I think it's probably true that O9A barely exists as an actual organization, that it's really more a convenient hangar on which to drape a narrative about Satanic cults and that neither they nor the affiliates don't really exist in any formal way. It's a flag of convenience for sociopathic weirdos
Its just Columbine. Its all Columbine. This country refuses to stare its white nationalist problem in the face and deal with it.
My better days, I look at it through the correct Marxist material lens and it makes perfect sense. My worst days, I look at it and see something older and darker, something reeking of eldritch magic, a whole civilization of takers. But it manifests almost always as white nationalism and that's grim
John Brown warned this country and every day Reconstruction is betrayed again
I keep saying the great sin of the 19th century was slavery and the great sin of the 20th was anticommunism (both labor issues, of course, but also both having an electric streak of white supremacy and exceptionalism), and the 21st century is them trying to reintroduce them both
It is because all the contradictions of the 70s remained unresolved and now we inherit those struggles at a hyperaccelerated rate It is a mistake to believe these struggles are new rather than played at a faster pace and on different fronts
Absolutely, I think there is a slight something-new-under-the-sun because the collapse of the Soviet Union legitimately took the only serious counterweight to imperialist capital off of the board and it kicked everything into hyperspeed, but then again, now we have China, just a different dynamic
They fucked up the Reconstruction that was supposed to fix the sins of slavery, and they're trying to fuck up the Reconstruction that would fix the sins of anticommunism before it even happens. That's what American fascism is all about
Either we win or all it all falls apart for good. It will be the last chaos.
Regardless of what they are or aren't, they're fucking creeps, and it's not surprising one of their fans ends up doing this heinous shit. There is, very obviously, a large population of aggrieved, mentally sketchy young sociopaths out there getting their brains further cooked by the internet
The reason I went down a rabbit hole on it is that in the UK, to sweeten the passage of the law proscribing Palestine Action, the government added it to the proscription of two other Russian terror groups in the O9A orbit. (They're most prominent in Russia and the US, in a nasty historical echo.)
One of the proscribed O9A-adjacent groups is called, for real, "Maniac Murder Cult", and was founded by a 16-year-old kid, which is the only person who could have dreamed up the name "Maniac Murder Cult". How much evil shit they've done is as nebulous as if they're all real and somehow affiliated.
But there's no doubt they're at least theoretically real, and there are a decent number of them, and they've done some gross, violent, depraved, awful shit. It's kind of like the gang database: exaggerated, used by law enforcement for systemic racism? Yes. But are there violent gangs? Also yes.
Their ideology, if it even exists, is all over the place - nihilism, Satanism, Nazism, racism, black magic, tech cult stuff, extreme misogyny, all thrown in an incoherent blender. You can see the appeal to young, mostly white, isolated, unstable, internet-radicalized, racist, resentful men.
omnihate for the omnicrisis era
That's the genius of fascism's lack of ideological coherence. The action needs no reason, the hate is the point. You can always point it at anything you want
You don't even have to go to meetings or make pledges or pass ideological tests. The phantom nature of these 'organizations' means that any kid can pick up the argot on the internet, toss them onto a blog or video or rifle stock, and boom, you're a legendary O9A monster and not just a lone nut.
Do I think this is a plot by the CIA or the bosses or the illuminati or whoever? Not really. It's too incoherent, too random, too pointless. But I do think, especially as almost every one of these guys ends up mentioned in an FBI "on our radar" mea culpa, they know about it a lot and let it happen.
That's the great thing about America. Drunk on capitalism, sold the myth our whole lives that solidarity and community are bad, afraid of weakness or need, constantly surveilled, scared of our own shadows, drowning in guns, ruled by sociopaths, no social safety net, polarized, no material analysis.
We don’t need top down conspiracies for the years of lead we just create the conditions that make it happen
Yep. It's the exact same situation, the exact same tensions, the exact same motives of the pigs behind it. The fact that it manifests itself in increasingly weird ways is because America invents new ways to be weird every day, it's individualism and capitalism leaking down into its rawest gooey form
stochastic revanchism
Conditions like that, you don't need to plot and manipulate; the machine runs by itself. We've invented a self-sustaining strategy of tension; our Years of Lead work without supervision. We can push 'em in the right direction but this country mints stochastic violence like it does t-shirts.
That's why it's a fool's errand to look for 'reasons' behind these killings: it's just pure brainless cruelty by mal-developed freaks who stumble on a hodgepodge of excuses to do what they want to do anyway. Why not? That's our fascist ruling class. That's what capitalism without communism got us.