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  1. Glad he took some time away from raping groupies to chat with Michael Moore
  2. People really want to neatly put a crazy person's politics into a familiar box. The reality is that about 10 to 15 percent of "politically active" Americans have a completely unintelligible set of beliefs, and most of the time their beliefs are not consistent with one another. Ryan Routh is a prime example. I have strong suspicion that Tyler Robinson is one of those people with unintelligible beliefs. Based on limited information, if I had to profile him, I would say that Tyler Robinson was raised to be proficient in firearms, to believe in American exceptionalism, to start a family as soon as possible and for that family to be as large as possible. He adopted many of those values, but secretly questioned big topics like religion and conservatism. Important to note, his high school and early college experiences were most likely overshadowed by COVID and lockdowns. Thus, his online social circle had likely expanded from people he knew from school to friends of friends of people he would game with, and through those people, he got exposed to a broader set of values and maybe even witnessed the core principles he'd been raised with getting mocked, alongside other principles he'd never adopted, with memes. Although he had never embraced left or left-leaning ideas, he probably rejected some of the more "cringe" ideas from the conservatism he'd been raised with because the sacred cows (religion, America, Trump) are common joke fodder. They say he is also very intelligent, with good grades and test scores. Free ride to Utah aggy. Intelligence and ego often correlate. Meanwhile, material conditions for him and people in his age group are poor and the prospects for improvement appeared (and, in truth, are) bleak. Career? Don't bother. College? Scam (even Charlie Kirk preached that). Family? As if anyone would date a guy who spends 16 hours per day on discord, except other people who spend 16 hours per day on discord. The kind of girl you don't bring home to mother, and aren't starting a family with. So, he started to believe that life is meaningless. The whole world is just a simulation, and not even a particularly fun or interesting one. Or, at the very least, he began to believe that his life is meaningless even though he had been given the gifts of high intelligence and a good upbringing. Once he'd internalized that belief, he became not apolitical but clinically antisocial. And it wouldn't surprise me if most of the people he would spend all day communicating with are also antisocial to different degrees. So on the one hand, his life was meaningless but on the other had he had that ego. It was that ego that pushed him to actually plan and carry out the crime, and it was his antisocial nihilism that prevented better judgment from intervening. His hatred of Kirk stemmed from something other than politics, even if it's true that he'd made his disagreements with Kirk's views known. So, at this point based on what limited information we have, I believe the most likely outcome is that, if we ever hear from Tyler Robinson about his motives, what he would say will be totally incomprehensible and bizarre, ala Ryan Routh.
  3. chainsaw

    A&M at ND

    If holding was called Aggy loses by 2 tds And this is not a good ND team
  4. This is an unlimited money hack if you have a big list of MAGA phone numbers
  5. He's bad at sir stories
  6. Hatton was a sensation. RIP.
  7. There were not coordinated, well-funded, mass-harassment campaigns
  8. TNT has the cleanest scorebug
  9. Bobcats finally get a TD. Overthrew the 2 point conversion try. 27-9
  10. Tyson should be 1st overall
  11. The Ghost of Pac 12 Past meets the Ghost of Pac 12 Future
  12. chainsaw

    A&M at ND

    He needs to take a week off.
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