• nohaybanda [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      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.

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

        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.

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

            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.

            • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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              3 years ago

              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

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            I recall that vividly, even in UK news Manson was brought up.

          • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            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

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        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.

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

        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.

  • buh [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    July 1997

    25 years

    Only 1 year of prosperity left so enjoy it!

    • nohaybanda [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      If "prosperity" means US hegemony like I suspect they meant it, I'm all for it ending, baybeeee

    • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Java is nice and doesn't deserve this slander. More people live there than any country in Europe

      ...oh...they meant the other Java

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

        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.

      • wantonviolins [they/them]M
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        3 years ago

        “Wait, you mean the silicon valley vampires building billion-dollar tech empires and destroying our rights and privacy see themselves as the heroes in Hackers (1995)?” — me, having a difficult realization in the 2000’s

    • mittens [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      I think everyone was super high on Fukuyanism throughout the entire 90s. That's why the Matrix is permanently set in the 90s

  • WalterBongjammin [they/them,comrade/them]
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    edit-2
    3 years ago

    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

    • wantonviolins [they/them]M
      ·
      3 years ago

      it's so horrible

      "yeah so like, the Africans will just plunge their continent into madness and murder and chaos, and Daddy Anglosphere will have to step in and save them from themselves YET AGAIN so they can be a valuable market in the new global economy" bro what the absolute fuck

      • WalterBongjammin [they/them,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        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:

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Yasha Levine's book Surveillance Valley eviscerates these types of people.

  • Kanna [she/her]
    ·
    3 years ago

    Well that's a good a time as any to take my lunch break and not think about the state of the planet!