• Carcharodonna [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    23 hours ago

    Ok so it doesn’t look like he is a groyper and I’m happy to admit I was wrong about this. Definitely doesn’t seem like he was a leftist either. My biggest takeaway from this is… How the fuck does someone go from never being even remotely vocal about politics in Discord servers to… Feeling strongly enough about something political to go and shoot someone over it? Seems weird. Really fucking weird.

    I wasn’t on the conspiracy train before, but this kinda has my gears turning a little.

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      23 hours ago

      I hate to say it but if Ken is right and he actually is dating his roommate, the simplest explanation is that the current narrative that this shooting was motivated by trans discourse might be correct, although prescribing blame to the roommate is completely incorrect and ghoulish.

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    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.

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      favors lgbt rights

      Also remember that to his maga family and the greater maga people following this case, this alone makes him a “radical antifa supersoldier”. So when they say he “leans left/radical left” that’s enough of a foundation. Maybe something else will some out later though.