Apparently the Buffalo shooter was known to police and the FBI due to threatening to shoot classmates a few years ago. There's also some talk that he was posting openly about what he was going to do but I don't have a source.
Par for the course. Feels like all of these white supremacist fucks are known to the FBI or police but they never do anything. But if poc sneezes the wrong way walking down a street they'll have multiple bullets put in them by some fascist cop.
As far as I'm concerned, the Buffalo shooting was an inside job.
The feds are actively taking out "undesirables" and hoping to egg on the ignorant masses to do the same. This shooter actively carried out the American agenda, and no one really stopped him outside of the bare minimum to not look :sus-deep:.
I need to get out of here, this is 1930s Geramany and I have noticed to many parallels.
should we be like, calling them out on this? is it even worth bothering?
america didn't do anything after a bunch of elementary schoolchildren were murdered, it'll never do anything about gun violence
they'll continue growing. there's no way to systemically deplatform them under capitalism.
I was approaching it from the point of view of the state, as individuals we still have influence
like, influence in groups and societally, I know individualism is :cringe:
I don't suppose we can crowd-source some SLAPP lawsuits to target their hosting or something?
yeah, like, nothing happened after fuckin Christchurch, nothing's gonna happen now
Oh god r/KotakuInAction's stance on that was "Noooooo his manifesto was ironic he wasn't actually a white nationalist"
Nah, too optimistic.
Some politician or maybe :melon-musk: will bemoan how desperate/alienated etc. they are made by "SJWs" or "wokeness" or some shit and set up resources/ legal protections for them so they "don't get to the point where they feel like they need to resort to such extreme measures"
the same as before: :fedposting:, who easily find out about every nazi wanting to do an adventurism due to their horrendously bad opsec, will make sure not to let any of their half-baked coup daydreams come true while doing nothing to prevent them going after minorities. both the thwarted attacks on the ruling class and the successful attacks on the marginalized will then be used propagandistically to increase fed funding. Some of these funds will go towards COINTELPROing nazi groups, most will go towards fighting leftists because feds are scared shitless that the ongoing crisis of capitalism will, at some point, lead to the pendulum swinging in the other direction.
cared shitless that the ongoing crisis of capitalism will, at some point, lead to the pendulum swinging in the other direction.
easier to imagine the end of the world than the pendulum finally swinging back to the left
Literally nothing, and even if it is something, it won't be for long. 8chan went down after Cloudflare and all the other providers pulled/denied service in the wake of the 2019 El Paso shooting, and it was back up within three months. This was after Christchurch, the Poway synagogue shooting, QAnon, everything. Nobody in power gives a shit, and if they do, they approve of all of it.
Hellworld answer
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Musk finally buys Twitter very late on a Friday night.
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Why? Friday night is the "document news dump" time so it's a void where pols, orgs, and businesses dump info to try to get minimal coverage. As far as I know - nobody has ever bought companies at this hour.
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Within an hour of the Twitter contract being finalized - he buys 4chan.
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Saturday just after midnight Twitter suddenly has "DLinks" (short for DialogLinks) that are all over the place. All the links go to right-wing cesspools. And the majority of links go to 4chan.
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On Saturday any number of lib pundit-idiots are trying and miserably failing to explain 4chan to their normie news consumers.
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The lib pundit consensus is that 4chan is an "odd choice" for Musk to link Twitter to.
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The days continue and MSNBC has a segment that's a solid 20 minutes long abut "Musk Social". The network gets roasted all over social media. That night Lawrence O'Donnell has a huge temper tantrum and he rants for the entire A-block of his show about "hostile young people on Twitter and the like" who are "making fun of journalism and knowledge itself". The next day - for some reason - he immediately starts a vacation. He's roasted on social media and "Central Park 2" goes viral. It takes the normies a shockingly long time to figure it out.
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Soon there's yet another mass shooting done by a republican terrorist and the DLinks go directly the worst parts and worst threads at 4chan, etc. 4channer are over-joyed at the gigantic amount of new traffic and the number of people on the site that have no idea at all what's going on.
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Musk tweets that he's doing it everything for unity and "da 1st amendment". Photos taken of him by TMZ seem to show a guy smirking has hard as he can. He also laughs and points at the paparazzi. He clearly gives the bras d'honneur gesture a few times. He claims that he had "a coughing fit".
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And the Musk created chaos continues to explode and expand outward from there.
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I mean this has been said about 4chan and similar sites like it for decades now and still nothing's changed. I'm not expecting it to either.
They'll ban /r/4chan from Reddit and drive everyone who posts there over to actual 4chan.
it's kind of funny how there's an entire ecosystem of people who read 4chan screenshots but refuse to go there because it's "too scary"
like they're expecting endless threads about gore and child porn which honestly as I'm typing it isn't too far from reality
Some insufferable West Wing boxset owning Hamilton lyric tattooed lib will buy a Times Square ad with just the word "Vote"
Nothing, because "muh free speech". If whoever their current host is does drop them, they'll just find another one.
