Cox seems naive, he comes off more like a boomer than someone in his 50s, and he doesn't seem aware of the depth and breadth and varying, often opposing viewpoints and ideations in online right wing subcultures. |
No he's scamming It was supposed to be a leftist or foreigner. Not someone from his own back yard |
If there were truly conclusive smoking gun evidence that the shooter was some far left indoctrinated socialist Kamala Harris voter I'm sure it would have leaked by now. But instead we just have these dubious comments floating around. |
Saying that part about praying (praying!) it was a foreigner out loud is quite a tell. Why do people think any of these politicians are decent? and if they are GOP, they work for Trump and only Trump. Truth? The public? forget them. |
Is there even room for Mormons in a Christian Nationalist America, or do they get persecuted too? |
Can you elaborate? |
I couldn't believe he said that. How much he prayed it wouldn't be "one of us." Still, I agree that on some level he seems like a well-intentioned boomer. For all his flaws, he is a better leader than Trump who always escalates when the country needs de-escalation, who always inflames when the country needs a calming presence. I will never ever understand why anybody voted for him. |
These were Mormons from stable families living in Utah. My anecdotal experience tells me that none of this extreme leftist stuff is true. It may have been being used by them as a disguise or distraction of sorts though. |
With all due respect to the governor, he doesn't understand the deeper, darker influencers like Nick Fuentes, who are to the right of people like Charlie Kirk. So the simplistic answer is what they are going with despite the dark reality. |
I get where you're coming from, but if you go full circle, Reddit is like a lounge for the freaks that live online. It isn't where they discuss assassination plots, but it is most definitely where they go to circle jerk and echo chamber. Spend any time on the DC sub and you'll quickly see you aren't one of the cool kids unless you drink the kool aid of bike lanes, mass transit, all things gay and black and on and on with all the predictables. |
You are kidding. |
The alt-right attracts a surprising amount of young gay men. It’s complicated, but a lot of the values of that community align with the right (particularly the glorifying of masculinity). LGBTQ are more accepted in society nowadays, so civil rights isn’t at the forefront of their concerns. I don’t think they’re aware of how precarious their position is. There must be some cognitive dissonance that goes on when conservative leaders throw them under the bus. |
If he was an ally of Kirk, then why did he kill him? |
The bolded is a feature, not a bug of the alt right. The furries and what not. People need to understand this to understand the world the shooter was living in. |
He was framed. |