/lit/ - Literature

>>12316626
Why was this event such a big deal on 4chan anyway?

>>12316627
He was a depressed ugly white guy

>>12316627
because it was a loser killing himself in a retarded and dangerous way

>>12316635
Fuck off, boomer.

>>12316627
Well, you had people you had people laughing that a guy stole a plane to do a barrel roll, and somehow succeeded, all the while shitposting at air traffic control
Then you had those people who sympathized with a depressed white guy working a dead-end job, who broke the law to do something he dreamed of doing that he could only replicate in video games, killing only himself in the process

Im honestly surprised that lefty-types didn't harp on him as a bearer of late capitalism like /pol/ did as a martyr against materialism

>>12316669

I think it's because he came across as too /r9k/ for them, what he did is so out there it's Other. If he slit his wrists he would be a statistic about late capitalism, as it is he's filed with "all the frog people Angela Nagle told us about who hate 'normies'" and ignored.

>>12317675
Plus is was a rebellion that was spiritual in nature. What he did only makes sense if you believe in transcendence (or want to, or to act as if you do believe), otherwise it's a totally senseless act within the material worldview.

>>12317675

>>12318237
Based Varg