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[–]JulienMayfair 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

I think 'manifesto' is a bit of an exaggeration. This is just a spew of animosities. There's no attempt to justify any of it in terms of some larger cause, which is what someone might attempt in a manifesto. She sounds to me like someone who hated the world and her insignificance in it and wanted to kill some people to spread her own misery around. This is what it's like inside the mind of a frustrated narcissist.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

This is how it reads

Wednesday: Shoot up school

Thursday: put bins out

Edit: apparently this is only a small part of it and it's actually really long. I guess the rest of it is troon croon.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Yeah, but it’s been called a manifesto since people found out about it.

I don’t think it lives up to the hype, which makes it all the more weird that they kept it secret all this time.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

which makes it all the more weird that they kept it secret all this time.

My tinfoil hat thought is that is the edited release, and they trimmed a bunch of shit leaving only the disjointed slop behind.

[–]JulienMayfair 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

disjointed slop

She was reportedly 28 years-old, and it reads like something from the mind of a psychotic 12 year-old. It seems to me less like she had any particular motivation and more like she just wanted to kill some people and was trying to make up a story of why she hated this particular group she'd chosen to talk herself into doing it -- if that makes any sense.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

No mentally sane and competent person would go into a school to murder children senselessly. Literally accomplishes nothing.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Completely sane and competent people do nasty sadistic shit all the time.

Shooting up a school gets your name in the papers. It gets people digging into what could have driven you to it which then hurts your family who you might resent. That's what it accomplishes.

[–]JulienMayfair 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, you can be quite rational and understand the consequences of your actions and be a sociopath at the same time. You just have no empathy for others. As I understand it, the shooter attended this school herself, so it became a target because she knew the layout.

[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah, it's exactly 3 pages from several journals (released via Skinny Jeans Crowder no less)

of course they'll be boring, ranty, and predictable: I blame crime melodramas for the "Byronic ubergenius who sees others' pain as his artwork," usually they're this or the Basement Tapes but LESS coherent