[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Keep seeing all sorts of wild conspiracy theories (as to be expected with any politically-motivated killing, I suppose) about how this was someone hired to take Kirk out for his vocal support of the Epstein files being leaked/released, Robinson is another Mangione (ie. a "set-up")... it's just so exhausting how whatever the truth is will be warped, denied, buried, exaggerated, fractured into 900,000 "my truths" that everyone of all sides will stick to whatever happens.

Originally Posted by GiRTh

Initially, the focus was on blaming the left wing, but it has now been revealed that the shooter comes from a Republican background. His father, who works in law enforcement, even reported him. It's remarkable how the rhetoric has shifted. We've moved from discussions of retribution and revenge to merely offering thoughts and prayers for this troubled individual. What a messed-up political environment we have.

I see that AOC and other left-wing personalities are cancelling events. I don't blame them because a retaliation scenario might be emerging: one of you for one of us.

It's scary

…it really is extremely scary, obviously the violence in itself is terrifying but it’s no longer just that, it’s the ‘aftermath’ also that’s almost become ‘a game’…of online personalities…MTVN touched on it earlier in the thread and there almost feels like a ‘giddiness’ of creating narratives and then following the path of those creations regardless of whatever truths surround it all…the shock and horror of the taking of life(lives) becomes lost in a ‘tribal war’ of left/right, Republic/Democrat…and sadly in the US atm, there is a leader who is nurturing and encouraging that as well…many senators, after Charlie Kirk’s killing, expressed that this was a crime against a US citizen and Republics and Democrats should come together in their mutual horror …but sadly I’m realising, I think many of us are realising that, that isn’t the world so many want and so many encourage ….there is a thirst to live within the lawless Wild West of the internet and internet personas…it’s a scary time and a scary world and words of violence are more and more becoming actions of violence…