https://twitter.com/juliebosman/status/1298672614471340038

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    So chapo.chat actually got the identity of the shooter right and avoided a "we did it reddit chapo.chat" moment. This website is literally superior to reddit in every single way.

    • QuillQuote [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      “We’re not abhorrent monsters yaaaay!”

      You’re absolutely right, but it is a pretty fuckin low bar haha

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Tbh I was seriously expecting a "we did it reddit" moment after seeing the thread identifying the shooter. You're right it's a very low bar but still, trying to see the little good in a very bad situation somehow.

        • Bonescape [he/him]
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          I think there was someone in the early thread who exactly said “we did it reddit”, but just to mock reddit ofcourse.

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            Still trying to identify a shooter from a random imugur album is sketchy territory to say the least. I was glad someone pointed out there were other innocent people that shared the shooters name, so we shouldn't doxx yet

        • QuillQuote [they/them]
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          That’s true, I appreciate you stopping to point out the good thing, otherwise I might not have

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        We're not as bad as the website where every member wakes up and decides whether they'll hate black people, trans people, poor people, or women more that day.

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          Don't forget defending apartheid. r/oldschoolcool literally had to remove a post with 30k upvotes about an anti apartheid protest because so many racists came out to defend apartheid.

          • Ezze [hy/hym,they/them]
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            Just last week I saw some random comment thread with a few thousand up votes spreading the propaganda that white South African farmers are being slaughtered in their thousands by the indigineous South Africans.

            (If only it were true)

            • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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              I remember pointing this out and being called a "race traitor" and a "disgrace". Reddit is honestly terrible, someone should nuke the servers

        • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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          Yeah, i don't know who it was who did the research on twitter but basically got everything right the first time, they had the insta story, the video where he id'd himself as Kyle and the reaction of the neighbor.

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            Yeah I remember someone posting the neighbors post here and then right afterwards someone posted the twitter thread you're taking about. o7 to that twitter user, if it wasn't for them the shooter might still be free as we all know which side the cops are on.

      • hirsute [comrade/them]
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        For so long they disparaged us for posting Twitter screenshots. But in fact, we were training for this day.

        • Nakoichi [they/them]
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          Credit should definitely go to Garrison Davis who also happens to be like 17 or 18 and is giving me high hopes for the zoomers.

          It's entirely possible this shithead would have gotten away with this if it weren't for this guy's sleuthing. ACAB and citizen journalists make better detectives than any cop.

    • Parzivus [any]
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      4 years ago

      Wasn't part of the reason that his neighbor had semi-confirmed it after the shooter posted a bunch of threatening shit on social media? The first degree murder charge might actually stick if the prosecution goes for it.

        • spectre [he/him]
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          Hope it doesn't work, but I could see it working for the other two (maybe, idk). Not sure about the details of the first incident, but I have a feeling with what I've heard so far that it'll stick.

      • jabrd [he/him]
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        Yea the name got out because their upstairs neighbor identified them on twitter

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      You're probably right. This is all so fucked.

      Though the videos mostly circulating don't include the first group of shots fired. Something happened before people started chasing him and I think he had already shot at people.

      Starting at 8:00 or so you can here shots fired before he is shown running. https://www.facebook.com/cjtv.io/videos/726145031563748/

      • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        he shot a dude in the head, that's why they were chasing him

        or was that someone else?

        • Parzivus [any]
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          He shot one person and then two more that tried to stop him from leaving, as best I can figure. At least some of the videos don't start until after the first shooting, which is why you're seeing some people cry self defense.

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Even the first shooting was after he started firing his gun. The guy he shot was trying to take his gun from him after he started firing it towards some cars.

          • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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            Something happened before people started chasing him and I think he had already shot at people

            i was responding to this

    • Enver_Hoxha [she/her]
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      Yeah in the live video i heard someone say hes going to get beat up and shit. From the videos i watched i think he literally just tripped and then shot the poepole around him that tried to disarm him

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        He had already shot someone before those videos of him running.

        • Enver_Hoxha [she/her]
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          yeah thats what i figured but i doint think there is anjy video of it

            • Enver_Hoxha [she/her]
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              I tought the only people that got killed were hurt was when the shooter fell and i saw 3 people close. Atleast one fell and one reporter got shot in the arm

              • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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                nope, he shot a guy outside a car dealership, then ran, then tripped, got jumped on, then shot the people trying to disarm him

                that's what i've seen anyway

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    Very big brained of him to immediately cross the state line after committing said murder.

      • p_sharikov [he/him]
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        The dude's like 18, isn't he? I doubt he knows how literally anything works.

            • ThisMachinePostsHog [they/them, he/him]
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              If he was black there is a very high chance he would be dead. When the gunman was jogging towards the police vehicles after gunning down a bunch of people, I was halfway expecting some kind of reaction from the cops until I realized they were in on it.

            • domhnall [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              I think he'll probably still be tried as an adult. However, at this time, I don't think it's likely that they'll succeed in convicting him of first degree murder. Since there are photos of protesters tackling him and hitting him with a skateboard (DEFINITELY the same as shooting to kill with an AR style rifle), I think they'll buy whatever galaxy-brained self defense arguments he'll make.

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          It's like he watched some random movie and decided "if I wear gloves and cross the state line it's literally impossible to arrest me". Meanwhile he IDs himself before the shooting, doesn't cover his face, posts shit on social media saying he's going to shoot up a protest, etc. Actually glad he's so ignorant, I hate to think of the damage a "competent" white nationalist terrorist could do.

          • domhnall [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Don't forget that he was caught on video walking away and literally saying, "I just killed someone."

    • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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      He went home, someone on twitter said he's from antioch, the woman who has him as her son is also from antioch

  • PhaseFour [he/him]
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    The police will fight tooth-and-nail to protect Kyle.

    Future vigilantes will not step up if the police don't protect them.

    • Gonzolegend [any]
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      Yeah he literally walked past the police lines armed with a gun saying "I just killed somebody" and not a single pig at the scene thought to detain him or even stop him leaving the scene.

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    In addition to the lives this kid destroyed, his own should be added to the tally of lives ruined by the right. Poor kid, many of us here could have gone the way he did if not for luck and circumstance. Not that it’s any fucking excuse, but goddamnit what a waste

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      It's hard to feel bad for him. I and many others here have had shitty politics when we were younger, the difference is we didn't go around shooting people over it.

      • ParodyTheLibs [comrade/them]
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        Yeah I hate these takes of "oh feel bad for him, he's just a victim of brain washing"

        I had very shitty chud politics growing up and didn't do anything violent against "the other". This piece of shit drove a half hour to a protest armed, killed people, and drove home. He didn't feel bad about it and no one here should feel bad for him.

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          I had very shitty chud politics growing up and didn’t do anything violent against “the other”.

          At the same time, this has "I grew up poor and made it, so I have no sympathy for anyone who didn't" energy.

          • ParodyTheLibs [comrade/them]
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            This is not the same at all. Being indoctrinated is understandable, you're a victim of your upbringing sometimes, and you can have sympathy for those who haven't made it out and spew hate, slurs, and work against their best interests because of what they're told.

            Going out to a protest, killing two people and paralyzing a third, and then fleeing the state is ABSOLUTELY beyond simple brainwashing. He was aware he killed at least one person and left.

          • PhaseFour [he/him]
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            "I grew up poor and made it" is celebrating the fact you are a statistical anomaly, and likely exploited many on your way up.

            What is wrong you? How is this similar to "I grew up conservative & didn't massacre anti-racist protesters"?

            You literally do not have to sympathize with white supremacists as they massacre people. I promise.

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              It's the exact same argument in the form of: "I figured things out, so I feel no sympathy for anyone who didn't." Alternately, "I grew up in an environment I was able to escape, and fuck anyone who wasn't able to."

              You literally do not have to have sympathy for white supremacists as they massacre people

              He's literally a child.

              You can think he should get the book thrown at him, you can think it would have been better if he had been gunned down on the spot, and you can simultaneously think it's a tragedy that a literal child wasted his life because he grew up around chuds.

              • PhaseFour [he/him]
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                It’s the exact same argument in the form of: “I figured things out, so I feel no sympathy for anyone who didn’t.”

                That's the whole fucking point of "which side are you on?" We live in a world of exploitation and terror. I do not have sympathy for people who go to war to protect it.

                Should I have sympathy for scabs because they "grew up in an environment which made them hostile to working class solidarity"? Should I have sympathy for slave-owners because "they grew up in an environment where owning humans was normalized"?

                What the fuck?

                You can think he should get the book thrown at him, you can think it would have been better if he had been gunned down on the spot, and you can simultaneously think it’s a tragedy that a literal child wasted his life because he grew up around chuds.

                You do understand that we in a world plagued by tragedy? The tragedies you choose to center speaks volumes. Yes, it's horrible that Nazi families are training their child to slaughter anti-racist protesters. They are slaughtering anti-racist protesters. I do not give a shit about the Nazi terrorist doing the killings.

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                  Again: he's literally a child. He's 17. By all accounts his brain is a few years from being fully developed. You can't be (rightly) upset about something like the military recruiting 17-year-olds and then turn around and have absolutely zero sympathy for a 17-year-old who gets talked into toting around a gun and shooting someone. That's incoherent.

                  The tragedies you choose to center speaks volumes.

                  Who's centering this?

              • Blurst_Of_Times [he/him,they/them]
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                He's literally a child

                He's literally a Nazi murderer. Besides, it's not like his victims didn't have families. Maybe children.

                • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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                  You can think he should get the book thrown at him, you can think it would have been better if he had been gunned down on the spot, and you can simultaneously think it’s a tragedy that a literal child wasted his life because he grew up around chuds.

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        Oh for sure, like I said no excuse, but it’s still tragic

    • communiste [she/her,comrade/them]
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      i don't feel sorry for him at all, but it is a pretty damning example of the way the increasingly organized right can turn a willing subject into a violent agent. they've got rhetoric that sharpens a dumbass racist 17 year old into an active fascist shooter; that's a young kid who might have been able to change his mind if we had gotten to him before they did. again, not sorry for him, he made his choice, but they're really ramping up the effectiveness of their recruiting and we should think about our tactics in response.

    • OrionsMask [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Sorry, but fuck this fascist soldier, fuck the fascist police who let him stroll on by after committing murder, and fuck every single fascist chud cheering this tragedy. I feel sorry for the people he murdered, not him. He deserves as good as he gave.

    • Phish [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      It is a shame. Right wing psychos fear mongering just to make a buck radicalizing kids to the point they feel justified commiting murder in the name of patriotism. They'll never face accountability for their roles in shit like this either.

    • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      It's hard to watch, as a parent. I think about how so many people were just wee innocent babes at one time and it hurts my heart/soul.

        • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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          Maybe. I'd like to think that a non-alienating parenting style might help, along with a strong community (at least family). But, this doesn't fix alienating working conditions, or social alienation outside of work. School seems alienating as shit too. Standby... *moves to Vietnam for the strong community spirit*

    • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      hey, but he's gonna be a hero to all the impotent fuckers on /pol/, they might name the captain Rittenstein on the next 4chan cup, isn't that what he wanted?

      Spoiler alert: probably not and he's gonna be completely broken on the hearing, espoecially if they sentence him to anything serious.

  • Enver_Hoxha [she/her]
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    Why does a 17 year odl who cant buy alcohol have a fucking rifle?!

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      Amerikkka baby! :amerikkka: Apparently it's common to teach kids how to shoot from a very young age, and since this kid was from a blue lives matter neo Nazi family, they probably indoctrinated him from birth to do something like this and taught him how to use a gun from a very young age. If you think about it it's literally no different from an Al Qaeda family teaching their kid to commit terrorist attacks, it's just the Amerikkkan version.

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        lol i was taught how to use kids guns from a very young age. The american culture is batshit insane

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    THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T LET POLITICALLY ILLITERATE LIBS ORGANIZE PROTESTS. They lets these fucking fascist snakes into their henhouse