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    2 days ago

    We need an archive link to this from this guy OR someone else verifying that this is true. I tried to find it, but couldn’t. I’ll give everyone a half an hour.

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      I now spent close to an hour trying to figure out Robinson’s political leanings, and as of right now the internet simply does not know.

      This is the closest:

      A public records database shows Robinson’s family resides in Washington, Utah, where Trump garnered support from 75% of voters in the 2024 presidential election. Robinson’s parents have Republican listed as their party affiliation, said public voter registration information, and they are considered active voters (each cast ballots in the 2024 election that gave Trump a second presidency).

      Public records also indicated Robinson registered as a voter in Utah in July 2021 but was considered inactive and did not declare an affiliation to any party when he registered.

      And then there’s a lot of talk about bullet engravings which leave me very confused. How can you engrave “If you’re reading this you’re gay” - 26 characters onto a single bullet? Even so, the messaging is open to interpretation. We simply do not know yet, and we might never know 100%! He’s conflicted, that much seems clear.

      IMHO most timely and objective article as of right now: LA Times

      edit: I wrote this 24h ago. Surely the situation has changed by now. See you in a more timely thread!

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        Wouldn’t the bullet that called Kirk a fascist be an indicator of a possible left position held by the shooter?

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          I mean, anybody can throw the word “fascism” out there and a wide variety of people purport to hate fascism so shrugs maybe but probably not.

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            True, but i still don’t see how it can’t be a game reference and a label applied to Kirk. I don’t see how somebody, who is right wing themselves, would use this. But it makes perfect sense if the shooter was left.

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        30.06 is a large bullet and the words were allegedly written on the cases of the bullets, not the rounds themselves. Good to be skeptical but a fine point Sharpie could get 26 characters on there if you had small handwriting or did multiple lines or whatever.

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          Yup. And you could probably engrave it with a nail, so the barrier here is pretty low, but it would probably take an hour or so to engrave a simple message because it’s kinda hard.

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          I don’t know what the commenter meant, but my guess would be that they meant the statement could’ve been a lighthearted joke or homophobic and it isn’t clear which.

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            it’s 4chan drivel, i called it from the text alone even before the Nick Fuentes angel

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        I’m going to leave this up and let you all decide if this is true or not. He hasn’t been confirmed as this journalist, but x is a POS organization, so everyone gets to decide for themselves.

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          I trust David Shuster as a journalist, but I personally really would prefer more evidence.

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            It’s not checkmarked as officially him though. It’s not that I’m doubting the journalist, we don’t know if this is him.

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              Ohhhh gotcha. I was just adding my two cents, but now I understand what you’re saying. I’ll contact him about this.