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aggie08

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  1. Agree the FBI releases may be minimal. But someone will figure out his usernames (or figure out what I'm guessing might currently be getting purged) from his edgelord forums of choice. Also, as is usually pointed out when the shooter is from these type of online communities, the messages that he left on the casings most likely aren't for us. They aren't for Kirk. They aren't for the police. They're for his buddies' amusement. So there's probably a handful of people currently pretty scared of their exposure that may come forward to get in front of it.
  2. Yeah, that's on the Guardian for running with someone claiming to be an old high school friend who calls people "leftists" without doing additional sourcing. Pretty irresponsible of them actually.
  3. I can't help but wonder, how would Kirk's popularity and reception be different if he didn't wrap himself in a Jesus blanket? Same controversial political views, same pension for propaganda and half-truths, and commendable willingness to debate (strictly set up to create viral moments or not). Just without all the God stuff. How many people would even know his name? The built-in audience of someone who prides themselves on being openly "Christian" is insane. The Tim Tebow effect.
  4. Wrong thread.
  5. Presumably his father's gun? Probably wishing he used a gun safe right about now.
  6. ...and then they continued about their day and will never acknowledge it's existence again.
  7. Yeah, it would be really nice.
  8. Also, just to recap: All Democrat politicians and prominent figures immediately condemn the assassination, mourn Kirk, and urge everyone to do better and be better than this. The right's thought leaders immediately threaten retribution, war, and blood to ALL liberals before a single thing is known about the shooter. The completely unknown suspect becomes the literal personification of their political enemy. They jump on--and podcast--poorly sourced bullshit about Trans messaging. They gave Kirk military honors when the Minnesota lawmakers couldn't even get a phone call. Then they flailed around wildly when the suspect didn't fit the demographic they wanted to push their political payback agenda, appearing more likely to belong to an offshoot of one of their extreme alt-right cesspools than some blue hair. Topped off with the President, in plain words, stating that right wing violence is justifiable because the left must be stopped. "Oh you don't realize what you've unleashed. It's over in 2028." K. And how pathetic is it that you might be right?
  9. 1) Democrat politicians suck. 2) It's the economy, stupid. 3) Propaganda (of which, you're right, they're going to milk the fuck out of this week for next 3 years) really, really fucking works.
  10. Because Democrats were really banking on the white evangelical vote?
  11. I will happily bet him $5k that he's not bonafide antifa (are they even still a thing?). But he's already hedging.
  12. Already moving goalposts. You said antifa. Most here have already said that he's almost certainly not going to fit into one box, none of these alt edgelord community members do. He's probably going to be a hodgepodge of conflicting batshit grievances.
  13. Jemele Hill and an obese woman. Gee, I wonder where MAGA is going to take the conversation.
  14. So weird how you still have no clue how your side operates. Yesterday, it was all "string the shooter up and make them suffer" from your elected thought leaders; now it's "pray for his lost soul." Why do you suppose that it? What do you think changed?
  15. Listen, MAGA is an enigma wrapped in a riddle of conflicting evidence that somehow all makes sense.
  16. Eh, nothing wrong with that. Just saying he was hoping it wasn't a Utahn. I get that. He's the same dude who told everyone (*cough* MAGA *cough*) to be wary of the Russian and Chinese propaganda that they were reading yesterday.
  17. I get talking the dead up (especially ones who shrouds themselves in thick Jesus armor) and remembering and exaggerating the best parts about them. I get being very upset that many people are being extremely harsh and critical of someone who was just murdered and leaves behind a young family. But how do they expect people to NOT respond negatively to complete horseshit like that?
  18. Were his classes all virtual because of COVID? Maybe that's why he dropped out! Without [check notes] Utah's draconian COVID mandates, he would have stayed in school, tactfully dodged indoctrination, and become an upstanding conservative citizen. I found their new angle! Half kidding.
  19. So, gut feeling, does this seem like someone who was politically obsessed and killed Kirk because Kirk told truths in the public square, and he had to be stopped? Or just another perpetually online, shit for brains kid radicalized by alt, edgelord, online communities with conflicting or nonsensical politics and grievances (or apolitical/nihilistic)? In the same vein as a very long line of other shooters.
  20. Good for her, sincerely. Whatever keeps youths away from these shittastic dark web nihilistic loser cesspool spirals. Though the lines are a little blurry in this case.
  21. I can't envision a scenario where I watch American television news ever again live coverage of emergencies or something. Text-only and/or international.
  22. Maybe, maybe not. But, to your point, certainly way too soon to declare it. Even if he is proven to be a full-fledged Groyper--and not just Groyper-curious--it's not like they're a tightly-knit ideology with common goals. Just because some apparently hated Kirk for being pro-Israel, who the fuck knows what this dude's deal is.
  23. Just some good ol' fashioned immigrant dehumanizing, what's the problem?
  24. Anybody have this video from a non-horrid source who I don't want to give clicks to?
  25. Strangely, people are a little on edge from hearing or reading friends, family, and associates--who aren't familiar with our political leanings because we're not psychopaths who talk about them irl--talk about this being the turning point and wanting retribution and war against an entire "left" ideology, not just extremists, for 3 straight days.
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