terrorist attacks throughout America

the lines between online and the real world are starting to get blurred imo. "terrorism without a point" is common on the internet.

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, April 24, 2018 5:03 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Two non-snarky thoughts:

(1) If an internationally trend-setting musician is doing this, the Culture War is now probably poised to eat 'normie' society alive

(2) It's an incredible failure for at least one of the "sides" in this fiasco. https://t.co/Uqq0qC9cRq

— '((Adam (Elkus))) (@Aelkus) April 24, 2018

(the thread continues)

"Given how erratic 'Ye is, this probably doesn't reflect some kind of ulterior motive. His wife has always been the more Machiavellian of the two when it comes to PR. But even she has thrown some breadcrumbs to Very Online people (e.g shouting out anime on Twitter/Instagram). More important are the implications. An internationally recognized hitmaker and tastemaker is co-signing some of the Internet's nuttiest e-celebs. At this point it seems plausible that you will never be able to log off, even when you actually log off Twitter. Even a year ago, it did seem like this was containable. But in 2018 it does seem like the Great Corncobbing is, like acid, eating its way through all of the barriers separating it from day-to-day life."

lotta people trying valiantly to make jokes about or say they knew he was unstable all along, but kanye boosting the lowest-rent right wing mentaloids available just really sucks and i hate it

it fucking blows

to counter a point on another thread i think he's been extremely uninteresting for a long time

he's a hyper-rich narcissist with mental health issues, but sadly he'll probably influence some poor sad sack to become alt-right with his posts

did everyone forget about BILL COSBY INNOCENT!!! though? this feels like the same thing

in other words not a surprising development

no i did not forget that

imo who gives a shit whether it’s surprising or not, giving candace owens attention is fucking horrible

you can go from clueless latecomer gamergate faker to charlie kirk sidekick to superstar guru in just a couple years. who says you can't make it in america anymore.

anyway this 'incel revolt' stuff is horrifying and i don't have a clue what to do about it. peace to toronto.

gonna try to convince the anime wing of 4chan that the ultimate way to own the libs is through the ancient art of seppuku

the fix would be to erase the internet forever xp

horrorism is a good term

this encouraging of people to take it out on others, "chads and stacies" or whatever...it's unspeakably evil. which goes without saying. but it seems like these communities intend to make these "incel" types feel worse, to make them feel discouraged, to make them feel like it's hopeless. it's weird but for all the evils of more trad MRA bullshit there seems to be an attempt to crack a code and break through to being confident. incel communities seem to do the opposite.

Thought our conservative mayor was good yesterday. (Socially, he's more or less left, I think.) Immediately warned against scapegoating and making assumptions. Which turned out to be exactly right.

that's a case of blaming the parent, no? his dad literally gave him back his arsenal

yes and no? I mean, the laws about what happens when you're not allowed to possess guns are really scattershot and unenforceable where they do exist. from what I heard on the radio today, the police basically rely on family members in cases like that and there's no follow-through

as far as I can tell, when his kid moved to a different state he just gave him the guns. there's likely no legal basis for the dad to be required to keep them, and maybe even no penalty for him handing off guns to someone not legally allowed to possess them

i read one story where something was said along the lines of the dad had previously taken the guns from him awhile back when he was having issues, but gave them back when he was acting normal. this i actually don't think is necessarily a symptom of individual stupidity (though it kind of is) but also of america's weird relationship w/guns. this dad was treating them like toys that he took away when his kid was acting up.

the nra's current line is that they support the law's ability to take your guns, but only if the criteria is met for involuntary commitment for psych problems

which is an incredibly high bar

lotta people trying valiantly to make jokes about or say they knew he was unstable all along, but kanye boosting the lowest-rent right wing mentaloids available just really sucks and i hate it

kanye's never exactly been known for his mental stability

The lines between "serial killer" and "mass murderer" are clear; the lines between "mass murderer" and "terrorist" are not clear. I have very little problem calling some mass murdering schmuck with a private agenda a "terrorist" and the law as written (generally speaking) doesn't either -- as enforced, it does, which is bullshit.