• aegisgfx877@kbin.social
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    “Robert Card’s social media sites showed support for Trump, among other politicians. As shown by the video, Card liked tweets from high-profile conservative figures such as Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson, Dinesh D’Souza. He also engaged with publications from former house speakers Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan, as per the video.”

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      He had clear mental health issues. He recently lost a girlfriend and a job. He shot up two locations where he and that girlfriend had spent time. His body was found next to the recycling center he’d been fired from.

      He was also a right-wing militia nut job, but nothing about this spree killing suggests that his motivations for it were political.

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      It isn’t immediately apparent to me how the actions he took would advance any political cause, or why he would think that it would.