Latest details on #ConnorBetts#daytonshooter thread. Twitter: "Flowers for Atomsk." Atomsk is an anime character, named after a novel Atomsk (1949) by Paul Linebarger, an expert of psychological war operations, an author of many books on psy-ops and propaganda. #daytonshooting
Linebarger's books include Psychological Warfare (1948) and Essays on military psychological operations (1965). Atomsk is named after Atomsk, a secret Russian military city in Siberia. More at the website by Linebarger's daughter here. cordwainer-smith.com/atomsk.htm
At Funsubstance, a user "atomsk" quoted a Walking Dead post-apocalyptic horror series episode, in which one sister, Lizzie, stabs another sister, Mika, with a knife, killing her during a zombie apocalypse. The mother then and asks Lizzie to look at the flowers, and shoots her.
The comments were made 5 years ago, around the time Connor Betts' Twitter account was created. "Atomsk" also commented expressing his hatred for women.
According to the Urban dictionary, "just look at the flowers" is what you say to someone instead of saying "i wanna kill you".
"Iamthespookster" handle: Spookster means someone who is tricky, gets away with nearly anything and plays pranks, according to the urban dictionary.
Betts studied psychology in college, had a history of homicidal fantasies/sexual violence reported to police, was suspended from school for keeping "rape lists" and "hit lists" that he inscribed on a bathroom wall. daytondailynews.com/news/local/bel…
Betts was wearing a black sweatshirt that read: 'No heart to fear, no soul to steal,'" lyrics from a song Ramirez, by Acacia Strain, a metal band. loudwire.com/ohio-shooter-a…
The band's lyrics generally center around misanthropy and nihilism and employ misogynistic and sexually deviant imagery in the lyrics, according to Wikipedia.
Followed game personalities, probably a gamer. Game forums are often used for radicalization but could not find any evidence. The rest is widely shared on Twitter/press: satanist/atheist patches, self-admitted leftist, Warren and Bernie supporter.
1. Launches the largest air strike on #Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war
2. Runs a concert “Future is Ours” next night, w/6,200 attending, in a venue owned by Putin’s ally. Fails to prevent mass murder of which it was warned.
The concert for 6,200 (full venue) is held despite the US and other countries’ warnings of imminent terrorist attacks the same night. #Crocus belongs to Agalarov family close to #Putin and instrumental in #Trump #Moscow Trump Tower and 2016 scandal
🔴🔴🔴 The Kremlin stages a propagandist event at Times Square, New York on March 16, 2024 to coincide with the celebration of Putin's sham election victory and the 10th anniversary of the annexation of Crimea.
While the video below is fake, Russian festivities were real. 🧵
Russian Youth of America (aka “Russian Youth in America,” the “Youth Russian Society” and the “Young Russian Society”) organized the event at Times Square on March 16, 2024. roscult.org/event/times-sq…
Russian Youth of America's mission: “Creation of a major network of Russian youth in the USA.” In 2016, it distributed free T-shirts “I am Putin’s Friend.” Participants wore the uniform of Stalin’s secret police, responsible for millions of death and the predecessor of the KGB.
In the 1990s, #Trump’s cousin who worked for the Trump Organization was reported by Ivana Trump to click his heels and say, “Heil Hitler” on entering Donald Trump’s office. vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/…
Ivana Trump: ...#Trump kept a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order in a cabinet by his bed. Trump said Marty Davis, "a Jew" gave him a copy of Mein Kampf. Davis said it was a copy of My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf, and noted that he was not a Jew.
March 17 2018: analysts, journalists, politicians gathered in NY to warn the world (again) of the danger #Putin brings to the world if re-elected.
March 16 2024: a review from under fire in Ukraine, 2 years into the full-scale Putin war.
There'll be more if we don't stop him.
David Satter, journalist: Putin and the FSB carried out the 1999 apartment bombings. This terrorist action similar to the Reichstag fire brought Putin to power. The West accepted the Russian government's explanation of the apartment bombing and left it without consequences.
Arkady Babchenko, journalist: “The most powerful and terrible weapon Putin has is propaganda. Goebbels must be applauding from the grave. Pumping of hatred through propaganda is the foundation of Putin’s reign...
#Transnistria, a mini-USSR, with pro-Russian authorities and the Kremlin-brainwashed population, is the tool.
In the 90s, Russian “peacekeepers” were stationed in Transnistria after a brief but intense armed conflict.
In 2022, FSB had 3 scenarios for capturing Moldova:
->forming a corridor to Transnistria thru southern Ukraine, w/the subsequent recognition of the region;
->the capture of the whole territory of Moldova;
->access to the borders of Transnistria w/o recognition of its independence
These scenarios were assessed as too risky. Other methods suggested: cultivating puppet political parties to lobby Moldova’s return to Russia; preparing a referendum; creating “a government in exile” + “Moldovan volunteer battalions for the war with Ukraine.”
The democracy in the US and the world is in extreme danger.
#Trump used #Kremlin’s mechanism to suppress investigations by stacking courts & appointing loyal people to key positions of power.
KRUGOVAYA PORUKA.
It is the way to a lifelong presidency.
🧵 art by @LuluLemew
Steps towards silencing and suppressing criminal investigation:
→ Strategic hires block trials.
→ Through bribes, blackmail, murder, investigations silenced, stopped.
→ Public opinion formed by the press working for the government.
→ Independent journalists killed/exiled.
Trump nominated Kavanaugh soon after the latter was quoted nine times in a motion filed by the lawyers of a Russian firm indicted by the special counsel for interfering in the US elections.