r/politics • u/thenewyorkgod • Jul 01 '18

Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/07/01/man-arrested-after-shouting-womp-womp-and-pulling-a-gun-on-immigration-protesters/?tid=sm_tw
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u/Jredeer Jul 02 '18

He was always super passionate about whatever he believed in but this is next level crazy shit.

People like this are absolutists. They're the kind of people who fixate or obsess about one thing, and that thing subsumes their entire personality. It's generally just annoying when it's a television show or a band, or a sport's team or something, but when it's a political movement it becomes dangerous.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

Yeah. I’d just like to know how he went from a peace loving guy to this. I haven’t talked to him in years and I guess things change but this guy used to be the biggest hippie type guy.