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We need an archive link to this from this guy OR someone else verifying that this is true. I tried to find it, but couldn't. I'll give everyone a half an hour.
Edit: Thanks for everyone doing so much research. The crazy thing is, when you go to @DavidShuster, the comment doesn't show up at all and it looks the account hasn't been active for a year or so. But then RedJard linked and archived the original. LillyPip confirmed that it is his account.
I now spent close to an hour trying to figure out Robinson's political leanings, and as of right now the internet simply does not know.
This is the closest:
And then there's a lot of talk about bullet engravings which leave me very confused. How can you engrave "If you're reading this you're gay" - 26 characters onto a single bullet? Even so, the messaging is open to interpretation. We simply do not know yet, and we might never know 100%! He's conflicted, that much seems clear.
IMHO most timely and objective article as of right now: LA Times
edit: I wrote this 24h ago. Surely the situation has changed by now. See you in a more timely thread!
30.06 is a large bullet and the words were allegedly written on the cases of the bullets, not the rounds themselves. Good to be skeptical but a fine point Sharpie could get 26 characters on there if you had small handwriting or did multiple lines or whatever.
Yup. And you could probably engrave it with a nail, so the barrier here is pretty low, but it would probably take an hour or so to engrave a simple message because it's kinda hard.
Yeah, but think of all the Internet points he probably got showing off the rounds beforehand?
If you’re reading this you’re gay, LMAO...
Wouldn't the bullet that called Kirk a fascist be an indicator of a possible left position held by the shooter?
Magats like to throw insults, but very often it is evident that they do not understand what the words they use, actually mean. "Fascist", "Communist", "Socialist" are all examples of "insults" I've been called by obvious magats. I don't think they understand what TDS is either, even though they all have terminal cases of it. In general, I don't think magats understand much of anything at all.
My understanding is that it's a Helldivers 2 reference, so not necessarily.
True, but i still don't see how it can't be a game reference and a label applied to Kirk. I don't see how somebody, who is right wing themselves, would use this. But it makes perfect sense if the shooter was left.
Groypers and always online fascists co-opt left language and I see them call other nazis fascists derisively. I will bet you ten thousand dollars there will be no sign the shooter was leftist in any way.
He recycled one time!
Super Earth calls the bugs fascist in game in spite of being fascist.
I mean, anybody can throw the word "fascism" out there and a wide variety of people purport to hate fascism so shrugs maybe but probably not.
Yeah, but quoting an antifascist song and writing "hey fascist, catch" on your bullets is one of those things that feels suggestive of the rarer lefty shooter. There was also something initially reported as pro-trans symbolism, but it didn't sound like a trans symbol I'd seen before.
It’s a groyper thing, which also a traditionally rightist thing. Steal leftist terminology and reuse it to troll leftists and confuse everyone else.
— Adolf Hitler, leader of the “National Socialist Party”
suggestive being the alarmingly prevalent word here...
We aren't playing Clue here, all this extremely extrapolative speculation has consequences that point toward accelerating violence and isn't good for anyone in the end.
Really?
I don't know what the commenter meant, but my guess would be that they meant the statement could've been a lighthearted joke or homophobic and it isn't clear which.
it’s 4chan drivel, i called it from the text alone even before the Nick Fuentes angel
"IfURReadngthisURG"
It's tighter but gets the same message across
"URG? Must be trans ideology..."
- the FBI, probably
He donated to trump...
I heard this was another person with the same name.
I assume you mean proof as to the claims.
But just in case if you mean the tweet being made and made by that account, it is still up and I made an archived version of it.
The account claims to be
I'm going to leave this up and let you all decide if this is true or not. He hasn't been confirmed as this journalist, but x is a POS organization, so everyone gets to decide for themselves.
I trust David Shuster as a journalist, but I personally really would prefer more evidence.
It's not checkmarked as officially him though. It's not that I'm doubting the journalist, we don't know if this is him.
This article from 2010 quotes and links to that same Twitter account as being his, so it looks real as far as I can tell. Other articles and references I’ve found more recently also link to that same account. It looks legit.
Remember, the blue check no longer means ‘verified’ – now it only means ‘paid for premium’ (since Musk took over, he changed it such that you just have to pay monthly for the blue check, not be the verified person), so I wouldn’t put stock in that blue check now.
e: it’s at the bottom, here’s the quote:
Ohhhh gotcha. I was just adding my two cents, but now I understand what you’re saying. I’ll contact him about this.