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Posted: Tue, 17th Feb 2026 08:18 Post subject: Nihilistic Violent Extremism

Killers without a cause: The rise in nihilistic violent extremism

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Amid a wave of high-profile killings and political violence in the United States, investigators have been confounded regularly by the absence of a recognizable agenda.

The assailants in several cases — shootings, a bombing, a planned drone attack — resisted familiar labels and categories. They were not Democrat or Republican, or Islamist militant, or antifa or white supremacist.

They were something new. In their manifestos, these attackers declared their contempt for humanity and a desire to see the collapse of civilization. Law enforcement officers and federal prosecutors have begun to describe these attacks as a contemporary strain of nihilism, an online revival of the philosophical stance that arose in the 19th century to deny the existence of moral truths and meaning in the universe.

Recent assailants who have been tagged as nihilists include the following: A 15-year-old shooter in Madison, Wisconsin, who left behind a manifesto titled “War Against Humanity” in which she described the human race as “filth.” A 24-year-old man who plotted a drone attack to blow up the Nashville power grid was seeking to precipitate “the start of the end … for the interconnected or otherwise globalized world.” A self-described “anti-natalist,” 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus, blew himself up outside an in vitro fertilization clinic in May, having argued that humans should not be brought into existence without their consent.

“Basically it comes down to: I’m angry that I exist and that nobody got my consent to bring me here,” the clinic bomber said in a recording posted online. “There’s no way you can get consent to bring someone here, so don’t f---ing do it.”

By March, federal prosecutors had adopted the rubric, too, coining a new official term for a variety of this destruction: nihilistic violent extremism, which they defined as “criminal conduct … in furtherance of political, social, religious goals that derive primarily from a hatred of society at large and a desire to bring about its collapse by sowing indiscriminate chaos, destruction, and social instability.” The first known use of the term came in the prosecution of a Wisconsin teenager who murdered his parents in February 2025 as part of a plot to foment a civil war and assassinate public figures.

While the hatred of these attackers sometimes veered into racist views, what stood out to investigators was the broader desire to attack all of society.

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“We were seeing a set of cases in which the existing definitions did not apply,” said Cody Zoschak, a researcher with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and former New York Police Department counterterrorism analyst who also worked on counterterrorism policy at the State Department.
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Casap considered himself an “accelerationist,” a label for those who believe that society is irreparable and that the only solution is its destruction, after which it can be rebuilt, according to court documents. Skyler Philippi, the 24-year-old who plotted to blow up a Nashville power grid, was also allegedly seeking society’s collapse. In his manifesto, as quoted by federal agents, Philippi wrote: “When the start of the end comes for the interconnected or otherwise globalized world, what will reflect and appeal [to] those seeking safety will be what Aryan warlords and Aryan tribes can offer.”

With the accelerationists, though, the nihilistic classification can be a matter of dispute. Many accelerationists also seem to overlap with hate groups and express hatred toward Jews, African Americans and other minority groups.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/08/nihilistic-violence-emerges/
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