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.