hokiewolf said:Civilized said:hokiewolf said:caryking said:Civilized said:jkpackfan said:Civilized said:jkpackfan said:Civilized said:jkpackfan said:Civilized said:Gulfstream4 said:
Civ: he was MAGA
Police: He had anti fascist and trans writing on his rounds
Also Civ: he was a Republican
Kids parents: he became an Antifa supporter
Civ: it's clear he was MAGA
Friend: he became radical the last 2-3 years, was in the DSA.
Civ: yep…he's a republican
You're aware that Nick Fuentes and other alt-right extremist agitators and folks like Laura Loomer regularly called out Charlie Kirk as being fascist, right? That they viewed him as being too establishment and not right enough?
You're also aware that the slogans on the bullets are anti-trans, anti-gay slogans commonly used by followers of Fuentes?
And finally you're aware that Nick Fuentes himself came out yesterday denouncing and disavowing violence by his followers?
Fox News likely didn't mention any of this yesterday I bet but the biggest clue that this kid may not have been the rad-lib lefty convert you're making him out to be is the crickets from all the leaders and advisors that were so irresponsibly calling for civil war and crying about the radical left for a day and a half.
Think maybe that's a sign they think the call may have come from inside the building?
One of the bullets read "Hey fascist, catch". I guess msnbc must've left that one off. He was a leftist and I can't believe you're arguing otherwise but I shouldn't be surprised.
I guess the governor and his family are all lying.
"At a press conference announcing Robinson's arrest Friday, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said a family member told investigators, "Robinson had become more political in recent years," and expressed dislike for Kirk, who Robinson said was "full of hate" and "spreading hate."
Investigators are still looking through evidence and trying to determine a motive in the slaying.
Along with a bolt-action rifle that was abandoned in a wooded area, investigators also recovered ammunition that bore various markings, according to authorities.
Engraving on one bullet casing in the rifle read, "Hey fascist! Catch!" according to Cox.
Other casings bore references to memes from online chat rooms, including "notices, bulges, OwO, what's this?" and "If you read this, you are gay LMAO." One was etched with lyrics from an Italian antifascism song from World War II
When asked about the motive of the gunman, Cox suggested the "Hey fascist" marking clearly showed the gunman's intent: "I think that speaks for itself," he said."
Yep, go read about Fuentes' Groyper culture. Nearly a million of his followers get to listen to Fuentes regularly accuse Kirk of being a fascist.
And then listen to Fuentes disavow violence by his followers yesterday. That community thinks Robinson was quite possibly one of them.
All these slogans fit more neatly within that group than any other. Again, anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-fascism is exactly what they're about.
Most shooters like this profile as young, white, disaffected, and without any coherent ideology.
But if you're taking bets, doesn't it seem somewhat more likely that a kid that grew up ensconced in right-wing culture and wore Trump Halloween costumes and loved guns and was raised in a very conservative church in a very conservative state went a few clicks further right, and found Fuentes, than he suddenly went twenty clicks left and suddenly fell into rad-lib extremism (which is also far less often violent)?
I mean anything is possible but which seems more probable?
Lmfao holy hell. I'm gonna do the board a favor and stop responding to **** like this.
As gulf mentioned, one of the bullets read bella ciao bella which is a song the global left has rallied around including antifa. I seriously can't believe this is where you're going.
There's a reason why no one at the top on the right is calling out the radical left today like they were two days ago. That's not coincidence.
They didn't suddenly find discretion and empathy.
I'd start there.
The "global left" is a nebulous boogeyman. What evidence or indication is there that this loon was a disciple of the "global left?"
What hard-core lefty writes "If you can read this you are gay" on a bullet?
What we do have is pictures of this clown wearing a Nick Fuentes Pepe the Frog costume and a Trump costume, and bullets that all referenced Nick Fuentes alt-right Groyper memes.
Maybe that means nothing but at this point circumstantial evidence ain't pointing towards this guy being a radlib.
Oh yes it definitely is. What hard core righty says I don't like Charlie Kirk because he says hurtful things? Or hey fascist catch? Yeah totally a right winger. How damn stupid this all is.
Nick Fuentes is who says that.
Go read about how much Nick Fuentes and his million followers hate Charlie Kirk.
I think we call agree that Nick Fuentes is a fringe, at best, character. Now, regarding the last 10-15 years… yea, I'm not doing that exercise; however, I have very little doubt that you and I would have different results.
so, in my previous post, results meant exactly as I said. The left ideological killings have been getting good results. Well, I say that, but Trump is still here…
Cv will eventually realize he can't win this argument as the most current political violence has been perpetrated by folks with an extreme left wing agenda. The quicker folks like him and to some respect me acknowledge that, the easier it is to address all the other whataboutism occurrences of violence.
But, when it boomerangs around, and it will someday, you've got to be willing to do the same thing.
Only then will the political and media landscape change for the better.
What are you talking about exactly?
For the three-year period 2022-2024 in the US, nearly all extremist murders were white nationalist or alt-right.
If you're talking about a relative increase in non-lethal, alt-left violence, that's a lot harder to quantify than fatal political violence, but the absolute rates of violence - certainly fatal violence - by alt-left and alt-right groups does not tip towards "most being perpetrated by folks with an extreme left-wing agenda" by any quantification I've seen, from any source.
I think people that make that erroneous assumption are conflating "acts perpetrated against the right" and "acts perpetrated by the left" and leaning into recency bias because of the Trump attempts and now Kirk. They continue repeating erroneous information like the attempts against Trump or the Minnesota lawmakers were perpetrated by the left, which is demonstrably false, and leaving out the large proportion of bad actors for whom there is no discernible, coherent political ideology motivating them.
Y'all feel free to share any data to the contrary.
If you can't acknowledge the extremism problem on your own side, you'll do nothing to make it better. It has nothing to do with data. Until you start with this, you're never going to change the opinion.
It's my opinion that those on the lefter side of the Democratic Party are a lot quicker to label large swaths of the population they don't agree with a broad brush of all kinds of evil labels. That has an impact that trickles down all the way to the rabbit holes that radicalized these shooters. Gotta be willing to clean your own house first.
Let me say clearly - I acknowledge there is extremism on both sides.
What I have seen no evidence for is that more violent, or a higher quantity of extremist actions - especially fatal - are coming from the left over any reasonable sample size, which is what you seemed to be saying, and what most everyone on this board seems to repeat ad nauseam.
We can acknowledge reality, and base it on facts and data instead of emotion. We have an extremism problem, and that very much includes extremists on both sides, especially white nationalists, that are quantitatively the worst group of offenders on either side by far.
When you say "the lefter side of the Democratic Party" do you mean Democratic party leaders, or rando lefties on Twitter?
How do you contextualize the tone that the President, his family, close advisors, and Party leaders set in this analysis? How do you weigh the importance of the President's words and actions relative to those of tertiary politicians or random people?
You say we're not going to get anywhere until all the extremism gets acknowledged and we stop painting with a broad brush, but that seems like high irony when the loudest voices on this board and on the right nationally, including the President, paint with broad brushes almost all the time in a way for which there is no corollary on the left.
We should both know this - we both get attacked personally and lumped into buckets on here constantly, instead of just debating the points we're making. You've got Bas on here today literally saying "50% of Democrats want to assassinate Trump and Musk," which is preposterous. You've got me getting personally attacked by him for simply pointing out that it doesn't benefit anyone to rush to judgment when the facts of this case are still very much in the discovery phase and there are absolutely alternative explanations for the shooter's motivations that are worth considering.
Can we agree the approach the Utah governor has taken - broadly heartfelt, genuine, and contextualized to illustrate that political violence does not abide by party lines and impacts the world we all live in - is the tone and example that our leaders need to take, and that it is the virtual antithesis of the current President and his family and advisor's recent words about this event?
We need leadership, maturity, kindness, and action at times like this, no? That's what Cox in Utah has done. More of that, please, especially at the national level.
Here's my proposal. Generalizing doesn't solve problems. Just call out specific people and specific actions when we see them. Whoever is misbehaving, call them out and hold them accountable, for their conduct or their bad policy, both in the moment and on election day.