🧵The US had yet another mass shooting today and as with almost all of them, it was a right-wing extremist who wrote fascist propaganda slogans and tributes to McVeigh and others on the weapon .

Republicans killed the American dream and then blamed Democrats for their action.

Trump was supposed to be the great savior: "I alone can fix it."

But he didn't. The despair that Trump won't save is breaking the minds of millions of ppl.

And Republicans are giving them guns. Why is that?

Reactionaries--like their less psychologically deformed cousins the conservatives--have a tragic worldview.

They believe that all humans are evil, lazy, and stupid, and that the best you can do in life is to take care of yourself and possibly the people in your family.

This viewpoint is the root belief of all right-wing opinions: The world has always been terrible and always will be.

It's why Republicans won't pass obvious gun safety laws. They genuinely believe they will not work.

In fact, some right-wingers have gaslit themselves so badly that they genuinely believe that "more guns means less crime."

Never mind that countries like Australia have proven definitively that you can eliminate gun violence by tightening gun ownership laws.

Beyond this though, reactionaries are almost all religious fanatics who genuinely believe that the world is "fallen" and only forced submission to their religion will end violence.

Even the elites, like Trey Goudy, believe this. Watch:

This is the tragic morality, which you can see so clearly in the writings of all major right-wing philosophers like Nietzsche.

It originates in their psychological state, which usually is the product of abusive parents who bullied or even hurt them.

JD Vance and Stephen Miller, the odious Trump aide, are the pinnacles of this mentality. Here's Miller talking about his terror of walking outside in Washington, DC.

In the tragic worldview, no one is obligated to help another and no one ever should.

After the Nazis were defeated, this openly authoritarian viewpoint was sublimated as obviously too fashy or Nazi.

But since Trump came along, he has given reactionaries permission to unleash their inner demons upon the world.

Right-wing Christian commentator Allie Beth Stuckey has a book out now called "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion."

It's Nietzsche with an Instagram filter

To reactionaries, the solution to mass gun violence and other criminality is more violence and criminality.

This is the root of why they wish to give guns to teachers, "harden" schools until they look like prison camps, and why Trump is sending American soldiers to turn cities into militarized zones.

Violence is the fate of humanity, they argue, and only submission to the great leader, whether Trump or Jeebus, can end the cycle of violence.

This thesis is the core argument of Rene Girard, the third-rate philosopher that Trumpian oligarch king Peter Thiel worships.

Girard is the skeleton key to understanding what the right wing wants. Most are so inarticulate that they are incapable of saying what they really want.

But Girard lays it all out there in his book "I See Satan Fall Like Lightning" which is the only book you'll ever need to read from these assholes.

Here it is free: https://annas-archive.org/md5/3e3bc6aaa42af7e426cb7e8098d1aaf9

The book was published in 2001 so he didn't have the word "woke" to use every other paragraph, but Girard uses various other terms to say that liberals/leftists are the literal Antichrist.

You may have seen Peter Thiel recently talking obsessively about the Antichrist. This is where he got it from.

This is a very tired and stupid thesis, of course, but Thiel and other egotistical dipshits like him actually think the Antichrist is real.

"I See Satan Fall" is a horrible book. It's fake anthropology based on Girard reading the Bible and a handful of Greco-Roman myths and pronouncing that akchsually all pre-Christian religions were really God secretly giving pointers to their adherents to become Christians.

This is a dumb argument, one that has been around for thousands of years in Christian propaganda. Girard, being a pretentious but not very smart asshole, imagines that he "discovered" a truth no one else but him ever saw.

In a lot of ways, Jordan Peterson's entire shtick is a direct rip-off of Girard.

Anyway, according to "I See Satan," human society is rooted in "mimetic desire," which he actually claims with a straight face originated in the Garden of Eden.

Sane Christians have believed for centuries that Adam and Eve didn't exist. But not Girard. In so many ways, he is just Pat Robertson with a thesaurus.

Unlike Pat Robertson, who started his own right-wing university, Girard spent most of his latter years safely ensconced within Stanford University, a locus of right-wing dipshittery that is not often known as such.

But it's where Thiel went to school and where many various pustules have as well, including the bizarre freak David Sacks, a Thiel pal who now is trying to destroy the world economy by integrating crypto scams fully into it.

I may come back to this later but in the meantime, here is an earlier essay I wrote about the Nietzscheanization of the American right and how it's rebuilt reactionary Christianity using the philosophy of a hardcore atheist: https://plus.flux.community/p/the-apocalypse-of-don-trump-nietzsche