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Planted chats. Full of boomer speak. It's not even chatgpt. Just.traight boomer speak.
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.
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.
People with empathy are snapping.
This line hits hard. I hate this fucking timeline.
This is what the MAGAs don't understand since MAGA requires, and trains, people to be Sociopaths.
An empathetic person will avoid violence for as long as possible, but when the forces against them become too great, and they snap, their empathy morphs into Protection Mode, and anyone who has people in their life that they protect, knows how dangerous Protection Mode can be.
I've been identifying my personal Red Lines, and one of the biggest is certain people in my life who are members of vulnerable demographics that MAGAs particularly despise. If anything were to happen to those people, I would become very dangerous. My empathy for them could easily be twisted into revenge against MAGA.
anyone who has people in their life that they protect, knows how dangerous Protection Mode can be.
And if you don't, just ask a mama lion protecting her cubs...
This is my personal conclusion about this situation because in my personal life people with empathy are drowning right now. It’s hard to live life these days if you give a single fuck about anything real, any real injustices or struggles people are living.
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.
What are you trying to say?
Do you actually believe that 22 year olds talk like this? They’ve been trying to push a narrative since the bullet was fucking fired.
They want to make this into a martyrdom. They are going to force the story to match.
I can believe 22 year olds talk like this, by these newer accounts he seemed very normal, likeable and intelligent.
But I also think there is a concerted effort to twist the narrative every which way, to emphasize the more extreme elements and mischaracterize the mundane elements as extreme. I don't think we will know what happened for sure, for a long time.
To me, the evaluation that he was sort of apolitical is the most baffling explanation. That he was closeted bi and in a relationship with a trans or transitioning woman carries a lot of baggage when viewed by right wing hate movements who control vast parts of the government and media. But to me and probably you, this is just sort of normal for his generation. Based on that, even if he was a groyper, we won't know until we hear it from him, which we won't until after the trial. The right is too invested in hushing that part up, as I think you're alluding to.
But I don't think we are to the point of total show trials and completely fabricated evidence at the level of a court document, which itself would have to be backed by verifiable evidence. I have no doubt that facts were being massaged to fit the rights narrative, but it appears the roommate was rightfully horrified by Robinson's actions and cooperated with police, by all verifiable accounts.
I think we need to be very careful with how we perceive news as its coming in. I'm fortunate to have many people and orgs in my life where I can have detailed, deep, probing discussions about current events, because without those people I would be a stark raving lunatic right now. The conspiracy mindset seeps into every bit of my thinking, because we know there are actual conspiracies happening! We just don't know the specific content or subject of them which leads to wild speculation.
There is a period in the news cycle that I call "fog of war" where you literally can't see what is actually happening. Its usually better for ourselves and others if we reserve final judgement for when the facts are mostly all in.
They literally claimed that the “TRNS” marking on the bullet from the manufacturer was “trans ideology.”
Do we have any evidence that they were romantically involved with the “transgender roommate” or that that person was trans at all? I thought he was living with his family?
We are at the point where they are just making shit up. We know for a fact that they hired people to go through the Epstein files and remove Trump’s name. They used photoshopped pictures to claim Kilmer Garcia was a gang member. They slaughtered 11 people on a boat with no evidence that they were drug smugglers.
It is time to be fucking conspiratorial. We have a president who openly wants to be a dictator. We have an entire right wing grifter sphere that claims every single mass shooter is trans, as it fucking happens.
Stop giving charity to Patel and this administration.
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.
He is whatever will make their base ignore further and deeper encroachments in to their, and everyone American's, rights.
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.
Also Mormon and Groyper
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.
That's not a narrative though. A narrative is when he is clearly on team A or team B for a handful of cherry picked reasons that reduce his psychology to a caricature.
Coming in here with this sensible straight talking shit... Why I oughta ...
A narrative is a story, whether fictional or not.
