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Right now seemingly all of Bluesky is in a frenzy trying to insinuate that this killer is somehow a Republican or "MAGA." Or a Groyper. The level of cognitive

Right now seemingly all of Bluesky is in a frenzy trying to insinuate that this killer is somehow a Republican or "MAGA." Or a Groyper. The level of cognitive dissonance when people lock themselves in echo chambers is truly astonishing. You can literally scroll for hours, thousands of posts of people making the same sorts of outrageous and deflective claims. https://bsky.app/profile/trending.bsky.app/feed/412019139 https://bsky.app/profile/trending.bsky.app/feed/412019139

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mkfs 1y ago
I don't think we can conclusively say what his motives were yet, even though it is leaning towards him being leftwing. Everyone assumed the Trump shooter was a leftist, but it turned out he was just an incel loser trying (and failing) to make a name for himself.
zahlman 1y ago
I have seen comments on HN posting this narrative as well. It defies comprehension. One of the pieces of evidence used to spin this story is the suspect wearing a Trump costume for Hallowe'en, as a 14-year-old, in 2017 (the year that this costume was popular; the entire point was to protest Trump by treating him as a literal boogeyman). (But of course, it is only seemingly all of Bluesky; and of course it's very easy on social media to start filtering for this content once you first encounter it.)
- cindyllm 1y ago
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- f33d5173 1y ago
  People are calling for violence against left wingers at large because of this one lone wolf. I don't blame people who want to disassociate from him.
  - cindyllm 1y ago
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  - zahlman 1y ago
    > People are calling for violence against left wingers at large I have seen nothing of the sort, and I have access to beyond-the-Overton-window right-wing sources. What they have been doing, instead, is pointing out the Bluesky users that TFA concerns itself with.
    - f33d5173 1y ago
      Consider turning on showdead and looking at your sibling comment lol
      - zahlman 1y ago
        I do have showdead on and have had it on basically since I joined the site and learned of the option. "cindyllm" is, as far as I can tell, an automatically filtered, AI-powered shitposter.
        cindyllm 1y ago
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- maxerickson 1y ago
  Why do you think the killer had to have a coherent motive?
  - zahlman 1y ago
    I'm inclined to think that a gunman without a coherent motive wouldn't write slogans on the bullets, for one thing.
    - kevinh 1y ago
      One of the "slogans" was a reference to the game Helldivers 2. They were memes.
    - maxerickson 1y ago
      You think that writing messages on the casings is obviously coherent?

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mkfs 1y ago

I don't think we can conclusively say what his motives were yet, even though it is leaning towards him being leftwing. Everyone assumed the Trump shooter was a leftist, but it turned out he was just an incel loser trying (and failing) to make a name for himself.

zahlman 1y ago

I have seen comments on HN posting this narrative as well. It defies comprehension. One of the pieces of evidence used to spin this story is the suspect wearing a Trump costume for Hallowe'en, as a 14-year-old, in 2017 (the year that this costume was popular; the entire point was to protest Trump by treating him as a literal boogeyman). (But of course, it is only seemingly all of Bluesky; and of course it's very easy on social media to start filtering for this content once you first encounter it.)

cindyllm 1y ago
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f33d5173 1y ago
People are calling for violence against left wingers at large because of this one lone wolf. I don't blame people who want to disassociate from him.
- cindyllm 1y ago
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- zahlman 1y ago
  > People are calling for violence against left wingers at large I have seen nothing of the sort, and I have access to beyond-the-Overton-window right-wing sources. What they have been doing, instead, is pointing out the Bluesky users that TFA concerns itself with.
  - f33d5173 1y ago
    Consider turning on showdead and looking at your sibling comment lol
    - zahlman 1y ago
      I do have showdead on and have had it on basically since I joined the site and learned of the option. "cindyllm" is, as far as I can tell, an automatically filtered, AI-powered shitposter.
      - cindyllm 1y ago
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maxerickson 1y ago
Why do you think the killer had to have a coherent motive?
- zahlman 1y ago
  I'm inclined to think that a gunman without a coherent motive wouldn't write slogans on the bullets, for one thing.
  - kevinh 1y ago
    One of the "slogans" was a reference to the game Helldivers 2. They were memes.
  - maxerickson 1y ago
    You think that writing messages on the casings is obviously coherent?