Police found a note denouncing virtual reality and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, according to multiple reports.
  • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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    2 years ago

    • Living cost crisis

    • Housing crisis

    • Energy crisis

    • Food crisis

    • Still unsolved pandemic

    :soypoint-1: techbro terrorism

    Further confirms my theory that under late stage capitalidm the only people capable of conducting stochastic terrorism are materially comfortable middle class whos brain have been addled by estoric online propagandas.

    • pink_mist [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Weird like targeting Computer Science departments in the 70s and 80s? :a-guy:

    • cawsby [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The Covid lockdown and the current economic malaise has given rise to a ton of reactionary types of all flavors. Interest in conspiracy theories rocketed online during that same time frame.

      My thesis is that these attacks will keep coming out of nowhere as people break their cocoons and confront reality with increasing levels of violence like in the 1970's. Most will be individualistic adventurism that the authorities will use to crack down on whomever they please.

      We are entering the Transmetropolitan-comic era of terrorist ideologies. Anything goes, expect the weird.

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I mean, to be fair, the combination of Facebook's manipulation techniques and the intrusiveness of Virtual Reality is going to lead to some serious dystopian brainwashing type shit in about a decade, but there's healthcare ceo's and whatnot who are higher priority right now.