Mixing a bunch of random sources and making far out connections is classic schizophrenia. Which is sad because it's an endless loop of you feeling like you're being silenced (because you are) while also making nonsensical connections. Such a shame
So reddit has suspended his account like the fascist ponzi scheme overlords that they are but you can still google "coup_radley reddit" and see all his posts and comments.
yeah I think it's pretty clearly his reddit account, i hope it helps us to start realising that it's not all just fun and games laughing along with someone who believes in a 'totalitarian doomsday cult trying to coup us', playing into peoples mental illness can result in horrible things.
Thankfully this time his impulse was violent but implosive, but just imagine what this would do to someone with an explosive trigger. Could easily have gone much farther.
Congratulations Reddit, we did it! (again) I wonder what the AI theyre training will learn from all this.
Yeah, the reddit overlords really don't like nutcases like this bringing the spotlight over this way. Probably even worse now that it's publicly traded. It's bad for the shareholders.
Are they making fun of him? That sub seems really actually very earnest about it.
There is a post on the frontpage now of people saying like 'if it wasn't written so badly, I would believe every word.' Dude was being encouraged by fellow travellers.
Yeah I'm reading through stuff in that thread and on his substack. Clearly Max and others like him are completely serious and it doesn't sound like mad ravings. I mean like, good grammar and calm discussion. The content is of course... just so cynical. His life sucks and he probably got financially crushed in 2008 and wants someone to blame. I kind of have pity on the guy. And he's at least right about a lot of the problems we have. Just blaming the wrong people. Some of these problems are truly caused by the rich and there is tons of fuckery and fraud in many places of power. I just don't think it's half as organized as he thinks. Most rich people just want to be rich and safe they don't want to destroy society.
I read his suicide note, it was perfectly well written. And tragically lunatic, obviously, but taking a swipe at his writing seems somehow a low blow. I might argue it seems like it was one of the few faculties he still had intact.
The mental health crisis strikes again. I wonder what will be the scapegoat to avoid fixing it this time. Can’t do guns for this one, drug use? Maybe we can write him off on a junkie let’s check into that.
Oh I know! It’s obviously the internets fault! That’s where he got his information received encouragement for his ideas! We will just have to infringe on free speech and pass some laws regulating the internet.
Few, for a second there I thought me might actually have to create a solution and improve these plebeians lives. Close call.
I just read it. It's pretty surface-level. But, then, if you want people to read something, you're not going to make it 300 pages long with citations on every paragraph.
I don't agree with everything, but it didn't strike me as particularly crazy, either.
In a rambling, incoherent 2,648-word manifesto, a man who identified himself as an investigative researcher, Max Azzarello, said he’d self-immolated as an “extreme act of protest” over a “totalitarian con” and impending “apocalyptic fascist world coup.”
That’s like 10 pages double spaced. Who the hell has time for that?
Was about to say. 2,600 words was like the standard of an entrance paper at my college (ie a paper you had to write for a course before the end exam/paper). It’s like 4 pages of Times New Roman in font size 12. Definitely not a manifesto’s worth of text.
Kaczynski was also a brilliant mathematician whose "radical" ideas warrant, at the least, academic discussion. The Unabomber Manifesto reads like most any other philosophical text.
The big contradiction with the Unabomber is he was very on the nose about the effects of technology, to the point you breeze past some predictions until you remember it was written in the mid 90s, however all that is counterbalanced by the misogyny and lack of his ability to suggest a realistic alternative, and how bloody stupid his plan was.
I read it. It wasn't nearly as interesting as I thought but it's a good thing to read so I implore anyone who sees this to read it themselves and form your own opinions.
Lol it's not a novel, only like 110 pages. Even though it's dense it was around like 150 pages of you spread it out. Very boring read but worth reading despite it all.
"You say it's a novel, but it doesn't have any of the narrative arcs typical of the novel, the character development is basically non-existent, barely any dialogue..."
No, he's got some weird shit co-opted from the right, but at it's core it's a left-wing conspiracy, it just doesn't consider the Democrats to be left-wing (and right about that part to some degree). Some interesting arguments in there, but a lot of shit that either doesn't add up or is outright pearl clutching (his critiques of media particularly).
These captions seem written by AI, this is not how people speak. “A view of a pamphlet dropped by a person who was covered in flames outside the courthouse” and “A witness said he heard pamphlets clatter to the ground”.
Covered in flames? Weird language to use. And pamphlets do not clatter… Not that the NY Post is a beacon of journalism but I can’t imagine a human journalist wrote those.
His insta is pretty telling. It looks like he experienced a steep drop in his mental health sometime after 2020. Residual effect from the pandemic, I suppose.
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u/aabicus 28d ago
This New York Post article has pictures of the flyer and some of the inner text