Hate Express

All aboard the 'Hate Express'!  Social media increasingly seems to be full of people just waiting to be triggered so that they can pour out a deluge of irrational hate and bile.  Oh, I know that there has always been such an element to social media, but it seems to have gotten worse since Elon Musk went full on Nazi on Twitter.  This last weekend I made the mistake of looking at Twitter in the aftermath of that guy going nutzoid on a train and stabbing lots of people.  I know that I shouldn't have looked.  I should know better by now than to visit that cesspool of reactionary extremism, but I couldn't resist.  Just one peek can't hurt, I thought, after all, it's now been established that the perpetrator wasn't an illegal immigrant, but a UK citizen, so just how Nazi can it get over there?  Jeez, as it turned out, the psychos who hang out there these days can even find being proven wrong a source of extreme hate.  It was quite amazing, these crypto-fascists were working themselves up into a frenzy over the fact that the bad guy hadn't met their expectations -  'How dare Keir Starmer allow someone who isn't an illegal immigrant, or at the very least, a Muslim, go berserk and stab white people?' seemed to be the predominant sentiment.  Apart from the fact that Keir Starmer is apparently personally responsible for every criminal act perpetrated in the UK, my main takeaway from their demented bellowing was that, according to them, ordinary UK citizens simply don't suffer untreated mental health problems that might, with the right trigger, set them off on a violent rampage.  I mean, this must be true because 'Tommy Robinson' says so, although, as far I'm aware, that short-arsed mortgage fraudster/violent football hooligan runt isn't qualified in the field of mental health.

But hey, I'm not qualified in this field either.  My entire knowledge of homicidal psychopaths comes from watching giallo movies, (which makes me infinitely better qualified than the runt to comment on such matters).  Which, obviously, present an entirely accurate portrayal of severe mental illness.  So, despite what the cretins on Twitter might think, it is entirely possible for someone to live in the community for years, decades in fact, without murdering anyone.  But given the right trigger - a particular painting, say, as in The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, or a specific piece of music, maybe, as in Profondo Rosso - they can have a psychotic episode and start murdering people left, right and centre, in the most bizarre ways imaginable.  A bit like how certain words - 'immigrant', 'Muslim', 'woke' or 'ethnic' - can trigger these idiots on social media into enraged rants.  In fact, I'm surprised that they don't topple over completely into violent psychoses and start murdering people who fit the stereotypes they associate with their trigger words.  I suppose the fact that they are sat at their keyboards when triggered limits their scope for homicide.  Instead, I imagine them working themselves up into an apoplectic fit, their faces turning puce coloured, strain etched into them, as their impotent rage builds up, with no proper outlet.  Is it asking too much that this, in turn, triggers a few fatal coronaries?  After all, most of them are doubtless overweight beer-guzzling, chain smoking slobs, who exist on a diet of greasy fast food.  Whoops!  My prejudices are showing there, aren't they?  Anyway, at the very least, could we expect to see a few heads explode?  I mean, such self-destructive rages would at least solve the problem of the far-right, in that their own knee-jerk anger will prove fatal, resulting in their extinction.