The shooter was 12 when Trump was first elected. archive

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He could be a dyed-in-the-wool GOP for six generations with no connections to any Left organization whatever.

He’ll be branded as a woke Antifa with a Black trans GF who was brain washed with peyote by a Native Shaman at a Liberal college.

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Article says he was registered republican, but donated $15 to a grassroots democratic group shortly after the capitol riot, so… there you go.

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I doubt that will matter to the people who want it to be true. Honestly I feel so sad looking at this kid. Maybe I’m just old, but his high school yearbook pic looks like an elementary schooler to me. He looks so happy in his graduation video. As his father said: “What the hell happened?” I do wonder what will come to light when the discord is accessed.

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With the same street address as the shooter on the ActBlue donation record?

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38 points

There’s a political organizer with the same name a few counties over. In 2021 the shooter was 17, and not legally able to donate in PA.

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15 points

I had a friend that was a die hard Bernie Sanders fan until Trump became relevant. He turned to a qanon following psycho that pushed away everyone close to him.

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8 points

So a patriot?

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4 points

Speaking of finances, I’d like to know how much he lost to trumps scams. I’m just impatient, that will (or won’t) be discovered in the investigation

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2 points

CNN reported that he registered Rep, but made donations to Dem. Of course that was right after it happened so plenty of room for your

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118 points

Discord servers are restricted ring-fenced sections of the internet. They are often used by gaming groups and communities as secure chat rooms but are also used by fringe organisations to push their ideologies and discuss wild conspiracy theories and plots.

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49 points

Now THAT’S something we can regulate - politicians

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10 points

Discord is so obvious, yet “oh noes china tik tok meta insta!!”

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used by gaming groups and communities as secure chat rooms

Fucking lol

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25 points

Who on earth thinks discord is secure? Convenient af, though

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16 points

There’s nothing convenient about Discord’s UI, famously assembled by drunken idiot monkeys with a grudge against functional design.

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14 points

“One of them Discord users…”

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“Who is this 4Chan?”

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3 points

Yes

And often gaming groups engage in the second, ruining it

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Crooks appeared to have featured in a TV advert for the BlackRock finance company filmed at Bethel Park High School and broadcast in 2023.

I just found a breadcrumb of what will undoubtedly be my favorite conspiracy theory to come out of this.

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I don’t think enough people talk about what a boon the trump tax cuts for the rich were for the major asset management corps.

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Who has time to worry about money and trickle-up economics when there could be trans ladies out there using the ladies’ room?!?!?

/s

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5 points

you kid, but I was literally talking to somebody yesterday and this would not be far off from a summary of the discussion.

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7 points

The people that need to talk about it have no interest in entertaining the thought.

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7 points

that is the biden campaign in a nutshell.

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If you read the wiki comments there was someone questioning the relevance and thinking it should be removed before ending up a conspiracy theory lol

Is television commercial appearance notable?

“He is featured in a 2023 advertisement for BlackRock, an investment firm, that was filmed at his high school.” [12] -> CNN “What we know page”

I can sort of see an argument for both sides

but I also pretty much guarantee its gonna be a talking point on A. Jones’ show by end of this week if it stays in the article (maybe also if it doesn’t, but yeah)

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but I also pretty much guarantee its gonna be a talking point on A. Jones show

I smell wonkery afoot.

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3 points

it’s time to pray

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58 points

Poor bastard. At 20, mental capacity is nowhere near its peak, and how bad must your life be if you are willing to throw it away for some obese self-tanning cream using orange dipshit? This is what happens when mental illnesses aren’t taken serious, and treatment is not easily available.

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91 points

Well, let’s see

Looks at everything on fire around us

Yeah I have no clue what could have caused his life to be bad enough to do something like that!

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I think you misunderstood. I wasn’t saying I don’t see how people could have mental problems in this world. That was a rhetorical question, observing that the poor bastard was obviously very broken / brainwashed / ill / whatever.

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Right…the problem is the very troubled young man, not the fact that he had easy access to firearms.

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69 points

You’ve managed to identify the highly effective, yet morally reprehensible strategy for military recruitment. Get young men when they are at peak testosterone, but have limited pre-frontal cortex development.

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4 points

He doesn’t have to be exploited by his boss or landed lord anymore.

Peace someday. Hope yall find yours in this life not the next.

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56 points

I knew it would be some red-hat lunatic. I fucking knew it the second I heard about it. But if course the Republican Nazi party are going to hammer out some left wing conspiracy horseshit using their usual tactful strategy. Which is to say scream the lies loudly, consistently, and in lockstep.

Which is, of course, is the best tactic to convince gullible idiots of anything. It’s literally the “firebrand preacher” method that has been slaughtering “the other” in times of strife since the dawn of civilization.

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The conspiracy might focus on the “donated to Biden” thing. Ignoring that there’s a guy with the same name who is a left leaning organizer a few counties over, and the donation was in 2021, when the shooter was 17 and not legally able to donate to a candidate.

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Wait, there’s an age requirement for donating?

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It’s a legally gray area at best. Which is why ACT BLUE, the organization donated to, does not accept donations from people under 18.

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I just jumped to this tab from the one about the project that let you type in morse code by opening and closing your laptop and thought you were talking about RedHat Linux for a second and was like “I mean a lot of people don’t like RedHat, but calling them Nazis because they wrote a weird script is a bit extreme”

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Sure, at first, they’re just slamming their laptops shut to write morse code… but how long until it’s a cell door that they’re slamming? It’s a slippery slope.

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