After the suspected shooter has been detained, the FBI held a press conference to report on the case and announce the next steps going forward. Spoiler: we, as leftists, are fucked.
Key points:
- The shooter is Tyler Robinson of Utah.
- His friend reported him to the FBI.
- Tyler's Discord messages have been used as evidence, as provided by his roommate.
- ~~Robinson has been reported to be getting increasingly political, and during dinner one day, he spoke about how Kirk was "full of hate".~~ UPDATE 4: Tyler did not say that.
- The casings do not contain any trans references. But they do have anti-fascist rhetoric (bella ciao and "notices bulges OwO" included) and symbols engraved in them.
- Tyler was taken into custody on September 11th, 10 PM local time.
- The investigation is still ongoing.
- One guy cried while speaking.
- Thousands of more leads of potential accomplices are being followed.
- No other arrests are known
- Tyler drove to campus on a car.
- It's not known if Tyler is mentally ill.
- The charging documents will be filed 3 days from now (September 16), then a preliminary hearing will take place.
(Added by LangleyDominos)
- Patel awkwardly trying to signal the Norse viking larp shit. "Charlie, I'll see you in Valhalla"
- Utah Governor Cox told everyone to log off and stop consuming rage bait, called social media a cancer, and that everyone should "touch grass" (his actual words).
UPDATES
- ~~UPDATE 1: Tyler apparently donated to TRUMP??? WHAT~~
- UPDATE 2: ignore update 1
- UPDATE 3: new link to donations check (POTENTIALLY MISLEADING!!!)
Tyler Robinson's mugshot
Other sources:
this isn't antifa. lol.
bella ciao is a nick fuentes thing used to mock antifa (edit: they are trying to co-opt the song to mock leftist. zero chance some random idiot kid in Utah knows what that song is outside of being a groyper edit: the song is on the groyper war playlist #14. LOL )
bulges OwO is mocking furries and - again - a nick fuentes thing
I mean Bella ciao is an antifascist song, I’ve never heard it outside of that context. But I see your point I’m just not plugged in enough to know nick Fuentes use of the phrase
it's trying to be co-opted by groypers to mock the left (i wrote "was" an antifa song, that's not accurate as all my euro comrades keep informing me)
edit: the song is on the groyper war playlist #14. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ais7KJXx8Gyd0hsrbakKW
"groyper war" is literally nick fuentes terminology for war on conservatives
Bella ciao is such a cool song with a great history. Depressing if groypers are trying to co opt it now. Thank god I have never run across that in the wild though, I’ve only ever seen it in legitimately antifascist contrxts
It got netflixifed and so kinda depolticialized. Its something more vaguely leftish/radlib now.
That's why you keep the last verse from the Communist version https://youtu.be/cUAP-fE81zs
Fascists can take Bella ciao from my cold dead hands
I can attest that I've heard this song a bunch of times, especially online, in contexts that have nothing to do with Groypers and are genuinely anti-fascist.
i can attest the complete opposite: only heard it through groypers <3
well, i heard it on money heist as well. so my above statement is not completely accurate
this kid was a groyper 100%. watching the Trump conf right now and he's dodging questions about the kid's ideology
They will take Bella Ciao from my cold dead hands.
It's a new far-right GenZ thing, the young gropyers are using it widely as an ironic meme
That's wild, I've hummed bella ciao in public kinda recently. Gonna have to switch to bandiera rossa.
They will take Bella Ciao from my cold dead hands.
i feel like there are a bunch of niche ideologies on the interwebs these days and it is kind of hard to pay attention to all the tendancies on the right
ciao belle user is a nick fluentes fan and has chosen their name which suggests there is some legitimacy to this theory
Humans really messed up when we came up with symbols that could mean the opposite of themselves.
Inflammable means flammable? What a country
go to any person in the world and ask them about the song and they will know it's anti fascist
to be fair, go to any person IRL (i'm usa) and they won't know shit
you're correct though. "was" isn't fair. genZ groypers are "trying" to co-opt it.
I would bet money that anyone I walked up to on the street would have no idea what I'm talking about
in that case
Americans are more cooked than I ever thought bro
Idk how you end up here and have that high of an expectation for Americans.
knowing Bella Ciao is not a high expectation bro
For Americans it is. If you asked the average American what Bella Ciao is, the top answer would probably be a dish at Olive Garden.
I'd wager if you ask most people under the age of 50, they'll think it's from the Netflix series "Money Heist" .at least in Europe.
Never have encountered this, I believe you but we regularly have it at my irl socialist meetings
wouldn't be surprised if it's a groyper. I just can't imagine anyone being this lame
They're literally always like this
taking into account the other two casings, dude either specifically wrote down shit like that to make himself seem like a lib or is genuinely a lib. i just didn't write down what the other casings said.
you might be right, but counterargument / i don't read it like that: the gay thing is an edgy homophobic online joke. the catch this fascist is trolling.
i'm putting all my money on it that this is a nick fuentes groyper loser.
this is what the casings said (redirect to BBC). i've got no idea what the dude might be but so far he seems like a lib-adjacent internet-brainrotted cornball. something something wait and see
Which means the media will take it as he is a radical leftist who was trying to resurrect Lenin with a blood sacrifice to Baphomet.