Suicide, political violence (I am okay.)
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"Not that I want to waste time empathizing with this psycho"
Actually, I do want to spend time empathizing with him.
I've had friends who were exactly the same as him — always the edgelord, terminally online, nonstop with the sort of "comedy isn't dead" jokes you expect. Teasing about race and rape. One in particular I did hold onto for a bit longer than I should, until I just couldn't take it anymore, when he went after me in particular in a sort of weird, prolonged reaction against my getting married. And he did kill himself two years later.
I know these people, and I know how they're created. They are victims of the capitalist system whose main export is alienation. This sort of online lumpenproletarian culture. This sort of "e-lumpen" is just another shredded and spun-off faction of what remains of the working class, and they're desperately looking around for an identity, for a reason, and for a way to fight back against what they are intentionally prevented from understanding.
So yeah, when someone goes and shoots at an ICE facility, to no avail, and offs himself, ultimately because he was so far into this channer culture that his friends couldn't stand him anymore, and every line of escape had been cut...yeah, I absolutely feel empathy for him. People do shit for a reason, and in cases like these, that reason is more often than not really fucking sad.
