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Latest is that the shooter was a registered republican, so shit is going all different shades of weird vs what everyone was assuming about what the motive was probably gonna be.
Dude was 20.
This was going to be his first time voting.
What everyone should be talking about is...
How disenfranchised the youth is with their future prospects, so much so that they are willing to go this far.
That and what you register for may not have anything to do with which side of the political spectrum you are on. Only which primary they let you vote in.
How much do we bet he knew that? I am not trying to speak I'll of him. But I know at 20 there was not much of an education on how our modern system works. I learned from experience.
The fact that this was his first election makes it more likely he actually agreed with the GOP, because this year's primaries were kinda decided before they started.
His voter registration info actually shows that he voted in the 2022 mid-terms. This would have been his first time voting for a president though.
It's good to see the youth exercising their rights!
Or nothing. Just stick to too soon jokes and wait for details.
It's one kid with a gun fetish, not an entire generation mobilizing into guerrilla paramilitary units.
I had a feeling something like this would happen. The right jumped on the "it was a radical leftist that did it!" almost instantly. Democrats made the same mistake with the Vegas shooter, assuming it was done by a conservative nutjob, but actually just an apolitical psychopath.
I've learned to never assume political affiliation when I hear about these things happening because someone on the right is just as likely to be the perp as someone on the left for the same reason.
Immediately saw that take on Facebook by some guy. Quote was “first they try to arrest him, then they try to JFK his ass, imagine voting for Biden clown emoji spam”
People are far too quick to make assumptions, and are even faster to rage. Can’t help but feel like we’re doomed due to a hopeless future / social media.
As things go, it is kind of lucky that he was registered as a Republican. Imagine how much worse it would be had he not been registered as such 😬
I'm not looking forward to how much more yikes this timeline can get.
Yeah cuz all those registered Dems have a history of going on shooting rampages....oh wait...
The not only jumped on it, but "identified" the shooter as "Mark Violets, a known Antifa extremist!!!111".
So am I, but that was just to vote against Trump in the primary.