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                "text": "If you tell people that they\u2019re facing \u201ctrans genocide,\u201d and that religious conservatives especially are agents of their fascist subjugation, why wouldn\u2019t you expect some troubled souls to opt for vigilante action?",
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                "text": "If you sport a shirt with the slogan \u201cProtect Trans Kids\u201d underneath a hunting knife (as the lieutenant governor of Minnesota did in 2023), or if you put a transgender writer toting an AR-15 on your magazine cover (as an alternative weekly in the Pacific Northwest did just two months ago) with a headline asking \u201cAre You Triggered?\u201d you bear some responsibility when the trigger actually gets pulled.",
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                "text": "Especially when the Minneapolis killer\u2019s own manifesto reportedly trafficked in the same imagery, featuring a \u201cDefend Equality\u201d sticker overlaid with an image of a machine gun.",
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                "text": "all attempts to blame extreme political rhetoric for mass shootings should be treated extremely skeptically, because the phenomenon of lone-wolf violence in America rarely attaches easily to either left-wing or right-wing ideology.",
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                "text": "In the latest case, for instance, the Minnesota killer\u2019s video and writings seem to gesture Joker-like at all kinds of political motivations \u2014 antisemitic, racist, anti-Trump, with the \u201cDefend Equality\u201d sticker just one item in the pantomime rather than a proof of an ideological crusade.",
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                "text": "More broadly, while the tendency to extreme and apocalyptic rhetoric is a consistent feature of American politics (even a democratic birthright), most of the killers shooting up schools and churches or targeting politicians for assassinations are not really participants in this polarization.",
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                "text": "They aren\u2019t taking wokeness or populism too literally or too far; they\u2019re following other directives and acting on other purposes entirely.",
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                "text": "Some of these purposes are simply impenetrable, the dream logic of the mentally ill.",
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                "text": "Others are a mixture of megalomania and mimesis, where the goal is to achieve the dark celebrity of prior mass shooters.",
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                "text": "Rather, many shooters seem to find these loyalties too weak to sustain a meaningful conception of the self or the world, too flabby to compete with more bizarre or bespoke identities, too impotent to survive the dissolving force of digital existence.",
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                "text": "This also means that even when there seems to be some political purpose to an act of violence, as with Luigi Mangione\u2019s alleged assassination of a health care executive, it increasingly comes stirred together with a bizarre farrago of political signifiers and gestures.",
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                "text": "Which, conveniently enough, gives everyone watching something to latch onto, some apparent motivation to single out, some ideological enemy to blame.",
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                "text": "And accelerating that cycle of blame feels like one of the deeper impulses behind these kinds of atrocities.",
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                "text": "It\u2019s made explicit by the idea of \u201caccelerationism\u201d that some shooters have been drawn to (whether the Minnesota shooter was one such remains unclear), which envisions spasms of violence as a means to heighten the cultural contradictions, hasten a civilizational collapse, bring down liberalism and Christianity together and usher in some new dispensation of satanic Nazi magic.",
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                "text": "\u201cDiabolos\u201d in Greek means accuser, and in that sense the dark spirit that inspires these crimes suffers a defeat when we react with unity and solidarity rather than immediate recriminations.",
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                "text": "Whereas it gains a victory every time we respond by immediately blaming our political rivals, and trying to prove over the bodies of the dead that, yes, our ideological opponents are even more evil than we thought.",
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