Been following the developments on the shooting of Charlie Kirk quite intensively from Europe these past few days. This whole thing stinks. Investigators had no idea who the shooter was, then BOOM, all of a sudden they do? Tyler Robinson goes home, tells his dad (who is former law enforcement) and he then tells a family friend???? This stinks. if the father is a former cop or whatever, he would either go full out and snitch his son to the people searching for him, or take it with him to his grave. Makes no sense, I don't buy it. Trump knew about the shooting before any media, that was on-site, reported about it? Fishy.
I dunno man, maybe its just my extreme distrust in the US but with all the radical shit that's been happening over there since Trump's reelection, I think nothing is too wild to not be considered. The american right needed someone of significance to get popped so they could use their image for martyrdom to push their ideals.
On a person note (yes, this is going to get me down voted to shit): I'm quite appalled at the sadism and joy that many people on Lemmy are taking to the killing of Kirk. I'm not getting into his politics. Yes, he was radical, i disagreed with his messaging and values and he was a piece of shit. But from a humanitarian perspective, way too many people here are making fucked up memes about the death of a young man with two young kids and a wife. You don't have to like him, you can even hate him, but leave the guy some dignity ffs. Maybe Lemmy isn't the platform of intellectuals I thought it was. This will probably be my last post. Americans are fucking insane.
I don't agree with you, you make strange leaps.
Yeah, that's how tiplines work.
I'm amazed at your confidence in this. The human mind is complex and I understand that a father who is strongly religious would seek guidance from a religious figure when overwhelmed with such shocking news.
fair enough.
do we know if the father is religious?
Yes, Mormon and MAGA. As an ex-Mormon I feel the authority to say that it is engraved as a kid you need to own up to mistakes in order to repent. Assuming the narrative on Lemmy is true (4chan hyper conservative) then it's possible these stems from some kind of faith (book of Mormon has a story where God orders nephi to kill someone. Also the religion pushes personal revelation with god which is not a good combo with mental illnesses. Hearing voices? Maybe it's god!). Not sure why he has an anti-fascist stance according to the bullet casings but wtv.
If the whole family is a bunch of MAGA like the grandmother said, then yes, greater than 90% chance he is. Those two things are extremely highly correlated.