This information is being reported at a couple of international sites, but (if accurate) it has apparently been blacked out in the U.S.

The bomber at a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, has been identified as a 25-year-old man who left an online manifesto in which he described himself as a pro-mortalist, saying people didn’t give consent to exist.

The suspect is Guy Edward Bartkus, a 25-year-old man from Twentynine Palms, a small city about 35 miles northeast of Palm Springs. He left a 30-minute audio recording in which he explained his motive for the attack.

“I figured I would just make a recording explaining why I’ve decided to bomb an IVF building, or clinic,” he said at the beginning of the recording. “Basically, it just comes down to I’m angry that I exist and that, you know, nobody got my consent to bring me here.”

Describing himself as anti-life, he adds: “I’m very against [IVF], it’s extremely wrong. These are people who are having kids after they’ve sat there and thought about it. How much more stupid can it get?”

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This seems like mental illness with some terrorism on top. I’m willing to bet that a robust mental health care system could have prevented it.

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I resent having no means to have consented to my existence as the next nihilist, but you don’t see me taking it out on everybody else. Just take antidepressants and bitch on the Internet like a civilized misanthrope.

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I think this is my favorite comment of the day.

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Probably just another conservative nutjob terrorist.

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A part of me understands his resentment for life but dude. Just go rent a sports car and drive it off of a cliff. Instead of hurting others.

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Indirectly or directly, the deep state created this kid. I got the same opinions too man, and I’d rather shoot my head off with a shotgun before I go around and roll in the mud like these fucking Yankee soldier boys. You literally cannot trust anything anymore. You have to have strong framework to see through all the bullshit. I would Google the Imperial Boomerang or in the Intelligence Department, they call it blowback. There’s also a book by Barbara Walters, How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them. She is an exCIA analyst. Anyways, no war with the class war.

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He seems to deliberately chosen a day when the offices were closed, so perhaps he wasn’t trying to hurt other people. It would have been so much worse if this had been done on a weekday.

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I have seen this kind of statement in some other place multiple times… guess this guy really didn’t find any beauty in life. It is hard to take seriously that someone would really go there this far… he could have just killed him self

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they normally call themselves anti-natalist instead of pro-mortalist… but it seem to be the same thing

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Hi, Anti-Natalist here, I am not pro-murder. Murder is harm, and anti-natalism is about preventing harm.

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They are not the same thing

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It’s not. One of the core concepts of AN, the reason for it all really, is that suffering is bad. One consequence is that procreation holds a negative moral value, however another is that you should not cause suffering e.g. by fucking blowing people up.

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What’s funny is that a planned parenthood would secretly get him off.

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He would have done more in the service of antinatalism by becoming a doctor and performing sterilization surgeries; lots of childfree people who want to get sterilization have a difficult time finding a doctor willing to perform the procedure. He would be providing the market with an in-demand service.

Or barring medical skills, donating money to various organizations (e.g. Planned Parenthood) that would advance his cause.

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