I fixed it.
There's no way this woman did not write an actual manifesto given her idolization of shooters. That's like an integral part of the mythology. I'm not saying she wrote something coherent, but I have a hard time believing that what was leaked was the "manifesto".
Agreed.
From what we can see and know, this whole stupid thing was one big attempt at recreating columbine and it was the whole process, not just the shooting itself, that this bitch followed like a religious ritual. There was no exit plan, or even really
any plan once she started shooting, by her own admission in the notes about basically having to play it by ear if something went wrong. It was really lucky that she didn't manage to shoot any of the cops (because she
absolutely would have tried to take as many of them down as she could in a last stand situation but a bullet to the spine solved that real quick).
The journals not being the manifesto also makes sense, since one of the pages is dated a month before the shooting, so it's more likely just a diary/scratchpad she wrote in during a violent fit, or literally an hour before she decided to end innocent lives. That said, what we have still paints a picture of a disturbed mind so who even really knows what the manifesto could have been about? Could have been Winnie the Pooh x Sonic slash fiction that called for the toppling of patriarchal society for all we know.
I wouldn't be so sure of that. It looks like mass shootings have become, in the mind of nutjobs, the path to immortalizing one's name and getting fifteen minutes of fame. I'm not the first one to point that out, either.
While true, I doubt that was the motivation here. She wanted to invoke columbine - this wasn't about immortalizing herself, this was about the rush of the moment, being god of life and death, getttng revenge on the 'crackers' and killing children.
It's comparable to what I'd say is a worse case Jay Geis ("The Golden Knight") scenario, who is an impossibly even bigger loser than Aurdey ever was, since Jay straight up liked killing small animals with guns and had a very warped sense of right and wrong - namely he was always right and everybody else is always wrong.