“Nihilistic Violent Extremists (NVEs) are individuals who engage in criminal conduct with the United States and abroad, in furtherance of political, social, or religious goals that derive primarily from a hatred of society at large and a desire to bring about its collapse by sowing indiscriminate chaos, destruction, and social instability. NVEs work individually or as part of a network with these goals of destroying civilized society through the corruption and exploitation of vulnerable populations, which often include minors.”

1980's it was the satanists

1990's it was doom

2000's it was rap music

2010's it was islamists

2020's it's nihilists?

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Oh no, some 20 something with ennui!

Wait, that's a school shooter.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It has been nihilists pretty much the whole time, at least when it comes to school shooters. While they ape aspects of far-right ideology, they don't actually have the ideological wherewithal to pursue that. It is always a purely reactionary ideology to whatever is making people publicly clutch their pearls. Communism is no fun for them because you will be immediately censored from public discourse but everyone loves to be seen hating Nazis. All they care about it the exercise of power, and that usually means manipulating children and the mentally ill. They're basically the FBI without the ideological pretense of national security.

That said, what creates this is, of course, capitalism.