- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
- news@beehaw.org
Kirk’s shooter, Tyler Robinson, has apparently turned himself in, apparently after confessing to his own father (?)
I’ve tried to capture the relevant bits of this extremely rapidly updating and currently in progress series of events.
9 a.m. EDT
While appearing on Fox and Friends, Trump said “I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him in custody.”
Trump said authorities acted after receiving a tip from a minister who recognized the suspect from the images released by law enforcement.
The president said he believed the suspect’s father was also involved in arrest, but added that this information was still preliminary and the details could change.
9:15 a.m. EDT
Trump said he would attend a funeral next week for Kirk, “who should not be having a funeral right now,” when asked about his scheduled trip to the U.K. from Sept. 16-18.
9:30 a.m. EDT
The suspect was identified as Tyler Robinson, 22, from Utah, according to multiple reports citing people with knowledge of the investigation.
10:10 a.m. EDT
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox confirmed in a press conference Friday morning that a suspect named Tyler Robinson has been detained.
Apologies for this being a paywalled Forbes article.
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Lol.
The cucks over at /r/cuckservative started celebrating in a post when reports that the suspect was caught started coming in. Now that we know it was a law enforcement officer’s kid raised in a MAGA family they’re cannibalizing each other and there’s a shit ton of deleted comments and crybabies refusing to accept reality, per usual.
Sorry I am now almost 3 years clean from reddit, you mean /r/conservative, or is there an actual /r/cuckservative, which is funny because of double meta irony or something?
Either way, screencaps would be appreciated =D
Pretty sure they’re just referring to conservative, but man there really should be a cuckservative community.
I think there is a ‘conservative’ comm somewhere on lemmy… it was apparently orginally run genuienly… and then the mod quit… and then I think somebody else ‘adopted’ it… and then ran it as a parody.
Onr could say interest in the community seems pretty dead, lost its lifeblood.
EVERY. TIME. it’s revealed that the shooter is MAGA it’s always funny to stroll into /r/conservative or twitter or other places like and then watch the userbase go from cheering to proceeding to consume each others flesh. happens every time. A few start questioning their “faith” and which brings on others to begin to feast or start accusing people of being fake and then comments get deleted, threads get removed. every time.
And each time none of them are capable of taking a step back and asking “are we the baddies?”
Well, 71% of political killings in the US comes from the right. 26% comes from Muslims. Only 3% comes from the left. Go figure.
Yes, these are official US government figures. Taken down shortly after publication…
Pretty sure he’s an undeclared voter that hasn’t voted in the past two elections. I think his family is MAGA, but I don’t actually think that means he leans MAGA. It could be that he finally reached a breaking point and flipped to the other side, I don’t think we know.
Edit: nvm, I was wrong.
Hmm. He doesnt look like a Black Muslim Trans Gay Antifa
While appearing on Fox and Friends, Trump said “I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him in custody.”
In a country with a functioning justice system, that would have gotten the guy a mistrial at least. But we don’t have to worry about things like Law anymore, right Justice Boof?
Huh, you know there was a time where they didn’t want to put the shooter’s name in print and headlines after school shooting because they were worried about copycats. It was quickly abandoned because the Press are fucking monsters. I’m surprised they didn’t go back to that logic today though.
The details of this are so stupid I don’t want to believe it. I don’t want to jump straight to conspiracies before I really know much either, but seriously?
Maybe I just imagine political assassins to be more careful and intentional than they really are.
Assassinating someone means like a 99.99% chance of completely ruining your life and really fucking up the life of everyone you love. The truth is that almost nobody is noble and brave enough to do this just because they think it’s for a good cause. Less than one in a million people have that kind of conviction, period, for any reason. Now how many of them have that kind of conviction for healthy well-adjusted reasons? I would bet almost none of them. There are like 50 roads to travel to end up as a political assassin. Half of them involve doing it for your job, like with the government assassinating its enemies. The other half involve you bring completely insane or delusional. There’s literally like 1 road that is the road of just being so selflessly convicted in your beliefs that you are willing to ruin your entire existence for your cause (and this is regardless of whether your cause is actually good or not). I think this is why Luigi has stuck out as so powerful to people, because he may actually be a very very rare example of someone who derived their strong conviction without the aid of mental unwellness. (But even he got caught, so…) So yeah, I think most of the unpaid assassins are probably not mentally 100% solid lol. The fact is it is pretty much insane to decide to kill people, so it’s pretty much insane people that are killing people.
From what I am hearing from Kyle Kulinski…
The kid is very academically bright, possibly autistic, obviously into online uwu meme culture… appears to be from a well-off Republican family, which involved a good deal of being raised with guns, definitely is not registered as a Democrat, may have himself donated to Trump’s campaign, wore a Trump costume to a Halloween party… and also wrote Bella Ciao lyrics on a casing.
So… I am going with ‘very confused, nerdy, ancap kid with above average marksman skills for someone his age and no military training’.
… But thats all extremely speculative at this point.
He appears to have literally done this for the lulz, and then become overwhelmed with guilt.
I do not know what to make out of this other than our society is doomed.
I would be incredibly wary of any descriptions of his character or any details that aren’t easily corroborated by trusted sources. There is a LOT of misinformation out there.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2jaemvpgujnb5nzi66rcxhse/post/3lynjvt3yyx2q is a good breakdown which is as cited as anything gets these days.
Which lines up with what many others are saying: He is a “groyper” and seemed more alligned with the fuentes alt-right than the kirk alt-right and this seems like the sadly logical outcome of heavily armed children getting radicalized every second of the day.
I won’t be surprised if he used fediverse/Lemmy do we know what his major is?
