Posted on 12/18/2024 5:40:54 AM PST by V_TWIN
According to investigative journalist Andy Ngo, she posted a purported "sneak peek" of the manifesto to her Discord account, "@brainedout." In the earlier version, Rupnow allegedly discussed a desire to "exterminate" all males, including infants and the elderly, in a rant apparently inspired by extremist culture among fringe social media circles.
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The manifesto is not the writing of a 15 year old, but a parroting of writings from insane radical groups. Words like patriarchy and validation in the context of her manifesto are the mantras of radical leftists not typically the words of a 15 year old. She clearly was mentally ill, but her mental illness was further inflamed by her accessing radical feminist ideology. Perhaps the Aussies have the right idea of banning kids under age 16 from accessing social media.
It’s sadly not “odd” at all to go in with completely absurd force.
It’s standard operating procedure.
I guess the police knocked the door off hinges and threw grenades because there was no poodle to shoot.
I’m sure the cops are mad that they didn’t get to shoot the dad.
Can’t get more Jesus than that school.
What would that change? She’s dead!
The technical term is” guanopathic”.
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I don’t care about the killer. Good riddance. But, there’s nothing that suggests she was ‘transgender.’ This was a girl.
To summarize the article, its linked sources, and the killer’s manifesto:
- The killer turned 15 only a month before the murders.
- She was born in 2009. Her parents married in 2011, divorced in 2014, remarried in 2017, divorced in 2020, remarried again, and divorced again in 2021.
- She wrote that both parents had drug/alcohol issues, and she felt ignored by them.
- Since 2022, she lived mostly with her father.
- Earlier this year, he started taking her to a gun club for target shooting.
- Also, this year, she was transferred to this Christian school.
- In her manifesto, she said she hated humanity, hated her parents, hated her therapist. But, she admired other teenaged killers who shot up their schools.
- She claimed she was picked on in school, then moved to another school where she claimed she was picked on again.
- She admired the Columbine killers and other teenaged killers.
- She was racist, and she especially admired a Turkish neo-Nazi (?) who attacked people in Turkey this year.
- For two years, she’s had an ‘online boyfriend’ who lives in Germany. (So, since she was 13?)
Direct links to the sources in the article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/17/madison-wisconsin-school-shooter-natalie-rupnow/
https://x.com/Slatzism/status/1868795614491800032
By the way, isn’t it strange we still know hardly anything about Thomas Crooks?
“”””Proof the mental hospitals closed in the 1970s need to be reopened.””””
Officially that process was started in 1963, the last bill that JFK signed before his death, he wanted to remove them from the states and federalize mental health.
“The CMHC legislation was a major departure from existing federal and state responsibilities. For 150 years, the care of mentally ill persons had been vested in the states; a few states, such as Iowa and Wisconsin, passed the responsibility on to the counties.
In 1963, federal funds contributed approximately 2 percent of the costs of services for mentally ill persons; today federal funds contribute over 75 percent of those costs.
The saddest part of JFK’s legacy is that we now have much better treatment and rehabilitation programs than we had in 1963, but they are unused for the majority of the sickest individuals. Reversing JFK’s shift toward federalization and holding states accountable is, ironically, our best hope for fulfilling his original dream.”
I wonder if she was sent to the Christian school for threatening to shoot up her current school.
a solid "normal" family 2 parent structure is critical to help kids grow up normally.
I’m now watching the son of my close friend going through that same thing that you describe. It is so terribly wicked how these vengeful parents seem to get the upper hand from judges who spend ten minutes reading the case file, make an arbitrary decision, then refuse to alter their point of view based on new information. Meanwhile, the parent who cared more and is more devastated at the loss of contact with the spouse and kids can barely think straight to defend himself/ herself until the wicked one has driven several spikes into their heart, fully backed by the judge.
God hates divorce. Churches have fallen down on their job of preparing young people for lasting marriage.
Agreed. I say that as someone who's been a devout Christian since I was 14, and has volunteered a lot with kids, both elementary age and youth.
Too many churches have taken one of two approaches with youth: they either embrace worldly ways (bad), or the stick to ways that are ultra traditional but not necessarily Biblical. The first approach is obvious how it's wrong.
The 2nd approach is with things like music. Are we really supposed to believe the early church had music at all, much less what we call "traditional music", so why insist it be "traditional"? I say it can be of different styles as long as it's authentic, bonus points if the style changes based on what's being sung about (songs about God's power has a different sound than songs about being humble before God). Another way we can be too traditional is by expecting all of the teaching be from sermons instead of sitting around reading and discussing the Bible together. Every church I've been in has a handful of Bible geeks who could lead small discussions and make it more personal than a sermon style setting. That setting unfortunately gives too many young people the impression that there's too wide a chasm between them and being devout.
Another thing is us churches don't talk about sex enough, especially given the world's obsession with it. When I volunteer with youth, I ask the youth leaders and parents if I'm allowed to not talk about sex, but talk about attraction. They always give me permission to say things like every now and then pointing to my wife on the other side of the room and say that I'm taking that gorgeous thing home with me. Since the kids all think I'm smart (the gamer generation always thinks us programmers are smart LOL), it's letting them know that even smart and devout people have attraction like they do, and they can get what we all want doing things God's way, without me having to say it directly. Things like that are so simple, yet so few people in church leadership (including us volunteers) do it.
Reagan did that in CA in the 1970s.
Started by Pat Brown, continued by Reagan and Gov “Moonbeam” Jerry Brown.
No one gets a “pass” on this.
Can't agree wholeheartedly with your post about the music -- most churches have this debate. I realize the youth want the rock band sound; but the main difference between the old hymns and the Christian pop songs is that the hymns are usually based largely on the psalms or gospel scriptures, and singing them drives the message deep into your unconscious as well as your conscious brain. Whereas the pop tunes just repeat a few brief mottos over and over. What I also like is when a musician trained in rock instruments or at least guitar or piano re-interprets an older hymn for contemporary singing styles and pacing.
I do agree that an organ can get boring, but that's mainly because it's a complex instrument. Churches liked them because they have two keyboards and a wide range of sound settings, so that a really good musician can produce a wide variety of sounds and instrumentations. But paying an organist who is deeply trained is expensive; whereas the Christian pop bands practice in garages and are usually volunteers.
The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS) is the most outstanding church I've ever expeienced for illuminating the meaning of the scriptures to our lives today in every sermon, every Sunday, as well as providing multiple opportunities for learning the meaning of the Bible. Classes, online resources, radio shows, podcasts, the above-lined web site, and of course the Lutheran Catechism.
The LCMS (which is absolutely NOT to be confused with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - ELCA) is orthodox Lutheranism. In his Catechism, Luther stripped away an accumulation of non-biblical add-ons from centuries of popes and culture to return the church to what Jesus taught the Apostles.
Technology changes, but God does not change. People who try to make the church go with the flow of what's happening in ever-changing culture are doomed to moral failure.
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