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kentuck

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Tue Sep 16, 2025, 10:28 AM Sep 2025

Tyler Robinson was neither "far-left" or "far-right"? [View all]

I watched a YouTube from Bluesky about Charlie Kirk's killer and some guy named Max Kuhn was very knowledgeable about Nick Fuentes and the Groyper movement and their origins on the Internet and their philosophy on politics.

Basically, he said that Fuentes started the movement because of his admiration for Donald Trump but that they really stood for nothing. Everything was a joke, a meme. They were serious about nothing. Their only goal was to hate and to disrupt the status quo. Fuentes was gay but he hated gays. They were "post-irony".

Also, he said that Fuentes hated Charlie Kirk more than anyone and would always send "questioners" to his events to disrupt. They would stand in line together with their questions, just to disrupt and annoy Kirk.

Furthermore, Kuhn said that there was no motive and it is a waste of time looking for one. It was an opportunity killing. Kirk was there. Robinson was there. Robinson had a gun and knew how to use it. And he killed Kirk. It was not in the name of the left or the right.

It was an interesting take on the darkest corners of the Internet.

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Yes, but him coming from a conservative gun culture JI7 Sep 2025 #1
Yes, he mentioned that it would not have happened if he had not been steeped in the gun culture. kentuck Sep 2025 #2
Being in LDS is basically like a cult too, soo... sboatcar Sep 2025 #6
Yep. kentuck Sep 2025 #14
Also there is no such fucking thing as the "far left" thomski64 Sep 2025 #4
Yep. There's only maga and anti-Maga. Right and left don't have anything to do with it Walleye Sep 2025 #8
There has not been one since the 1970s johnnyfins Sep 2025 #12
Don't you think Marxism is far left? Mosby Sep 2025 #19
What brand of marxism can you differentiate? GreenWave Sep 2025 #20
I saw or read a piece where the person described it as an act of trolling ms liberty Sep 2025 #3
Yes. That would fit. kentuck Sep 2025 #7
Poor guys, everybody else was getting laid in high school and they weren't Walleye Sep 2025 #11
That was a part of it that they discussed. kentuck Sep 2025 #15
Well, it's no mystery why girls didn't like them Walleye Sep 2025 #16
So Groyper nihilist clowns? harumph Sep 2025 #5
That is how I read it also. kentuck Sep 2025 #10
I would be willing to believe that he did it to impress his "friends" Walleye Sep 2025 #13
All of the above is true. Also, Robinson was obsessed with Kirk in the way Chapman was obsessed with Lennon. John1956PA Sep 2025 #9
TBH, I think this is right biocube Sep 2025 #17
The hatefest is benefiting someone. Baitball Blogger Sep 2025 #18
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