Summary: probably bi (favors lgbt rights), more apolitical than you think, nothing in the discord is a smoking gun of it being an online radicalization hotbed like Patel etc are hoping for.
His friends are just as confused as anyone else about his motive.
Listening to the press conference happening right now, they just read out the texts from the same day to the roommate/partner/girlfriend and it sounds like she is just as confused as everyone else and was totally out of the loop.
Reposting from the other thread:
Imagine if the motive is literally “I thought it would be funny”
I’ve heard worse reasons
I mean
Oh no. IDIFTL*
spoiler
*“I did it for the lulz” aka troll’s remorse.
Seems like it’s relevant to mention that this article confirms he was in a relationship with his roommate.
If he was truly in love with a trans woman, yeah, I could see him snapping even if he wasn’t very politically activated elsewhere.