• ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I’m a bit lost. Wasn’t the killer a far right dude who disliked Kirk and MAGA for not being far right enough/in the same ways as him?

    Can someone get me up to date?

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        Hearing that old dude read the messages was pretty fucking telling that they are making that shit up. No kid, especially a terminally 4chan one, talks like that. Maybe the stuff about the wrapping of the weapon and where he left it, but no kid is talking like a WWII love sick soldier stuck overseas.

    • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.com
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      I don’t think so. That’s what a lot of people were speculating. But seems like he mostly grew up in a MAGA family, but was queer himself, so a bit alienated from the MAGA movement due to the homophobia within it and mostly stayed out of talking about politics with his friends. Seems like he mostly just saw Kirk as a danger to himself and those he loved because of Kirk doing things like promoting violence against queer people.

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          He was allegedly in a relationship with his roommate, who may be trans.

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            Ok but where is a source reporting this? My googling is getting me Reddit or other right wing forum comments, or news articles repeating those comments as “sources”. Is it all just baseless speculation right now?

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              Yeah, that’s why I used “allegedly”, because these claims are very shaky and hard to prove one way or the other. A lot of it seems fabricated to me.

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            That means he is in a queer relationship, but not that he is queer. I suppose that doesn’t matter to conservatives either way.

            Also that info is incredibly sus and sounds fake af. The way the fbi director talks is sus, as he clearly isn’t all that competent and keeps bragging about how quickly they could release info, which is not how investigations work.

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    That ol’ boy looks like he ate the guy who ate all the pies. His blood sugar must have been low, he was just hangry. If only someone had given him a Snickers.