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Expects Yuge Games
Mauricio Garcia’s life in Texas amounted to what he once described online as “a stinking dead end.”
He lived in a tiny, dark, trash-filled apartment decorated with posters of a serial killer and bikini-clad models. He couldn’t keep a job and had no luck with women, whom he blamed for his intense loneliness. The Army had discharged him just three months into his service. He was often ashamed of his Hispanic roots and adopted white-power beliefs that he etched into his chest with a large swastika tattoo.
When he showed up to an outlet mall in Allen, Tex., on May 6, heavily armed and wearing a “Right Wing Death Squad” patch, Garcia’s rage had festered for more than a decade, according to diary-style social media posts attributed to him by extremism monitors and investigative journalists. As early as 2013, when Garcia was in his 20s, the posts expressed violent, hateful views that only hardened in the years leading up to the shooting in which eight people were killed, plus the gunman.
Though many assailants publish glory-seeking screeds or live-stream their attacks, few come close to the “voluminous writings” Garcia left behind, according to the ADL report. The diary-style entries, many scribbled on notebook paper and posted online, chronicled the bleak life of a Dallas-area man who bounced from job to job, despised Asians and other people of color, saw himself as a woman-hating “incel,” and yearned for an apocalyptic race war.
https://wapo.st/3nShljz
Previously unpublished videos and chat logs reviewed by The Washington Post, as well as interviews with several of Teixeira’s close friends, suggest that he was readying for what he imagined would be a violent struggle against a legion of perceived adversaries — including Blacks, political liberals, Jews, gay and transgender people — who would make life intolerable for the kind of person Teixeira professed to be: an Orthodox Christian, politically conservative and ready to defend, if not the government of the United States, a set of ideals on which he imagined it was founded.
For Teixeira, firearms practice seemed to be more than a hobby. “He used the term ‘race war’ quite a few times,” said a close friend who spent time with Teixeira in an online community on Discord, a platform popular with video game players, and had lengthy private phone and video calls with him over the course of several years.
“He did call himself racist, multiple times,” the friend said in an interview. “I would say he was proud of it.”
In the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, Teixeira told friends that he saw a storm gathering. “He was afraid they would target White people,” his friend said. “He had told me quite a few times he thought they need to be prepared for a revolution.”
Teixeira’s missives also revealed a conspiratorial streak.
Teixeira asserted that “lots of FBI agents were found to have sympathized with the Jan 6 rioters,” and he said naive members of the intelligence community, of which he was technically a part, had been “cucked.” He referred to mainstream press as “zog****,” appropriating a popular white-supremacist slur for the “Zionist Occupied Government.” Friends said that during live video chats, Teixeira expounded on baseless accusations of shadowy, sinister control by Jewish and liberal elites, as well as corrupt law enforcement authorities.
“He had quite a few conspiratorial beliefs,” the close friend said, adding: “I remember him multiple times talking about things like Waco and Ruby Ridge, and talking about how the government kills their own people,” referring to a pair of notorious armed standoffs that the far right has held up as emblematic of government oppression.
In March 2018, Teixeira was suspended from his high school “when a classmate overheard him make remarks about weapons, including Molotov cocktails, guns at the school, and racial threats,” according to a Justice Department filing last month that argued Teixeira should remain in jail while he faces charges under the Espionage Act stemming from his alleged leaks.
Federal prosecutors noted that, according to local police records, Teixeira claimed that he had been talking about a video game when he made the alarming comments. But other students disputed that characterization, prosecutors said. And Teixeira’s close friend, who knew him after he had graduated high school, said he had confessed to wanting to take a gun to school and carry out a shooting.
https://wapo.st/42Ax8Cv
He lived in a tiny, dark, trash-filled apartment decorated with posters of a serial killer and bikini-clad models. He couldn’t keep a job and had no luck with women, whom he blamed for his intense loneliness. The Army had discharged him just three months into his service. He was often ashamed of his Hispanic roots and adopted white-power beliefs that he etched into his chest with a large swastika tattoo.
When he showed up to an outlet mall in Allen, Tex., on May 6, heavily armed and wearing a “Right Wing Death Squad” patch, Garcia’s rage had festered for more than a decade, according to diary-style social media posts attributed to him by extremism monitors and investigative journalists. As early as 2013, when Garcia was in his 20s, the posts expressed violent, hateful views that only hardened in the years leading up to the shooting in which eight people were killed, plus the gunman.
Though many assailants publish glory-seeking screeds or live-stream their attacks, few come close to the “voluminous writings” Garcia left behind, according to the ADL report. The diary-style entries, many scribbled on notebook paper and posted online, chronicled the bleak life of a Dallas-area man who bounced from job to job, despised Asians and other people of color, saw himself as a woman-hating “incel,” and yearned for an apocalyptic race war.
https://wapo.st/3nShljz
Previously unpublished videos and chat logs reviewed by The Washington Post, as well as interviews with several of Teixeira’s close friends, suggest that he was readying for what he imagined would be a violent struggle against a legion of perceived adversaries — including Blacks, political liberals, Jews, gay and transgender people — who would make life intolerable for the kind of person Teixeira professed to be: an Orthodox Christian, politically conservative and ready to defend, if not the government of the United States, a set of ideals on which he imagined it was founded.
For Teixeira, firearms practice seemed to be more than a hobby. “He used the term ‘race war’ quite a few times,” said a close friend who spent time with Teixeira in an online community on Discord, a platform popular with video game players, and had lengthy private phone and video calls with him over the course of several years.
“He did call himself racist, multiple times,” the friend said in an interview. “I would say he was proud of it.”
In the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, Teixeira told friends that he saw a storm gathering. “He was afraid they would target White people,” his friend said. “He had told me quite a few times he thought they need to be prepared for a revolution.”
Teixeira’s missives also revealed a conspiratorial streak.
Teixeira asserted that “lots of FBI agents were found to have sympathized with the Jan 6 rioters,” and he said naive members of the intelligence community, of which he was technically a part, had been “cucked.” He referred to mainstream press as “zog****,” appropriating a popular white-supremacist slur for the “Zionist Occupied Government.” Friends said that during live video chats, Teixeira expounded on baseless accusations of shadowy, sinister control by Jewish and liberal elites, as well as corrupt law enforcement authorities.
“He had quite a few conspiratorial beliefs,” the close friend said, adding: “I remember him multiple times talking about things like Waco and Ruby Ridge, and talking about how the government kills their own people,” referring to a pair of notorious armed standoffs that the far right has held up as emblematic of government oppression.
In March 2018, Teixeira was suspended from his high school “when a classmate overheard him make remarks about weapons, including Molotov cocktails, guns at the school, and racial threats,” according to a Justice Department filing last month that argued Teixeira should remain in jail while he faces charges under the Espionage Act stemming from his alleged leaks.
Federal prosecutors noted that, according to local police records, Teixeira claimed that he had been talking about a video game when he made the alarming comments. But other students disputed that characterization, prosecutors said. And Teixeira’s close friend, who knew him after he had graduated high school, said he had confessed to wanting to take a gun to school and carry out a shooting.
https://wapo.st/42Ax8Cv
