• lennybird@lemmy.world
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    My initial impression of his writings hit me as either Groyper posing as a leftist, or just an accelerationist psychopath.

    Either way, it doesn’t change the fact that right-wing extremism makes up the majority of violence.

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      6 hours ago

      I think a lot of people like to call people like him psychopaths, but what should a person who has no hope for the future be called when they use their life for something incredibly good like removing Kirk from the world?

      I don’t think he’s crazy. I think he’s the new normal.

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        There are VERY few situations where committing premeditated murder would be considered clinically neurotypical. The term psychopath is used so loosely, but would fall under antisocial personality disorder, which he very well could be diagnosed as.

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        If that was his thinking, then he’s terrible at foreseeing the coming chess moves from the other side.

        It was quite obvious the Trump administration was doing everything in their power to provoke something like this so they could then utilize it as their Reichstag Fire / October 7th incident to further strip civil liberties and consolidate power.

        Best thing he could’ve done was just do a public protest about Epstein and rally people to vote for midterms. I fail to see how this made vulnerable group safer in any way in all reality.

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          lol. No the best thing he could have done was shut the fuck up about it so he could keep making this place safer to live.

          You fear Trump… but the government hasn’t done anything (except ICE, I’m not forgetting about that).

          We need more American hero’s like Tyler, Tommy “bad shot” Crooks, and the dude who shot Brian what’s his name ceo that definitely was not Luigi.

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            That’s the sad part, it already isn’t. Many assholes on the right truly think they’re fighting a righteous war. Nay, a biblical crusade against evil. And they’re harming far more good people, both directly and indirectly.

            All guardrails and checks & balances have since been broken to prevent this very thing from playing out but now it all just boils down to who can push a louder message to the masses and distort their perception of reality.

            I’m pretty lost for answers on how to crawl our way out of this. My only hope is the economy tanks so hard that it hits the working class in their wallets. That’s pretty much the only thing they care about.

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              The economy is going to tank and we will have people dying in the street, mainly because the people in charge weren’t killed sooner.

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      If the Discord is real, he seemed like a pretty normal guy. Apparently he was bisexual, and his girfriend might’ve been trans. According to the source at least. I don’t know any groypers, so I don’t know how they act, but I don’t think that they’re normally fine with that sort of thing. Somewhere else said that he claimes to have done it to silence the hate that Kirk spewed, which is a fair enough reason I guess. Lots of contradictory info. Maybe he was a groyper that woke up after meeting his girlfriend. Maybe he just did it for attention. Maybe he just snapped. I’m just hoping for the best, that he did it for a decent enough reason, not to start a race war. We might even find out, if he isn’t Epsteined.