about the history of prison sentences and what not. It's crazy to think that America actually hasn't always been a terrible prison state, since we certainly seem to enjoy that reputation nowadays, but I am happy to hear that the prisons as a business folks are no longer enjoying the racket they once did. That was probably the most immoral business in America.
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They already have I think the majority of the ones they're going to go after. They can't possibly find and charge them all but I do think they should go for the leaders/organizers over everyone else. That being said I wish they'd make an example out of each and every one of them. They thought they had it bad in America before, let them go sit in a federal prison for a little while.
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Grant B. Well... I thought about that around the time that it happened but the reality of the fact is it would have made everything that much more chaotic and worse if they opened fire on American citizens EVEN IF they're in the middle of a violent insurrectionist coup. Many of the protesters also brought guns and various other weapons including some who brought bombs and explosives from what I heard, so if officials started shooting it's quite likely that the armed protesters would take that as permission to begin shooting, themselves. And the scariest thing of all is the protesters outnumbered the police like 100 to 1 or something like that. I am not saying that the protesters would be victorious if things truly took a fatal turn for the worse, but the death toll on both sides (including from friendly fire from the protesters shooting blindly into crowds in the chaos of a riot) would have been substantially higher and an already tragic day would have just been made worse. If the protesters shot first, however, I think the officers would have been well within their rights to use deadly force to stop it.
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No, YouTube is just going through a transitional period since they changed their system altogether about a month or two ago. For reasons unbeknownst to myself. I will delete and repost it though. (Read: they royally screwed the comments section)
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That's probably the way a lot of people feel about it, actually. Otherwise it's like maybe slightly more exciting than soccer.
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I hope they catch and prosecute each and every one of these bleating sheep losers.
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So Fighting kind of is what killed him, then, if we're in agreement that he was concussed as a result of fighting.
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The idea that basically all of the Republican congressmen and women that were there that day were against anything being done about it is nothing short of disappointing and alarming at the same time. That's how deep their commitment to their dying party goes. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that Trump has completely destroyed the GOP as we knew it. People like to think the GOP has always represented neo-fascism but the fact is that wasn't the case until about five years ago. I never in a million years thought it would get this bad in America. And the saddest/scariest thing of all is it will not end here. Who knows what the next thing is but they need to be more prepared next time.
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Why is fighting allowed in Hockey again? Oh wait nobody would watch if that wasn't the case.
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Wonders if he survives something so moronic and outlandish... Sees the climber doing a Ted Talk in a related video...
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There's entire generations of people growing up in Afghanistan that have had similar things happen to themselves and their families. It's not at all hard to understand why many of them are not only OK with the regime change from the Americans to the Taliban, but they're eager for it. What we have done is made the Taliban's job of defining the narrative that WE were the evil ones by pointing at this very thing and all of the other attacks like it that had collateral damage. This helps their cause, not hurt it.
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