Other way round: they've been talking this stuff up for decades. This is just the continuation of Waco and Ruby Ridge and Malheur and those guys who tried to kidnap a governor and the guy who blew up a telephone exchange and a dozen ""lone wolf"" mass shooters. And the "killdozer" guy. Eventually all the thousands of ""lone wolves"" who share the same ideas and politics and gun suppliers were going to get together.

They're angry. They're always angry, that's their politics. Social media, talk radio, and the Republican party have been stoking that anger with lies. I agree that it's impossible to completely cut off the conduit of lies, but something has to be done - and deplatforming works.

One of them was a retired USAF senior officer: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9128637/MAGA-mob-ri...

That's not an oppressed and censored person, that's a power hungry person trying to conduct his own little military coup.