On December 28, a gunman shot and killed five people in Denver, Colorado.
@shane_burley1 and @areidross delved into the shooter’s online posts, past writings and the far-right, masculinist ideology that influenced him bellingcat.com/news/americas/…
@shane_burley1 and @areidross delved into the shooter’s online posts, past writings and the far-right, masculinist ideology that influenced him bellingcat.com/news/americas/…
@shane_burley1 @areidross According to law enforcement, the shooter's choice of targets was deliberate. In a self-published, self-valorising series of books, he had previously described a massacre on the same street, even naming some of the victims.
@shane_burley1 @areidross Those books, until recently available online, are just one part of a digital trail linking the shooter to fringe pagan and esoteric groups.
@shane_burley1 @areidross The books also show an individual depicting a far right, masculinist vision of mass shootings as a form of cathartic violence.
@shane_burley1 @areidross Influences from to the “manosphere,” a notoriously misogynistic corner of the internet, and ecofascist networks are readily apparent.
@shane_burley1 @areidross As was an interest in a Norse, neopagan group named the Wolves of Vinland founded by a notorious white nationalist
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