in the past month or so a skull mask, a groyper, and (quite possibly) an incel i've each been familiar with have passed away.

i ain't naming names. i ain't disclosing the cause/manner of death.

they were young. they left families who loved them behind. they were young.
the people in their immediate social circles will be angry with me for bringing them up at all.

the people on the opposite end of things will be angry with me for thinking it's sad.

but it's sad. it's all very sad. it's sad when a story ends early and in the bad part(s).
empathy is very tricky even though i still want to believe it shouldn't be.

when i first started talking to neo nazis this time around it was because i wanted to maybe help get the ones in my neck of the woods help with substance abuse bullshit.

"help" =\\= "polite society"
i've talked with the moms and widows of extremists and even mass murderers from all sorts of backgrounds, countries, you name it.

more often than not they feel guilty. they take it upon themselves. they know.
"the only good ____ is a dead ____"

even if this happened to be an objectively true statement, there's still something sad about a ____ younger than you dying a ____ and being remembered as that and only that.
when a young person clinging to their fucked up idea of "life" as they believe it SHOULD be dies with an angry, insatiable heart full of hate it's a sad thing.

because it didn't have to be that way.

and there was still ample time for them to realize just how wrong they were.
and that bullshit aside, it's a sad thing period when a young person dies.

the holidays are coming up. a cold front is blowing through and it's pushing the clouds away at dawn. there are a bunch of birds making annoying noises.

life is sacred. they didn't understand that.
once you realize life is sacred it's much, MUCH harder to deny others their right to enjoy or even just live theirs.

it's very hard to devalue or invalidate the lives of others once you realize just how precious life really is.

most assholes in their 20s don't realize this.
i hope each of them makes it through the cycle and gets a shot at something far away from here where they can be happy enough to legitimately value life.

far away from here is honestly one of the kindest things i can think of.

far away from here is probably for the best.
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