You're not wrong. Everyone reading this, please take note that every piece of information being reported is coming from Utah law enforcement, then secondhand from Cox, and the FBI, much of it now via Kash Patel. Some of that information has already been demonstrated to be plainly false ("trans messages" on the rounds), while other things can be accepted as true (video and stills, actual messages on the rounds, chat content), and some is just "whaaa ... ?" ("There was a handwritten note, we know it, and we know exactly what was in it, but it doesn't exist anymore.")
Then layer on top of that that the administration is leadning real hard into the "left-wing radicals" thing, and their leaning is being heavily reported by a media landscape that is incapable of comprehending the "joking not joking meme culture" of places like 4chan, 7chan, corners of SomethingAwful, old IRC, Usenet, StileProject. Someone I know tells me: "I lived there. Still visit there. It's always, and I do mean always, right wing shit." I was there, too, and it is always right wing shit.
Cox says Robinson was "radicalized by Reddit, by dark places on the internet" and then concludes that Robinson is a "leftist." Lol no, that's not what happens on "dark places on the internet" (I mean, unless you include tankies? Maybe?)
Again, to everyone, be very critical of the messaging you're seeing come out of the investigation, the administration, and the media reporting on it. This is shaping up to be not "wag the dog" but just a disembodied tail wagging itself.
I hear you, and I hate to defend Spencer Cox, but he's been pretty good about gendering appropriately in the statements I've seen. It's by avoiding pronouns altogether, but he does appear to be trying.
Consider, too, that the military needs every sack of meat to be able to shoot straight, load mags, clear malfunctions, clean and maintain. By extension, the light arms they use are designed to be as dead simple as possible.
The fact is, for all three of them - they felt perfectly comfortable saying that unhoused people and people with mental health issues should be murdered by the state.Without flinching. On a very popular national television show.
And the network broadcast it. Not a single person involved in "Should we let this go to air?" went "Hold the fuck on." The network hasn't suspended anyone, hasn't put the show on hold while they think about what they should be doing here, and so far as I know hasn't said a fucking word about it.
Yes, there are a lot of people condemning these statements, rightly so. Take serious notice of who isn't.They're okay with state-sponsored murder of people who have not committed any crime.
I've said this before: If they come for you, you're going. Fight like your life depends on it, because it does. Fight like all of our lives depend on it, because they do.
You're not wrong. Everyone reading this, please take note that every piece of information being reported is coming from Utah law enforcement, then secondhand from Cox, and the FBI, much of it now via Kash Patel. Some of that information has already been demonstrated to be plainly false ("trans messages" on the rounds), while other things can be accepted as true (video and stills, actual messages on the rounds, chat content), and some is just "whaaa ... ?" ("There was a handwritten note, we know it, and we know exactly what was in it, but it doesn't exist anymore.")
Then layer on top of that that the administration is leadning real hard into the "left-wing radicals" thing, and their leaning is being heavily reported by a media landscape that is incapable of comprehending the "joking not joking meme culture" of places like 4chan, 7chan, corners of SomethingAwful, old IRC, Usenet, StileProject. Someone I know tells me: "I lived there. Still visit there. It's always, and I do mean always, right wing shit." I was there, too, and it is always right wing shit.
Cox says Robinson was "radicalized by Reddit, by dark places on the internet" and then concludes that Robinson is a "leftist." Lol no, that's not what happens on "dark places on the internet" (I mean, unless you include tankies? Maybe?)
Again, to everyone, be very critical of the messaging you're seeing come out of the investigation, the administration, and the media reporting on it. This is shaping up to be not "wag the dog" but just a disembodied tail wagging itself.