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
UPDATE 1: Tyler apparently donated to TRUMP??? WHAT- UPDATE 2: ignore update 1
- UPDATE 3: new link to donations check (POTENTIALLY MISLEADING!!!)
Tyler Robinson’s mugshot
Other sources:
Yeah that was a generalized plural “you” not meant accusatorially.
This is just how those guys are. They are “at war” with what they see as “pro-Jew” (aka Zionist Christians) like Kirk was. They literally say they’re at war. Fuentes says that. He hates Israel because he’s a legit antisemite and just associates Israel with Jews whom he hates. He’s that type of antisemitic as opposed to Kirk who was also antisemitic but pro-Israel. The “They should leave our country” types and the “we need gas chambers” types. Kirk was the former; Fuentes is the latter.
Fuentes and those guys generally love Trump for obvious reasons, but they absolutely hate his pro-Israel Zionist policies. They are actively trying to purge that Zionist side of the right wing.
But yeah they use all these little 4chan memes, co-opted lib or left language, songs, etc. It’s all meant in a very dark and I suppose “ironic” sense. Online left also repurposes right wing memes from time to time. It requires someone who spends an unfortunate amount of time online to pick apart the irony and point to what the “joke” is supposed to be.
Yes. If anyone is confused about using a Helldivers meme when that game is a satire of fascism, they know that. There is a big stink over media literacy and it’s become it’s own meme. They purposefully choose antifascist media to champion and they interpret it unironically out of spite. They make fun of those trying to make fun of them for not getting the point. They know the point but they don’t care. They see Helldivers and they want that to be America and the bugs/robots/etc to be…you know. They love Starship Troopers. They love American Psycho. There’s no real way to beat them with media literacy. They know subtext is dead and they love it.
It hadn’t really clicked for me until now that the Helldivers reference is meta-ironic.
Most established institutions and academia, as well as non-online older than zoomer people, cant really comprehend the whole meta-ironic ideology running amok.
Buddy, most established institutions aren’t even ready to parse that it’s a gaming reference.
after reading this i feel like doing a double volunteering shift tomorrow. the web is not for me gang
goddamn, sometimes i’m kind of glad i don’t use the internet that much. think i’m gonna go for a walk now.