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Breaking news, there was a school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin.

It seems the shooter is a fifteen-year-old female (as in female female) who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

I first heard about this because of a meme I saw referring to unconfirmed reports claiming that the shooter had written up a manifesto concerning her motivations on Google Docs, but neglected to make the document public before going on her rampage.

Anyone here know who radfem Hitler is or was? I keep seeing it referenced.

My understanding is that RFH used to actually be on the dissident right but - as I've seen a large number of women on far-right movements do - eventually grew tired of the rank misogyny and general inceldom on that side and flipped towards some sort of a terf/right-wing split position, in practice taking the same woman-hating/incel attitude and just flipping the valence so as to start advocating man-hating and femceldom. In so doing she, apart from naturally attracting a large amount of hatred from former far-right comrades, she has also approached the position of some posters who are coming towards the same split from the terf side, chiefly Ana Slatz of Reduxx.

Slatz has posted what seems to be the Wisconsin poster's actual manifesto, which just seems like typical school shooter misanthrope blather and doesn't indicate a connection to RFH or any politics beyond admiration for some Nazi shooters, seemingly more for being shooters than being Nazis. Obviously this is not going to convince anyone who was only too happy to see RFH take one on the chin, whether this is due to hating her for bashing men or for bashing trans people or whatever.

A Twitter schizoposter with a radical feminist bent. Like most actually-radical feminists, she was really and truly radical. There was some crossover with the Twitter DR due to the shared schizophrenia, but she was a radical feminist misandrist and not a DR member even if she believed in esoteric crap about hyperborea.

Esoteric Hitlerism is just a new manifestation of Satanism I guess.

How so?

Formal Satanism is or was symbolic opposition culture. Invoking Satan, wearing all black and a pentagram or whatever, was for Lavey and co a way of scaring off normies. Today, it just doesn't have the same impact. I probably interact with someone with a pentagram tattoo on a pretty regular basis in an ordinary service job, like a barista or a Target cashier, and no one would frighten me by saying they're a satanist.

On the other hand, having a Swastika tattoo pretty much marks you out as a true oppositional figure in society. Even when I was looking for HVAC contractors for my dad, when I saw the guy with a swastika and SIEG HEIL on his knuckles, I felt the need to report that to my father as telling me something about his character and history. It marks someone as a true opposition figure in society.

And in the same way that Satanism has only a tenuous relationship to Satan or anything supernatural beyond using it as a normie-repellent, esoteric hitlerism will often have only a strained relationship to the National Socialist party, beyond using swastikas as a normie repellent. We already see this in use in several places.

Very good point. Worth noting the resulting parallels to 80s Satanic Panic. There definitely seems to be an element of choose the form of your destructor in that the dominant culture defines the form of its opposition.

Thanks

Some Twitter/X femcel who resents men because she had bad experiences, so she offers an openly misandrist world view. Kind of like a personification of https://old.reddit.com/r/FemaleDatingStrategy/.

She’s a self-proclaimed “New York 6” and you wouldn’t really remark on her looks, rather mid, but not ugly enough to warrant her rhetoric.

I’ve had her blocked for ages since I reflexively block all women on social media, but she would get into rows and the shooter, who followed her, said RFH has been “vindicated” - I’m not sure how.

She had an alien Nordic avatar, IIRC she was involved with some kind of hard right thing back in Tumblr(?). But here is her substack since she went private on X after the shooter praised her (though the authenticity of that excerpt has been questioned):

https://substack.com/home/post/p-152931025

Here is some spicy info from some anon who follows her:

https://x.com/roninmeta/status/1868968032913309748?s=46

I reflexively block all women on social media

I feel this could do with some elaboration.

It prevents drama, simping, weird cliques and e-girl social games from showing on my feed. I’ve never been tempted to not block, even if a woman makes a regrettably good point, and the women I’ve accidentally ended up following (such as I/O @eyeslasho on X, who posts HBD stats, is almost certainly an Asian woman, I’ve since blocked) end up focusing on content and it isn’t obvious they’re women until they get into spats outside their focus which betray them.

That being said a lot of the men get into hen house dramas of their own, especially homosexuals like Fuentes and others. I block them too.

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