- cross-posted to:
- world@quokk.au
- cross-posted to:
- world@quokk.au
I’m going to guess the shooters were white supremacists with incoherent ideology
The guy who tackled one of the shooters to take his shotgun away is a legend though
Update: Appears one of the suspects is likely Middle East/Arabic/Subcontinent background. Going to see a rise in racism for sure
Update 2: Rabbi Schlanger (pro Israel man who wrote a letter to Albanese to deny Palestine statehood and is also one of the organisers of the even taking place at Bondi Beach) is one of the dead. ASIO claim one of the shooters was known to them, of course. Now up to 16 dead


Though at the same time, if I remember my book of revelations stuff, “no one will know the time or the place” and it seems like any sort of attempt to “decode” the end of the world and make it happen would be at best futile and at worst actively going against any of God’s plans.
Though these sorts of people do happen to “hear the voice of god” in such a way that tells them to do whatever reprehensible thing they want and it is ok because “it is god’s will.”
Yeah there’s not a lot of coherence to their beliefs. There’s also a lot of predestination and Calvinist stuff. So if they try to make the apocalypse happen and succeed that was god working through them all along etc