the trans roommate, "kirk is full of hate", the bella ciao and "hey fascist catch!". there's a reason why the current narrative is so hyperfocused on these things. it all plays into the recently propped up agenda of transgender people being "inherently violent" which is the card they always like to pull when it comes to minorities. someway, somehow the feds will find a way to pin at least some responsibility on said roommate just for the crime of being trans under a regime that's dead set in causing as much pain to the trans community as possible. even the legal documents that mention the trans roommate go out of their way to misgender her. but on the other side of the spectrum, you go to places like twitter and their conspiracy fanfiction it makes the feds look sane in comparison. it truly boggles the mind at how there will always be a subset of people that will bend over backwards to draw parallels where there aren't any to use a man's murder to further subjugate a minority they hate.

probably the most batshit theory i've come across so far was about...

potentially triggering

...the island on tyler's wallpaper. apparently there's a restaurant (?) named valhalla on the island. some individuals immediately linked that to patel doing his weird viking larp at the arrest announcement fbi conference, and then determined that somehow that larp is a hint that the murder was set up by the government to do ???

people will see what they want to see. that's how our brains are wired. we intrinsically seek out a set of patterns we've grown accustomed to in everything we come across. people on hexbear saw the "bella ciao" and the helldivers references and immediately assumed that the kid was a groyper. on the other hand, 4chan saw the "OwO what's this?" and brought out an arsenal of slurs to call tyler. that's how the ball rolls. i guess things haven't really changed in that regard. i doubt the truth about the vietnam war made headlines back in the day. but back then the issue with information exchange was how limited it was. nowadays, the issue is how unlimited it all is. there's so much information about everything that eventually the truth just gets drowned out by hours upon hours of useless commentary, cracked theories and misinformation pumped out by AI and malicious actors. there is simply too much of everything. anyone can go online and make a claim, and no matter how absolutely insane it is, it will find its audience and become someone's mantra of what really happened.

conspiracies are symptoms of a system which routinely bullshits the people. all we can really do as individuals is learn how to pick apart hidden agendas in the tainted information we're fed and draw our own conclusions.