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https://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-monitor-violent-online-threats-light-joker-premiere/story?id=66031356
The FBI has received tips of threatening posts on social media calling for "unspecific mass shootings" linked to the release of the new psychological thriller, "Joker," starring Oscar-nominated actor Joaquin Phoenix that will hit theaters this Friday, according to a joint intelligence bulletin obtained by ABC News.
These threats have been circling online platforms since at least May 2019, but give no information indicating specific or credible threats to particular locations or venues, the bulletin said.
Some of the threats did contain references to a primarily online group called the involuntary celibate community, or Incels, and a subset that refers to itself as "Clowncels." However, the intelligence community doesn't necessarily regard the group as a whole as a violent one.
"While many Incels do not engage in violence, some within the community encourage or commit violent acts as retribution for perceived societal wrongdoing against them," the bulletin said. "Some Incel attackers have claimed inspiration from previous mass shooters."
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday October 04 2019, @03:34PM (22 children)
Well I get it in Aurora.... We just had a Columbine wannabe come up here and kill herself too so it's not exactly unheard of for copycat whackjobs to show up.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Arik on Friday October 04 2019, @03:42PM (12 children)
Yet you almost never hear about those attacks, they don't make the news. They don't really help advance the narrative I suppose.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 4, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Friday October 04 2019, @03:54PM (8 children)
Makes sense, killing 30 people in 30 seconds is more newsworthy. Can't do that with a knife.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Arik on Friday October 04 2019, @04:00PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday October 04 2019, @05:39PM
But I heard a running man can do much to even that score [tumblr.com].
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by EJ on Friday October 04 2019, @05:52PM (1 child)
Depends on who you are.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @06:01PM
John Wick [complex.com] :-)
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday October 04 2019, @06:23PM
killing 30 people in 30 seconds is more newsworthy.
This is true. 100 people die every day in car wrecks, hardly a peep. One airplane with 100 souls on board is always on the front page.
Numbers make all the difference...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @09:14PM
why can't you ever tell the truth? you act like these shooters have fucking antiaircraft guns or something. It's taking way longer than 30 seconds and maybe the glorified day care centers/brainwashing facilities should protect the fucking kids instead of setting up a buffet.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday October 04 2019, @09:29PM (1 child)
Does the Guinness Book of World Records track this activity?
Universal health care is so complex that only 32 of 33 developed nations have found a way to make it work.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday October 04 2019, @10:41PM
John Oliver batters Guinness World Records' cozy relationship with stunt-happy dictators [avclub.com]
Soon...
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(Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Friday October 04 2019, @05:43PM
Well you know about them, so you must be getting your information from somewhere.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @08:25PM (1 child)
Tremendous number? Care to quantify that a bit more? How many in the past year? In the past two years? In the past five years?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Arik on Friday October 04 2019, @08:59PM
However it's clear that it's a large and ongoing problem just from the cases that are reported.
It's been going on for years too, here's an article from Time back in 2010: http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1985834,00.html
In that case there 5 such attacks reported in just over a month.
Wikipedia has a page that references several, only from 2010-2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China_%282010%E2%80%9312%29
But the attacks haven't stopped. Here are more recent examples that did receive reporting:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43921567
https://www.newsweek.com/seven-children-killed-and-12-others-wounded-mass-stabbing-attack-china-904058
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-school-attack-in-hubei-leaves-8-elementary-school-children-dead-today-2019-09-03/
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3025383/ten-pupils-injured-knife-attack-chinese-primary-school
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @03:55PM (3 children)
If there is an attack, the blood is on the hands of "journalists" who decided to hype up the Incel Menace for weeks. But you can't blame them too much since they are just trying to put food on the table.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @07:25PM (2 children)
Hype up the Incel Menace for weeks? This is the first I have heard of it. From where I am sitting it doesn't appear to be all that much hyping going on. I guess YMMV.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @08:07PM
Review (non-spoiler) [youtube.com]
TLDW; Woke media doesn't like the far-left (Antifa) being portrayed as criminals
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @08:13PM
You can see the kind of coverage it has gotten in the last month:
https://news.google.com/search?q=joker+incel [google.com]
https://imgur.com/a/eIaZK0W [imgur.com]
Of note are these incidents:
https://www.indiewire.com/2019/09/joaquin-phoenix-walks-off-interview-joker-violence-1202175817/ [indiewire.com]
https://io9.gizmodo.com/u-s-military-issues-warning-to-troops-about-incel-viol-1838412331 [gizmodo.com]
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/aurora-shooting-victims-voice-concerns-joker-emotional-letter-warner-bros-1241599 [hollywoodreporter.com]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday October 04 2019, @09:55PM (4 children)
But a "herself" is not an Incel?
Universal health care is so complex that only 32 of 33 developed nations have found a way to make it work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @10:46PM (3 children)
We can always rape her and get her pregnant. She is useful to the patriarchy. Incels are not.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday October 05 2019, @02:06AM (2 children)
They can't be used as infantry cannon fodder or something?
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 05 2019, @04:39AM (1 child)
Not until we get WW3 started. Then we can have a propaganda blitz establishing that a red badge of courage will get you laid. For maximum irony, we might even get hints that man Jesus will reward incels who die in glorious battle with a harem. We will turn the incels into a divine wind!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 05 2019, @02:23PM
Some gas-x will fix that.