I think the only reason there hasn't yet been a full-blown pogrom against the LGBTQ community is that the shooter they apprehended was a far-right groyper and not the far-left antifa terrorist they assumed would target someone like Kirk.
But with the sheer number of people on the left openly celebrating Kirk's death, I don't think they'll really need evidence to start going after the left.
I heard that he might be one at first, but newest news say exactly what the article said: no groyper, no leftist.
Which makes sense because it both sounded weird to me that a leftist would write “whoever reads this is gay lol” or that a right-winger would write “Bella chiao” or “take that, fascist”.
This is a great example of how BOTH sides live in bot-fed echo chambers - just as much misinformation was flowing in the progressive online communities (including here) and it didn't help our credibility.
We really need to get in the habit of sourcing things before we breathlessly repeat them on social media. It's not hard to verify something.
Don't worry I'm sure they'll find some eventually if they just keep looking. The libs are very good at hiding themselves. Sometimes they vote for republicans, that's a sure sign their liberal, voting for republicans.
Doesn’t matter the right made up their minds about this the second he was shot.
Since when have the american right ever cared about facts? These guys are all feefees, no brain. Its why every time somebody capitulates to their demands they create a new dumber demand.
But somehow trans people are the terrorists. The Heritage Foundation even cited Tyler Robinson as evidence of "trans shooters"
I know that the apparently had a trans woman mate but was he personally himself trans, I hadn't heard that. Was it just more made up nonsense.
I hate to say this but I feel like nbcnews will be shut down for this article
It honestly doesn't matter. Did or didn't, left right, or corkscrew. If we knew definitively now factually 100% he can conclusively be put into 1 bucket. The facts don't matter to them. The truth is already in.
To be on their side, you "know" the "truth".
And if you don't "know" the "truth", than by gee you seem awfully suspicious mr...
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth.
— George Orwell, 1984
They’ll fabricate something.
forensically
“Yet”
The investigation will continue until we have completed the manufacturing process.
And there won't be.
This was predicted during the first Trump administration. A MAGAt is primed for violence for ten years & then figures out he's been lied to and propagandized the entire time. They then use that violence on the very scum that lied to them.
Sometimes the Stochastic terrorism boomerangs.
Exactly. Just like the attempted assassinations of trump
If the Discord groups he hung out in were leftist or in any way "antifa" they would have been screaming about it this whole time. He hung out in far right meme circles. It looks like they've decided on the lone, crazy gunman approach so they can avoid accountability yet again.
If he was a lefty they would have been rubbing our faces in it day 1, not doctoring social media messages.
lol It’s so obvious that they’re starting this investigation with a “conclusion” and they’re trying really hard to make it fit.
They don't need any links or ties to justify their hate. They just need feelings of being oppressed, wronged, robbed, and disrespected. There is no excuse needed to blame and attack people who aren't like them. It's in their DNA, they've done this since before this country was a country.
Yeah, no kidding there is no connection because there is virtually nothing organized on the left. And what prominent left wing groups use the kind of stochastic terrorism that the conservatives use?
I mean, on the conservative side, it starts from the very top, with Taco, and continues on down to the very bottom to your average red-hatter. All of them constantly make threats involve violence, all the time.
Taco talked about "second amendment people".
Project 2025 architect says there will be a bloodless revolution, if liberals allow it.
Kirk gets shot and the conservatives all, without knowing anything about the shooter, decared war on the majority of the country...
But we sure are lookin'. Cletus has gotten into generative AI, so we'll see what comes up.
Bullshit. I heard his bestmates' mothers' hairdresser's nephew once changed the oil on a cars transmission.
Checkmate, you murderous loony lefties!!!
Utah is on the left side of the Country, he must be left!
But damn it all if they aren't going to spend millions looking.
It's the Iraq WMDs of this administration.
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