We have a thread on those clowns. It seems like most of them capable of actually doing anything already have and it's pretty much burned out. It's pretty much a fed honeypot at this point.
As much as I wish I could share your optimism on this, I unfortunately feel like things are going to get worse before they improve.
The groups that have a thread on here (764, its descendants, and its affiliates) are either dead or circling the drain, but taking a step back to look at the bigger picture reveals a much more disturbing pattern. Back when I first heard of the O9A, at some point between 2013-2015, they were just a footnote in the history of Far-Right extremism. They were early adopters of Accelerationism among the Right after WWII, they were really fucking weird, and that was it. Looking back, they were probably more influential in the '70s and '80s than most people realized back when it still felt like the world made sense, but there's really no point in speculating on how far that influence reached. Esoteric Nazism in general was a powerful driving force at the time, but also one that was kept at a certain disconnect from the rank-and-file, who were almost universally cultural Christians. The O9A, importantly, also sees "Criminal Organization" as a sacrament. Basically, you go out, you find a group of useful idiots who you can convince to both do all of your illicit faggotry for you and amplify its impact (whether knowingly or unknowingly; it doesn't matter as long as something bad happens), and then you let those people take the fall when someone gets caught. Sometimes they're aware of the O9A's goals and ideology, but the fact that they don't have to be means that they could exist in the shadows for decades. 764 has been their largest, most far-reaching, and probably deadliest spin-off so far, putting them on the map for the general public for the first time in over half a century. It's great that it's deteriorating, but the important timescales here are measured in decades, not years.
Core O9A members usually deny anything more than an aesthetic connection, which I personally think is bullshit. A 15 year old high school dropout with emotional problems didn't discover an obscure Welsh Aleister Crowley x Otto Strasser circlejerk on his own. He had help from an older group called CVLT, founded by a young adult Neo-Fascist at a prestigious business school and populated by people with a variety of Far-Right ideologies. At least one dedicated O9A member
was a 764 affiliate, and unlike most members currently in custody, he was an adult with a serious prior criminal history unrelated to cybercrime (along with an uncharacteristic willingness to assault his victims in person) who only got caught due to an unrelated gun charge and an addiction to crystal meth. That's...not a great look. What it suggests, to me at least, is that these groups retained embedded ideologues right up until things started going ass-up and they decided to jump ship. Ultimately, though, it doesn't matter. Tying things back to the topic of this thread, there's a certain demographic of people who the O9A knows will eat their shit off a plate, with Tarl being a classic example. To answer what you were saying about why some people turn to Satanism and/or Neo-Nazism,
Jesus fuck, just look at him. Tarl's basically a walking skeleton, covered in leather then soaked in booze and despair, who seems to target mentally unwell women for sexual validation before beating them so that he can feel stronger than someone. I'm actually kind of glad that he doesn't respect anything we say, because otherwise this comment might plant some unfathomably retarded ideas in his already lush brain garden of stupidity. The problem is that our society is shifting out pale cholera diarrhea like him at an astounding rate right now, largely due to a prevailing sense of Nihilism and ennui. The rich are obsessed with gathering unusable quantities of wealth even if that means leaving the poor with no hope. Traditional forms of Christianity in the US have evolved in two separate directions - those being generic Mainline denominations that people claim solely as a form of identity, and brain-dead Fundamentalist sects so disconnected from reality that their appeal has a strong negative correlation with reading level. Third spaces have declined significantly with the growth of sprawl into the exurbs, meaning that people have fewer opportunities to meet friends or potential partners. That's where extremists step in. A few decades ago, research focused on their recruitment pool of deracinated city dwellers in developing countries who moved from rural to urban areas seeking employment. Today, though, it's entirely possible for someone to live in one modestly wealthy small town in the developed world without ever once feeling a sense of connectedness to the community or purpose in life. At the same time, the Internet gives extremists a megaphone. Tinderbox, meet match. Match, meet tinderbox. Obviously if Styx himself ever gets the retarded idea of joining one of these groups, he's going to be one of the useful idiots who dies for it, but the leadership does draw from the same recruiting pool. They're just less stupid. Mostly marginally less stupid, but I will acknowledge that the high-level organizers and authors are more likely to be actual rather than pseudo-intellectuals. How many of them actually believe what they preach rather than having their own related but ultimately idiosyncratic motives is a totally different question that I'm not getting into here, but it's still based in the same issues. People see something very wrong with society, and they either come up with delusional solutions or ways to game the system for personal gain.
764 was absolutely fucking enormous for an O9A-inspired group, causing irreparable harm to thousands of vulnerable people where most of their known affiliates have fizzled out without doing more than local damage. It's great that it's dead/dying, but it still represents a massive escalation, and this shit's not going to get any better until we solve the underlying problems.
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