• Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      the guy dropped an extremely deep internet-poisoned white nationalist manifesto and livestreamed everything

      ah, just like the mosque shooter from new zealand

      • rubpoll [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Conservatives do want a social structure to exist (a fiercely hierarchical, competitive, unequal social structure, but still).

        Liberals, particularly Neoliberals, are the ones who explicitly want a purely individualist, atomized society whether they realize it or not.

        So when Conservatives are taught that Liberalism and Neoliberalism are the same as Socialism and Communism, it causes intense brain worms, and they start blaming socialism for the atomization of capitalist subjects.

        • Ideology [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Honestly, I thought GenZ would be all right because they picked up on how queerness and intersectionality works really fast. But there were secret incels among them the whole time and they still suck at racism.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            3 years ago

            There's going to be some variations and outliers in a population of 70 million people.

            • Ideology [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              Oh, definitely. I suppose it was just a surprise to see how toxic GenZ incel culture got. I figured that they'd learn from Millenials that it's a dead end.

              It feels like for GenX and Millenials, incel culture and alt-right culture kind of appeared in a vacuum to the surprise of boomers, who didn't really understand the weird doomer irony poisoning. Someone could get exposed to men's rights and pick up artist entrypoints, but not see the 'sjw' side of the equation until they started brigading them and already had ideological blinders on.

              At this point it's almost impossible to interact online without running into feminist culture and talking points, so the reaction of GenZers is now to encounter those talking points as a teenager, actively reject them because it makes them feel bad, and then get drawn into alt-right/incel entrypoints. So while Millenials and up seem to fall more into centrist grillpillism and buy-in to basic neolib rhetoric, GenZ seems to be more pushing itself to the extremes of leftism and fascism.

            • Ideology [she/her]
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              edit-2
              3 years ago

              Nah, late Gen X started it off with the whole Columbine thing. There were news specials and documentaries about that event for years (though we would now consider it relatively unremarkable), and lots of schools started talking about bullying and increasing security.

              Then when Millenials came of age, similar bullied ideologues took notes from Columbine and started to copycat. But their ideologies were usually pretty isolated, self centered, and divorced from reality compared to the way it is now with pre-packaged conservative talking points. As the number of copycats increased, people started tying the ideology of those guys into the increasingly relevant antifeminism and eventually alt-right movements. Millenials really perfected the craft and turned it into a diy adventurism spectacle and made the incel shooter into a hero of 'socially disadvantaged' white guys. It's like their version of theory.

              • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                3 years ago

                The funny thing is that the columbine shooters weren't bullied. They were neo-nazis. They attacked the school on Hitler's birthday. I found out about it just a few years ago because the media never talked about it. Instead the media attributed it to bullying and the "trenchcoat mafia" that wasn't even affiliated with the shooters.

    • VeganTendies [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They hate you. Most if not all Americans are secretly laughing about it, supporting this kid.

      They want you and I dead for literally no reason except they think it's funny.

      • InternetLefty [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        You think "most if not all" Americans are happy to see a mass shooting?

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    3 years ago

    What a deeply diseased country. The sheer frequency at which this happens is sickening.

    What do right-wingers say should be done about this anyways?

    • bigboopballs [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      What do right-wingers say should be done about this anyways?

      They think every man, woman and child should be open carrying 24/7, and then "the problem will sort itself out" or something.

    • StuporTrooper [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Literally they say more guns, if they say anything at all. If they're not libertarians they say more cops, but even anti government libertarians lick police boot these days.

      • cawsby [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The manifesto says he targeted an area specifically that had strict gun control laws.

        • Phish [he/him, any]
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          3 years ago

          To be fair, starting it out with a screenshot of his Myers-Briggs type did have a slight CIA flair to it, but obviously it's far more likely that this dude is just a brainwashed psychopath.

        • Shoegazer [he/him]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          Conservatives aren’t known for their subtlety so idk what they’re on about

    • ScotPilgrimVsTheLibs [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      They think that the people he targeted should just take it and the police should look the other way so the fash can have his fun.

      We got all these monsters going around LARPing as the Joker, where's our Batman? Where's the guy that's willing to teach them what fear feels like?

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Teach who? This is one guy out of 170 million right wingers and probably millions of us neonazis. Random reprisal killings wouldn't help anything.

    • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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      3 years ago

      What do right-wingers say should be done about this anyways?

      the carrying out of the neonazi program these scumbags put in their manifestos

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I saw a post on /r/ tactical gear, no shit, that said "this guy visited out subreddit for advice. We need to train more with our guns to be ready next time!"

      Like their response was "oops we enabled this guy but we're gonna be ready to stop him next time!"

      • OfficialBenGarrison [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        What do white supremacists even like about the west?

        They hate the Enlightenment, they hate "modernity" (whatever that is), they don't even seem to like the majority of white people, what about "the west" let alone "white people" DO they think is worth spilling blood over? Yeah, as a lefty I'm not exactly thrilled about "da west" either but at least I have a few gems in my life in the west. I like my neighbors, I actually get along pretty well for my co-workers, and I spent the past few days just hiking (not that I am planning on hurting someone over my love for these things).

        • Shoegazer [he/him]
          hexagon
          ·
          3 years ago

          What do white supremacists even like about the west?

          They want to return to when people were ruled by a guy with his own marble statue

        • bigboopballs [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I like my neighbors, I actually get along pretty well for my co-workers, and I spent the past few days just hiking (not that I am planning on hurting someone over my love for these things).

          I don't see how this is specific to "the west" either

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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          3 years ago

          Speaking of taking a hike to touch grass, you doing better after your 9 day sojourn off hexbear?

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          3 years ago

          One of the Ur-Fascism things is a desire to return to a mythical and non-existent Golden Age.

    • VeganTendies [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      :bean-think:: "Hmmm, it seems like when we allow lying media, crime happens. Should we jail everyone in Fox News and Social Media execs? Nah! Let's ban video games!'

  • Tripbin [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    does anyone have a link to his manifesto and the live stream they can DM? I get not wanting to glorify him and stuff but Ive never been a fan of how they hide these things so much that it basically just becomes another faceless shooter and they ignore his motives after a week because nobody sees the fucked up shit these people think and write. I feel like half the time reddit scrubs this stuff from being shared its because they dont want everyone to see how similarly they talk compared to the average redditor.

    • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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      3 years ago

      yeah I don't like how they take it down either. But honestly this guy has nothing new to say. Just the same old Great Replacement shit every other white nationalist terrorist supports. He's edgy, wrote Hitler on his gun and said he supports neo-nazism. We already know his type :le-pol-face:

      sucks that's there's so many of these vile worms in our country now

      • VeganTendies [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Interesting how hate crimes are the one time this country is soft on crime.

        People keep letting it happen over and over again. They think a white kids feelings of having a big pp are more important than your life.

        • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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          3 years ago

          yeah its because at the end of day white nationalist terrorism does not threaten this state. Why would it? The government is already ran by white supremacist racists and they love working with white nationalists.

          They have to arrest the shooters because uncontrolled terrorism is bad for business but as far as rooting out white nationalist influence and disrupting their organizations the government has no reason to involve themselves.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            3 years ago

            White supremacists did threaten the state on Jan 6. They didn't do a good job, but if there had been ten moderately organized guys with rifles that day things could have gone very differently.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I've seen the argument that spreading that kind of information could inspire others to copy-cat it.

      However at this point it's like... well has it worked? Because people keep doing this shit.

  • ComradeLove [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    People just going about their business, grabbing some snacks and pop for Saturday night movie night with the kids, and bam you're gone. That's so fucked up. I hope if I ever die in a mass shooting it's on Monday morning and not Saturday.

    • VHS [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      natsoc has socialist in the name!

    • VeganTendies [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Is "no u" the only thing they can say?

      Also, why do they need to. Literally everyone except us is cheering the fash on.

  • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    shit like this makes me feel sane for packing heat when i go to the grocery store. might have to return fire on some piece of shit.

      • Phish [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        Then the cops will see you with a gun and shoot you instead of the shooter.

        • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah, I figure my ideal use of a gun in that situation is:

          A) Run away

          B) If A proves impossible, hide in corner of janitor closet with gat pointed at door

          • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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            3 years ago

            If A proves impossible, hide in corner of janitor closet with gat pointed at door

            Honestly yeah, the best thing to do would probably be to get yourself and as many people as you can gather into an area that can be easily guarded and then posting at the entrance with your weapon ready. But this would still come with the risk of SWAT accidentally shooting you.

          • blobjim [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            And then when someone else comes to hide with you and opens the door you immediately murder them because you can't think.

      • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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        3 years ago

        yea if i cant see the shooter im just running. these mass shooters seem to often crumble when anyone shoots back though because they are fucking cowards.

    • dung_Eater [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      dude was shot multiple times by on scene security guard. apparently walked it off with whatever armor he was wearing

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It's literally not. They're murdering other people, not themselves.

      • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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        3 years ago

        They often end up murdering each other once they’ve run out of easily available commies/“removed” to kill. Pretty sure if they ever “won” they’d just keep narrowing the definition of an acceptable person till it’s like one dude living in a cave carving runes into his own flesh.

      • Shoegazer [he/him]
        hexagon
        ·
        3 years ago

        For now. But look at his manifesto. He needed to specify his heritage to justify his actions lol. Whiteness is granted overnight and it can be taken back overnight. Right now it just so happens almost every Mayo is bloodthirsty so they’re able to have solidarity with each other

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Fascism glorifies heroic martyrdom and self sacrifice for the volk. Betcha money that hard core white supremacists somewhere are talking about how this guy is a hero for finally striking out against the "removed"

    • bigboopballs [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      prediction: we will all (including zoomers) do absolutely nothing but sit on our hands and stare at our phones as civilization collapses

      • Shoegazer [he/him]
        hexagon
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        3 years ago

        “I wish the zoomers will bring us the revolution”

        monkey paw curls

        It’s the zoomer band kids who believed Stalin was based for killing 300 million people worldwide

        • BigAssBlueBug [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          I wouldnt be here if it wasn't for spamming ear-rape USSR national anthem in band class

  • VeganTendies [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    :what-the-hell: :amerikkka-clap:

    I apologize for being dickish to the people that got shot, but this amoral "culture" has raised multiple generations of "le epik trollz" and people no doubt do this shit because they think it's funny. I pretty much live every day of my life in fear of some nazi killing me for literally no reason, and getting praised for it by the masses.

    Populism ruins civilizations.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Populism ruins civilizations.

      Isn't "populism" a neolib dogwhistle for "anything that helps and is popular with poor people"

      • celestial
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        5 months ago

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      • GundamZZ [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It can be that. It's also a pre-marxist form of "leftism" that has been rendered obsolete and reactionary by the invention of marxism and scientific socialism.

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        when i had it laid out to me explicitly that the original KKK was just as intentionally silly and irony poisoned as the alt right dweebs today like the proud boys it really clicked for me

          • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            It's been a while since I read anything about it so I don't have any links off the top of my head, but if you look at all the klan's ranks and stuff it's all just stupid - empires, realms, dominions, imperial wizards, grand exchequers, grand scribes, hydras, grand dragons, grand giants, goblins, furies, etc & so forth. In the 1800s whitey could sit back and feel secure that those silly boys putting on white sheets and riding around like hooligans calling each other goblins were just goofballs. Meanwhile the black people you never spoke to on the outskirts of your shitty little town would be terrorized and persecuted and the whites who weren't involved in the KKK never had to see shit. They could pretend like their cousin was just some nerd playing at fantasy bullshit and drinking with his other useless friends on the weekends instead of the terror organization they really were.

            • Tapirs10 [undecided,she/her]
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              3 years ago

              Yeah the kkk call their leader grand wizard. That should be a boss in a mediocre rpg not someone leading murderous fascists

      • GundamZZ [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I looked up that quote and no one can actually find the source. People like Eugene Debbs have said similar things and I think some black revolutionaries in the US have repeated similar sentiments. I think Sinclair said some similar stuff too.

    • CIYe [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      It was an ideological nazi who did this and aimed to kill black people because of birth rates or whatever slurry brained theory they come up with

          • VeganTendies [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I see your point and I should not have used either of those words and I'll just swap them with less hog ones, but how monstrous one can be to get to this point of committing murder for e-clout? and what kind of culture are we fostering where shit like this is rewarded? It drives me into an absolute rage just how happy the lives of these monsters are.

            • OfficialBenGarrison [he/him]
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              edit-2
              3 years ago

              Yeah, trust me dude. Don't talk like that. It will fuck up your mindset, and I got into some hot water the other day for the same shit and I just grilled for like a week.

              and no, the hogs are most certainly NOT happy. If anything, they hate happiness in all its forms and want to see it eradicated so we can all be as miserable as they are.

              • BigAssBlueBug [they/them]
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                3 years ago

                You two need to hide your misanthropy underneath miles of irony like I do :tofu-cool:

                • OfficialBenGarrison [he/him]
                  ·
                  3 years ago

                  After my week-long self exile, I realized:

                  "Do I really hate people, or do I just hate the antichrist and how it has corrupted my fellow man?" :troll:

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            5 months ago

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          • buh [she/her]
            ·
            3 years ago

            also

            >be american
            >get shot

            happens to be a popular meme response to mass shootings on 4chan

        • Shoegazer [he/him]
          hexagon
          ·
          3 years ago

          They don’t think it’s wrong. They think it’s good

    • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
      ·
      3 years ago

      but this amoral “culture”

      No the problem with american culture is that its incredibly moralistic but in the secular individualist Christian tradition. It is a sick morality used to justify hierarchy and oppression, therefore might is right, suffering is a sin, and weakness should be punishable, by death ideally. These shootings are just the result of taking these edicts to their logical conclusion with a good dose of white supremacy thrown in.

  • BigAssBlueBug [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    White teenage boys when they haven't shot up their daily social gathering :unsus:

    • VeganTendies [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      :amerikkka-clap:: "Is that a black person just enjoying their life?! Time to [redacted] them for my own amusement!"

      How is it that we keep losing to these idiots? How come no one has guns of their own and has ever stopped them? I'm sure gun control will get real popular real fast the minute a black person shoots one of these nazis in self defense.

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Erie County has a weird mix of leftists and white nationalists. I'd say it's more left-leaning than NYC in many ways. These are people who come from a pretty tough environment and want to see their home improve while also dealing with white nationalists in the suburbs and rural areas.

    • Ideology [she/her]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Weird how this seems to go hand in hand like in Portland.

    • enkifish [any]
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      3 years ago

      Rural upstate is beautiful, but it's towns are all dead factory towns in a sea of dairy farms. It's also almost completely full of chuds

      • VeganTendies [he/him]
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        edit-2
        3 years ago

        Same, if the worst of the hogs were in Canada instead of here in the states. I'd gladly move to Ithaca or the Adirondacks and :grill: for the rest of my life.