• lennybird@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    My initial impression of his writings hit me as either Groyper posing as a leftist, or just an accelerationist psychopath.

    Either way, it doesn’t change the fact that right-wing extremism makes up the majority of violence.

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      8 months ago

      What exactly makes you say things like that? I’m genuinely curious what part of the discord conversations make people draw these conclusions.

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        7 months ago

        I’m referring more to the immediate aftermath of the event. I wasn’t very clear when I said writings but rather writings on the casings and the immediate reaction of Fuentes.

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          How a comment that spreads unsubstantiated rumours which this article specifically states as being so is at the top of this thread is beyond me.

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            7 months ago

            Do confirm that you actually believe this is unsubstantiated:

            Either way, it doesn’t change the fact that right-wing extremism makes up the majority of violence.

            Now in fairness I’ll clarify that I am focusing on politically motivated violence.

            Additionally, did you miss the past tense of the first point?

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              You admit to not being clear before, that’s whats wrong with your comment, don’t strawman me lmao. You refer to his writings, which in this context would obviously refer to the Discord conversations this article is about.

              Hundreds of people saw you referring to his writings in your comment, yet only a handful will see this clarification it’s about the scribbles on the bullets. That is how unsubstantiated rumours spread.

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    7 months ago

    Taking politics (mostly) out of it -

    Luigi allegedly killed because he saw injustice and had empathy for other people, wanted to show the evils of health insurance companies.

    This kid imo allegedly killed because he loved someone CK was spouting hateful narratives about. His empathy for this person he loved, and people like them who are just normal people living life, made it easy for him to turn to guns when he wanted this person gone for eternity.

    People with empathy are snapping.

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        7 months ago

        This is my personal conclusion about this situation because in my personal life people with empathy are drowning right now. It’s hard to live life these days if you give a single fuck about anything real, any real injustices or struggles people are living.

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          I just told my mama that I’m upset with her for raising me with empathy. Now I’m always broke. She couldn’t teach me to care more about money than people, ugh.

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      7 months ago

      But this doesn’t fit the other narrative that they have been talking about… which is him hating the guy for not being right enough or whatever you want to call it…

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        Yes, that’s why I took the politics out of it. Empathy can make you hate people enough to kill them if you see them hurting people you love. I think it’s been proven his house mate / partner is a trans person and they were romantically involved.

        CK was sitting, sharing the hateful transphobic ideals he had the actual second he was murdered. Looking into this guy, he wasn’t a MAGA and he wasn’t a leftist. He wasn’t extreme politically and that’s precisely the medias / MAGAs problem : he was just a seemingly average dude who snapped because of the hatred and torment he witnessed from CK.

        It’s only this political imo because he killed DT’s pet pig and they’re of course going to use that as FUD. I think the truth is probably that he would have killed CK regardless of who CK aligned with politically.

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    I’m a little annoyed with how quickly everyone here latched onto the Groyper narrative and parroted it as established fact. Seems unhelpful to run with a story before any evidence came out.

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      I have a lot of hate in my inbox for telling people that latching onto the groyper narrative was the equivalent of the right claiming the shooter is trans. They sure are quiet lately.

      You dumbasses out there just want distance from someone you don’t want representing you.

      BE INTELLECTUALLY HONEST YOU FUCKING CHILDREN.

      We don’t win by being as deluded as the WWE spectacle chuds who don’t think and just want sides and teams and fighting for territory.

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      They just needed it to be the right so bad that they went with whatever they could find.

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      Conservative Americans and their love of guns isn’t really a Christian thing, it’s a cultural phenomenon that goes back to the American Revolution and earlier. Scots-Irish descended Americans have long had a culture based around gun ownership, militias, and xenophobia that may be traced back to England’s many invasions of Scotland and Ireland over the centuries since the Norman conquest of England.

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      Listen, as someone who fell in love with a trans woman decades ago (my ex), it’s more plausible than you’d think. I didn’t go shoot up people since I wasn’t raised right wing, but love does make you do crazy things!

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    Ok so suppose this is some seemingly normalish apolitical gamer kid that was foolishly taught to solve problems with guns. Kirk was blanket targetting people he cared about and took action to do something about it.

    This is the MO of some guy who’s like neighbors are like threatening their wife. Its not a good solution but if the cops won’t help folks being threatened its what people do.

    The same day a right wing trump gooner killed a bunch of kids in colorado. Its crazy that the media is all lockstep in whitewashing charlie kirk like this to explicitly go after people fully unrelated to the shootings.

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    People want a good weapon they can use to hurt others. But the store only has a human shaped tool. How can we swing that at others?

    Please, I just need a “he was a groyper.” The guy behind me wants a “he was trans.”

    The more ergonomic the concept the better. Don’t tell me it’s complex or untidy. What’s the point of being trained by the media? I have all these patterns… just fit the guy into one already.

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    8 months ago

    I’ve been following all the news on him and he’s clearly a trans groyper antifa gun enthusiast centrist who likes to play Helldivers II.

    (/s)

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    And I think that’s what scares the right even more. He was “normal” by their standards. Not a loner, accepted by his family, hobbies, Christian background, went to trade school, solidly middle-class family, white, cis. If you’ve effed up the system so much that this “normal” guy can do something like this then that’s scary. Que “are we the baddies” gif.

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      Possibly, especially a lot of weird conservative kids who don’t fully understand how relationships work. But really it’s not a huge deal.

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      Honestly, this isn’t far off how I texted at his age. I’ve seen a lot of skepticism of the texts, but I don’t find them hard to believe from someone with his background, disposition, and test scores.

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    The federal conclusion will inevitably be that he was a so-called nihilist violent extremist (NVE)

    That is a lot of confidence in the administration to let law enforcement do its job properly and not politicize the findings.

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    7 months ago

    They will continue to try to turn the dude trans. Simple fact is that kirk didn’t hate enough people and died for it. They once again are trying to cloud the truth and make up anything they can to promote their agenda of hate.

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    None of us know anything for certain, but I sure get the sense that this kid is a patsy. I’m inclined to dismiss everything the authorities and the media are saying about him. It all sounds like incongruent nonsense. My fingers are crossed that we actually get to hear him speak before the powers that be murder him.

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      Why would they have a patsy who doesn’t fit the narrative they want? That makes no sense

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      The “text” messages seem really weird, like someone who is like 40+ tried writing like a much younger person…

      Everything seems to add up in just this perfectly awkward way…

      And this is my crazy ass thoughts: I’m not even sure the dude is real, or his family is, i have not seen an actual interview from these people who keep saying all these things… is it just a bunch of Ai bullshit? Part of a Cover up?

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        100%, that text message chain is ridiculous. The entire official doesn’t make any sense. Just seems like they are trying to pin the whole thing onto a ‘lone shooter’ and quickly move on. And then politicians are trying to capitalize on the death to push through whatever agenda they are already trying to push through, it’s disgusting and embarrassing.

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            Weird, I don’t know. It certainly looks odd to me. I’m leaning towards the ‘neck wound was an exit wound’ theory, which throws out this entire rooftop sniper narrative and put the shooter somewhere behind and to the right of Kirk. Again, I really have no idea but anyone pushing this left/right bullshit is just trying to get people divided.

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                His artery was definitely hit, no question. There is a fair amount of compelling evidence that he was hit from the front, I’m not saying that was impossible. The speed at which the blood started to flow is one of the things that make me think exit wound though.

                Also, I just can’t help but speculate other theories when the official story doesn’t make any sense. They still haven’t found the bullet to corroborate the weapon that was used and the bullet trajectory, no autopsy report, there was that old guy causing a ruckus that was also involved in 9/11 reporting and the Boston bombing, there was immediate tampering of the crime scene, lots of other video camera footage that hasn’t been released…I don’t know, just a bunch of weirdness around this event.