More details on the Texas shooter Mauricio Garcia.
There should not be a paywall on this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/us/texas-mall-shooting-mauricio-garcia.html
His last post on the website is something akin to a manifesto. I'm not going to post it.
Bottom line from reading all of his recent posts:
He wanted to kill and he needed his kill count to be high enough so that fellow shitposters would make memes commemorating his evil deed.
My description should tell you lot about his radicalization process. It's weird the Times didn't address it.
His "analysis" of the recent Nashville elementary school shooting provides a bunch of clues - the slang, the themes, the misogyny, the focus on post death fame, all of it is there. You could just as easily be seeing this on 4chan, discord, or twitch.
This is surprisingly sophisticated for a neo-Nazi and steeped in transgressive art theory and media studies. He name-checks the idea of "spectacle" and Valerie Solanas who wrote the SCUM manifesto which believed in destroying government, the money system and eliminating all men as biological aberrations and shot Andy Warhol as an act of social protest (he survived).
What a weak, pathetic, pompous, insecure, self-congratulatory, desperate for approval, cult fanatic coward.