The reason I think that it wasn’t politically motivated is because, we have this poor kid that has been bullied every day for years.
In the usual run of things in the US this would just be another school shooting. But those are so passé now days.
To be truly remembered and immortalised you shoot the loudest bully in the world.
This got deleted from unpopular opinions, reason is justifying violence. Just a note, I’m not trying to justify what Thomas did, just speculating on his motivations.
4chan is anonymous. That leaves only the turds that can handle the stink.
Things like Usenet were only semi-anonymous.
I actually think the internet works better with personas that stick to the person. There are issues there but they are solvable.
A forum where anyone can spin up new accounts is closer to anonymous/4chan than Usenet was.
Fair. Another difference with the early internet was the self-selecting population though, just a whole bunch of nerds. Now it’s everybody.