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So about all these shootings... (lemmygrad.ml)

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Predictably, all the conspiracy nuts and conservatives are quick to assume that it's all a plot by some 3 letter agency complete with crisis actors and hundreds of people involved but also sworn to silence.

Whenever I see Americans on the internet talking about how every mass shooting that gets in the news is "obviously" a false flag operation, I have to believe that this is what a dying society looks like: People who need to convince themselves that bad things simply don't happen naturally and it's all a plan by some impossibly omnipotent government force to make them into slaves.

Do you guys think something similar?

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[+] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes I agree. I don't think the shooters are literally on the payroll and instructed by agents, it's more so that the various anti-terror organisation know it will happen and don't intervene intentional. Even at times fuelling the sentiments online.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What is the incentive for them to encourage these shootings? I know it’s happened or they’ve at least been aware, but wouldn’t they want to stop these shootings?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Politically speaking, stochastic terrorism of this kind is beneficial to the ruling class - some level of it will turn the attention from their normal business (which is the cause of the terrorism in the first place) and it also always raise acceptation of police oppression, therefore it empowers the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

There's also personal level - just how many of people supposedly having to defend the people are psychos or fascists themselves who have similar worldview but who have an outlet for their hate in work? Let's just mention the 40% or the dog killings as small examples (and that's just the police, not to mention letters or military).

In short - there is probably no conspiration. It does not have to be, because it is the facet of dictatorship of bourgeoisie and it work just like it - shootings are the consequences of unbearable life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Althusser said the state will encourage, directly fund, indirectly fund, indirectly support, indirectly arm ect right wing terror groups to attack the left, then either ignore them afterwards or in this case, create an enviroment where lone wolf shooters act against the left 90% of the time due to no mental health support, no future, right wing propoganda and the media glorfying them.

Why?

Because right wing terror is always pro-capitalist.