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Very good essay, imo. I read it a few nights ago but didn't have the time to comment then.

Do you have any thoughts toward a further definition of the ideology you mention?

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Jan 28, 2022·edited Jan 28, 2022Liked by Whimsi

It seems like it's been awhile since I've read any of your posts. I'm glad to have read another – thanks!

[Or maybe I'm confusing you with another blog that might have been named 'whimsy'? I just checked your other posts and realized I almost certainly started following this blog after your ACX book review entry.]

I'd imagine something similar to what you've outlined explains other, far more common, 'mass shootings', e.g. 'drive by' shootings of funerals. They seem easier to understand as 'gang violence', but the indiscriminate targeting of innocents (e.g. the people attending the funeral that aren't affiliated with a gang, or not directly anyways) seems to me more like what you're describing.

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Indeed, very good. Would have been an ASX-finalist imo - though Rationalists say, "there are too few school shootings to care" ( Zvi wrote so), we all love to understand. And we all have been to schools. And wonder why N or A or us did not go columbine. (Actually from what I saw + anthropology + Nazi history - you do not absolutely need to be one of the humiliated to like your homicides and genocides. Why do the bullies bully/ the jocks humiliate? Some are 2nd to last, but some have been top-dogs. EH has a point.)

You saved me days or weeks of reading those books/materials. Thank you! Now you tickled my brain, but for less than an hour. In short: the text could and should have been longer, 50% to 200%. ;)

Will think about it for long, anyways. Great job!

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What about the Feds though?

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