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I feel like it’s not that weird for a 20 year old not to have a Facebook and only use Discord.
He also played a violent new video game that has just recently been discovered, called "Fortnite," and described himself as having "skibidi rizz" but not being a "sussy baka." These slang terms are gang lingo used by only the most dangerous terrorists.
he was The One Never-Trump Republican democrats are always trying to convince
Shameful that the libs have thrown him under the bus like this.
If the same thing happened to Biden I'm almost certain mainstream Republicans would be saying things like "this is the people standing up against the woke mob, God Bless Them!"
Facebook or Instagram and had an almost negligible internet footprint, which is highly unusual for a 20-year-old. Instead, analysts said that Crooks corresponded with friends and associates on a Discord server that they were now trying to access.
The kids aren't using facebook, and a lot of them also aren't using Instagram. A 20 year old man using primarily discord is the most normal thing.
"intelligence" ""analyst"" being paid 6 figures to be absolutely fucking stupid and useless
First it was the nefarious CCP using TikTok to indoctrinate the naive youth into not liking genocide.
Now it's the dangerous shady Discord servers allowing extremists (from both sides) to plot against Our Democracy™.
I would not be surprised to see some sort of police state crackdown on Discord and other non-public parts of the internet resulting from this.
Discord will have his data served up on a platter in no time. I don't see anything changing because they already cooperate with the state heavily.
Isn't 4chan basically supervised by Feds at this point? The NSA already have access to Facebook and Google so it goes without saying that Discord is next. They want to ban TikTok because they can't gain that level of access to their user data.
Why don't zoomers rediscover Usenet and IRC? Can't rely on corporate platforms at all.
I'm pretty sure I remember moot himself saying that he cooperated with law enforcement when they demanded IP adresses every time some 4channer broke the law.
It was from a court transcript somewhere, but you're absolutely correct in assuming 4chan is heavily monitored and participated in by law enforcers, government officials and far right recruiters.
I was thinking the same thing. It’s kind of the next logical step for platforms that have locked their users onto their sites. What good is a walled garden internet if you can’t link 100% of your users to real world consumers. Hello TSA internet.
The FBI says it has not yet identified a motive for the shooting
I suggest checking the last ~6-12 months of his 4chan history. Key word searches to try: "Trump Zionist" "Kushner" "Fuentes"
I suppose on the positive side, probably some of the clammiest, palest groypers in existence will be getting some door knocks in coming weeks and months.
On the extremely negative side, if the guy is 100% confirmed a groyper and his motive is anything in the realm of "Trump supports Israel" or whatever... ain't gonna be good for future anti-Zionist movements.
Not that the future was ever bright considering how they've reacted to peaceful sit-ins. But yeah, anything groyper related and against Israel (for explicitly antisemitic reasons) will be lumped with anti-imperialism/anti-genocide related resistance to Israel. Very convenient packaging to barrel right past the unavoidable truth of the peaceful nature thus far of anti-Zionist moments. Yes it's totally nonsensical, but if it aids Zionist narratives that both parties share, it's too tempting.
Apparently the shooter said the following in his twitter bio before it got scrubbed: "on a mission from God (cross emoji) to end Epstien's evil empire"
If you're telling the truth then I called it last night when I said the shooter was a disillusioned QAnon-Head mad at Trump. I mean it's easy to guess because they're the only ones who are armed and do adventurism.
lmao a lot of us joked about it it, I didn't think that'd actually be the case
Reality itself is unserious, it seems
Something similar was my first though when I read the news this morning. QAnon has fractured in some bizarre and spectacular ways since Jan 6th especially and there's any number of reasons some of those rabbit-holed spin-offs don't like Trump now
Trump's own little monsters now coming for zaddy.
I was seeing a ton of fake stuff posted trying to frame him as like antifa and such last night, so I will stand by waiting for more on that type of stuff before really forming opinions on it.
pretty clearly faked, check the Epstein reddit, top comments sleuthed out the fact it has 0 posts, photoshopped the shooter's face onto a different pic, etc
Rabidly pro-Ukraine?
Wanted to kickstart helterskelter?
Trump was too left for his tastes?
Trump was too right for this Romneyite?
Gamer just wanted to get a Wikipedia page?
Trump was too right for this Romneyite?
The militant Mormon uprising has begun. Salt Lake City will stand for 1000 years.
the "Chinese shooter" revealed to be...
white guy in demolition ranch merch 
cool, thanks for that NYPost
“Open source intelligence analysts”
"Redditors and Twitter users" just doesn't have the same ring to it, y'know?
That's just how you say "hack journalists who googled 'Thomas Matthew Crooks Facebook' for five minutes" when you've watched too much Mr. Robot.
I'm revising my guess at motivations to being more like a school shooter but against a cool target.
It's super cool how the US is so depoliticized that this guy is just some random 20 year old groyper who yelled "hold my beer" and thnere's no revolutionary cells or organized falandrists or anything.
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.
Fuck, they know about our discord where we push for a Protracted People's War in the United SStates of AmeriKKKa.
as secure chat rooms
Nobody is using a Discord server as a "secure" chat room. What is that even supposed to mean?
Crook’s father told CNN he was trying to find out “what the hell” was going on but that he would talk to law enforcement before speaking about his son.
Mr Carriker reposted the photo of members of the US security forces standing over Crooks’ dead body, wearing the grey Demolition Ranch t-shirt.
“What the hell?” he wrote underneath the photo.
On one side I am totally unsurprised, but on the other side I was hoping this was going to be the worlds first instance of a lib with a spine. I don't know why I got my hopes up
There can only be one liberal driller
the liberal driller wouldn't have missed
The Liberal Driller let's trouble come to him
Then he makes sure it troubles no one ever again
The Republican party is full of, and run by, crazies. Trying to find a coherent motive for this assassination attempt might not be possible.
Incoherence has never stopped them from finding scapegoats before, so why now?
where's the archive link
Forgive me comrade!
The bit about Discord is weird, it's not like it's some decentralized service, the company has access to everything on their servers if they want to.
Of course the photo of him is from his school yearbook. He's white after all
He was a G*mer.
who was relentlessly teased about his appearance
Well now he's being relentlessly teased for his aim, some might call that progress.
Maybe he was trying to restore the Habsburg throne
T-shirt says "Kollege Kidd"
Confirmed Maoist?
Klanner that thought being orange was not allowed either
Or is that too lib a joke
Basically the telegraph and all other rags have been trying to use his Facebook profile or other social media for free stories and photos they can use, but came up with fuck all. Excellent
and absolutely horrible shot, from that distance you shouldn't even need optics
New video on r/crazyfuckingvideos purportedly shows him screaming about killing fascists. It does kinda look like him, but the video has about 7 pixels so who fuckin knows. Doesn't matter either way, they're never gonna get it pinned on anyone but libs, whether he was a registered Republican or not