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[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 131 points 4 months ago

Shout out to someone who knows how to shut the fuck up

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 44 points 4 months ago

Who are you talking about?

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 67 points 4 months ago

I was just thinking that instead of googling something incriminating or boasting to all his friends about what he's about to do, the shooter did a little op sec.

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 74 points 4 months ago

wish he had done a little fucking practice

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 52 points 4 months ago

Hey, he can put his points into computer skills or gun skills

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[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 54 points 4 months ago

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[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 125 points 4 months ago

Have they considered that sometimes guns just do that, and maybe the dude was trying to stop the gun the entire time?

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 69 points 4 months ago

Wrestling the gun trying to get it from climbing up to a roof

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[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 105 points 4 months ago

it's crazy, this has to be the only 20-year-old who's online enough to have Demolition Ranch merch and yet have no social media pages

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 58 points 4 months ago

He might be so online that he had his account scrubbing bots running the night before to purge himself from the internet. We might never know.

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 56 points 4 months ago

Even with scrubbing the accounts there would be signs of scrubbing them and a shit ton of cached or otherwise not actually deleted data

[-] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 48 points 4 months ago

They wanna wrap up that they entrapped a really bad shot to do this and held their breath as he ALMOST succeeded. Lol

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[-] Juiceyb@hexbear.net 91 points 4 months ago

It's like I told a chud yesterday, the problem with being conspiratorial is that all of those stories you keep telling yourself fall flat. What obviously happened is that the Secret Service was incompetent as shit because this detail was picked by the Donald or someone close to him. It's not like the Secret Service has a clean history with their agents to begin with. In a way it's DEI for white people as he chose his own people for the "loyalty" rather than anything else.

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 68 points 4 months ago

There was a guy on the radio the other day who had been part of Bush's protective detail and talked about how the SS usually did 'close protection' meaning the guys around Trump and the stage and extended threat like the snipers we saw who would be aiming much further out. He said that the close-to-middle-distance that the shooter was in was usually designated to local police to secure.

If that's the case, then it's even more unsurprising that the cops half-arsed it and reacted way too late.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 71 points 4 months ago

Not to defend cops but they have a solid argument of "thanks to the gun laws in PA he didn't do anything illegal until he pulled the trigger"

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 78 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I can't admire the president's visage through this rifle scope? I'm sorry, I thought this was AMERICA!

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 38 points 4 months ago

Crawling around on barn roofs with an ar-15 is basically the national pass time of that particularly blighted part of the country.

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[-] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 38 points 4 months ago

If that's the case, then it's even more unsurprising that the cops half-arsed it and reacted way too late.

Are you?

[-] 2812481591@hexbear.net 86 points 4 months ago
[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 42 points 4 months ago

>all we found is that, in 2019, he made $26 dollars trading on robinhood

data-laughing

[-] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 84 points 4 months ago

This is why I'll never do an adventurism, my opsec is nowhere near this good

[-] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 72 points 4 months ago

I don't think it's even opsec. I think he just woke up one day and chose violence.

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[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 57 points 4 months ago

porky-happy "Adventurism"

porky-scared-flipped "Breakfast Program"

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[-] Mokey@hexbear.net 78 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Watching chuds spread misinformation on him is so frustrating

He was an antifa liberal??? Are you sure? He's not an idiot gun nut redneck from the middle of nowhere?

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 83 points 4 months ago

We live in a post truth society, he is going to be whatever people want him to be

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 44 points 4 months ago

Die hard JD Vance never trumper enraged by the heel turn to maga sycophant and blames trump for it

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[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 40 points 4 months ago

The tribe can not appear weak! thurston

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[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 71 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They're just saying that to lull the co-conspirators into a false sense of relief.

Any day now the FBI will, completely unrelated, arrest a climate activist or something. I dunno. Whatever it is they do besides post on Reddit.

[-] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 71 points 4 months ago

Convince an alienated and mentally impaired Muslim man to flip a switch.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 66 points 4 months ago

Every time I remember that kid who harvested clocks or whatever it was until he built his own nuclear reactor my brain immediately thinks of all those entrapment plots they pulled after 9/11.

Like damn, Feds, maybe check in on the white boys a little more often.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 59 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

⬜ poorly understood lone wolf

🟫 radical muslim

[-] Futterbinger@hexbear.net 35 points 4 months ago
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[-] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 56 points 4 months ago

perhaps he was planning on trying to get away with afterwards and so erased everything so he could disappear easier?

come Feds, at least make up a motive. say he was mad about buying a donald trump steak and it tasted bad. something.

[-] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 64 points 4 months ago

I honestly feel like based on dude's... skull... and being a 20yo registered republican, they probably went to his house and his room was just a window into absolute madness induced by 16 hours a day gooning, posting about Jewish conspiracies on 4chan, and growing up in conservative-ass "no future" bumfuck western PA (alternatively known as Eastern Ohio or Northern Kentucky). The FBI was like "yeah, so... who wants to make the fake dono? Take care of that, say "motive unknown" and we can move on."

In seriousness though, I feel like if we learned all this guy's browsing habits, especially over the last year or so, it would be so fucking bleak that you just gotta go "any reason he may have tried to articulate is irrelevant. The reason was the same as any school shooter. Hopelessness and despair turned into nihilism and a chance at being remembered for anything at all."

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 51 points 4 months ago

the-pigs searching his room, finding it plastered with punisher skull/bald eagle/anti-woke/gun-crazy crap: "Nothing to see here, everything looks perfectly normal"

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 55 points 4 months ago

It's like that lady who said she wasn't involved in politics while being front and center at a Trump rally.

I think we are underappreciating how many dipshits in this country don't consider their beliefs politicial because "it's what I think so it's the normal position, all the other positions are the political ones"

Like in video games how there's two races, white and political. I think there really are a lot of mouth breathing chuds out there who that is unironically their entire worldview.

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[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 38 points 4 months ago

Either that or his motive was "he's really obviously a viscous pedophile, he's been close personal friends with espstein for decades" and all the movers and shakers agreed they don't wanna put that pretty reasonable explanation out

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[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 56 points 4 months ago

I keep thinking of that one joke about witnessing JFK's assassination and the guy saying "holy shit that was meant for me!"

Except the target was Corey

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 48 points 4 months ago

ralsei-doobie yoooo what if he was going for corey

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[-] kristina@hexbear.net 53 points 4 months ago

dude just thought itd be fun to play target practice with his ear

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 68 points 4 months ago

or just decided being a school shooter was ridiculous and the way to get real notoriety is

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 42 points 4 months ago

Honestly this is my prevailing theory. Suicide by shooting up a school or a strip mall, then Trump comes to town so fuck it, why not?

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 44 points 4 months ago

I hope the FBI doesn't bury the lead with this one, I really want to know why he did it.

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[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 4 months ago

His name is literally crooks come on 😭

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