I didn't watch the video and I'm not going to watch the video wtf. I also don't watch the other snuff shit because why the fuck would I want to watch that.
This terrorist attack hits me as hard as all the big other ones, the Paris theater, 9/11, etc...the smaller ones are as just as awful but the ones that are done on pure bullshit pseudo-ideological hatred hurt the most. And I'd say this one maybe even the most of all because there's zero doubt this was someone raised by the internet and as we are all the group of people who've been there from the start, this is our generation. We saw this shit happen as websites got more and more group think and closed bubbles and when 2ch became 4ch became 8ch, and the filth of some of the Reddit sub-forums. When .tor and darknet came around. To some of us it was just torrents pirating movies, who cares, but along the underbelly there was fucked up shit being propagated and it just sorta was a thing that happens on the internet.
No one stopped anything, and why would people. Any infringement on internet rights like DMCA or Pirate Bay take downs was an attack on the freedom of the internet. I mean I agree about who gives a shit about internet bootlegs, but the idea that the internet had to be totally unregulated was intertwined with that and it allowed the internet to basically become a giant unfathomable abyss with all these little cesspools where people gather, live in a bubble and get radicalized.
It's just utterly depressing because it feels like it's too late and there's little we can do because we're way past when the floodgates opened. Like as an individual I feel powerless and hopeless. What can you even do? Donate to the victims, if you see someone who is isolated anti-social and only posts on reddit/4ch/whatever try to get them out of their bubble and socializing, but for the most part the only way this kind of stuff can really be addressed are for the big powerful entities like the FBI and stuff to have people watching shady forums and places and acting to try to prevent people if it looks like it's escalating. But with half the government not wanting people to spy on white supremacy groups, or force the shutdown and deplatforming of places like 8ch, it feels like nothing is going to happen and as an individual there's little you can do about it and it will just keep happening and keep getting worse as the generation raised on memes/lulz and nihilism keeps getting older and more desperate.
I had to get my car serviced today so I was sitting in the waiting room and the tv was on and some newscasters were laughing about a turkey on a road. And then the weather person was all smiling and joking about the weather. I know it's there job, but I'm just like how can anyone be smiling and laughing less than 12 hours from this. I just can't deal with anything or anyone today. I'm just so angry
