By David Futrelle
In a remarkable memo obtained by io9, the US Army warned service members of a possible plot by “involuntary celibate (“incel”) extremists [to] replicat[e] the 2012 theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, at screenings of the Joker movie at nationwide theaters.”
The memo, supposedly based on “disturbing and very specific chatter” on the dark web, urged soldiers planning to attend the movie to scout out two possible escape routes from theaters and to be prepared to “run, hide [or] fight” if, you know, someone gets up and starts shooting.
Presumably this advice applies to everyone else planning to attend this particular film as well. Unfortunately, the “very specific” dark web chatter wasn’t specific about which particular theater or theaters would be targeted by the hypothetical shooter or shooters. so I guess just be careful wherever you happen to go.
On Incels.co — the biggest online incel hangout outside of Reddit, where the regulars talk and joke openly about carrying out similar attacks all the time — commenters are crying foul, complaining that it’s unfair to incels for the Army to warn anyone about possible attacks by incels. Even though the people engaged in the “disturbing and very specific chatter” that led to the warning were apparently incels and the movie in question apperently portrays the Joker as something of an incel.
“Huh…we raise our voices a little and everyone loses their minds, imagine if we actually do something,” wrote an extremely prolific Incels.co commenter called JeffGoldblumInTheFly, with more than 6000 comments to his name, apparently forgetting about all the times incels have done “somenthing.”
So this is how normies want it, they won’t help us, they won’t try to change this rotten society to welcome us just a little, no… they will create narratives to make us monsters, they will make people believe we are the next ISIS, even tho all the attacks and mass shootings had nothing to do with incels, but someone need to be the scapegoat, might as well use the ugly one, right?
A commenter called wizardcel, identifying himself as a “transager, lolicon and anti [age of consent] advocate,” added
hahahaha. Guys who can’t get laid are extremists, What a time to be alive. It’s like we’re living in an alternate reality.
A commenter calling himself feces demanded that the military take action against … young girls.
To the intelligence officials reading this comment in the board room, can you take action on the degeneracy young girls are taking part in? Why cant our modern nation ensure a hard working young man gets the chance at creating a family and having someone to love?
In another thread on the same topic, the incels.co regulars blamed the media for writing about incels in the first place.
“Just lol, at this point it just feels like the media actively want [a shooting] to happen and are desperately pushing this idea to get someone to do it,” wrote one site mod.
Other incels took this idea and ran with it, predicting that the media or some other mysterious “they” would soon stage a “false flag” shooting hoax.
“They are tempting fate and for a socially inept and mentally ill individual to be their Scapegoat so they can demonize all Men further,” wrote FlyFace.
Wouldn’t surprise me if there was a False Flag at this rate.. imo it is all their fault anyway.. reporting in such an inflammatory way should be illegal for it will lead to violence. How people let the scummy media do this is beyond me..
But not all incels were willing to play the victim. Alongside FlyFace’s (and others’) predictions of media-organized “false flags,” other commenters joked about shooting “normies.” One of the commenters in the thread even has James Holmes — the actual Aurora shooter — as his avatar.
In yet another thread on the topic, one commenter went further, joking about combining
the existential nihilism and rage of incel jokERrism with the blind moralism and pathological altruism of ecofacism. Let us sweep across the EaRth exterminating the breeders.
“Uprising when?” joked someone called ERadicator, the capital E and R a reference to incel mass murderer Elliot Rodger (as were all those capital ERs in the previous quote).
Elsewhere on Incels.co today, the regulars celebrate their love for misogynist mass killer Marc Lepine, praise Hitler as a “legend,” and fantasize about making “femoids” (women) miserable.
I would be happy to never have to write another post about an incel mass murder. Unfortunately I doubt we’ll be so lucky. Incel ideology is so poisonous, and does such damage to those it infects, that further incel shootings are inevitable; the logic of the incel ideology pushes desperate young men to violence, against others or against themselves. You can’t blame the media, or the army, or the Jews for that. That’s on the incels themselves.
H/T — thanks to everyone who brought this story to my attention.
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I just wish more people knew about the risk of incel terrorism. Every incel is a ticking time bomb, and the public must know of the threat to avoid it.
We also need to get rid of guns so that angry misogynists can’t do more shootings.
So the people who idolize mass shooters and regularly “joke” about mass shootings are mad that the U.S. Army took incel chatter about mass shootings at face value? The ironing is delicious.
Honestly I’m A bit surprised that someone is actually taking incel threats seriously . Hopefully the FBI or other law enforcement agencies are looking into this and make arrests if necessary .
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/sam.gif
So an incipient child rapist, with a non-zero probability of already being a child rapist.
What is a transager? Is it supposed to be a transphobic joke, like when people say they identify as an attack helicopter?
That’s basically what I get from it.
‘If can choose their gender then I can choose my age!’
I’m guessing an adult male who “identifies” as a teenager. So the double whammy of mocking transgendered people and wanting/justifying sex with underage girls. Lovely!
@Batgirl
That would make sense given what we know. This guy says he loves lolicon, which IIRC is basically anime child porn.
Incel != guy who can’t get laid
There’s plenty of guys who can’t get laid who aren’t incels.
Incels are guys who can’t get laid AND who have DECIDED to wallow in hatred, misogyny, and self pity.
Who glorify and idolise spree killers they perceive to be incels.
Who, with increasing frequency, fantasise about committing mass murder, just like the terrorists they idolise.
I wonder why the army sees them as a threat… [\sarcasm]
Incels: “We should murder the normies like our incel idols.”
Also incels: “Normies are falsely claiming that we want to murder them, something no no incel has EVER done!”
I’m reminded of the gun nuts who simultaneously declare:
“I’m a law-abiding gun owner who respects law enforcement!”
and
“I will shoot any cop who tries to enforce gun control laws on me!”
I mean, if the intelligence community can’t get me a girlfriend, just what use are they?
I have read “transagist” as a supposed “sexual orientation”. Transagists would be sexually attracted to people whose age is very different from their own.
It could also mean someone who identifies as a teenager, but that man calls himself wizardcel, and this means old.
It reminds me of the NAMBLA.
Oh, how lovely, it’s another tankie!
There are also plenty of incels who do get laid (their own comments reveal this), they just have plenty of reasons for why that doesn’t count. She was a slut, or she wasn’t hot enough, or she left him, things like that. The hatred of women is the required part for being an incel; the rest is optional.
@Surplus, or another attempt at a “gotcha”. Must be so disappointing when we fail to say “yes, you’re so right, we should murder or enslave men”.
@rainwoman0451
That’s very Calvinist, isn’t it? Do we go in for that sort of thing around here? I mean, people were concerned about the rights of pets and consent to euthanasia for animals in another thread… how do you figure anyone is going to see you as anything but a monster with a view like “kill some random male babies or make them child soldiers”?
Dear intelligence officer:
I am a self-described hard-working young man. No young girl loves me. You can help. Rip a young girl from the arms of Chad (or any attractive young man) and give her to me. As I’m sure you know, the sexual needs of a man are PARAMOUNT. They ECLIPSE any needs that a girl or woman might have to feel safe or choose her own partner.
Hey, thanks, man.
Your friend,
feces
@rainwoman0451
So true. By all means, let’s kill the small children with anger issues. Or else turn them into trained killers with impeccable self-discipline.
The fact that the US Army is starting to see this ilk as legitimate threats has been a while coming but at least the threat is being acknowledged and recognized for what it is, finally.
Now, the next best step would be to have them recognized in a more broader sense and soon after outright label these OpFor’s as outright terrorists and have actual task forces commissioned and dedicated to track and combat directly this threat as it should be.
These guy’s engaging in Stochastic Terrorism and Literal Terrorism have no right to play victim when they blatantly wish pain, suffering, misery, enslavement, persecution and murder of others over their unfounded, aggrieved entitlement and blatantly sexist bigotry.
So long as they immerse themselves in misanthropy and terrorism; they should be treated like legitimate, terrorist threats that law enforcement and military organizations stand vigil against.
I got into working in the Security Industry to help do my bit to protect people in whatever small way I can, even if it’s a small corner of the world. And that includes protecting people from the likes of these volatile jerks.
I think this tankie is is the same person who in another thread said Justin Trudeau should be sent to a gulag. They have different names but the same icon, which I think means it’s the same person.
Note that both have this icon:
http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/6f2b722fbaffa164e2540e1efc4a5740?s=144&d=identicon&r=g
But to address what they said: I’m pretty sure that was supposed to be a gotcha. They’re looking for people to agree so they can say that we support totalitarianism and child euthanasia.
Well, no, you fucking idiot, because the Army isn’t in the business of enforcing morality. This is a security concern, something that the Army is very interested in. I sat through tons of briefings myself, just, they were in Afghanistan where trouble was expected, or stateside and about stuff like gang activity.
You don’t get to valorize mass murderers and plot violent crimes, then act surprised when someone warns people that you might kill a lot of people.
…
well, that much is certain….
@ rainwoman:
your analysis is interesting, i.e. “incels” are gonna hate SOMEONE… but your solution speaks to a level of fascism that’s absolutely chilling
@ Eddie
I suspect we’re in the ‘I can’t believe that’ll happen’ leg of the Trousers of Time.
*Shrug*
They wanted people to be afraid of them. This is what that looks like. I believe it was here that people explained to me that human reactions to threats are the Five F’s: Fight, Flight, Fawn, Freeze, and Faint. They want nothing but “Fawn”, but that’s not how it works. They should have paid attention to humanity’s long history of turning our predators into our victims.
I shudder to think how disturbing and specific the chatter on the Dark Web must be to make the army take a bunch of what they must think of as pathetic nerds seriously.