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    We need an archive link to this from this guy OR someone else verifying that this is true. I tried to find it, but couldn’t. I’ll give everyone a half an hour.

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      I now spent close to an hour trying to figure out Robinson’s political leanings, and as of right now the internet simply does not know.

      This is the closest:

      A public records database shows Robinson’s family resides in Washington, Utah, where Trump garnered support from 75% of voters in the 2024 presidential election. Robinson’s parents have Republican listed as their party affiliation, said public voter registration information, and they are considered active voters (each cast ballots in the 2024 election that gave Trump a second presidency).

      Public records also indicated Robinson registered as a voter in Utah in July 2021 but was considered inactive and did not declare an affiliation to any party when he registered.

      And then there’s a lot of talk about bullet engravings which leave me very confused. How can you engrave “If you’re reading this you’re gay” - 26 characters onto a single bullet? Even so, the messaging is open to interpretation. We simply do not know yet, and we might never know 100%! He’s conflicted, that much seems clear.

      IMHO most timely and objective article as of right now: LA Times

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        30.06 is a large bullet and the words were allegedly written on the cases of the bullets, not the rounds themselves. Good to be skeptical but a fine point Sharpie could get 26 characters on there if you had small handwriting or did multiple lines or whatever.

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          Yup. And you could probably engrave it with a nail, so the barrier here is pretty low, but it would probably take an hour or so to engrave a simple message because it’s kinda hard.

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          I don’t know what the commenter meant, but my guess would be that they meant the statement could’ve been a lighthearted joke or homophobic and it isn’t clear which.

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            it’s 4chan drivel, i called it from the text alone even before the Nick Fuentes angel

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        I’m going to leave this up and let you all decide if this is true or not. He hasn’t been confirmed as this journalist, but x is a POS organization, so everyone gets to decide for themselves.

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          I trust David Shuster as a journalist, but I personally really would prefer more evidence.

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    I’m hearing the shooter had a trans girlfriend from a right wing friend of mine, but I can’t find proof, does anyone know what he’s talking about?

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      No. It’s likely he’s just repeating some propaganda. There’s been a lot of accusations with no proof and this is probably another one.

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        Apparently Right Wing Media is reporting he had a trans girlfriend. But I can’t find any trustworthy sources.

        Even the New York Post article I read says that the person was neither his girlfriend or even trans (but totally considering it)

        Mostly the article spun its wheels saying how much Kirk practiced love by hating transpeople. Because war is peace don’t you know…

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      Some marking on the bullet got around, I think it was TRN but that’s the manufacturer of the bullet if it’s accurate. Apparently that is, I willI will say cause there’s been so much crap about this douche being killed it’s muddying any real info. Also read that the manufacturer doesn’t make bullets for that caliber (30 odd 6? For a hunting rifle, I don’t know guns well but know it’s a hunting type still) so I really dunno and I did not look into that so need to check that out if it’s important to the story. I only saw the the manufacturer didn’t make that caliber from a single comment but read many with the bullet marking and one mentioned the pic going around is a 9mm.

      Don’t take my word for this Ive just been reading about the story, but it’s what I’ve gleened from them all.

      It appears he was just a more extreme right wing person than even the deceased is and that provoked him into action. Seems likely from due to how easily they’re (extreme right wing) provoked in general.

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        Just a slight correction, it’s “thirty ought six” or “30-06” where thirty is the caliber(diameter of projectile) and ought six is the year the military adopted it. Not that that makes much difference, I’m just a nerd.

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          I appreciate the correction I always heard odd not ought but probably cause I heard it much, much younger heh. Grew up in a small town in Canada so was just thinking how I heard it (seriously all these years heard 30 odd 6 in my memory), maybe our accent too. Have a good one, appreciate the knowledge! Always a good day when you learn something new, doesn’t happen as often these days.

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    A very deep sigh of relief was uttered by me, but then turned into a groan of frustration, because all those right wing nutcases who were calling for the heads of all leftists are now again demanding sympathy. Fuck them.

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      remember, Charlie Kirk did not believe in empathy, so fulfill his wishes and do not have any for him

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        This is the full quote.

        No, don’t “oh that’s still bad”, you thought all the people repeating half of the quote weren’t lying to you with the specific goal of justifying murder. Classic brown shirt behavior.

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          Sympathy is for something that happened. Empathy connects you to others and prevents the need for sympathy. That being said, where’s the full quote on “a woman’s place is under her husband’s thumb.” Or him calling for the release and exoneration of the dude who attacked Nancy pelosi’s husband?

          Something something brown shirts?

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      I’m still thinking a lot of those “people” are just “bots”

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    … Am i the only one who was hoping to find out what the hell a “groyper” is somewhere in this thread? Sounds like something I don’t want in my search history.

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      The Google search data blew up about that topic.

      It’s a right-wing group by Nick Fuentes. A combination of edge lord shit and believing the the right isn’t pushing even harder.

      They loved Trump until they didn’t. And honestly, it’s kind of ironic watching Frankestein’s monster go wild.

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    MAGA shit: the more right the shooter the more it proves how much the left has brainwashed him. Not a good look for liberals.

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      “You woke libs. Your message of peace, tolerance, and wanting the best out of everyone made this man into a violent murderer.”

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        They are already saying he had a trans ex. Must be nice to make up your own world as you see fit. Notice how an actual leftist (Mario’s brother) actually took out some of consequence, and not just a talking head?

        Everything I know about Charles kirkenbitch is against my will. If the media never mentioned this, I would have never known he got taken out. But he is still just a talking head. Speed you who right winged people think are important (read; the ones they pay attention to)

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    The thing that really got me is that anyone believes the thing about the bullet casings being engraved at all. That’s the kind of detail that’s just too easy to fabricate, and I can’t believe I bought it when they said the United Healthcare killer engraved HIS bullets. There’s no way for any news source to be sure which bullets actually came from the gun; also, wouldn’t evidence like that be kept secret by the police?

    I dunno maybe I’m too paranoid, I just believe literally nothing from any media outlet anymore; they’re all owned by Larry Ellison’s kid

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      The WSJ said there was stuff written on the bullets, and shortly afterward walked their statements back, so you are right to be skeptical

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      I don’t buy the engraving story, with Luigi it kinda made sense cause it was one word per bullet, and that was logical to me. But a full setence on a bullet? Not buying it.

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      Does it really matter?

      The 30-06 casing is pretty big, and has about 2"/50mm of space before it tapers down to where the bullet is. There’s plenty of space for a short message, and you could probably engrave it with a nail. I’m guessing it would take a couple hours to engrave four bullets, which is totally feasible.

      We have specific messages, and the benefit to lying about it is incredibly low, so why bother?

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        They falsely claimed the “engravings” were something to do with “trans ideology,” so the benefit is whipping up more hatred.

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        I disagree, the benefit to lying about it was huge at the moment of the lie, and I definitely don’t put it past the fascists at the WSJ to fabricate this

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        The benefit is really low?

        Those “engravings” have been used in the last 48 hours to call for a civil war. I’m unsure what you mean with “benefits” to one side being “low” here

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          It means the messages aren’t specific to any one movement. It seems like wasted effort if they were going to slot him in to any category, since they’re open to interpretation as either ultra right wing memes or antifacist memelord quotes. Depending on the news source, they are being interpreted differently.

          Or, maybe “they” made it intentionally occlusive to avoid a civil war. Because let’s face it, the right were calling for a violence before the casings even came out. Hell, they were calling for violence before the shooting, too.

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            My take is that since the public just wholesale bought the story about the UHC CEOs murderer engraving 9mm bullets, someone at WSJ (owned by Rupert/Lachlan Murdock, known Nazis and accelerationists) decided “hey let’s tell everyone these bullets had engravings too” and intentionally left the “messages” on the bullets vague enough to go either way. Once it was out there, people ran with it cause it sounded plausible.

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              Oh, I agree. I’m not sold on them even existing, either. But I’m debating available reported evidence.

              My new personal, not totally serious, conspiracy theory is: They are real, Tyler is an edgy memelord with no affiliation, and someone at one of these organizations shoehorned the Groyper connection because they own Groyper Coin.

              Is it plausible? Maybe. But we’re in a platos’ cave of media lies just trying to figure out what the shapes mean.

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                “A Plato’s cave of media lies” LOL too fucking true, they’ve figured out how to propagate lies everywhere simultaneously

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    Call me cynical, but I’m convinced that the MAGA mouthpieces all knew full well from the start that the balance of probability was that it would be one of their own.

    They knew they’d have maybe 48 hours max to flood all outlets and social media with stories of it being a suspected trans activist, so that by the time the truth came out the story would already be old news and people would be fatigued and just remember that there was some uncertainty over his motives.

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      I have not watched the video yet (nor do I plan to), but it’s easily enough still online. I don’t think this one is as forgettable considering it was live streamed basically.

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        I think Kirk is already forgotten. We’re dealing with a talking point like Mr Potato Head going woke or Gulf of Mexico. If it’s popular the topic sticks around. But nobody cares about Kirk, the actual person who lived and had various opinions.

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    No matter how far to the right you are there will always be someone more right than you and will kill you for being too leftist.

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      Maybe the shooter thought they had been hidden on a microchip in Charlie’s neck and just wanted to let them out

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    A groyper is a made up term by maga. Its only purpose is to allow maga to distance itself from when one of their cult members follows through on the rhetoric and hate that maga preaches. That is all this term is. It is so that maga can still be as racist and bigoted as they want to be, but distance themselves from the violent acts of their own people. Do not believe anything else you read about this term.

    Edit- typos

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    I doubt many are scrubbing anything. They’re secure in their hate. Anyway, the right plays with fire inciting extremism, it’s just as likely to turn on them as the left.