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:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_ciao
It's not this?
that's the song. but again: it's used by groypers to mock the left. it's on their groyper war playlist.
there's zero chance some idiot kid from backwater southern utah knows the real context of that song. it's way more likely, given everything, he got it from nick fuentes circles
There's a very reasonable chance he made a quick turn to radlib circles in the past couple years and was exposed to the song.
I hope to be wrong. I guess there are apparently a solid portion (majority?) of helldivers players that miss all the irony so maybe it tracks?
I guess I don't think it's worth saying that the song itself means one thing or the other, but it's new to me that it was appropriated by groyper culture (among others, like you said).
The one that's still unaccounted for I guess is the "die fascist" or whatever that sounds more liberal than groyper.
You can look at how quickly the right wing politicians have backtracked on the retaliation talk. They wouldn't do that if this guy wasn't ideologically one of them.
Definitely keeping my eye on it, it's just early