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We've already seen a few outbreaks the last six or seven years: * The Santa Barbara shooter angry at women * The El Paso, TX and Miami, OH shooters angry abou

by imbnwa 5y ago

We've already seen a few outbreaks the last six or seven years: * The Santa Barbara shooter angry at women * The El Paso, TX and Miami, OH shooters angry about the end of white genetic pool dominance or something * The guy who tried to go on a shooting spree in Harlem and got caught after killing an elderly Black man as practice because "Black men are taking all the White women"

bradlys 5y ago
Unfortunately, there are many many more examples of real world violence. If you peer into the abyss that is the online world - it seems like there are an endless amount of shooters waiting to happen in the US. It's no surprise that it happens so often. A lot of men in pain who want everyone else to experience the pain they've been feeling before they themselves commit suicide. With access to guns - it makes it so easy to do. The biggest surprise for most women out here might be this tidbit: most men are incels until they're not. It's that some men never get out of that horrible rut and a small amount of those are the ones you see end up doing the shootings. The rest suffer silently or just kill themselves. It's sad. Most of my female friends are completely unaware. All of my male friends are painfully aware because almost every man who ever went through that phase to any significant degree will do almost everything but forget it. Someday we'll get to the point where we acknowledge this but part of me thinks we don't ever want to. If we did - then we'd have to really change things and no one likes to change shit.
rsanek 5y ago
https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood
- imbnwa 5y ago
  Eh, saying "they're mentally ill" (since obviously these aren't hoaxes) merely obfuscates the sociological etiology of 'mental illness', see Thomas Szasz. Brains are responding to environments largely and for the most part, brains themselves being non-uniform, unless you can demonstrate extreme pathological divergence in the individual case.
imbnwa 5y ago
Just so people are aware, the Santa Barbara shooter posted a final manifesto on Youtube prior to his actions, so you can totally go listen to him. The second bullet point, a written manifesto was posted online. The third obviously admitted to his motivations.

by imbnwa 5y ago

bradlys 5y ago

Unfortunately, there are many many more examples of real world violence. If you peer into the abyss that is the online world - it seems like there are an endless amount of shooters waiting to happen in the US. It's no surprise that it happens so often. A lot of men in pain who want everyone else to experience the pain they've been feeling before they themselves commit suicide. With access to guns - it makes it so easy to do. The biggest surprise for most women out here might be this tidbit: most men are incels until they're not. It's that some men never get out of that horrible rut and a small amount of those are the ones you see end up doing the shootings. The rest suffer silently or just kill themselves. It's sad. Most of my female friends are completely unaware. All of my male friends are painfully aware because almost every man who ever went through that phase to any significant degree will do almost everything but forget it. Someday we'll get to the point where we acknowledge this but part of me thinks we don't ever want to. If we did - then we'd have to really change things and no one likes to change shit.

rsanek 5y ago

https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood

imbnwa 5y ago
Eh, saying "they're mentally ill" (since obviously these aren't hoaxes) merely obfuscates the sociological etiology of 'mental illness', see Thomas Szasz. Brains are responding to environments largely and for the most part, brains themselves being non-uniform, unless you can demonstrate extreme pathological divergence in the individual case.

imbnwa 5y ago

Just so people are aware, the Santa Barbara shooter posted a final manifesto on Youtube prior to his actions, so you can totally go listen to him. The second bullet point, a written manifesto was posted online. The third obviously admitted to his motivations.