1997
Ah how optimistic. Columbine in 2000 then 9/11 in 2001 ripped the covers right off that one.
Columbine was a shock, but even today most people don't know the little twerps were Nazis. They went wask off and libs politely pretended to not have noticed. Civility and all that.
Their neo-nazi beliefs were all over their manifestos and whatnot but the media kept hammering it home that is was a case of simple bullying and not anything deeper. Honestly all Columbine copy cat murders can be viewed as like an act of fascist terrorism. Reactionaries wield violence this way and this shit hardly has apolitical goals.
IIRC the media was also blaming the shooting on Doom and Marilyn Manson.
Yeah they claimed the violent media they consumed made them lash out against the school. We lacked the language back then like we do today to describe the shooters. They were black pilled fascists, straight up. Them playing doom had nothing to do with it. I'm sure they were bullied but it wasn't the crux of their motivation from what I've seen.
IIRC one of them was actually pretty popular beforehand- bullying wouldn't have been the whole story regardless, but it seems he wasn't actually bullied anyway
Marilyn Manson
Which is fucking great because one of the twips was literally wearing a KMFDM t-shirt during the shooting
Hell, they even came out with a song making fun of the shooters
Really shows you how much research actually went into all the reporting
Columbine was the micro, 9/11 the macro In increasing the fear based repression in the US
Oh totally. If there's one thing the 80s and 90s were known for, it was the absolute void of moral panics, social anxieties, and media terror campaigns propagated through the country.
Yeah after Columbine is when my school gained a higher police presence. The cops and the school resource officer like involved in everything. We never got metal detectors but we did have a system where the school's main entrance could be locked off but there was still multiple side entrances into the school though. You couldn't make jokes about anything school shooting related. The "weird" kids were always watched. I could go on but it was like a paradigm shift.
If "prosperity" means US hegemony like I suspect they meant it, I'm all for it ending, baybeeee
Java is nice and doesn't deserve this slander. More people live there than any country in Europe
...oh...they meant the other Java
Codified in 2009. So if they had, they'd be batting 1 for 2 on prophecy.
Not to be the "well, actually" guy, but the principle has been around for a while. Betteridge just codified it.
The death of Rumsfeld got me listening to Blowback S1 again and the knowledge that they got away with it is, uh, well it's heavy.
I think everyone was super high on Fukuyanism throughout the entire 90s. That's why the Matrix is permanently set in the 90s
The article is honestly really fascinating to read. If only because it brings home how much today's liberals are cultists living in the world after the prophesy failed.
Edit: Holy shit, there's so much racist shit in there too
Right?! They're like, we are not at all interested in what caused all these problems. It's definitely nothing to do with us, must just be 'ethnic conflicts'. The stuff on the 'clan mentality' of the Chinese making them suited to capitalism, while Muslims are 'unsuited to the digital age' is also so :cringe:
https://twitter.com/hilaryagro/status/1412759681307746309?s=20
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5sTtW7XMAE2FlK?format=jpg&name=large omg lol.
Yasha Levine's book Surveillance Valley eviscerates these types of people.
Well that's a good a time as any to take my lunch break and not think about the state of the planet!
