Unfortunately, I’ve learned that certain parts of the farms are not the place to have nuanced conversations about this. But what I will say is that, if you want to know what can be done, take a look at the thread in A&H about the Buffalo supermarket shooting. (It’s easy to find, as it happened just last week.)
That thread holds archives of both the shooter’s manifesto and video of his crime. In his manifesto, the shooter discusses his radicalization by /pol/ and provides a detailed guide for other shooters on how to obtain and modify equipment to ensure both maximum carnage as well as maximum internet fame.
As a presumably rational person reading this, you might be curious about the reaction of people on the thread. Were they outraged? Well, it appeared to me that a great majority of the posters in there seemed preoccupied with finding the whole video so that they could watch the slaughter of grandmothers because they were black. I don’t see how the slaughter of wetback schoolchildren is much different, to be honest.
We’ve lost our humanity. Mass shootings are a symptom of that disease. We have people here sperging over numbers as if they didn’t involve real people and expressing fear that guns are going to be taken away as if there isn’t a place in the world that isn’t saturated with them. The internet has turned this all into a game. The shooters battle for body count, send gleeful messages to their Discord friends delighting in their ability to murder huge amounts of people quickly, both because they live in a society that coddles them and allows them ready and easy access to dangerous weaponry. Both are true, and to pretend that mental illness and gun access are separate issues is disingenuous at best.
I don’t really believe this stuff happens as a result of mental illness in and of itself, but as a symptom of it. These shooters are undoubtedly disturbed, but they are also mired in a culture in which nothing is taken seriously until it’s too late, and in which human beings are depersonalized. A person who is already disturbed spends hours a day shooting at pixels on an enormous screen in a dark room, talking to no one — but yet, many would have us believe these things aren’t related.
The reason why the shooter went to live with his grandmother, whom he shot in the face, had to do with his ability to access wifi. I’ll leave the significance of that to you to figure out.
I’m not here to debate. Give me trash cans or top hats or puzzle pieces or whatever you want. I’m just tired.
