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Leaked Chats Show Alleged Kirk Killer 'Doesn't Fit Into Any Tidy Narrative'
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My initial impression of his writings hit me as either Groyper posing as a leftist, or just an accelerationist psychopath.
Either way, it doesn't change the fact that right-wing extremism makes up the majority of violence.
If that was his thinking, then he's terrible at foreseeing the coming chess moves from the other side.
It was quite obvious the Trump administration was doing everything in their power to provoke something like this so they could then utilize it as their Reichstag Fire / October 7th incident to further strip civil liberties and consolidate power.
Best thing he could've done was just do a public protest about Epstein and rally people to vote for midterms. I fail to see how this made vulnerable group safer in any way in all reality.
Stochastic vigilantism
And let’s just hope it keeps pointing at assholes
That's the sad part, it already isn't. Many assholes on the right truly think they're fighting a righteous war. Nay, a biblical crusade against evil. And they're harming far more good people, both directly and indirectly.
All guardrails and checks & balances have since been broken to prevent this very thing from playing out but now it all just boils down to who can push a louder message to the masses and distort their perception of reality.
I'm pretty lost for answers on how to crawl our way out of this. My only hope is the economy tanks so hard that it hits the working class in their wallets. That's pretty much the only thing they care about.
There are VERY few situations where committing premeditated murder would be considered clinically neurotypical. The term psychopath is used so loosely, but would fall under antisocial personality disorder, which he very well could be diagnosed as.
If the Discord is real, he seemed like a pretty normal guy. Apparently he was bisexual, and his girfriend might've been trans. According to the source at least. I don't know any groypers, so I don't know how they act, but I don't think that they're normally fine with that sort of thing. Somewhere else said that he claimes to have done it to silence the hate that Kirk spewed, which is a fair enough reason I guess. Lots of contradictory info. Maybe he was a groyper that woke up after meeting his girlfriend. Maybe he just did it for attention. Maybe he just snapped. I'm just hoping for the best, that he did it for a decent enough reason, not to start a race war. We might even find out, if he isn't Epsteined.
channers like most people are hypocrites
‘she was a good one’
Sure. Just something to think about.
i called it 4chan speak just from the rumored bullet casings before it was announced he was a Fuentes fanboy, not sure what there is to think about
humans are really good at ignoring reality and doubling down with self hatred, how many gay republican politicians have made the news over the years now?
we really don’t need to invent trans support motivations
plenty of other examples of right wing political violence, just recently both the trump shooter and that lady rep and her dog
but surely it’ll be a dangerous drag queen perp next time
Because none of this stuff is actually trustworthy, because we can't trust the government to do anything right or tell the truth. The bullet casings might be made up, I don't think any real evidence of those were ever released. He's probably conservative, and I think that everyone knows that. I'd just like more substantial evidence, which it doesn't seem that we're going to get, certainly not anytime soon. The text messages are obviously faked, so they're obviously trying to construct the "evil leftist" narrative.
the early stuff likely was real
pretty sketch now for sure
We might find out, but will anybody care?
I saw some of the Discord on Ken Klippensteins website. Are there other links to it that show more conversation?
No, this is just from what he wrote. Apparently he got a publicly unavailable picture of the two of them as evidence, so it's not impossible that it's real. I think that too many of us might've been a bit too quick to hop on the groyper thing, just because he was online a ton. And someone named Tyler Robinson in the St. George area donated to Trump 5 years ago, when Robinson was 17.
Even if it can be concluded that he acted out of left-wing motivations, his Conservative upbringing led him to react with a right-wing solution.
Had he been raised a Lefty, he would have been protesting, making phone calls, writing emails, and voting, not shooting.
What exactly makes you say things like that? I'm genuinely curious what part of the discord conversations make people draw these conclusions.
I'm referring more to the immediate aftermath of the event. I wasn't very clear when I said writings but rather writings on the casings and the immediate reaction of Fuentes.
How a comment that spreads unsubstantiated rumours which this article specifically states as being so is at the top of this thread is beyond me.
Do confirm that you actually believe this is unsubstantiated:
Now in fairness I'll clarify that I am focusing on politically motivated violence.
Additionally, did you miss the past tense of the first point?
You admit to not being clear before, that's whats wrong with your comment, don't strawman me lmao. You refer to his writings, which in this context would obviously refer to the Discord conversations this article is about.
Hundreds of people saw you referring to his writings in your comment, yet only a handful will see this clarification it's about the scribbles on the bullets. That is how unsubstantiated rumours spread.