Ostroeuropa wrote:Tareldar wrote:I think that part was sarcasm at the idea video games cause violence.
The only part of the manifesto worth noting is that he explicitly said he believes the status quo is fucked, entrenched, and cannot be changed except through violence.
He explicitly says he thinks it's a good idea to empower your violent ideological opponents because violent change is the only thing that will save us, and baiting eachother into escalating violence will mean the status quo changes even if your side loses.
He says chaos, division, and violence are his goal.
He THEN plays right into a list of media stereotypes in a bid to get everyone claiming he belongs to the other side and get the media to scream that vast swathes of the population are enabling violent terrorists, from environmentalists to white nationalists, socialists to trump supporters, PRC style communists to capitalists, gamers to drug users, and so on.
Everything in the manifesto that explains why he did what he did needs to be viewed in the context of his explicit goal and motivation that he elaborates on BEFORE he lists a bunch of things that """Influenced""" him, and when you notice that, you'll notice his list of influences are basically a list of people the media love to demonize and hate.
He is doing it to bait the media into attacking the public, and the public into attacking eachother, and to ratchet up tensions and violence so that the media, the politicians, all the establishment, get toppled in the ensuing chaos.
He wants the public to feel attacked by the media and to turn on them. He wants the public to feel attacked by eachother and turn on eachother. The entire manifesto is a roarschach test for "Your political enemies did this." with special focus on the groups the media and status quo hate already, in a bid to radicalize people against the status quo and turn them violent.
He's definitely an accelerationist, trying to get society to turn on itself.
