For starters, I don't think either Ken Klippenstein or Jeff St. Clair is totally right.
On Wednesday, Ken dropped a piece about Robinson's Discord gaming server chats. And, although his may be an "exclusive" on actually publishing the chats, per old MSM The Guardian, the analysis is not, with its link to a piece at the Garbageday Substack have them picking up the "extremely online" nature of Robinson already last week Friday, in "Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme." They, in turn, take this back to the New Zealand mass murderer of 2019.
On him not fitting other profiles? At least Ken is open enough to print a comment from a Robinson friend that, IMO, undercuts the "he's not a loner" claim:
“Everyone who knew him liked him and he was always nice, a little quiet and kept to himself mostly but wasn't a recluse,” the childhood friend said.
There you go, and with that, St. Clair.
The Counterpunch supremo said last week that he essentially thoughts Robinson DID "fit a profile." And, although I didn't post all 8 points on my quote-tweet of Klipp's Substack, I will here, because they show he's not totally right, either. He says Robinson was:
1. White
2. Male
3. Loner
4. Smart but alienated
5. Withdrawn
6. Lived in fantasy/gamer world
7. Access to guns, trained how to use them
8. Incel
Given that Garbageday and Klipp and all over the interwebz reports Robinson had a transgender partner of some sort (sexual? just a roommate? roommates with benefits?) and Klipp talks about bisexuality (perhaps without warrant, as sexual relationship identity, ie gay/straight/bi etc is NOT the same as gender identity, ie transgender, and gender is not the same as sex, before we forget), in any case, the "incel" is out of line, and potentially libelous I would think.
But, per Garbageday, the rest of the stuff is spot-on, if their speculative analysis is right.
But the conflicting tone of the bullet casings’ inscriptions may also point to a connection with the Com network and the 764 terror cell offshoot. We’ve covered these groups several times on Panic World. They primarily exist inside of Discord and Telegram group chats. They recruit vulnerable young people around the internet, including inside of multiplayer games like Minecraft and Roblox. They encourage their members to commit horrible crimes with the promise of internet clout, intentionally using conflicting political messages to obscure any larger motive besides inspiring other members of the group to do the same. A month after a school shooter made an “OK” hand sign post, mentioned above, another teenager in Nashville made the exact same joke before allegedly shooting classmates at their high school. ProPublica found they crossed paths several times in these online communities, and the Nashville shooter was making a deliberate reference to his fellow community member. Which is what is so existentially terrifying about our current political moment.
There you go.
In addition, Ken, since he had multiple Discord accounts, how do you know you're seeing everything, or even a fairly representative amount of everything, that Robinson had on Discord? "Multiple" sounds like more than two, and two is as many as Ken cites.
For that matter, Ken, how do you know you're not being used in some way?
In addition, Garbageday talks about Tyler Robinson's possible links to Nick Fuentes and the groyper movement. Discussion about this, including quote-tweets of the alt-racist himself, were trending on Shitter Thursday evening.
Hell, a couple of days after Ken, NPR was going deeper on the gaming culture with a story focused on Robinson engaging in "performative violence."
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Via Garbageday, to pivot back to Kirk, "shock me," given the reaction of conservative younger Catholics in my area, that he first launched to stardom, or whatever, at Benedictine University.
Back to Robinson. That piece, as well as the previous one, wonders if, transgender roommate or whatever and all, if he didn't really have Nick Fuentes-type animus against Kirk.
And, if the Utah County DA isn't lying out his ass, and Tyler does NOT have Fuentes-type animus against Kirk, it looks like his parents are throwing him halfway under the bus.
So with that all in mind, my header punning on edgelord.
And also thinking Klipp didn't dive deep, and may have been used.
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