Hey WaPo! "The man detained has ... no clear ideology"?

[Sympthsical]

37. I don't play the Flowchart Game

I'm probably more aware of internet culture than most people on this board. Function of age. Growing up with the internet lends itself to being aware of all the dysfunctional things young lonely or angry males get up to online. (And it's always a bit of minor amusement watching people try to decipher and understand it years later. The catching up on what's widespread basic internet knowledge).

That said, we haven't had the usual ideological markers we've gotten in the past. So, I'll wait and see. I think there's a lot more information sitting on his computer, in his phone, and other places on the web that weren't obvious searches (I saw his videos before anything about them was posted here or Reddit. It wasn't a hard find).

I remember when the Internet solved the Boston Bombing, then harassed a family whose son committed suicide on account. I took a lesson away from that - internet detectives are morons and people will build narratives because they want and need them to be true. People like to make sense of the senseless by fitting it into their prefabricated ideological boxes. I don't do that.

That's why people play the Flowchart Game after major tragedies. It starts "White or Not? Y/N?" And if we get white, you move to the next box on the chart. "Republican or Not? Y/N?" And if it's Republican, keep going.

If at any point we hit a No, then it's a total mystery and let us never speak of this incident again.

Happens every. single. time.

It's totally gross. I feel gross just watching it. I don't get how people don't feel gross doing it.

To get mad at others for not playing it is . . . well, it's special.