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I have seen comments on HN posting this narrative as well. It defies comprehension. One of the pieces of evidence used to spin this story is the suspect wearing
by zahlman 1y ago
I have seen comments on HN posting this narrative as well. It defies comprehension. One of the pieces of evidence used to spin this story is the suspect wearing a Trump costume for Hallowe'en, as a 14-year-old, in 2017 (the year that this costume was popular; the entire point was to protest Trump by treating him as a literal boogeyman).
(But of course, it is only seemingly all of Bluesky; and of course it's very easy on social media to start filtering for this content once you first encounter it.)
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]
- f33d5173 1y agoPeople are calling for violence against left wingers at large because of this one lone wolf. I don't blame people who want to disassociate from him.
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]
- zahlman 1y ago> People are calling for violence against left wingers at large I have seen nothing of the sort, and I have access to beyond-the-Overton-window right-wing sources. What they have been doing, instead, is pointing out the Bluesky users that TFA concerns itself with.
- f33d5173 1y agoConsider turning on showdead and looking at your sibling comment lol
- maxerickson 1y agoWhy do you think the killer had to have a coherent motive?
- zahlman 1y agoI'm inclined to think that a gunman without a coherent motive wouldn't write slogans on the bullets, for one thing.
- kevinh 1y agoOne of the "slogans" was a reference to the game Helldivers 2. They were memes.
- maxerickson 1y agoYou think that writing messages on the casings is obviously coherent?