Germany suffered a rare mass-shooting (rare for that nation) last night.

Insider reports that 43-year-old Tobias Rathjen, whom police say went on a shooting rampage in the town of Hanhau on Wednesday night, published a 24-page manifesto on his personal website that outlined his racist beliefs.

We will not be publishing any of his “manifesto,” the single last thing someone in media should do is provide this animal the platform he sought to spread his hateful ideas. We will note that the man described himself as an “incel,” which to me means that not only was he a racist animal, he is also misogynistic to the extreme, believing that women “owe” him sex of some form, rather than looking inwardly at what might have been the issue.

“The man calls for the peoples of a large number of North African, Asian, and Middle Eastern countries to be ‘completely destroyed’ on the basis that they are biologically inferior,” Insider reports.

Terrifying that these fascist-racist beliefs are becoming a “thing” again. (Not that these beliefs ever were “behind” us, but they are more out in the open now).

Last, the man relates to Trump. It is accurate to say that not all Trump voters are racists, but all racists do vote for Trump:

“A billionaire in the USA is implementing my policy recommendation (even some slogans I developed like ‘America First, Buy American and Hire American’,)” the manifesto states.

He is referencing toxic nationalism. Fascists always favor nationalism because they favor small homogenous groups of people just like them. It is the same nationalism that MAGAs reference in their hatred of “globalists.” What goes unspoken is that “globalism,” while not perfect, absolutely decreases the chances of war, while “nationalism,” with each country raging in self-worship, near guarantees it.

This is fascism. Mass shootings are not necessarily all related to fascism, but this man’s manifesto appears to have supported the fascist platform that overlaps so much of what Trump and the MAGA heads believe.

So dangerous, and so sad.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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