page one: (linguistic trends: Russian in title, occasional use of Russian words like Я, с, этот, odd accent-imitating words like висоут for "without") (also: my saying before that they use з for /e/ and /z/ was wrong. they just write э exactly like з. oops!)
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at first, identifying trends here led me to attempt to create a dictionary. but it is much, much faster to just read (if you know Cyrillic) and figure out those few words that didn't click the first time. that being said: this is the only page I will transcribe, at least for now.
I'm aware of news agencies looking into this, and perhaps they published as I was making this thread (not sure!) but the overwhelming consensus among everyone I've talked to who has even glanced at this journal is that it's wholly uninteresting: this shooting is, unfortunately, unoriginal.
it paints a picture of someone who is mentally ill and developed an obsession with school shootings, then fell down the radicalization pipeline. it describes taking after Adam Lanza in particular (thus Lanza's username on one of the guns, as I noted earlier). once again, regrettably: unoriginal.
and while I can't say I've ever seen a progressive-to-alt-right falling this far, it's (unfortunately) what I see to be the truth: this is someone who fell down into the wrong circles, whatever those might have been. we are left with a confusing, disheveled, troll-y political theory to boot.
that's all I have. goodnight, and my condolences to the victims, their families, and their community.
Well fuck.
oh, and to answer a common question: no, Westman did not know past cursory ("terrible") Russian. it says so on page four.
I feel bad for Valerie, hope she’s ok. It looks like he really tried to study russian and this may have been a way for him to practice. Some simple words are in russian. Heard he also has an FSB patch. This is what russian culture does to people. What a psycho!
with all due respect, shooting up a school because you're a psychopath is the most american thing there is.
Well, he is American, no doubt. But he was clearly under some influence from russia. I don’t think it’s common in US to study russian.
eh, they were influenced indirectly through gore culture and terrorgram style stuff; all i'm saying is they would have 100% committed this mass murder with or without russia even existing.