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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this, and happy new year in advance.)
Yeah the story is about to get weird. Your isis guess might not be far off. See this same military base as the guy who drove into the crowds.
Writers of 2025: "Somehow isis returned." (I know isis never left, media just looked less at it, but thought it would be a funny joke).
update 2: yeah it's not that
so far what is known: active duty green beret, trumper, freshly (?) after breakup, wrote a "list of grievances" but it's not cited anywhere in full (maybe it's too racist for polite company). appears to be cooked in some ways. while he was a green beret he wasn't 18C or 18B so he wasn't specifically trained for use or handling of high explosives, (no cross-training?) he was more in business of communications, surveillance, intelligence gathering (18E, then 18F) also worked with drones and there was something about drones in that list of grievances
Thanks for the update. Damn this got very weird. Appreciate the 2025 writers throwing in a few twists. E: looks like the guy was a bit of an accelerationist fascist
i've seen that news piece on how they were in the same base and how they were deployed in afghanistan around the same time previously and that's what i based this guess on
still, so far it could be anything else including complete coincidence. it's like dude forgot everything, he was radioman but couldn't make remote controlled detonator and didn't use efficient charge for some reason
not only isis never left, i guess they controlled some territory at least until last month even if it was only a couple of villages in desert