Cross-posted from "The Guardian Retracts Their Coverage of the Shooter Being a Leftist" by @livejamie@lemmy.zip in !chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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The casings were engraved with groyper memes, yes.
I haven't seen any convincing evidence of this yet. It's definitely a possibility, but we shouldn't act like it's been confirmed.
As I said in another comment, groypers and their ilk coopt existing symbols to identify themselves. They act in the realm of plausible deniability, making it very hard to prove who is and isn't part of the movement.
Most of the inscriptions could also support the conclusion that he's on the left. (More plausibly than they support the groyper idea, imo)
Or maybe he's just a nihilist who wanted to be famous and filled the bullets with ironic memes and video game references.
The case is not closed on his motivations.
Every single thing was a groyper meme.
He wore a trump costume. He wore a Pepe costume.
If each casing existed in a vaccum, and there were no other information whatsoever (like his father wearing 3 percenter shirts, the costumes, even the timing of him becoming political) I'd be able to agree with you.
I'm not saying his motives are confirmed, but to say he's not a groyper would be ignoring the information we do have.
Ah shit, a guy who shot up a school likes 4chan? Who could've seen that coming. Now it's a lemmy meme. You looked at this ur gay.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Tyler Robinson shot Kirk. The Colorado school shooter from the same day is a different person.
And those aren't Lemmy memes - do you know what a groyper is?
Awh shit, wrong thread lmao