In an age of social media tirades and escalating polarization, Vance Boelter did not strike people who knew him or worked with him as someone motivated by political rage.
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jun 17, 2025, 12:01 am • 0 0 • view
Why in the hell do White terrorist always get this kind of puff piece written about them. This is truly pathetic
jun 16, 2025, 3:58 pm • 44 0 • view
yet he did, so none of that matters
jun 16, 2025, 11:08 pm • 0 0 • view
What??? He was a walking red flag. Do better, Strib.
jun 17, 2025, 12:40 am • 0 0 • view
I think whomever wrote this article needs an overton window adjustment.
jun 17, 2025, 9:49 am • 0 0 • view
Which makes it all the more disturbing…this had nothing to do with rage.
jun 16, 2025, 12:09 pm • 3 0 • view
All evangelical ordained pastors who attend Trump rallies are suspect.
jun 16, 2025, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view
jun 16, 2025, 5:27 pm • 26 0 • view
Few signs???
jun 17, 2025, 3:39 am • 0 0 • view
What the fuck are you talking about?
jun 16, 2025, 3:53 pm • 23 0 • view
jun 16, 2025, 7:12 pm • 0 0 • view
He's a literal domestic terrorist
jun 16, 2025, 3:59 pm • 23 0 • view
What in the fuck do you call someone traveling halfway across the globe to spout hate speech?
jun 16, 2025, 10:23 pm • 15 0 • view
What the fuck is wrong with you?
jun 16, 2025, 6:51 pm • 8 0 • view
The story here is that right wing religious radicalization is so normalized that the people around him couldn’t see that Boelter had been radicalized and activated. Framing this as “few signs of political rage before shooting” is journalistic malpractice. Shame on you!
jun 16, 2025, 4:38 pm • 23 1 • view
They just ignored the signs. That's what conservatives do. Radicalization has been part and parcel of the conservative movement since Reagan and Rush Limbaugh.
jun 16, 2025, 3:54 pm • 11 0 • view
He's literally is on video preaching for harm to LGBT people, for forced birth. Either you are lying or his friends & family are just as extreme & dangerous as he was or this publication thinks that extermism
jun 16, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
What the actual fuck this is journalistic malpractice
jun 16, 2025, 11:12 pm • 0 0 • view
He was a far right lunatic that would be obvious to anyone who encountered him. Either Minnesotans are the dumbest people on earth or you're afraid to acknowledge that every right winger is a potential domestic terrorist and none can be trusted
jun 16, 2025, 4:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Was this supposed to be for Newsmax or something
jun 16, 2025, 4:09 pm • 8 0 • view
Why? Because he’s not a leftist? He didn’t wave a Palestinian flag? Is that why you feel compelled to make this argument?
jun 16, 2025, 3:53 pm • 12 0 • view
What's the betting he watched wall to wall Fox News etc before the attacks
jun 16, 2025, 12:10 pm • 4 0 • view
That's probably accurate, unfortunately. Between that station and Newsmax, OAN, they've done more psychological damage to people with their incessant pushing of the Democrats being at fault for all of their viewers' personal issues, which leads to things like this.
jun 16, 2025, 12:45 pm • 4 0 • view
The only way he showed “no signs” is if you just ignore everything about his life
jun 16, 2025, 4:02 pm • 14 0 • view
Hey, he just believed violent things and said them out loud and also traveled across oceans to encourage others to do violent things but how could anyone know he would do violent things himself? What a mystery! This is shameful abdication of your duty as reporters. Come on.
jun 16, 2025, 9:55 pm • 27 1 • view
What the fuck?
jun 16, 2025, 4:52 pm • 3 0 • view
do you have no shame, as supposed journalists or just human beings?
jun 16, 2025, 11:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Everything that has been reported of him indicates otherwise. Why write this?
jun 16, 2025, 4:23 pm • 7 0 • view
This is shockingly bad 'journalism'. Literally every one of this guy's jobs, hobbies, and interests are fascist coded.
jun 16, 2025, 4:08 pm • 23 0 • view
Never trust the neighbors. That’s what they say about EVERY neighborhood serial killer.
jun 16, 2025, 12:01 pm • 10 0 • view
He went to Africa to spread anti-LGBTQ dogma. Very milquetoast stuff.
jun 17, 2025, 12:46 am • 0 0 • view
It's a problem that you are calling a guy who made it a mission to go to Africa to terrorize LGBTQ persons some kinda normal.
jun 16, 2025, 10:52 pm • 11 0 • view
Holy shit this is mind-numbingly stupid
jun 16, 2025, 10:49 pm • 0 0 • view
What? Dude had a fantasy security company, hated LGBT people, and was a right wing Christian nationalist. That’s some serious red flags. This is some shite journalism.
jun 17, 2025, 2:23 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe this could help you realize that being a fervent anti-LGBTQ, anti-abortion Trumpist is in itself a great signifier of political rage?
jun 16, 2025, 9:02 pm • 19 0 • view
He seemed to people like a bog-standard conservative because he was a bog-standard conservative. That says more about the state of the conservative movement than about him specifically.
jun 16, 2025, 12:08 pm • 36 5 • view
What the hell is wrong with you? There were MANY signs that he was full of political rage! You have to be better than this.
jun 17, 2025, 4:01 am • 1 0 • view
Today I learned being Minnesota nice means you're stupid and ignorant as shit
jun 16, 2025, 4:28 pm • 3 0 • view
This is lies. You are lying.
jun 16, 2025, 7:01 pm • 14 0 • view
Lying.
jun 16, 2025, 11:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh I'll bet he really, really did
jun 16, 2025, 12:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Are you fucking high?
jun 16, 2025, 4:33 pm • 4 0 • view
hey what's the deal bsky.app/profile/dzaf...
jun 16, 2025, 5:57 pm • 7 0 • view
He’s a domestic terrorist and you’re a news company do news and don’t print lies in the newspaper
jun 16, 2025, 3:38 pm • 43 1 • view
this is simply not true he was an extremist and publicly enough so to be known for it terrible reporting
jun 16, 2025, 9:56 pm • 5 0 • view
Is this a right wing publication?
jun 16, 2025, 6:12 pm • 1 0 • view
This guy's ENTIRE LIFE was political rage. Wtf are you talking about?
jun 16, 2025, 4:02 pm • 15 0 • view
It was right there on his LinkedIn profile FFS
jun 17, 2025, 12:00 am • 0 0 • view
So who's the big fucking idiot here? The people who knew him and claimed all of his batshit insane behavior, which he engaged in for years, wasn't surprising? You for printing this fucking article? Or us for even reading it?
jun 16, 2025, 9:43 pm • 2 0 • view
Stop whitewashing the record of a rabid, right-wing terrorist, thanks.
jun 16, 2025, 4:01 pm • 21 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/dzaf...
jun 16, 2025, 4:57 pm • 5 0 • view
WHAT THE HELL… You KNOW this is raw disinformation.
jun 16, 2025, 10:34 pm • 1 0 • view
What’s wrong with you? bsky.app/profile/dzaf...
jun 16, 2025, 10:07 pm • 8 2 • view
Sounds like he was a very vocal and active Trump supporter - wtf is your problem
jun 16, 2025, 10:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Come on! His church preaches that us non-Christians will burn in a hellfire for ETERNITY, while they will live forever. They preach and believe in everlasting violence and suffering for people not like them. It's based in absolute violence.
jun 16, 2025, 4:07 pm • 3 0 • view
"Few signs of political rage" except for all the things he said and did.
jun 16, 2025, 4:43 pm • 10 0 • view
He's a domestic terrorist.
jun 16, 2025, 12:09 pm • 14 0 • view
If you consider this the fucking norm then you should be locked up for everybody else's safety.
jun 16, 2025, 8:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe it would help if your paper pointed out that the simple fact he allied himself with a radical, far-right and anti-LGBTQIA religion and traveled to the DRC to preach his hateful message.
jun 16, 2025, 1:11 pm • 28 1 • view
and ran a company called [checks notes] PRAETORIAN GUARD
jun 17, 2025, 2:03 am • 1 0 • view
All the right pieces are there, but I'd say "people who knew him did not see him as socially maladapted". His kind of pre-murder political rage is welcome and normalized in our society. I've seen scores of men like him casually wish for mass death for millions of people my entire life.
jun 16, 2025, 9:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Shut the fuck up you absolute losers
jun 17, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
Shame on you. He ran a fucking security business named after Roman shit. He's a weirdo mythic past white man with a high F score who killed people.
jun 16, 2025, 9:04 pm • 7 0 • view
Maybe someone should find Luigi’s roommate and let him blubber around to soften his public image.
jun 16, 2025, 1:10 pm • 11 0 • view
For real!!! They’d never
jun 16, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s because they also are extremist shitbags
jun 16, 2025, 4:02 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t think that going to the Congo to preach against Gay people and abortion is normal. It might not predicate homicidal behaviour, but this guy is clearly one sandwich short of a picnic.
jun 16, 2025, 5:46 pm • 4 0 • view
Scum
jun 16, 2025, 10:11 pm • 0 0 • view
This is bad journalism.
jun 16, 2025, 3:56 pm • 18 0 • view
radical right wing wannabe black ops guy who went around africa doing hate crimes "showed few signs of being politically motivated". Great reporting guys!
jun 16, 2025, 8:56 pm • 11 0 • view
dude what?
jun 16, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Really his violent anti-LGBTQ extremism wasn't political huh
jun 16, 2025, 10:40 pm • 10 0 • view
“Obvious Christian terrorist commits act of terrorism in a country full of Christo-fascists.” FTFY.
jun 16, 2025, 4:10 pm • 5 0 • view
Your narrators are inbred simpletons that embrace fascism.
jun 16, 2025, 4:09 pm • 3 0 • view
You should try reporting reality.
jun 16, 2025, 4:08 pm • 3 0 • view
he would call your paper a woke pedophile groomer rag
jun 16, 2025, 8:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Every MAGA is filled with political rage. Isn't that kind of the whole point?
jun 16, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
There were signs and they were ignored. Now the press shows up to make excuses.
jun 16, 2025, 3:56 pm • 27 0 • view
This is DANGEROUSLY bad journalism. He was a religious extremist who spewed anti-woman, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-Muslim vitriol. He was a walking red flag. 🚩
jun 17, 2025, 2:18 am • 0 0 • view
Cartoon pretend journalism
jun 16, 2025, 10:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Your article is ridiculous and needs to be rewritten, and the author needs to fix their research efforts. This took me five seconds to find. "'God is going to raise up apostles and prophets in America,' [Boelter] added, 'to correct his church.'" www.christianitytoday.com/2025/06/susp...
jun 17, 2025, 11:44 am • 1 0 • view
There were many signs of his violent extremism and it’s appallingly poor journalism to fail to address that. Why are you covering up his radical views and motivations??
jun 16, 2025, 3:29 pm • 24 0 • view
He was anti-LGBTQ, anti-abortion extremist with a fetish for guns and military trappings; clearly the people who didn't see the signs were intentionally averting their eyes.
jun 16, 2025, 3:57 pm • 59 3 • view
His roommate: Someone totally able to view things from an objective place. He existed with like minded ppl, like most ppl. Unlike most ppl, he assassinated 2 and shot 2 more. No reason to assume his friends are able to gauge what's normal.
jun 16, 2025, 5:17 pm • 2 0 • view
This is simply incorrect.
jun 16, 2025, 5:41 pm • 0 0 • view