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kentuck

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Tue Sep 16, 2025, 10:28 AM Tuesday

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