An explosion outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, killed one person and injured four people Saturday morning in what the FBI called an act of terrorism. The suspect in the explosion of Edward Bartkus, 25, was the solitary death in the explosion, and he apparently held an anti-human view. Now, Reddit bans sub-Redit, which is related to the suspect’s ideology.
Bartkus is believed to have detonated a bomb at the Palm Springs American breeding center, which offers services like IVF because he is consistent with his loved ones and the anti-Natalist movement, the idea that humans should not continue to breed. Bartkus seems to have been posted to various sublists including r/efilism Promote violence. Reddit now prohibits R/Efilism from violating its Terms of Service.
“There is no seat on Reddit,” a spokesperson for the platform told Gizmodo via email. “Our scope rules strictly prohibit any content that encourages, beautifies, incites or demands violence. In line with these rules, we are deleting any instances of the suspect’s declaration or recordings and hashing to prevent re-uploads. We also closely monitor the community on our platform on our platform to ensure our rules are compliant.”
supporter Effect (The word “life” spelled backwards is often called an anti-Natalist, a more common name for ideology, although Batkus described himself as a biological in his 30-minute audio manifesto. Anti-Famousism is a philosophy that advocates people not to survive, and the Patriarchists go beyond those anti-Natalist ideas and can advocate theories that advocate death in various forms based on theories that are sought by life to achieve one’s own life, and even end your life in the process around you.
Bartkus posted an audio file on his website explaining why he aimed at the clinic, full of logical inconsistencies and general inconsistencies. Battercus said he wanted to start “sterilizing this life disease” but mentioned the impact of his recent suicide on him. “It’s so big when you really relate to it,” Bartkus wrote on his personal website. Apart from any philosophy he swears to allegiance, he’s obviously working on personal problems. The website is now offline.
In addition to other anti-motherland forums r/efilism Regarding reddits that have not been banned, some (such as r/circlesnip) (which includes a description reading, “vegan anti-plant circlejerk”), issued statements condemning the attacks of the IVF clinic.
“What caught my attention was the individual responsible for the explosion of Palm Springs today
Named our community to illustrate suicide. Although they are in personal sorrow and
Mental health issues, their terrorist acts are unreasonable, inconsistent, immoral and disgusting,” the statement said.
The host went on to say that their anti-familiar version was “one of the explicit nonviolence” and said that it should be up to everyone to “make their own reproductive decisions.”
“The philosophy we represent is clear that right and non-violence is one of the non-violences,” the moderator continued. “We believe that everyone can make their own reproductive decisions. We hope that the American Reproductive Center in Palm Springs can be rebuilt and resume operations.”
Other hosts R/Vystopia and other anti-Natalist sublists run by R/Antinatalism have issued the same statement condemning the violence. this r/efilism According to the Independent, Subreddit had about 12,000 members before it was banned, which is certainly not very large by Reddit standards. The largest community on Reddit has tens of millions of members.
According to reports, the term Elifism was coined by a fringe Youtuber named Gary Inmendham, Bartkus was named in his audio manifesto. Inmendham posted a video after the bombing, saying Bartkus did something “really stupid, stupid, meaningless, even show-off” and called it “act of violence.” Inmendham said he even “opposed protesters” and he was “apparently opposed to terrorists.”
Bartkus, who felt very unsafe about his philosophy in the audio manifesto, said he was forced to commit the bombing because he couldn’t find the issue of discussing with people connected online, as spaces like YouTube and X were reviewing anti-Natal racist content. Bartkus also insists that despite the “manipulation” of the Internet, he is not affected by the manipulation.
Bartkus also said in the recording that he was vegan and seemed to be in the welfare of animals, referring to “animals raped on the farm” in his recording, but then went on to say that nature itself was frightening in a way that even surpassed the pain caused by humans. All life in his book needs to end.
According to ABC News, YouTube accounts related to Bartkus reportedly included explosion tests. The Palm Springs explosion was quite large, about 250 yards, and Akil Davis, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, described it as an NPR, “probably the biggest explosion in our Southern California.”
The FBI released a report last month on Nihilist Violent Extremists (NVE), although the definition is so loose that it can be applied to a wide range of ideologies. In this case, however, nihilism does seem to fit into the philosopher’s vague purpose of destroying humanity.
