• TheBigL@lemmygrad.ml
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    Nothing really interesting imo. Just a bunch of comments that literally anyone his age would have written, e.g., cat memes, video games, weather in Utah, etc. I guess it paints him as just a normal kid but maybe he kept his thoughts to himself.

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      8 hours ago

      Yea i find it harder to believe that some normal guy decided to whack a political commentarist.

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      That’s exactly what’s interesting about this. The Media is probably freaking the fuck out right now because he was a regular kid like Luigi. Not easy to define as simply left or right. A normal person with his own life that was still being harmed by the system. It’s still rule numero uno of revolution: When the system no longer works for the middle class or the elite. That’s what’s freaking them the fuck out.

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        Yea, but you could find these kind of messages from anyone. 99% of everyone’s messages are gonna be mundane boring shit. What’s the point of posting those? Plus, aren’t most shooters just normal people with their own lives?

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          But if they try to force this to be a political issue, despite the testimonies of his closest friends, they can use that to crack down on the left even further. Likely using ICE and the NSA.

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          iirc the majority of mass shooters are cishet white incel types. if not outright incels like kinda cishetw hiincel vibes if you get what i meant. I woudln’t really consider those types normal people tbh.

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            But even if they were not “normal”, you could still find these types of messages. Maybe they had a physical journal with all the hate but online they lived behind a mask.

            Like it’s one thing to say, “hey, we searched all his messages and found nothing weird,” but it means nothing to say, “hey, we found a few messages and they are very normal.” It doesn’t give us any information. Of course you’ll find some of those messages.