Why don't they go shoot up Beverly hills/Wall Street/police stations/court room/federal agencies etc.? Rich and powerful people rarely get hurt.

  • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Not to mention, like many serial killers, they’re have delusions of grandeur and believe they’re on a mission that can only be achieved through violence. Not to mention, they also want to achieve maximum shock value. Eviscerating a woman’s guts and leaving her in the sidewalk for joggers to find is old fashion. Targeting old people and elementary school children and live-streaming it is the new normal.

    This is the reason. The Mass Shooter is the suicidal serial killer, egged on by a cast of conservative commentators, performed by the manifesto-wielding failsons of the supposedly supremacist group. It mirrors the suicide bombers in other parts of the world ideologically.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      the suicidal serial killer

      Hardly suicidal; most of these mass shooters get arrested and have people speaking up in their defense. The cops will gladly shoot a black person without seeing a weapon, but with a white supremacist mass shooter they'll be very careful not to shoot the guy. Most mass shooters who get shot aren't shot by the cops, but by bystanders.

      • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        All of those things are true, but I'm talking about why these young men turn to violence in the first place.

        I say suicide because Fascism's death cult promotes self-negating martyrdom. It drives the person into a social death before throwing them into actual carnage. The shootings themselves are incidental; they cement the break with their old social self and a baptism into their new martyred self precisely because they see their old self as unworthy. Both offer ideological1 respite from further action and self-hatred.

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