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Open-source intelligence analysts reported that Crooks didn’t appear to use mainstream social media channels such as Facebook or Instagram and had an almost negligible internet footprint, which is highly unusual for a 20-year-old. Instead, analysts said that Crooks corresponded with friends and associates on a Discord server that they were now trying to access.

Discord servers are restricted ring-fenced sections of the internet. They are often used by gaming groups and communities as secure chat rooms but are also used by fringe organisations to push their ideologies and discuss wild conspiracy theories and plots.

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[-] [email protected] 133 points 11 months ago

I feel like it’s not that weird for a 20 year old not to have a Facebook and only use Discord.

[-] [email protected] 107 points 11 months ago

He also played a violent new video game that has just recently been discovered, called "Fortnite," and described himself as having "skibidi rizz" but not being a "sussy baka." These slang terms are gang lingo used by only the most dangerous terrorists.

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[-] [email protected] 98 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

he was The One Never-Trump Republican democrats are always trying to convince

[-] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago

Shameful that the libs have thrown him under the bus like this.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago

If the same thing happened to Biden I'm almost certain mainstream Republicans would be saying things like "this is the people standing up against the woke mob, God Bless Them!"

[-] [email protected] 94 points 11 months ago

Facebook or Instagram and had an almost negligible internet footprint, which is highly unusual for a 20-year-old. Instead, analysts said that Crooks corresponded with friends and associates on a Discord server that they were now trying to access.

The kids aren't using facebook, and a lot of them also aren't using Instagram. A 20 year old man using primarily discord is the most normal thing.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago

"intelligence" ""analyst"" being paid 6 figures to be absolutely fucking stupid and useless

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[-] [email protected] 80 points 11 months ago

First it was the nefarious CCP using TikTok to indoctrinate the naive youth into not liking genocide.

Now it's the dangerous shady Discord servers allowing extremists (from both sides) to plot against Our Democracy™.

I would not be surprised to see some sort of police state crackdown on Discord and other non-public parts of the internet resulting from this.

[-] [email protected] 86 points 11 months ago

Discord will have his data served up on a platter in no time. I don't see anything changing because they already cooperate with the state heavily.

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[-] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Isn't 4chan basically supervised by Feds at this point? The NSA already have access to Facebook and Google so it goes without saying that Discord is next. They want to ban TikTok because they can't gain that level of access to their user data.

Why don't zoomers rediscover Usenet and IRC? Can't rely on corporate platforms at all.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago

I'm pretty sure I remember moot himself saying that he cooperated with law enforcement when they demanded IP adresses every time some 4channer broke the law.

It was from a court transcript somewhere, but you're absolutely correct in assuming 4chan is heavily monitored and participated in by law enforcers, government officials and far right recruiters.

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago

I was thinking the same thing. It’s kind of the next logical step for platforms that have locked their users onto their sites. What good is a walled garden internet if you can’t link 100% of your users to real world consumers. Hello TSA internet.

[-] [email protected] 80 points 11 months ago

The FBI says it has not yet identified a motive for the shooting

I suggest checking the last ~6-12 months of his 4chan history. Key word searches to try: "Trump Zionist" "Kushner" "Fuentes"

I suppose on the positive side, probably some of the clammiest, palest groypers in existence will be getting some door knocks in coming weeks and months.

On the extremely negative side, if the guy is 100% confirmed a groyper and his motive is anything in the realm of "Trump supports Israel" or whatever... ain't gonna be good for future anti-Zionist movements.

Not that the future was ever bright considering how they've reacted to peaceful sit-ins. But yeah, anything groyper related and against Israel (for explicitly antisemitic reasons) will be lumped with anti-imperialism/anti-genocide related resistance to Israel. Very convenient packaging to barrel right past the unavoidable truth of the peaceful nature thus far of anti-Zionist moments. Yes it's totally nonsensical, but if it aids Zionist narratives that both parties share, it's too tempting.

[-] [email protected] 71 points 11 months ago

Apparently the shooter said the following in his twitter bio before it got scrubbed: "on a mission from God (cross emoji) to end Epstien's evil empire"

[-] [email protected] 57 points 11 months ago

If you're telling the truth then I called it last night when I said the shooter was a disillusioned QAnon-Head mad at Trump. I mean it's easy to guess because they're the only ones who are armed and do adventurism.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

lmao a lot of us joked about it it, I didn't think that'd actually be the case

Reality itself is unserious, it seems

[-] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

Something similar was my first though when I read the news this morning. QAnon has fractured in some bizarre and spectacular ways since Jan 6th especially and there's any number of reasons some of those rabbit-holed spin-offs don't like Trump now

[-] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

Trump's own little monsters now coming for zaddy.

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago

so he did have an internet presence...?

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

I was seeing a ton of fake stuff posted trying to frame him as like antifa and such last night, so I will stand by waiting for more on that type of stuff before really forming opinions on it.

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago

pretty clearly faked, check the Epstein reddit, top comments sleuthed out the fact it has 0 posts, photoshopped the shooter's face onto a different pic, etc

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[-] [email protected] 78 points 11 months ago

Rabidly pro-Ukraine?

Wanted to kickstart helterskelter?

Trump was too left for his tastes?

Trump was too right for this Romneyite?

Gamer just wanted to get a Wikipedia page?

[-] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago

Trump was too right for this Romneyite?

The militant Mormon uprising has begun. Salt Lake City will stand for 1000 years.

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[-] [email protected] 73 points 11 months ago

the "Chinese shooter" revealed to be...

white guy in demolition ranch merch internet-delenda-est

cool, thanks for that NYPost

[-] [email protected] 71 points 11 months ago

“Open source intelligence analysts”

[-] [email protected] 60 points 11 months ago

"Redditors and Twitter users" just doesn't have the same ring to it, y'know?

[-] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's just how you say "hack journalists who googled 'Thomas Matthew Crooks Facebook' for five minutes" when you've watched too much Mr. Robot.

[-] [email protected] 68 points 11 months ago

It's super cool how the US is so depoliticized that this guy is just some random 20 year old groyper who yelled "hold my beer" and thnere's no revolutionary cells or organized falandrists or anything.

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[-] [email protected] 68 points 11 months ago

Crook’s father told CNN he was trying to find out “what the hell” was going on but that he would talk to law enforcement before speaking about his son.

Mr Carriker reposted the photo of members of the US security forces standing over Crooks’ dead body, wearing the grey Demolition Ranch t-shirt.

What the hell?” he wrote underneath the photo.

illuminati

[-] [email protected] 68 points 11 months ago

Discord servers are restricted ring-fenced sections of the internet. They are often used by gaming groups and communities as secure chat rooms but are also used by fringe organisations to push their ideologies and discuss wild conspiracy theories and plots.

Fuck, they know about our discord where we push for a Protracted People's War in the United SStates of AmeriKKKa.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago

as secure chat rooms

Nobody is using a Discord server as a "secure" chat room. What is that even supposed to mean?

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[-] [email protected] 68 points 11 months ago

I'm revising my guess at motivations to being more like a school shooter but against a cool target.

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[-] [email protected] 66 points 11 months ago

On one side I am totally unsurprised, but on the other side I was hoping this was going to be the worlds first instance of a lib with a spine. I don't know why I got my hopes up

[-] [email protected] 61 points 11 months ago

There can only be one liberal driller

[-] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago

the liberal driller wouldn't have missed

[-] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

The Liberal Driller let's trouble come to him

Then he makes sure it troubles no one ever again

[-] [email protected] 61 points 11 months ago

The Republican party is full of, and run by, crazies. Trying to find a coherent motive for this assassination attempt might not be possible.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago

Incoherence has never stopped them from finding scapegoats before, so why now?

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[-] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago

Forgive me comrade!

[-] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago

The bit about Discord is weird, it's not like it's some decentralized service, the company has access to everything on their servers if they want to.

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[-] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago

Of course the photo of him is from his school yearbook. He's white after all

[-] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago

He was a G*mer.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago

Maybe he was trying to restore the Habsburg throne

[-] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago

T-shirt says "Kollege Kidd"

Confirmed Maoist?

[-] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

Klanner that thought being orange was not allowed either

Or is that too lib a joke

[-] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago

and absolutely horrible shot, from that distance you shouldn't even need optics

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago

New video on r/crazyfuckingvideos purportedly shows him screaming about killing fascists. It does kinda look like him, but the video has about 7 pixels so who fuckin knows. Doesn't matter either way, they're never gonna get it pinned on anyone but libs, whether he was a registered Republican or not

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