Thread by @tomselliott

Buffalo killer says he specifically chose NY because their gun-control laws meant legally armed civilians would be limited to 10 round magazines.

Buffalo killer says he’s a fascist, racist, and proud anti-Semite

Buffalo killer says he “wants no part” of political conservatism and is open to being called socialist

Buffalo killer says his views evolved from “communist ideology” and says he now "falls in the mild-moderate authoritarian left
category, and I would prefer to be called a populist”

Like the New Zealand killer, the Buffalo killer aligns himself with “eco fascism”

"Who knows maybe it’s the two shots of covid vaccine juice going
through my bloodstream that’s really making me do this."

"Before I begin I will say that I was not born racist nor grew up to be racist. I simply became racist after I learned the truth. I started browsing 4chan in May 2020 after extreme boredom, remember this was during
the outbreak of covid.”

Buffalo killer: I am a lone wolf

Buffalo killer hates libertarians, falsely claims it’s “largerly pioneered by Jews”

Buffalo killer again emphasizes NY´s gun laws in explaining how he chose his location (also note his choice of gun was meant to elicit a media freakout)

Buffalo killer addresses a section of his manifesto to attacking conservatives, ending with "CONSERVATISM IS DEAD. THANK GOD"

Echoing again his idol, the New Zealand mass murderer, the Buffalo killer writes of support for "green nationalism"

The Buffalo killer on "anti-white" capitalists

The Buffalo killer: Anti-free markets, pro-"fair trade," eco activist, race-obsessed.

Examples of the Buffalo killer plagiarizing the New Zealand killer.

NZ: "Rampant urbanization and industrialization, ever expanding cities and shrinking forests, a complete removal of man from nature, with the obvious results.”

My takeaway: This 180-page manifesto was profoundly depressing to read. By his own accounts, the killer was a loner with no meaningful social connections.

While in forced social isolation during Covid, he began reading 4chan and increasingly became attached to racist and anti-Semitic explanations for the modern world's various problems.

Devoid of the kind of religious, family, or community bonds that normally guide young people still navigating their place in the world, people like him end up discovering some little kernel of information the mainstream media covers up ...

... and when that turns out to be true, they become convinced this is validation of a larger conspiracy.

That leads down the usual rabbit holes, where everything ends up pointing to some sinister cabal secretly engineering the deconstruction of civilization.

Wanting to finally feel important, he vows action.

It's certainly true governments and the media often frame narratives through their Marxian lens that always sees a division between the good guys & bad guys, "oppressor" and "oppressed."

This kind of broad oversimplification reliably sows division and anger. In reprising Nazi-era racial dogmas, the killer is (apparently unwittingly) amplifying the very divisions he's supposedly come to hate.

Randomly targeting black people at a grocery store will inevitably spark renewed interest in radical racial-separatist movements like the Black Hebrew Israelites and, to a lesser extent, BLM.

The killer explains how he wants his lone act of terror to somehow spark a larger conflict that will result in the various races of the world deciding to re-organize themselves into ethno states.

It's embarrassingly stupid, and it's unfortunately exactly the kind of intra-culture conflict that empowers the system as a whole. As long as the people keep busy fighting themselves, the state itself can continue consolidating power.

Ultimately this is a story about lost souls in the modern world. This person needed parents, needed mentors, needed a local parish, needed a purpose for his life.

More than anyone I blame his parents for not ensuring they were raising a functioning member of society. The answer here is more family, more church, more community.

The actual response will inevitably be more division, more distrust, more disruption & ultimately more violence.