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Cacciato posted...

As much as I dislike Trump, you act like this country hasnt had mass shooters before him and even while its occuring you think theres a political motive?

How can there still be so many people who don't understand what is happening?

Trump is a rallying point, not the sole cause, but yes, this is almost certainly political.

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So, what a lot of people don't seem to know about this (I thought it was common knowledge but apparently not) is that these public shootings are being fueled by an online stochastic terrorist network in which neo-nazis encourage each other to commit violent acts against the general population. They are generally not encouraged to make manifestos, by the way, as those tend to backfire hard. The violence in and of itself is an attempt to destabilize the country. They are hoping to provoke homicidal retaliation from the public, and some of them believe that if tensions escalate, they can use their stocked up weaponry and seize control of the nation through violence (this is on the assumption that the Trump administration will choose to crack down on their opposition rather than the fascists themselves, and this is not unfounded, I suppose). Most, if not all of them, believe that these acts of targeting areas where people congregate will help damage any efforts for the general population to organize and resist them when tensions escalate.

Regardless of how individuals expect things to play out, their end game is obvious enough. They want to kill minorities and any political opponents who might try to stop them. They're not even subtle about it.

Edit: Forgot to mention. Now's a good time to start supporting antifascist action in public discourse even if you don't practice it yourself. These guys love it whenever someone equates their bullet hail to Antifa's freaking milkshakes. This is also why reading their manifestos is important. If you understand what they're trying to do, you inhibit their ability to recruit more people into their network.
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