• TheBigL@lemmygrad.ml
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    23 days ago

    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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      23 days ago

      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.

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            Yea, but do we have every message from the last 5 years? Seems like only a select few got leaked. So I don’t think you can make any conclusions from it.

            If Ken K. went through all those messages then I’ll concede, but it doesn’t seem like it.

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              i’m not saying he is conclusively apolitical it’s just according to what i read their close friend said they weren’t political and they didn’t talk about politics much on discord its always possible he was a hardcore marxist or fascist but never talked about it to anyone out of fear of judgemnt or somdething.

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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.