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by erentz 2655 days ago
> ...there is some sort of media blackout on the 74-page manifesto ...Someone shot 50 people, left a detailed explanation, and no one can find out why.

There have been a bunch of articles about the manifesto. It’s not a detailed explanation. It is not at all like the manifestos of old such as the unibomber’s. It seems to be full of lots of contradictions and lots of memes and lots of things designed to spread. Based on what people have said in comments elsewhere you could read it and if you were looking for a motivation you’d find what you wanted to find. A left wing person might find right wing motivations. A right wing person would find he has left wing motivations. Etc.
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GenerocUsername 2655 days ago
Some people dont like being fed digests. Some people want the source material to make their own decisions
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erentz 2654 days ago
My response was to the assertion that there was a media blackout on the manifesto:

>>> ...there is some sort of media blackout on the 74-page manifesto...

Which there wasn't and isn't. It's just the media read it, found it was full of shit, and said as much.

>>> ...Someone shot 50 people, left a detailed explanation, and no one can find out why.

>> Some people want the source material to make their own decisions

People can find it, read it, and make their own decisions. But there wasn't a media black out on it, and the media isn't responsible for publishing in full anything a mass murderer writes just to make it easy for people to find.

Most people reading it seem to come away with conclusions that are driven more by their own ideologies than finding any real truth about "why" in there. Hence my point about how you see people debating the contents all coming to different conclusions and just arguing with each other that the problem is left wingers, or the problem is right wingers, or its Trumpism, or it's eco-warriorism, etc. Whatever they despise they seemingly can find and blame.

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paulddraper 2655 days ago
> Based on what people have said in comments elsewhere

Also known as "hearsay". Breeding grown for fake news.

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