After the suspected shooter has been detained, the FBI held a press conference to report on the case and announce the next steps going forward. Spoiler: we, as leftists, are fucked.

Key points:

  • The shooter is Tyler Robinson of Utah.
  • His friend reported him to the FBI.
  • Tyler’s Discord messages have been used as evidence, as provided by his roommate.
  • Robinson has been reported to be getting increasingly political, and during dinner one day, he spoke about how Kirk was “full of hate”. UPDATE 4: Tyler did not say that.
  • The casings do not contain any trans references. But they do have anti-fascist rhetoric (bella ciao and “notices bulges OwO” included) and symbols engraved in them.
  • Tyler was taken into custody on September 11th, 10 PM local time.
  • The investigation is still ongoing.
  • One guy cried while speaking.
  • Thousands of more leads of potential accomplices are being followed.
  • No other arrests are known
  • Tyler drove to campus on a car.
  • It’s not known if Tyler is mentally ill.
  • The charging documents will be filed 3 days from now (September 16), then a preliminary hearing will take place.

(Added by LangleyDominos)

  • Patel awkwardly trying to signal the Norse viking larp shit. “Charlie, I’ll see you in Valhalla”
  • Utah Governor Cox told everyone to log off and stop consuming rage bait, called social media a cancer, and that everyone should “touch grass” (his actual words).

UPDATES

Tyler Robinson’s mugshot

Other sources:

BBC

New York Times

CNN

  • spectre [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    There’s a very reasonable chance he made a quick turn to radlib circles in the past couple years and was exposed to the song.

    I hope to be wrong. I guess there are apparently a solid portion (majority?) of helldivers players that miss all the irony so maybe it tracks?

    I guess I don’t think it’s worth saying that the song itself means one thing or the other, but it’s new to me that it was appropriated by groyper culture (among others, like you said).

    The one that’s still unaccounted for I guess is the “die fascist” or whatever that sounds more liberal than groyper.

    • frogbellyratbone_ [e/em/eir, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      20·
      1 day ago

      idk. i really just don’t see it whatsoever. all of the casings are nick fuentes 4chan neonazi memes.

      i mean watching the press conference iwth the FBI they are fucking quiet all of a sudden. watching Trump who wouldn’t shut up about it is suddenly quiet and dodging questions about his ideology. if this kid was a liberal or leftist there’d be lib/leftist influencers getting arrested literally right now as i type this.

      come on now…

      edit: lol if it was a leftist there’d be some long written 5,000 page manifesto about more bullshit leftist philosophy that only like 0.00001% of the world can even comprehend. lolz

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      There is not a single leftist that I am aware of that uses Helldivers memes, ironically or unironically. I have seen it used to make fun of trying to apply Helldiver logic to other games, but that is about it.

      And I say that as someone who is in the top 5% of playtime for it. The problem is that the actual fascists fucking ruined it because you know what they mean when they say stuff like ‘clackers’. For me it’s an immediately boot and block.

        • TreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          6·
          24 hours ago

          I thought people were cooking abit too hard on it myself, but the ‘you’re gay’ and ‘OwO’ inscriptions are what convinced me that it was a groyper.

          Irony poisoned leftists don’t call other people gay, they call themselves gay, and the OwO is pretty much only used around here and 4chan (as many of us are 4chan expats), and I doubt a leftist would attempt to implicate furries into whatever stupid shit they are doing. I am literally friends with furries and it comes up maybe once a year, at most, and certainly isn’t the most memorable meme that exists within the community. It’s a right-wing obsession that tracks into all of their discourse.

          Everything else was just chaff as far as I was concerned, but now that context has been provided, that 100% tracks.

          That said, dust won’t settle until the discord logs are actually released.

    • pppp1000 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      1 day ago

      You can look at how quickly the right wing politicians have backtracked on the retaliation talk. They wouldn’t do that if this guy wasn’t ideologically one of them.