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Some what shocked there has not been a top level post about the Annunciation School Shooting yet given the obvious culture war angles and parallels to the Covenant School shooting of a few years back (religious school, trans shooter - though FtM vs MtF).
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/annunciation-catholic-school-minneapolis-shooting-08-27-25
I had missed that the Covenant shooter was determined to have not acted out due to any real culture war stuff, but just due to your generic mass shooter mental illness + desire to be remembered cocktail.
I would guess that throwing in the Culture War angle makes it a lot more likely that the shooter's name and face get passed around, though in this case seems like he was just crazy more so than any particular niche of the political compass.
Presumably gun control will be in the news again a bit.
It seems that there is a bigger story here. This person was possibly groomed by a group called O9A/764, which is a satanic accelerationism/terrorist group that recruits kids into doing things like this.
This sounds like crazy talk to me, but I was surprised that this is a relatively well known thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_crimes_involving_the_Order_of_Nine_Angles
https://nypost.com/2023/09/28/an-inside-look-at-the-satanic-neo-nazi-cult-that-ensnared-queens-man-arrested-on-gun-charges/
https://x.com/klonnypin_gosch/status/1960770843614560527
There’s a broader story here that maybe deserves its own discussion: a lot of the things which the “le heckin science” types dismissed as stupid seem to be real actually? Like this seems as if the 1980s satanic panic stuff was just…true.
I think it’s wrong to try and fit this into left or right. These people aren’t really on the binary. It’s just anti society in general. You see elements of this on both the left, wanting to end society so they can build their glorious gay space communism society finally, and on the right, so they can build their glorious ethnostate.
I’ve seen both rightists and leftists trying to claim this guy for their outgroup, but I think it’s way more complex than that. Basically there is a third group which is the outgroup of everyone on purpose.
I think a lot of people are in denial about how much damage The Dark Knight movie did. Heath Ledger’s joker inspired an entire generation of social outcasts to become jaded antisocial nihilists. Are we really supposed to believe that this guy who shot up the sequel on opening night wasn’t inspired by The Joker? And now we have this:
Much as Ghostface said: "Movies don't create psychos, movies make psychos more creative"
This isn't quite the case -- they're not being more creative, but they are using better lines written by actual creative people. But you get the idea.
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