By David Futrelle
We don’t know much about Mark Anthony Conditt, the man allegedly responsible for a string of bombings in the Austin area that killed two African-Americans, injured numerous others, and terrorized a city. But what we do know is certainly suggestive: Conditt, who seemed to have been targeting prominent African-Americans, was a conservative homeschooled Christian who blogged about his opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage and sex offender registries.
So naturally more than a few on the right have decided that Conditt must have been some sort of AntiFa supersoldier.
Mark Anthony Conditt’s social media was immediately scrubbed off the face of the internet. It’s safe to say he was a radical leftist ANTIFA looking to terrorize the conservative community of Austin.
More blood on liberal hands…
— The Trump Train 🚂🇺🇸 (@The_Trump_Train) March 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/DrJaneRuby/status/976471387761205248
This is a picture from his student ID at Austin Community College. Either way probably Antifa or Bernie Sanders supporter, one not excluding the other. https://t.co/YjsfwJakqY pic.twitter.com/7GrG1crYpJ
— Niteangel (@I_am_Niteangel) March 21, 2018
IMAGINE DIS?
BREAKING NEWS… The Texas Bomber was a Democrat / Leftist /Liberal "ANTIFA" supporter….
The serial bomber who terrorized Austin identified; left ‘treasure trove’ of info before blowing… https://t.co/kK1JDLL8uV
— Cynthia Johnson (@CynthiaDustin) March 21, 2018
.@FoxNews @DRUDGE @BreitbartNews @RealAlexJones @newsmax @realDennisLynch DHS insider confirms #AustinSerialBomber Mark Anthony Conditt attended Antifa meetings
— Campaign4America2016 (@Campain4America) March 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/saneplanet/status/976541790743404544
https://twitter.com/kraig4u/status/976498041619271681
If the bomber in Austin Texas was a Donald Trump voter it would have been all over the news by now what do you want to bet he's an antifa member or Bernie bro or he's a Hillary Clinton voter?
— Oligarch Kabuki (@HouseCracka) March 21, 2018
Mark Anthony Conditt.
-How much info on this guy did the FBI take in and then mismanage?
-Is he a
1. Bernie Bro?
2. Antifa Anarchist?
3. Recent convert to a well-known peaceful religion?If he was a 'Right Winger' then CNN would have a 30-member panel on 24/7 until November
— Texas Peanut (@marklindesr) March 21, 2018
ANTIFA members are vicious. And they don't use guns.
So the Austin bomber was a member of ANTIFA. Surprised?— @CountryJazz4 (@CountryJazz4) March 21, 2018
While the “Rex Tillerson” in the above tweet isn’t the real Rex Tillerson, those pushing this particular conspiracy theory aren’t all anonymous nobodies. The Trump Train twitter account has more than 200,000 followers; General Deplorable has more than 60,000. @DrJaneRuby is a self-described “American Health Economist, New Right Journalist, TV Host” who is working with alt lite conspiracy theorist/former Bumble user Jack Posobiec and others to organize a right-wing networking conference in DC later this year.
Speaking of conspiracy theorists, one ingenious Twitterer managed to blame a prominent Parkland survivor-turned gun control advocate for somehow inspiring the bombings … by talking about package delivery services.
https://twitter.com/orlandowan1/status/976548266644049921
While some cried “antifa,” other right-wing conspiracy theorists thought they saw the hand of some nefarious “deep state” cabal at work.
https://twitter.com/TerranomaLead/status/976521436733952000
Mark Conditt was a pawn in the oligarchy’s game to create a media smokescreen for the federal authorities who failed in #Florida, Americans should know that Deep State agents loyal to Andy McCabe were involved in sending those packages just as they let proles die in Parkland #USA
— PRC SC Princeling (@PRCSCPrinceling) March 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/HaleyItalee/status/976521911503998976
Here Igou Again IMHO: The Austin bomber fits the bill as another Mk Ultra killer in that his father's next-door neighbor said the young Conditt was friendly and quiet, and he never got the sense that anything was amiss…. https://t.co/QRAY7bVR9p
— RedneckUpdate.com (@RickHisself) March 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/FrankSemperFi/status/976554461098381312
https://twitter.com/TerranomaLead/status/976524781615923200
https://twitter.com/Omerta_15/status/976574256132886534
On Infowars’ Facebook page the commenters mixed and matched comspiracy theories with wild abandon:
Even before the suspect’s name was announced, some glommed onto comments made on Reddit by someone claiming to be the bomber as “proof” of some sneaky conspiracy that could not possibly involve anyone with right-wing leanings.
Alex Jones’ Infowars pushed this angle hard, with Infowars TV host David Knight relying on the Reddit postings to suggest that the bomber was an AntiFa “nihilist.”
BREAKING: #AustinBombings Stopped, Suspect Dead,
Was he a nihilist #Antifa?WATCH: https://t.co/Qzm8jGtf4o
— David Knight Show LIVE 9am EST, M-F (@libertytarian) March 21, 2018
While Knight presented his theories in the form of questions, his colleague Paul Joseph Watson treated the unverified Reddit postings as Revealed Truth, declaring that they proved the bombings were “not political.”
Austin Bomber Said Attacks Not Political: Left Screams “White Terrorism” Anyway https://t.co/rq70ZSE2xW
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 21, 2018
Meanwhile, some cited the Reddit posts as proof that Alex Jones — whose alternate reality “news” empire is based in Austin — was the bomber’s real target.
https://twitter.com/1984VISION/status/976437040593162241
Mark Anthony Conditt allegedly said on Redditt under a fake name that he was sending a bomb to a radio host in Austin. That means he was out to kill Alex Jones. Doesn't sound like a Trump supporter.
— Dave's Spirit (@dave_spirit2001) March 21, 2018
Possible target of Alex Jones is a hit at the alt media truth. And the fact the terrorist enemies want to take Out Q is desperation of being found out. #Qanon #TheStormIsHere https://t.co/mVd3mYzc1j
— M🇺🇸 MAGA (@MKWPatriot) March 21, 2018
He tried to kill Alex Jones.
He was a leftist Antifa, just like many other domestic terrorists in the US. https://t.co/RfSpZtVkaj
— Poke Badger (@poke_badger) March 21, 2018
It would all be a lot funnier if this weren’t how an increasing number of Americans get their “news.” From Donald Trump to Alex Jones and down all the way to @MKWPatriot, the right in America has chosen to live in an alternate reality of their own making. And the rest of us have to deal with the consequences.
You know, as an actual Antifa ‘soyboy’ (as these rancid pissrags would likely describe me), own your shit, assholes. You fucks talk a big game about race wars, and genocide, and free helicopter rides, but the instant it gets closer than a computer screen, it’s all false flags and “we just do it for lulz”. Fuck you
He ‘walked away from his faith’ years ago. NOT a Christian. His parents were Christian.
You are pushing a Fake News conspiracy theory while whining about other people spreading conspiracy theories.
https://www.thsc.org/2018/03/press-release-response-austin-bombings/
“Conditt reportedly walked away from his faith several years ago.”
@Bakunin
I’ll be honest I think its more insidious then that,
by making every right wing terrorist attack into some kind of conspiratorial attack against them by the left they clear themselves of all the blame while planting the seeds of hate that feeds the next attack,
thus creating perpetual self fueling cycle of right wing hate and violence.
@Treeperson
True dat.
Also, those pins are dope, and damn tempting. Though demonologists didn’t have much imagination, did they? Demons turn out to be invisibility granting, treasure finding, liberal arts college professors, really
President Buer seems a useful sort
No, Patricia, I did not know that.
Muslim converts only? No one who was born a Muslim is stabbing and killing people?
And these Democrats — are they converts to the Democratic Party? Your wording is ambiguous. If they are converts, what party or parties did they belong to before they became Democrats?
How many stabbings have there been recently?
How many victims have died?
What do you mean by “recently”: this year? since 9/11?
Where have these stabbings and killings taken place?
Once you’ve answered these important questions, I will have many, many more.
Thanks in advance.
Who’s them? Do all 1.8 billion Muslims in the world have a joint tumblr account?
They refuse to even look at the truth. I would like to rub their noses in it. Want to talk Patricia?
@Patricia
Citation needed. It is of course a common failing for total fucking idiots to search the Florida voter records for “stephen paddock” without stopping to check the middle names of the people in the results, but presumably you haven’t made that mistake?
@TreePerson
Noooo, not white shakira!
It’s kind of heartening to see how afraid they are of antifa. It suggests that antifa are effective!
@Bakunin
LOL Yeah the list really could have been like 12 guys and they would all be professors at Pandemonium U,
but if you want some real creativity look up the art for these guys I’m fairly certain some strange mushrooms were involved.
@Dalillama
I’ll add them to the short list.
Oh, that one’s easy. They were Republicans, right up until they committed murder. At that moment, for the sake of right-wing optics and/or ability to sleep at night, they instantly became Democrats. 😛
I find it amusing that the official stories all say that there are so few clues as to his motives. I think a cheap algorithm could spot the motive. A homeschooled conservative Christian who was political enough to start a blog to discuss his views on abortions and homosexuality… what are the chances he was a right wing racist terrorist radicalised by the shit-posters of the internet? Good odds, I would put money on it.
A non-exaustive list of sites where trolls will encourage right wing terrorism would take up quite a lot of space, so lets just start with 4chan, reddit/pol/ and stormfront. they probably even provide links to bomb making instructions. It was only a matter of time before this happened.
Probably.
@misophistry
The local PD is phoning in the investigation if the Sharif pushing a “misunderstood mentally ill loner” narrative thing is true.
Shaun & Jen did a relly good video on how this same thing happened with the Quebec mosque shooting, too. He tracks how, as more facts came out, they changed their story so that it was always a Muslim that did it:
https://youtu.be/Yb9dXSkZbTY
‘Conservatives, of course, don’t bomb people.’
And yet these the types who are convinced they need their guns because one day they might have to overthrow their own government.
OT: Who knows? Maybe this case could take Trump down.
She Said, He Lied
Trump Is About to Get a Dose of Due Process From Summer Zervos
Zervos, who is only seeking $2,914 in damages, cannot be bought off. She wants either an admission or a jury verdict.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/due-process-closes-in-on-president-donald-trump-as-judge-lets-summer-zervos-suit-move-ahead?ref=scroll
First off, Bye, Patricia!
Second: Considering the canonization of Dylan Roof, Timothy Mcveigh, the whole of the Army of God and other assorted violent and murderous fascists of varying hues, the mental gymnastics displayed here can only be construed as deeply disingenious, which again brings us back to the underlying logic* of all fascist ideologies, namely that deliberate misinformation and re-definition of truth is a nescessary tool to divide people and set up the conflict nescessary to perpetuate the state terror and authoritarianism that fascism dresses its capitalism up in.
*internally consistent logic, not actual mathematical or scientific Logic.
So many questions… Here are the first few to come to mind.
Is a Bernie supporter better or worse than a Hillary supporter?
How does one become a “Muslim affiliate”? Are there franchises available? What’s the membership fee? Are there biscuits at the meetings?
Is bombing random people in Austin the most efficient way of targeting Alex Jones?
Occam’s Razor is really more of a corkscrew to the Right, isn’t it?
The lack of logic is what get the most on my system. They accuse soy to make people “effeminate” (which in their wordviews mean “not aggressive and ruthless enough”, nevermind that women are often more ruthless than men and can largely be just as aggressive)
And then, a cold killer who exhibit all the signs of “masculinity” they strive for is suddenly a “soyboy”. At that point, I wonder if they think that soy make people liberal ? ’cause it sure don’t seem to have a lot of other effects based on their statements.
Learned a new acronym today, DARVO.
That’s “Deny, Argue, Reverse Victim and Offender”
It seems a very useful summary of the tactics used in all sorts of situations.
@Dalillama
Professor Lionwheel! I hear he eats you if you don’t do your essays on time, but at least he’s good about keeping regular office hours.
The efforts to frame this as Random&VeryMuchNotPolitical are especially stark this time, aren’t they?
Austin’s police chief:
The DA:
@JennyWren
Seconding that ShaunJen video. I know I’ve sung Shaun’s praises here ad nauseam, but the detail, care, and patience he puts in to his analyses are just so impressive. The video on Trayvon Martin was amazing.
I understand that the author of this ‘blog is “something of a follower” of MRAs and MGTOWs and “closely follows them online”, but I wouldn’t make any conclusions based solely on those ideas….