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.

this country isn’t ready for what the youngest online male zoomers are like lol. i’m a millennial but i’ve been here the whole time watching cultures come and go and the memelord nihilist has been growing since ‘04. there are many variations and they range from sad and pathetic yet ultimately harmless to sad and pathetic and goddamn dangerous. these people can have a mixture of politics and usually prefer whatever has the most public condemnation so they can align themselves with immorality as a point of pride which becomes their identity. fuck having your own beliefs, just follow whatever gets the most negative response from society.

Shocking that a terminally online 22 year old doesn’t have a consistent ideology.

I saw a comment on instagram from someone saying Charlie Kirk had had some “powerful comments” in his videos. Checked the profile and there was a ton of pro-environment, anti-cop content. Most people don’t think super hard about their political ideology.

Taking politics (mostly) out of it -

Luigi allegedly killed because he saw injustice and had empathy for other people, wanted to show the evils of health insurance companies.

This kid imo allegedly killed because he loved someone CK was spouting hateful narratives about. His empathy for this person he loved, and people like them who are just normal people living life, made it easy for him to turn to guns when he wanted this person gone for eternity.

People with empathy are snapping.

Here's my tidy narrative: he was raised in MAGA family, was poorly educated and had a lot of exposure to extremists positions but little exposure to critical thinking. When he finally was exposed to different ideology at college he wasn't able to process is correctly and reacted violently, as he was taught to do by his conservative upbringing.

I'm a little annoyed with how quickly everyone here latched onto the Groyper narrative and parroted it as established fact. Seems unhelpful to run with a story before any evidence came out.

You thought that right- and left-wing extremists are the problem, turns out the center-extremists are /s

How crazy would it be if we found out he did it for love?

Did they just learn about nuance and that practically nothing in life is strictly black and white?

This is what a "slow pivot" looks like. Kirk's killer didn't turn out to be the gay, trans, rainbow polar bear the news was hoping for and did their hardest to promote.

The obvious "tidy narrative" is that the son of two Trump supporters, living in an ultra conservative state just might be a conservative himself.

What about the tidy narrative of raised in a conservative home with early and easy access to guns?

There haven’t been many shooters that weren’t around right wingers and guns at home, wherever their supposed personal ideologies became.

Of course he fits into a tidy narrative: whatever one the right wants. Clearly he's trans, trans-adjacent, trans-influenced, trans-atlanic who did a bad because the social contagion eroding the social fabric of western (read: cis straight white male-dominated christian) civilization. We knew these facts before Kirk's body hit the floor.

The rest of the "details" like, reality and evidence or whatever, doesn't really matter.

thanks for posting this, many people here seem to be hellbent on projecting onto the shooter whatever their preferred identity for him would be.

all i really care to know about him is that he's a good shot.

Ok so suppose this is some seemingly normalish apolitical gamer kid that was foolishly taught to solve problems with guns. Kirk was blanket targetting people he cared about and took action to do something about it.

This is the MO of some guy who's like neighbors are like threatening their wife. Its not a good solution but if the cops won't help folks being threatened its what people do.

The same day a right wing trump gooner killed a bunch of kids in colorado. Its crazy that the media is all lockstep in whitewashing charlie kirk like this to explicitly go after people fully unrelated to the shootings.

I've been following all the news on him and he's clearly a trans groyper antifa gun enthusiast centrist who likes to play Helldivers II.

(/s)

People want a good weapon they can use to hurt others. But the store only has a human shaped tool. How can we swing that at others?

Please, I just need a "he was a groyper." The guy behind me wants a "he was trans."

The more ergonomic the concept the better. Don't tell me it's complex or untidy. What's the point of being trained by the media? I have all these patterns... just fit the guy into one already.

Planted chats. Full of boomer speak. It's not even chatgpt. Just straight boomer speak.

I'm pretty sure I know his type and my guess is he "did it for the lulz"

The federal conclusion will inevitably be that he was a so-called nihilist violent extremist (NVE)

That is a lot of confidence in the administration to let law enforcement do its job properly and not politicize the findings.