crumbsroom wrote:

Also, conspiracy time, sign me up as someone who is extremely skeptical about those Tyler Robinson texts with his trans partner. This isn't to say he wasn't operating as a person violently opposed to Kirk's anti trans world view, or hadn't rejected his families conservatism, but those texts absolutely reek of being AI generated

And yet I believe these texts were provided by his trans-partner, who is cooperating.  So I don't know.  I'm still inclined generally to think that this is part of a new phenomenon of opportunist violence.  I also believe this was already established with the Butler PN shooter as well, as someone without really any definite political convictions but looking at the schedule, who's coming to town, and taking advantage.  I seem to remember hearing that the Butler shooter also googled possible Biden events in the area during the same time.  I may even propose that these shootings, blank slate, may have been decided before a target was even determined, and only after the fact rationalized.  That's my gut take.  And it follows with this feeble-ass Dallas ICE shooter, who managed to only kill the people he was purportedly trying to protect, while background investigation revealed that the guy's contacts, both online and irl, tellingly claimed that he had no political leanings at all.  The politics seem to be beside from the point, which is the simple act of killing for attention.

My own conspiratorial fetish with the Kirk situation is with this George Zinn, aka "the decoy".  Not that I think there's anything to it, necessarily.  But it's strange.  Weird people are strange.  Some old dude decides he wants to take credit for shooting Charlie Kirk, even though he doesn't have a gun, but he does have a phone full of child porn.  Like maybe you wouldn't want to make so much commotion with a pocketful of child porn, but there he is, with his pants down.  And then I read from some person that because he eventually got arrested for the child porn on his phone, that effectively blocked reporters from being able to further ask him any questions about what he was doing there in the first place.  Again, maybe just some crazy guy.  I'm just saying.  Strange.