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NYT publishes court documents for Tyler Robinson, alleged Charlie Kirk shooter (includes text messages between Tyler Robinson and roommate)
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Fuck.
The facts are he was allegedly bi, dating a trans person, killed Kirk for his hate, his family will corroborate he was a "loony leftist" and blame the internet and college most likely for taking their best attempt at raising a chud and turning him into the person he ended up as who disagreed with them on politics. Given he didn't go on any rants about Jews or anything like that (the only other option being thinking Kirk hated white people for not being against the Jews enough) I think the chances are near zero he wasn't just a liberal or vaguely left type person. Probably didn't really have anything super concrete himself in terms of political ideology other than not wanting to be his parents, not agreeing with his parents and MAGA, etc which is good enough to call him a liberal/leftist unfortunately.
Nothing else really matters. This is the cold, hard, damning evidence the right needs to paint this as an assassination by a leftist. I guess we can be thankful he wasn't a member of a communist party and it seems unlikely he organized with antifa or other groups, and he didn't post a ton of overtly leftist political stuff for them to show around but he'll be painted as antifa anyways (the anti-fascist song inscription on the bullet seals that) and this will be used as an example of liberal/left "intolerance" and violence against the "totally peaceable" right.
All these attempts at nuance are not strong enough and take too much thought and good faith. The right will be able to successfully blast out that he was a radicalized liberal-leftist who hated conservatives, was part of some imagined by the right "violent trans" agenda or movement they're trying to conjure up. The likely interviews from his family where the ridiculous hogs bray about how he was a radical and changed from a good little chudlet into a crazed leftist (as defined by Fox News) will be blasted around likely by all the usual bourgeois press. The liberal conclusion will be we need to tackle "online radicalization no matter what ideology" and the right will take that and run with it to force censorship of the left on major platforms, force major platforms to feed more automated reporting data on anyone talking in too leftist a manner to the police state priority flagged, etc.
Considering what we've already heard of discord pro-actively giving police info on people buying t-shirts and cops calling them in a chilling effects way it's concerning. And explains why they're harping on the online angle so much because that's seemingly the goal here.
They were already painting it as an assassination by a leftist minutes after he was shot and would have continued to do so no matter how much the evidence proved otherwise. The truth does not matter to these people.
You're right though, they're gonna make shit as nasty as they can. The fascist takeover is accelerating.