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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (52 children)

We can agree that the right wing is trying to use Kirk's death as casus belli to start a civil war against us. We are in a dangerous position right now.

But at the same time we can also choose to NOT spread misinformation like this. No, we don't know right now what political leaning the killer has. If anything, if the evidences released by the investigation can be trusted, he is more likely to be left leaning.

Yes, the right spreads misinformation all the time to further their goals. But I think we can do better.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (49 children)

    What evidence? So far, none of it says he is a left winger. Everything we do know points to a MAGA family and village of similar idiots with violent tendencies and a gun-loving way of life.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (22 children)

    Multiple people who were interviewed said he was getting into leftist politics, he called Charlie Kirk a "fascist". He had a MTF trans girlfriend. These are not typical MAGA traits. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99g1e0z2ero

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)

    Multiple people know him as from a rightwing family, he was photographed in MAGA gear, and plenty of MAGA are secretly gay.

    None of what you’ve said is even minutely comparable to the abundance of evidence that says he’s a rightwing abused child from a MAGA family.

    He’s also a registered Republic卐n.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    cis guy dating a trans woman is not "gay". he may himself identify as queer or bisexual but we don't have to misgender his girlfriend out of a desire to play up his purported right wingedness.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Sorry, my ignorance of LGBTQ does not dilute my point.

    However, in my ignorance, I touched on something you didn’t try to refute and I appreciate it: Republicans are quite often in the closet while publicly raging against the thing they secretly embrace.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    thats for sure a thing. with regards to the shooter i recommend reading ken klippenstein's piece on him, it does not sound like theres enough evidence to firmly consider him a conservative or a groyper or an anarchist yet. he's weirdly apolitical (aside from executing a bigot for as-yet-vague reasons) and several definitive assertions have been made and later retracted by large media outlets, often citing sources that recanted or hearsay that proved false.

    https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-leaked-messages-from-charlie

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Thanks for the article. I’ll read it now.

    EDIT: I’d already read this one. It’s probably more factual than anything mainstream media has done and that’s including those from either side of the political spectrum.

    These days they’re all bowing to Trump anyways so who knows what to trust.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (8 children)

    Yes, and the voter registration is for a Tyler Robinson, not a Tyler James Robinson.

    The Snopes fact check has a screenshot of the registration of Tyler James Robinson.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    Fair enough.

    Does that make the shooter a leftist?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Not on its own, but he's not exactly a registered Republican either. Just wanted to correct that one thing.

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    No, but I also hear that there are a lot of leftists with right wing parents, especially in Utah. Maybe that was why he moved out, I don't know.

    Maybe he was more right wing instead. I don't know. I'm not the person who was saying he was leftist. I was just pointing out that he wasn't a registered Republican.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Was his upbringing a leftist one?

    Were his friends? Neighbors? Church? Schoolmates? Bible class? Pastor?

    The point, which apologists are eagerly falling over themselves to avoid, is that he was in a right wing world and had all of that in his corner. They’d like to focus instead on the chance that he may have rebelled against MAGA.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Everybody described him as being withdrawn, it seems like nobody but his roommates knew anything about him, but those roommates haven't talked as much. It's like none of the people that were physically around him were part of his world, and they describe him as being online a lot.

    I think he was more shaped by the internet than the people physically around him. Especially since he was described as being apolitical until after he left his parents' home.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    First of all, you completely missed the main point of my comment. If you think there's no evidence then you shouldn't be claiming one way or the other either, yet this post is presenting him as definitively right wing.

    Secondly, I didn't say he is a left winger. I said (based on my judgement) the evidence shows he probably, maybe leans left.

    And answering your "what evidence" question, his text message to his roommate is released by the investigation. There are also statement from his mother stating he is "getting more and more left" (obviously, grains of salt). And there are leaked (released?) Discord messages from the killer.

    If you never heard any of these, then you probably are in an echo chamber.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    I didn’t miss it. I ignored it the same way you so vociferously try to pull this rightwinger away from his rightwing history.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    No. I chose to ignore apologist language. Seems quite unpopular with those using words to annoy instead of communicate.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    "I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can't be negotiated out."

    Robinson’s mother explained that over the last year or so, Robinson had become more political and had started to lean more to the left, becoming more pro–gay and trans–rights oriented. She stated that Robinson began to date his roommate, a biological male who was transitioning genders. This resulted in several discussions with family members, especially between Robinson and his father, who had very different political views.

    You people are fucking dipshits.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Right. MAGA never go for self-preservation against rightwing retaliation.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Put the pieces together. Aside from what I already said:

    -Estranged from right wing family

    -Dating a transwoman

    -Struggled with gender identity

    -Complaining about hatred

    None of these things are characteristic of the right.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (14 children)

    Balance that against an entire life of rightwing indoctrination. That’s a rightwing kid with mental issues.

    I will not concede this bullshit talking point that “the left” did this when we all have eyes.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Balance that against an entire life of rightwing indoctrination.

    You are describing probably 80% of liberals. Political opinion is not genetic.

    Killing someone for "spreading hate" is not a right wing phenomenon.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Lol. That’s a hell of a stretch. You’re welcome to keep pushing this line while I roll my eyes and ignore it.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

    what kind/amount of evidence would it take for you to believe that the shooter was either not right wing, or had left wing ideals?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Actual evidence, not hearsay because (checks notes) his MAGA family said he was a leftist.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Why don't the text messages and trans girlfriend count?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Why doesn’t the mountain of evidence he’s a rightwing violent crazy with a gun count instead of this hearsay?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    You are applying a totally different burden of proof to ignore the actual text messages he sent to his tranny girlfriend and call them hearsay, but then believe circumstantial evidence about his family somehow dictates who he is.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    I am using rightwing logic. Why are you resisting rightwing logic?

    EDIT: Don’t assume everyone missed your bigoted language.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    EDIT: Don’t assume everyone missed your bigoted language.

    Last I checked, the right is not offended by the word tranny, so I'm sure you will agree that the person we are talking about won't mind.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nice. I liked the part where you took your mask off and showed us you really were a rightwing troll all along.

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