I just don't get how you can look at this and not see this as the disgusting result of the internet radicalizing some kid. This is some /pol/ tier rhetoric and I've seen so many people from here say stuff a lot like this.
Someone parroting of white supremacist/neo-national socialist rhetoric might just be doing it ironically/to be edgy, but when spaces on the internet are utterly bathed in everyone talking like that, it normalizes that rhetoric (and to some extent might impress those ideas into peoples' heads) and legitimately convinces lots of people. (some of whom are impressionable, psychopathic, and angry at the world) It's like how /pol/ went from ironically espousing neo-national socialist rhetoric to actually being a hub for white supremacy on the internet. It turns out on the internet, void of tone and context, sarcasm is hard to distinguish, and actual white supremacists will see recruiting potential in these kinds of spaces and establish themselves there. Not only that, but a lot of frustrated young men find themselves on places like 4chan and reddit, and that makes it especially scary.
Come to think of it Seph posted alot of strange things in my discord
I'm not going to claim to understand your motivations for being the weird troll that you are, but does stuff like this not give you pause?? I don't know the extent of your relationship with this guy, but think about if you two had been more involved with one another, and if you talked about this kind of stuff often. I would feel loving guilty for enabling this guy. I would feel complicit in his descent into committing a school shooting. To me it seems like the only thing separating us from that reality is circumstance - besides the ominous references to school shooting, this guy's talk about hedonism and degeneracy is right up your loving alley. And so many people talk and act like you do, and so many people dismiss your kind of behavior as harmless.
This story is a fresh reminder of what I've come to regret about this forum. This place is just a microcosm of the larger internet - it's a space where lots of kids and teenagers join constantly, and it's also extremely politically polarized. Lots of impressionable kids are forming their ideas about the world in places like this. To everyone reading this, please just think about what role your speech has in shaping the culture of this space and spaces like these. Things can only change if some significant percent of the active users be more active about preventing this kind of rhetoric.
