Good article on the murky motives. Despite the whackadoodle trumpaloons attempt to frame him as leftist, at this point it's a clusterfuck and until he speaks we may never know.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sus ... 36445.html
The 22-year-old carefully inscribed bullet casings with references to obscure online subcultures and left them at the scene, they said. When piecing together what else they knew about Robinson to make sense of his alleged crime, investigators said he had recently expressed his open dislike of Kirk, that he spent lots of time online, and that he had an affinity for guns.
Robinson's alleged decision to leave messages to be interpreted in his wake is common for perpetrators of political violence. What makes this case unique, however, is how obscure the messages were; they contain references to memes and in-jokes that could only be understood by a niche community of online gamers.
Those messages, and the scant information about his past that has emerged so far, have given both sides of the political spectrum enough room to claim him for the other side.
Even the engravings with ostensibly political meanings may not be so clear-cut. On one of the bullets were the words: “Hey fascist! CATCH! (up arrow symbol, right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols),” Cox said.
Those words, though, are likely a reference to a sequence of moves on a controller that unleashes a powerful bomb and accompanying phrase in a third-person shooter video game called Helldivers 2. The phrase has morphed into a meme that is commonly used on message boards to signal an end to a conversation.
Another message, inscribed on a separate bullet, “Notices bulges OwO what’s this?” is often used as an insult in online role-playing communities. Another read: “If you read This, you are GAY Lmao”—humor that is also common to online male-dominated communities.
While they gave no clear indication of a political affiliation, all of the messages revealed that Robinson was a person who spent a lot of time online. They would have been indecipherable to anyone who was not immersed in the same circles.
Another inscription featured the words to the Italian antifascist anthem “Bella Ciao”. But the song has since been used in the popular Netflix show “Money Heist,” and in the first-person shooter game Far Cry 6.
The antifascist connotations of Bella Ciao led some to believe Robinson may have been a leftist, but members of Robinson’s family have said the entire family is MAGA supporters, and the link to the gaming community suggests it may not be that simple.
Some have attempted to draw a link between Robinson and the far-right Groyper movement, a decentralized group of white nationalists who follow Nick Fuentes and coalesce online around obscure and extremist meme culture. The movement had been at odds with Kirk’s brand of conservatism for some time. Some noted that a Halloween costume worn by Robinson closely resembled a Groyer mascot, and that the Bella Ciao song appeared on a recent public Groyper playlist. But experts on the group have downplayed the evidence released so far.
Fuentes, the unofficial figurehead of the Groypers, has publicly condemned the shooting of Kirk, writing on X that “my followers and I are currently being framed” for Kirk’s killing “based on literally zero evidence.”
Then there's this, although Cox's voice doesn't sound as sure as his words. The roommates names and articles are online, but really don't give clear indications of relationship or motivations.
That probably won't stop MAGAts from their claims though.
Disarm young white guys, now!The Kirk murderer and the school shooter were both young white guys. The demographic of them shouldn't really matter, as shitty people come in all forms, but in light of how some people in power immediately tried to frame the Kirk murder for their own political ends and initially point to trans folks (Nancy Mace, for example) or "left wing extremists" (a few reps, pundits), but aren't likewise pointing out the pattern of young white guys partaking in school shootings and political assassinations shows these things only matter to them insofar as they can be wielded as a political weapon against their foes. They don't actually care about the tragedy itself, nor the victims.
